Did this when I woke up yesterday morning, except the accapella blends and tv samples its all one take. No planning in advance, all off the cuff. Available for stream and download. This is basically what I had for breakfast yesterday.
Be on the lookout for The Ambition and Uncle Fester Mixtape K.R.E.A.M (Kicks Rule Everything Around Me) soon. Also, The first single from the new Extremities album is dropping soon off 5 and 1/4 records.
This Episode is hosted by Creepy Mac Voice Guy….Here’s the tracklist
Intro – Large Pro
Sound The Alarm – Blackmilk feat Guilty Simpson
2 Dope Booyz – Camp Lo
Crowd Pleasea – El Da Sensei
What I’m After – Lords of the Underground (FesPrimoBlend)
How We Rock – Termanology feat Bun B
Life As A Shorty – Fashawn
BoutitBoutit – Johnson and Jonson
Fall Of The Light Brigade – Lushlife
Party Enemy No1 – People Under The Stairs
Hazy Shade of Criminal – Public Enemy
U Aint This – Ghettosocks feat D-Sisive, Rich Kidd, Munshine
I never thought of that as being something that was going to happen, certainly not back when I was nineteen.
What I did do when I was nineteen is write a song about someone else turning thirty, and how that person might feel about certain things in his life.
In retrospect, I think there’s a lot that’s immature about this song, even though I wrote it with the best of intentions, trying to inspire listeners to not be such homophobic jerks. In my ham-fisted way, I worry that I may have only made homophobia worse. I don’t know, really.
Think of it as juvenilia, something that I wish I had done better or not at all but I was a kid and I thought it was important so there it is.
It’s called “A Single, Gay Male On His Thirtieth Birthday.”
I hope you can enjoy it at all, through all the wincing at my lack of subtlety or sensitivity!
Love,
Jesse D at 30
p.s. I used to rap this song into the faces of haters at shows. I hoped it would wither their masculinity by comparison. I like to think it did, a little.
Yo, what’s happening? Uncle Fes here to hit you off with a new 30 minute mix. All continous mix styleee, hosted by my man Ambition.
This is Episode #1 so that means more of these are on the way. Silliness + Dope hip-Hop = The Uncle Fes show.
Be on the look out for Ambition’s debut album, we just finished recording the vocals for the album last night. Expect it sometime around September. Also, Uncle Fes and Ambition have a mixtape dropping in August as well, so lots is on the way.
This Episode features cuts from De La Soul, Pete Rock, PUTS, Blu and Exile, Wu, some live remixes and assorted dopeness. Hit play below or download this sucka!!
Back again with another installment of Into the Archives courtesy of your boys Uncle Fester and Beatmason.
This week, we take a look at Mr. Quibble a Toronto based live beat performance duo. The group consists of Backburner Trickster Fresh Kils and DJ Echo. Fes takes you back to early 2007 for an interview and Beatmason digs up a live show @ Stage 9 in Halifax from 2006. Slight cameo from Wordburglar at the beginning.
Oh and FYI, the live show audio after the interview is almost a full hour!! We love you too..
The 3rd installment of the Backburner Podcast, recorded live from Osaka city, Japan. This is a free series of 60 minute online mixes featuring old and new classics, obscure joints, golden-era favorites, and other surprises, mixed and hosted by Backburner artist and Osaka area DJ Ginzu3.
This week’s broadcast feaures joints by Aesop Rock, Common, RZA, Black Milk, Classified, Channel Earth, Cannibal Ox, Kardinal Official, The Pharcyde, Immortal Technique, Planet Asia and many more.
The 2nd installment of the Backburner Podcast, recorded “live” from Osaka city, Japan. This is a free series of 1-hour online broadcasts featuring old and new classics, obscure joints and golden-era favorites, mixed and hosted by Backburner artist and Osaka area DJ Ginzu3.
This week’s broadcast features joints by Jaylib, KMD, Roosevelt Tharpa, Beastie Boys, EPMD, Jay Bizzy, Blu and Exile, Anticon, Non-Phixion, Sixtoo, Company Flow, Jedi Mind Tricks, The Rascalz, Anti-Pop Consortium, J-Dilla, and many more.
This week Fester takes you back to last year for an interview with DJ Cosmo (Canada’s National Redbull DJ Champion) While Beatmason takes us back to 2005 for Apt & DJ Cosmo’s set at the Halifamous launch party. We get two looks at Dj Cosmo from different time periods and for any fan this is a unique take.
Be on the look out for Cosmo’s Debut LP entitled Skinny Power, which features Ghettosocks, Cali Snipes, Foff, Timbuk2, DO and many more.
So, sit back, chill out and enjoy the sounds of Cosmo cuttin it up. Get ready to go into the archives with Canadas most diverse DJ, DJ Cosmo.
Interview from 2008/Apt & DJ Cosmo from Halifamous launch Party 2005
Backburner DJ/producer Mutilator Ginzu3 presents a hiphop podcast live from Osaka, Japan. Old school, mid school, new school hiphop with the occasional surprise, the occasional classic, and the occasional trainwreck on the mix, just to keep things interesting. Press play and hang with ginzu for 40 minutes of beats, rhymes and probably alcohol.
You could be forgiven for thinking we forgot about our promise to lace you up with hot raps every week of 2009… considering that the year is nearly half over and we’ve only given you three tracks instead of the twenty-something such a vouchsafe would suggest.
It’s a fair cop. No-one would criticize you for saying so.
But here behind the scenes at the Backburner Laboratories, we’re still clawing our way through archives to find mystical hidden gems to present you with, and here’s one I know you’re going to be ecstatic about.
In 2004-ish, Fresh Kils produced a track featuring back-and-forth raps between Timbuktu and Thesis Sahib, and although I think it might have been bootlegged a little for gas money during one of our patented Eastern Canadian World Tours, it has pretty much never seen the light of day.
In extensive interviews with the track’s vocal participants, I’ve gleaned that neither of them ever really liked the song very much and thought it didn’t come out right. I think they both are maniacs, because in my opinion if this song were any better it would be uncomfortable for lesser talents such as myself* to endure it.
One last thing – I’m sorry it’s in M4A format. Thesis is a Mac user, that’s my only excuse. I guess the upside is that you can play it behind slide shows on your Wii?
Okay you’re welcome! Keep it locked for more raps and podcasts!
We got a real treat (of the day) for you this week. An old Alpha Flight performance and interview, Both from 2005.
Check the end of the interview for what is still one of my favorite quotes in any interview I’ve done. The quotables come courtesy of Ghettosocks when he explains his take on hip-hop. The live performance took place at the Khyber for Parker Lewis‘ going away jam. Classic performance with some great moments including a shout out to Krista at the Bar. Hali misses the Khyber, alright, let’s go!
Today, I turned thirty.
