BLACK AND YELLOW // Pianos on 1/19 w/ Benny B

Philadelphyinz – Pittsburgh Club Anthem

First of all, THE FIRST PLAYERS CLUB OF THE YEAR is Wednesday night, 1/19 with me, Sammy Bananas and special guest Benny B, upstairs at Pianos as always.

Gloating is dumb, I’m just glad the Stillers won this weekend and I can’t wait for our sex-offending goon hall of fame QB, our almost christ-like free safety, our busted-ass offensive line, our linebackers that would make a grown man pee himself, our lovably zen Coach Fake Omar Epps, our smiley blasian bruiser of a lead receiver and our trio of young wide receivers (one of whom who has the foremost swaghawk in the NFL), to march forth next weekend. BLACK AND YELLOW BLACK AND YELLOW BLACK AND YELLOW.

Anyways, before there was Wiz Khalifa’s anthemic ode to my hometown colors, there was me and DJ Apt One’s “Pittsburgh Club Anthem.” We cooked this jam up on Christmas Eve 2006 (?) and it got some run at Heinz Field, Mellon Arena and all over Pittsburgh radio. We were pretty happy about it! Download it here!

Cooking Music: Best of Lil B 2010 on Rad Summer Radio

Cooking Music: Best of Lil B 2010 on Rad Summer Radio

I went over to an “undisclosed secret location” in Northern Liberties, North Philadelphia on Friday and layed down an hour-long live mix of some of The Based God’s choice cuts from the past year for Rad Summer Radio with my dude Flufftronix. It’s quite #based, #rare and even a lil bit #secrete.

A few words on the mix though.

It took me a while to come around on dude and his weird, stream of consciousness, alternatingly high and low concept form of hip-hop.  So let me add this to the conversation: this year, we saw Diddy release a really compelling dance-rap album, put the amazing Prince-esque ladybot Joelle Monae in the spotlight and publicly lament the fact that he couldn’t sign Jay Electronica, one of the most “real hip-hop” dudes out there on the cusp right now.   Ten years ago, Diddy was a punching bag for backpackin-ass dudes for whom “keeping it real” was some kind of weird religion.  Now he looks like one of the more forward thinking big men in the giant tent that is “rap music in 2011”.  So rather than being the billionth dude to talk about this or this or this, I’m just gonna say we should really respect a guy who puts Cormega on a track called “Birth Of Rap 2”.

ALSO Lil B’s prolific nature is a lot more about quantity than quality, so there’s a lot of really terribly mixed*** tracks on tracks on there, 96 kbps with blown-out bass and shit.  And there’s a lot of sloppy cuts where I was testing levels.  Sorry!

(“terrible mixed” = audio quality! not making any apologies/excuses for my mixing!)

Track list after the jump!

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New Years Aftermath // End Of Year Props

Welp New Years was a ridiculous success. The homie Nicky Digital took some flix of the Bone Yard jumpoff me and Pumpkin Patch DJ’d at Glasslands, and then Guest Of A Guest got snarky with em. RIYL: me making an ass of myself. I love you, internet.

This weekend is a double-header in Philly, with Hot Mess on Friday night and Philadelphyinz on Saturday night. Low Bee will be our guest Saturday, which is awesome because that dude is amazing.

In other news, allow me to jump back and kiss myself over some nice things people have said about me in the last few weeks:

-the Village Voice named Players Club the “Most Underrated Off-Night Party for Wednesday night

True Genius Requires Insanity called Moombahton De Acero 2 “the overall BEST dance floor ready EP in moombahton’s brief history”

-and Flipper of Finland’s monumental Top Billin collective named the “Hundred Dollar Salad (Sammy Bananas remix)” one of this top 15 of 2010