Cooked up for a second helping . . .

. . . . . and a third, and a fourth.

Backstory:
Upon hearing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" in 1963, Cooke was greatly moved that such a poignant song about racism in America could come from someone who was not black . . . .


Harted by way of 90210:


All Man:


I heard she leela'd her james:


Legged:




A classic changed and still coming, and we love it.

Boppin' Bopper, beebbbbzzzzBOP!

Bk-One and Benzilla Demo Bits From Rádio Do Canibal

Bk-One and Benzilla of Rhymesayers infamy posts some dope demo bits from what went on to be a fine album
Latest tracks by BK-One



Album Link

Californication - A-Plus ft. Del tha Funkee Homosapien

Free download from A-Plus found here: 


Track-listing (Rec Californication track #4 And Can't Stop and more~):

	1.	Intro 00:24
	2.	Can't Stop 03:09
	3.	Road Trippin 04:04
	4.	Californication 05:02
	5.	Hey Oh 03:40
	6.	By The Way 03:21
	7.	My Friends 03:50
	8.	Give It Away 03:46		download

about

Via the man himself A-Plus:

About PEPPER SPRAY Hip Hop fans who also enjoy the sounds of alternative rock group The Red Hot Chili Peppers will rejoice when they hear Pepper Spray, an EP release from A-Plus of Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics and production team Compound 7. The 7-song EP is a reimagining of some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most epic tracks as a backdrop for MCs A-Plus, Del and Knobody. The brainchild of Compound 7 member AAGEE (who suggested an EP release with production based entirely off the Chili Peppers), PEPPER SPRAY is a specialty project, according to A-Plus. “The whole purpose is a Hip Hop tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, inspired by their music and dedicated to their work. The cover is going to be a spin-off of one of their most popular covers – it’s a theme all throughout,” he explains. “The songs are all topic-oriented, sonically as well as lyrically. It’s a conceptual EP, certainly. I don’t want people to look at this like it’s MY new album, it’s something I worked on but it’s obviously in a different lane,” emphasizes A-Plus. “I’m stepping outside of my paradigm to do something new, different and artistic.”   Standout cuts on Pepper Spray include Californication, which features Del. A-Plus explains the significance of Californication – “The way the song is set up, you have to hear it, its two verses then the beat changes, then the verses again, like a refrain. I instantly thought of Del after we finalized the beat. The subculture of California is snaky but its home, that’s what the Chili Peppers’ song is about so I just rapped about what California is for me in the same way - the positive and negative.”   Memories and experiences of tours & being on the road are a recurring theme of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music as well as on Pepper Spray. “Road Trippin’ is a song about leaving to go on the road, and what it entails. Just being out from an artist’s perspective and how it’s a very hard but amazing job,” A-Plus reasons. “By the Way is another song about being on the road, but more of a specific story, of our tour bus getting pulled over, smelling like weed, me getting arrested, it’s a story – they’re both tour-story oriented.”   Pepper Spray, in drawing from one of the greatest alt-rock bands of this century and turning their sound into a Hip Hop format will undoubtedly draw new fans toward both genres of music and beyond. One thing is sure; Compound 7’s Pepper Spray is like nothing you’ve heard before.

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released 05 July 201

Independence Weekend Stylings - New York City

A little somethin' to spark the spring fashion senses: