For those of you yearning for a time when the DJ’s name preceded the MC’s check out this  little video of the classic track T.R.O.Y. being performed by Pete Rock and CL Smooth live in San Diego recently at Soundwave at the Wave house. Overall this was a great show with the dynamic duo running [cont.]

Ghosts of the Barbary Coast is another collaboration between Aesop Rock and artist Jeremy Fish, available for download from def jux right here. The art is Fish at his surreal tattoo influenced best. The track called “tomorrow morning” is pure Ace Rizzle , with the strangely catchy chorus of: tomorrow morning when the wharf is [cont.]

RZA recently released a new track in honor of his fallen Wu-Tang brother ODB and Sally Menke, long time editor for Quentin Tarrantino. The track sounds like a hip hop update of a Morricone score from an old-western film coupled with a soulful chorus, calling on the talents of Justin Nozuka and Kobra Khan, with [cont.]