Camp Lo - Ticket For Two

Although they've never topped the classic Uptown Saturday Night LP, Camp Lo will always be somewhere on my top 10 hip hop duo list because of their personal influence on my own style.
For some reason I always dug the blaxploitated jewel heisting slick willy shit and no one had ever done it quite like them, it wasnt forced either, you could tell that was just their thing. I remember seeing them doing an interview with Joe Claire on Rap City chilling in a old school movie spot watching all the black cinema classics, that had me amped... I mean I must've bought their debut about 3 diff times (my tape was stolen ((lewis I KNOW it was you nigga)), then the cd i copped got scratched up, and the third time it came in the mail as one of the cd club 12 for 12 cents offers) Anyway this is the latest joint from the diamond crooks themselves (and I say "latest" even though I've had it for months) Shout to my dude Ed Martin, we chopped it up a few days back about Black Hollywood (an album they released last year, without this song) and how although them linking back up with Ski was cool, it hurt that he isnt really killing the production like he used to (Reasonable Doubt and Uptown Saturday made Ski the truth back then) :-/
I think the Lo'wer should holla @ Madlib for a few beats... now that might be some shit!

Clara Hill - That Easy

If you looked at my most played artists on iTunes (right before the cpu crash) it wouldve looked something like: Pfunk, Madlib, Che Grand lol, and Clara Hill... Restless is still one of my fave albums! When I first heard it the tracks blew me away, its really that good ol' night time music! I was telling Neeze that it actually reminded me of some 2000'ish Lisa Stansfield, the production is so layered and sultry son, I wanna wear my stolen robe from the Waldorf to it...

Clara actually has a new project out called Folkwaves:Sideways which I need to cop asap....

She also has a '07 Xmas jam with my dude Benny Sings (who was recently added to the Sonar Kollective roster, big up Benny!) gotta hear that one too!

Peven Everett - Easy Living (RMX)

one of the MANY "Easy Living" remixes and probably my fave out the bunch, you HAVE to let this rock to the 4:16 switch up, shit is lovely... btw I dont really rock Peven for his singing but more because I heard he plays every instrument on his records and tru3-magics em with a sharpie to the local stores in the Chi by himself lol, gotta love the DIY status even if it is sloppy...

just cause ZFTP Radio is on indefinite hiatus...

doesnt mean I still cant hip y'all to what's hip to me (right now anyway...)

here's just a few cuts on the current grizzy playlist (straight off the damn CD's too)
(im going against zimbabwe rules with providing info so feel free to find these gem's if you can or you can just ask me, i may rip the cd's theyre on)

~ G&D - "Time" Look Records >>> i've actually heard some not so good thing's about their album and I dont doubt it because I love G and cant stand D but this song is very undeniable... has a Loose Ends feel to it, and y'all know how I feel bout them

~ Talking Heads - "Girlfriend Is Better" Sire >>> big up to Filthy, I listen to this song at least once a day

~ The Politik - "She's Gone" Milan Records >>> this shit just knocks, type of joint I used to rock whipping the galant thru town on my extended lunch breaks right before getting written up

~ Parliament - "Funkentelechy" Casablanca >>> pfunk is a staple for me as most of you are realizing... nower days when I listen I tend to find the most miniscule part of the songs and make it my fave part, on this particular jam it's dr. funkenstein's adlib towards the end "whatshappenin'!"

~ Tiombe Lockhart - "The Overtaking" Bling 47 >>> without a shadow of a motherfuckin doubt Waajeed's HARDEST beat to date equipped with gutter guitar riffs, bomb explosions and what may be subtle whimperings of a female... dogs i'm thinking of robbing a grandmother at gun point to this shit

~ Spacek feat Common, Raphael Saadiq & Ledisi - "They Dont Know You" Sound In Color??? >>> good ol zone out music

~ Bobbi Humphrey - Uno Esta & New York Times Blue Note >>> these songs are in constant rotation for days i'm cleaning around the house

~ MED - What It Do Stones Throw >>> the drums on this record are infectious and i also discovered a good reason (other than the fact madlib does a majority of his production) to dig MED, the dude can really spit!

so there's a couple of songs im rockin right now, and of course i'd like to throw in Chris Brown feat T Pain's "Kiss Kiss" on that list but y'all wouldnt believe I was bumping that now would you... big up VA! lol

Lessondary Radio 3 - Zimbabwe For The Public

Che Grand here with the first episode of my ZTFP radio show in conjunction with Lessondary Radio...

special guest's Boogie, Pea and Will...
studio a little cloudy.
Go'In