The Return of the Linx Show

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The Return Of The Linx Show
Friday, April 3rd
8pm EST
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New Track of the Week: Jadakiss - Pain & Torture

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“The Last Kiss” will be in stores April 7th, look out for that! Meanwhile, listen to this shit, Jada murdered this…

Stat Quo Responsible for the Leaked Dr. Dre Songs?

If you didn’t see my last post, look underneath this to check out a leaked reference track for Dre featuring T.I. and Nas… Needless to say, its dope as hell. Anyways, theres been a buzz around the net saying Stat Quo could be the suspect. Towards the end of ‘08, Stat Quo said he had over 300 Dr. Dre tracks that he was going to leak. Here’s a quote from Stat:

Everything that I done rapped on, everybody gonna hear it. You can quote me on that. Everything that I done rapped on, I don’t care who did the beat…Everything that my voice on that I’ve done over these years with them, everybody gonna hear it. I’m just waiting on the right time to put it out…I’m talking about 300, 400 Dre [tracks]. I’m talking about 100 Em beats I’m spittin’ on…

I mean, I can’t hate on Stat for doing it, if he did it. How can Stat have made all these tracks, yet Aftermath still wouldn’t put out his album? Kinda fucked up in my opinion, I’d leak some shit too if I were him. But on the bright side, this may give Dre some urgency to release Detox. But then again, we are talking about Detox, the biggest hip-hop urban myth. We’ll see what happens…

New Track of the Week: TI & Nas - Topless

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^Damn, just sit back and listen to Nas spit that SHIT! BTW, this is supposedly a reference track for Dr. Dre(T.I. being Dre I believe?)…. Either way, who cares, dope track regardless…

Old School Track of the Week: 02/19/09

The Lost Boyz - Renee

Funny story… Im chillin wit my girl, and she has her iPod on random, and “Lights Camera Action” came on by Mr. Cheeks… Then she was all like “Damn, I wonder wat happened to Mr. Cheeks, this the only song I heard from him”.. So I had to put her on blast because she obviously was forgetting about the Lost Boyz, but, she wasnt forgetting about them, because she never heard of them! WTF? Come on, this shit right here is classic… Enjoy and reminisce!

Video of the Moment: Royce Da 5′9 - Part of Me Trailer

Royce Da 5′9″ - “Part Of Me Trailer” from Three/21 Films on Vimeo.

Damn, this video looks pretty dope. Be looking out for this people, I’ll definitely have it up on Illesty as soon as its released. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to haven’t have heard this song, I provided it below.

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What a Black President Means for Hip-Hop…

First off, let me just say how ecstatic I am that Barack Obama is president. I literally sat in front of my television for 5 hours yesterday just watching all the festivities going on in Washington DC. I’m a man and all, but I’ll be the first to admit I got a little teary eyed during his speech. It wasn’t even the best speech I heard from Obama, but the moment itself was just amazing.

Anyways, the reason I am even writing about Barack Obama is because I believe (and HOPE) he will have an impact on hip-hop. Yes, I believe he’ll impact hip-hop; and no, I am not crazy. Now, I’m not saying he’s going to make a speech telling rappers to clean up their act or anything like that; however, I believe all the bullshit material rappers have been putting out won’t be widely accepted anymore.

You see, before Obama, there was no real hope for black youth. We all looked up to rappers for guidance. We even started to believe that becoming athletes, rappers, or gangsters were the ONLY options of obtaining money. Now with Obama proving to black youth that it is possible to become successful otherwise, they’ll no longer look up to Lil’ Wayne. Then all of a sudden, rappers with a message will gain more praise then rappers without one. Obama represents everything black men should be about, yet is damn-near the opposite of what the majority of black men represent (minus basketball, of course). So, the way the black community acts will slowly change. Of course, you will always have your bad seeds, but I believe there will be a lot fewer. From there, radio stations will have no choice but to play real shit.

Sorry Lil’ Wayne…

New Track of the Week: Joe Budden - Pain In His Life(Saigon Diss)

Joe Budden - Pain In His Life(Saigon Diss)

….whew… Wow, where to start? Well, Joe Budden and Saigon have recently sparked up some beef. I won’t go into the whole story, because it’s pointless really. All you have to know is, Joe Budden knocked the SNOT out of Saigon with this right here. Just listen…… wowwww…

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Old School Track of the Week: 01/21/09

Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common - Respiration

I swear, if this can’t make a non-hip-hop head respect the genre, I don’t know what will. Easily a classic song right here from Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and Common. Enjoy hip-hop at it’s finest.

Thoughts & Opinions: Joe Budden/Ransom Beef

If you frequent the internet regulary, I’m SURE you’ve seen the video back-and-forths between Joe Budden and Ransom. The shit has actually been pretty interesting. In short, awhile back Ransom disses Joe Beezy out of the blue, Budden responds, Ransom responds, and so on. All during which, Joe Budden sons the shit out of Ransom. Evidence:

Tryna get rich live young made and handsome
You’ll go down as just another unpaid ransom

So yeh, that should be proof enough. Anywaysss, Ransom dissapears after being lyrically out-muscled, and they start YouTube beefin recently. Budden calls Ran wack, Ran says Fabolous fucked Budden’s whore of a girlfriend, then the beef turned very interesting. Budden claims to have went to Ransom’s crib, Ransom goes and grabs the banger from his house, and shoots in the sky. From there, supposedly Budden just laughs in Ran’s face and leaves, because obviously Ransom wasn’t about to shoot a damn thing. So THENNN, Ransom goes to Budden’s friends house, where dude’s friend answers the door. They talk, then Ransom’s boy slaps the BEJEZUS out of Budden’s boy’s friend. Then Budden responds and says its childish to carry on with the beef, because Ransom is a stupid nigga.

So now that your refreshed in all the happenings, let me just say, LMAO!… Wow, what a funny beef. I mean, it was cool at first, because it was lyrical. But then niggas hit the streets, and plain and simple, that shits wack. It’s semi-aight that Budden actually went to see Ransom face-to-face, but the fact that he went and talked about it on video is kinda cornballish. Budden could easily dead this beef with another murkage; LYRICALLY. Budden, my nigga, you should have just put out another diss track and sonned Ransom…. AGAIN. Then he would have nothing left to say. But you just had to go and piss him off in the streets, didn’t you?

You see, Ransom lives in the hood. He’s still there. I ain’t tryna say the nigga’s hardcore gangster or anything, but I’m sure he knows a few. Budden, you have no business seeing him in the streets, nor should you even bother with it. Keep it musical! Don’t take it some place it doesn’t have to go.