An exciting time in hip hop as various artists are preparing to release albums in the month of March. Raekwon, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Cool Kids and Lupe Fiasco just to name a few. We compiled all of their singles and put them into this weekly issue of theHusic. In the words of S. Combs “It’s not that we can’t stop, it’s that we won’t stop eh eh, eh eh.”
Off their latest Tacklebox mixtape.
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This is why you have to pay close attention to things..
Because you may miss crucial (to me, at least) information such as this about supergroups/superalliances being formed in the rap universe. The All City Chess Club members consist of Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, B.o.B, Charles Hamilton, Blu, J. Cole, The Cool Kids, Diggy, Wale & Skateboard P. New Wu-tang? Or another CRS (the supposed group consisting of Kanye, Pharrell and Lupe) in other words, an empty promise? Listen below if this at all catches your attention.
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Words by Moi
Photography by Chris Vallejo
10:15 PM Wednesday night @ Venue on Granville. Hip-hop enthusiasts start slowly filing in trying to be fashionably early for once, and for one reason only – to see the opening act for the evening. South Cali straphangers, Pacific Division, weren’t just the openers, they were half the reason fans bought tickets to the show and they did not disappoint. Mibbs, Like and Be Young were purely animated with ample crowd interaction and an impromptu cypher, and I hate to make comparisons but their energy as well as their catalogue really are a throwback to the Pharcyde/Souls of Mischief era. The one downside of the night had to be that their set only lasted about 30 minutes, when really their track record, pun intended, is at a caliber that parallels, or in my eyes surpasses, that of the Cool Kids. But whatever, that didn’t matter, it’s just a beautiful thing to see these two groups recognize the power of a collaborative stint on the road together. Pac Div did all the joints that the crowd wanted to hear including “Whiplash”, “Paper”, “Shutup” and their sonically-NWA-inspired record, “Mayor”. I don’t know if you see it but it seems like Pac Div is pulling inspiration from both sides of the old 90′s Westcoast dichotomy.