Airplanes Remixed
This is a bit of a speed-post as we’re in St. Lucia and about to head down to the beach!
Another top remix by DYM of a song played on the radio more times than I’ve had warm dinners. DYM adds his trademark sounds to give this tune a bit of ‘street cred’!
B.o.B – Airplanes ft. Hayley Williams (DYM Remix) - download
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Towel. Check.
Two Door Hip-Hop Club?
Hoodie Allen blew up on the blogosphere with his rap reworking of a popular Marina & Diamonds tune and now he’s back with a new one – this time sampling one of the indie bands of the minute.
Two Door Cinema Club’s Undercover Martyn has been sampled over Hoodie’s soulful rhymes and it’s definitely refreshing for a rapper to be looking in new places for inspiration.
We praise the vision and end result works really well.
Hoodie Allen – Words of Wisdom ft. Two Door Cinema Club – download
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Kinda Like…One Of Our Rappers Of The Year
The warm feeling of the beginning of summer and a feel-good hip hop tune go hand in hand.
In light of his latest release, Kinda Like A Mixtape, Pugs Atomz has given track 11 to Mahogany for our musical pallet to enjoy before we download for free it in it’s entirety from this link.
You can check Pugs’ Mahogany Minute interview whilst you listen to On The Move below.
Pugs Atomz – On The Move ft. Shev Rock – download
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99 Mash-ups…
We’re a champion of Jay-Z mash-ups and there have been some shit hot ones since The Black Album (our favourite) was released.
It seems his tempo was just right to blend and mix songs from bands we had never expected. The Verve, Oasis, Fela Kuti and even Radiohead were interwoven and within these collections were some gems but also some absolute tripe.
So at Mahogany HQ, we’ve adopted the mentality of ‘the-more-the-merrier’ and we can all decide which ones actually cut the mustard.
This one, we believe, cuts the Colman’s or the French’s (depending on which you prefer!).
Jay-Z vs. Architecture in Helsinki -- 99 Hearts -- download
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Jay-Z & Linkin Park -- Jigga What/Faint (Live at Milton Keynes Bowl)
Mystro
I’m not really an advocate of the mainstream UK rap scene. I don’t want to make any enemies by saying that but watching a music video from artists likes Chipmunk, Tinchie Stryder, Tinie Tempah and N-Dubz makes me wretch a little.
They define the word generic.
That said, there are UK rappers that I think trounce their US rivals and one of those such rappers is Mystro.
This man is smart and intelligent and those characteristics amongst others are channelled so purely into his music and lyrics. I was hoping to feature his latest video titled Round My Way but it’s been removed from Vimeo so instead here’s his 2009 ‘Rap Up’ song which I think is very special indeed.
Mystro -- Round My Way
Rhythm Of The Month
Loads and loads of mashups going around in the last 30 days and RJD2 has been the rhythm of choice for many-a-masher and rightly so -- he’s a legend.
Our post featuring S-Tone’s mashup of RJD2′s Ghostwriter and Lil Wayne’s Stuntin’ Like My Daddy is still hot in terms of traffic and before it dies down we’ve just got our hands on another one.
This one, by Tone-E (are they related?), swaps Lil Wayne for Jurassic 5 and it does it extremely well or is it the RJD2 song that goes well with everything?
Regardless, good mashup.
Tone-E -- Golden Ghostwriter (Jurassic 5 vs. RJD2) -- download
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Jurassic 5 -- What’s Golden/ A Day At The Races (Live at Summer Sonic) -- 
