Jay Ant sings

Jay Ant, producer from the Diligentz, lists "Experimental" as one of the words to describe his style. I can see why. A la Young L "Honey with me," Jay Ant has decided to sing some tracks. He explicitly explains what he plans to do to any willing boppers in this song:

Jay Ant - Movie

On this next one, he voices his concern that his flyness and excellent fashion sense might come in the way of his relationships.

Jay Ant - Dress to Kill

Also check out the new Prank (from the Diligentz) mixtape called C.R.E.A.M. available for download on their Myspace page.

Electronica

Kid Cudi is an up and coming rapper from Cleveland, Ohio. Crookers are awesome DJs from Italy who describe their style as House/Crunk/ Ghettotech. You better expect something ultra sexual to result when these two combine. Listen to the Crookers remix of Kid Cudi's hit, Day and Night. 

Kid Cudi - Day and Night (Crookers Remix)

This next song is a popular hit combining the songs of David Guetta and The Egg. This has one of the better beats of any dance song I've heard in a while.

David Guetta vs The Egg - Love Don't Let Me Go

Sam Sparro is a Los Angeles based Elektro/Soul/Funk artist. Right now he's on tour in Europe. Here is the single from his album which drops next month.

Sam Sparro - Black and Gold

Let's stay on the electronic tip but tone it down a little bit on this song. This is Chromeo doing a smooth song for the ladies. I can always appreciate his retro funk electro style.

Chromeo - 100%

By the way, I've been thinking about pimping this website out as soon as I get done with classes. I have some ideas but I am definitely open to suggestion. Hit me up.

The Diligentz: Punk Rock/ Tyga on the rise

The Diligentz are making fresh music. With cool production from Jay Ant and a care-free rhyme style, their music is fun and refreshing. The Diligents are advocates of the punk rock movement occurring in hip-hop culture right now. I posted the video of their big hit with The Pack which kinda sums it up on this older post. This next video is an example of indie influence on their music:

This has been my favorite song of the last couple days, and this video just makes it better. Here's the song:

Diligentz - Someone like me

Also, here's the video for the original song they did the spin off from... It's called Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John:

Another song to display their creative style is this one from Damey. Using a video game beat, he combines romance with video games. I like it.

Damey of the Diligentz - Video Game Lover

Also check out these two songs. The first one refers to meeting in the ladies room.

Diligentz - Ladies Room

...and the next one is the newest single off their myspace page

Diligentz - Sweet Tooth

A big upcoming artist from Compton named Tyga is making some noise lately. He's been signed to Young Money by Lil Wayne... not a bad endorsement. He also kicks it with The Pack. You can see him in the background of the In My Car video as the guy with the big smile on doing the steering wheel dance. Here's a clip from the video shoot...you can tell who he is thanks to the huge TYGA chain he shows. Check out Tyga's video for Coconut Juice featuring Travis from Gym Class Heroes:

And finally, check out the super fly song from his new mixtape featuring Lil Weezy himself. The beat sounds like what a medieval king would use to roll out his red carpet. I could see Wayne doing that in his next music video.

Tyga ft. Lil Wayne - Thinkin of You

How hot is it right now in the bay?

Ayyyyyyyyyyye, Young Jeezy and Kanye have just put on this new smash. The beginning is typical Jeezy. Normally I can only take about 1 minute of Jeezy but Kanye's on the song and he's using that vocoder voice we all love. Next we'll have Elton John making a vocoder song.

Young Jeezy ft. Kanye West - I put on

On this next one Young L comes out with another beat where you just ask, how the hell did he create those sounds? It's what you'd get if you combined the Atari Asteroids game with hip-hop. Lil B informs us that he's "street like sesame."

Lil B - Freeze all the girls

These next two songs are from a Sacramento group called The Trend (pictured below). They have a Go Dav-ish sound to them with a mix of singing, rapping, and futuristic beats. The first song reminds me of the party I was at last night.

 This heat wave going on right now made everything so hot, people were sweating like a sauna.

The Trend - Sauna

The synths on the next song are on fire.

The Trend ft. Dilligentz - Lost in the Rhythm

Mario continues to mature as an artist. This is one of my favorite songs from him for sure. I like the new style a lot of R&B songs have these days. For example, the bass in this song hits hard like a club song. It makes possible a lot freakier dance moves than just the slow dance. You can turf dance to some of the R&B these days. BTW, I recommend going to Youtube and watching turf dance videos the next spare moment you have.

Mario - Music for Love

What genre would you classify N.E.R.D.'s new song as? Sure there's rap, but this could definitely be performed at a jazz club. Open your mind up, cuz you probably won't be used to this. These guys are damn creative. It's called Everybody Nose.

The Cataracs! >>> That modern sound

The Cataracs, a young group out of Berkeley, has an innovative sound that is ahead of the game. The Cataracs have a hip-hop background (I first heard them on the Blueberry Afghani song with The Pack) but the super creative producer, Cyrano, delves into an electronic style these days. Check out their latest hit song that is tearing up bay area radio right now:

The Cataracs - Baby, Baby

They have the type of style that can be played in clubs around the world. I've just realized that this kind of creative and innovative music results when artists make what they love instead of trying to please the mainstream first. Check out more new Cataracs music:

The Cataracs - Handstands

The Cataracs - Freakin ta ma song

The Cataracs - Polkadots

Also check out their Chromeo-like video of "Hit me back"

And if you don't know who Chromeo is... you're missing out. I posted his most freaking awesome video back on this post. He's touring the west coast this July so check him out. His video for the song "fancy footwork" just came out. See below:

I don't know how I haven't gotten around to posting about M.I.A more often (last time I did was on this post...great video and song!). This woman is one of the most creative artists I know. Most of her songs have political messages but they still go hard in clubs around the world. I was at the theater watching "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" (which is realllly funny and the brown haired chick in it is realllllly fine) and before the movie they showed a preview for "The Pineapple Express" and they were playing M.I.A.'s new song, "Paper Planes." I went nuts cuz this song is DOPE/super fresh. Check the video:

Screamin Demons: New Pack mixtape preview

Just when I thought The Pack was just gonna go off and do their own thing 24/7, I hear about a new Pack mixtape coming: Screamin Demons...

I could see a crazy music video for this song. Something dark and evil like. Young L created a mystic beat on this one. But turn up the subs cuz this is still BASED music.

The Pack - Screamin Demons

This next song is the club banger. In my car-ish style.

The Pack - Lime Light

Why did I just post a picture of Nelly, you ask. Well because Nelly loves the bay... according to his song called... Bay. Droop-E produced this beat for this Nelly song on his new album Brass Knuckles. He's talking about going dumb on the chorus. Also, his second verse is a complete Too Short impression. Then he does E-40 in the third verse! I can't get mad at anything that brings attention to the bay.

Nelly - Bay

If you haven't heard Young Boss's new smash "Shooting Star," get it now. It's on this old post. But anyways he has this short and sweet new song I found. This guy is creative. He's got a very modern style with this song. He comes out with a strong bass line and smooth raps in the first half of the song, but then the second half of the song breaks off like day to night when a super fly synth theme jumps in, Timbaland style. Play this if you're rolling to the VIP and you've got some money in your pocket cuz this song gets sophisticated.

Young Boss - Lights Off

Deified: new Keak da Sneak Album

Heads up! The new highly anticipated Keak album is comin out May 27th. The first single is a remix for That Go. The video just came out:

Keak da Sneak ft. Prodigy & The Alchemist - That Go Remix

You can find out what songs are going to be on the album by clicking on the tracklisting.

I find the following videos amusing:

The Famous Remix with HELLLLA people in it: Dilligentz, Go Dav, F-Squad, Teknitionz...it keeps going. Also, if you follow this video to Youtube, you can click on the link for "view in high quality" which is available for many videos now. Cool.

The new video for the remix for "I luv your girl" by the Dream ft. Young Jeezy. I really love the Dream's videos are awesome. Some fly ass stunna shades that he is wearing in the beginning.

Haha, okay some people might question the presence of this last video. It may not be winning any grammys soon, but it is daaamn entertaining. The beat during verses is pretty dummy. It puts me in a good mood.

I'd put up the video here for this last one cuz it just came out, but I think if I added another video to this post, it would take forever to load. Sorry peeps. But get the song. Some people have mixed opinions on it, but I think it's a little different than his other songs. I like it.

Chris Brown - Forever

She Need a Boss

This Stunnaman song is FIRE. Make sure to get his mixtape. It's some hard body music.

Stunnaman - She Need a Boss

The new R. Kelly "Hair Braider" video is out. If you haven't heard this yet, you need to go down about two posts and download the hell out of it. R. Kelly is being a boss.

Here's another BANGER from the Jackie Boyz. These guys are blowing up in the South. The beat is fire. Apparently Souljah Boy is on the song too. You can't even tell who it is with the computer voicey thing that's going on. I'm telling you: if you want to make a hit today, alls you gotta do is grab some T-Pain voice equipment and get a sick beat. I'm not trying to slight this song though. I called it a BANGER didn't I?

Jackie Boyz ft. Souljah Boy - Topless

PF and Sugabutta from Go Dav on this next track. I can't dislike any of their music. Sugabutta's lyrics would make a good song even if he couldn't flow. Apricot booty??

Go Dav - I love the way

Ryan Leslie continues to be on fire. And he's still chillin with Cassie (hottest girl ever). Here they are on this amazing song with a beat that absolutely no one else could have came up with.

Ryan Leslie ft. Cassie - Addiction

I also just got the full version of this song. Gold.

Ryan Leslie - Rescue U

The Warriors better beat the Nuggets tonight

Check out this hilarious video of The Pack playing Paintball:

Followed up with a Lil Uno song. Chilled out beat. I love this style.

Lil Uno - Fitted Caps

I said I was gonna post about Sugabutta from Go Dav. Basically this guy is one of the more creative lyricists out of the bay that I've heard. He has a bunch of videos on Youtube where he does a short verse on his webcam. I think they are very entertaining, not to mention an excellent collection of goofy stunners.

This Sugabutta song I'm about to post is YEEE. I know Sugabutta makes beats... if he made this one, then props. Play this song when joy riding in the vehicle with the top do

wn featuring a fly beezy in the passenger seat.

Sugabutta ft. Young Dee - On the Low

I recently heard this song from a group creatively titled Kidvsrobot. They call their genre: Psychobility / Trip-Hop / Ghettotech. Anyways this song goes. For such a playful beat, the content is straight up about getting down to business. Getting girls to dance to this subject matter is just great.

Kidvsrobot - Freak

SneakyMike strikes again with another song about being too fly for you beezies. Plus how

sick is this beat. A four year old could have made this beat, yet I don't think anyone else could have came up with it. Those are the tightest beats. When I'm fed up with people annoying me I'm just gonna play this and "I don't really care, cuz I'm in my own world."

SneakyMike - I don't really care

Here's another fly SneakyMike song:

SneakyMike - Know bout me

Time for that FIRE

These songs are no joke. Get your subwoofers ready. This first song is by a group of youngsters called Hard Knock, straight out of Oakland. If you drive a muscle car and you put this on high volume, you will start speeding.

Hard Knoc - Swagga Right

This next song is by the Stunt Doubles (pictured on the right). This is Based music. Subwoofer needed. The lyrics are hilarious, especially with the loop of a girl saying "you know I don't like to do that"

Stunt Doubles - Freak

Go Dav is on fire with this song, especially with Sugabutta's Monta Ellis reference in the first verse. I love when they talk about going to "the function." If you don't want to limit it to just parties, you can say function and then you can include a wide range of activities like the sideshow, the wedding, or the Warriors game. Thanks, function.

Go Dav - Windy

Here's another Go Dav track. Fresh and new. Once again featuring the best analogies in the Bay. I'm beginning to appreciate Sugubutta's crafty lyrics. I might do a post on him later.

Go Dav - Twenty Four Seven

I recently posted the link to Grind Mode's new video. It's about time I posted this other Grind Mode song: it's similar to "I'm so high" in that it refers to a drugged out stupor and da butt among other things. But it is definitely fly and smoothlike.

Grind Mode - Ecstasy