TRACK LISTING FOR FEBRUARY.

FEBRUARY 2011
the pharcyde - passin me by
duck sauce - aNYway
dom kennedy - watermelon sundae
the knux - she's so up
j cole - welcome
j cole - best friend (feat. aaliyah)
dumbfoundead - crushing limbs
wiz, snoop - young, wild & free

Also, my buddy, Lonnie just threw down a new mix that everyone and their dog needs to hear. You can download it for free, HERE

WE COULD KICK IT ANY DAY.

YOU ROCK J'S SO SMOOTH, IF YOU WASN'T INTO ME, I'D PROLLY DATE YOUR SHOES. WE MIGHT BREAK UP YEAH, THE SUN'LL GO DOWN, AND WE'LL MAKE UP, YEAH. A RIVER AND AN OCEAN, WAVES OF COMMOTION. TOO MUCH EMOTION WITHOUT NO DEVOTION. 'LOVE POTION NUMBER 9' IS MY SCREEN NAME. IT'S A MEAN GAME TRYING TO KEEP US BOTH TAME. THEY SAY 'BOTCH IS INSANE' BUT WE ALL GO A LITTLE NUTS.

life ain't sweet, saturday through monday.. but in the summertime, you my watermelon sundae.

4play, homemade nachos, sliders, and pitchers of budweiser. sometimes i forget, just how lovely this is.

TALL BOYFRIENDS AND HEARTBREAKS.

PRIDE - HAD TO SWALLOW THAT, TRUTH - DON'T WANNA HOLLOW THAT, YOUR HEART COULD GET BROKEN; YOU DON'T WANNA FOLLOW THAT.

.. but fuck it, i'll jump. we had our little months. he took me through the 905, we had our little fun.. your dislikes, i did like. yeah i remember them nights.. went home thinking "man i don't do shit right". i'm damned if i stay & i'm damned if i leave ya.. you just wasn't ready, and i wasn't either.

THROWBACK THURSDAY

THE EX-BOYFRIEND EDITION

he was the first hip hop head to ever impress me. i know. bold statement.. but it's true.
at the time i was seventeen. i wasn't really a bad kid, but i was no angel. i was having a rough time trying to place myself into .. what i wanted to be. i was struggling with who i was, and my actions helped me none. i was partying like a fucking rock star. i went out literally every fucking night and just got wasted. wait what?! have things even changed?! hahaha. basically i was getting my heart broken, and this dude was there for me. & for the sake of story-telling, we'll call him.. cam (dipset!).
anyway.. it started out as him being a really good friend. we would talk on the phone fooooorrr houuurrs. literally hours, about hip hop and weekends.. and about five months deep, AS FRIENDS..
the very first day we hung out, was AWKWARD AS SHIT. we met at harvey's on gerrard street.. and i was hungry.. so i got in line to buy food.. as i'm standing in line, my wallet breaks.. AND ALL THIS CHANGE FALLS OUT.. literally like $5.00 worth of coins all over the fucking place.. and i'm like "fuck. really?". it was embarrassing as shit, but that didn't stop cam from asking me to be his girlfriend.
literally almost everyone we knew was against us being together, at least, that's what he told me.. and i could kind of understand why seeing as i kind of ..some what.. had a thing with his cousin jim (which you can re-visit HERE).. whatever, so people hated us. i didn't give a fuck. i was into him, and he was into me, that's all that mattered at the time.
we had a good four month run. we laughed at each other's jokes. i got him into sneakers. we had endless hip hop debates (A WHOLE HOUR ON KRS-ONE! you remember that shit!?).. and it was an over-all good time. he was even the first dude i ever admitted to dating. i told my mom. i was like "i'm dating cam, mom".. and she was all "yeah cool. don't get pregnant". LOL.
i was in toronto (where he was from), without any money to my name, and no place to stay.. so i ended up staying at my friend's AUNTS house. i know. what? haha. it's what i had to do after blowing all my moms money. she refused to wire me more after i blew so much.. mostly on cigarettes and coke (the drink people, not the drug).. might i add. gross. there was a heatwave in toronto at this time, and our dorm room (where i was staying before maribeth's aunts') didn't have air conditioning.. maribeth and i would take turns hanging out in the freezer.. LOL. anyway, i was staying there, and he would make the 2 hour mission every morning to come and hang out with me and my friends aunt, who basically became our aunt, made us breakfast EVERY MORNING. every morning, when i woke up.. there would be two places set, one for me, one for cam.
we did all the typical teenage love gay type relationship shit. one day we were outside on the stoop of our aunts apartment while i was having a smoke.. i made him try smoking and he did. we made out and some four year old yelled at us "get a room!!" and cam was all "HEY!! come back here!" hahaha.. we had some classic moments.. i got this dude DRUNK for the first time. i made him skip work for the first time. he bought cigarettes for me! i wasn't legal in toronto, he was lol.. i was the bad influence in his life, and for some reason.. that worked.
.. and then.. then i came back to winnipeg.. figuring maybe it could still work.. so i was staying at my mom & stepdad's house, and we were on the phone.. and here's what happened:
cam: .. i love you.
botch: what?
cam: .. i do though!
botch: don't say that
cam: hold on a second.
AND HE COVERS THE PHONE OKAY.. as he answers his cell phone, all i hear is "yeah i'm kinda busy right now.. i'll call you before i go to sleep though.. yeah baby, i'm not doing anything! don't worry. i'll call you later. love you too".
OH NO THIS BITCH DID NOT!! lol..so i ask him
botch: where'd you go?
cam: oh my mom just asked me to help her with something right quick.
botch: oh yeah?! who called your cell phone?!
cam: ... what?
botch: BYE. *hang up.*
and he kept calling. he called like 10 times, and my cell phone was dead, so he was calling my step dad's.. at like 2 in the morning okay. i had to leave the phone off the hook so the ringing wouldn't wake them up.. I WAS INFURIATED, and broken. i cried myself to sleep on a couch. there i was. i was broke, so many people hated me, i was sleeping on a fucking couch, crying my ass off thinking "this mother fucker".
that was enough man. thoughts of going back to toronto went to shit after that. how you gonna tell me you love me for the first time while you're still with your fucking girlfriend?! i was fucking HEARTBROKEN. he was the first dude to ever cheat on me. i'd blast slow jams all day and just write journal entries of how much it hurt. i'd bash him all day and i partied to the extreme. i went through a straight rage period. i didn't talk to him for like a year after that.. i couldn't. all of our conversations would just be one of us yelling at each other, or one of us hanging up.
even when we did start talking again he would never admit to it.. it wasn't until he did admit to it that we finally became good again.. not great, good. we're friends now.. and in between the years that passed, we've had one too many conversations of "should we give it another shot?".
to this day, i still don't know the whole truth. i mean i do, but i don't know the details.. and i don't plan on finding out. it's over, it's done. the whole situation was just two kids being kids, but we're older now.. and it's nice to actually be in a good place.. because it took us a LONG fucking time to get here. he still pisses me off some times, and i'm sure i still piss him off.. but i'll never regret cam, i wear his dog-tags from time to time to remind me.. at one point, we really had one hell of a time. cheers to you and screw faces.


LUUUUUUUCCCKKKYYYY!!

& IT AINT JUST RAP, I SPEAK LIKE THIS..

STILL THE MOST RELIABLE. STILL THE MOST WAITED ON. STILL THE MOST LOOKED-OVER. STILL THE MOST HATED ON. STILL LOVE HIP HOP. STILL PLAY THAT OL' NAS. STILL PLAY THAT SAME JAY. STILL MY OWN BOSS TOO. STILL GOT THE SAME WISH. STILL THINK ABOUT ALEX. STILL NOT A MILLIONAIRE. STILL NEVER SAVED ENOUGH. STILL NEVER GAVE A FUCK.

MIXTAPE MONDAY

DOM KENNEDY - FROM THE WESTSIDE WITH LOVE

i'm going to start off by saying, this is one of the best mixtapes i've heard all year.. with that being said, let's get into it.

i downloaded it a few months ago, but haven't really listened to it.. on saturday night while i was doing my dishes (good girl botch!!), i had my music on random, when "on and off switch" by dom kennedy came on.. i was like "fuuuckkk this song is soo ill.. don't i have a mixtape by him somewhere?!".. so after the dishes were done, i dug through my files to find this gem.. and i have listened to it at least twice a day since.

the first track starts off with a beatbox and some what of an eery production, but with a dope flow to follow.. then i heard, "on the beat like this, i never thought i could sound street like this / make top plays of the week like this / and it ain't just rap i speak like this.." WHHHHHHHHHAAAAAATTTTTTTTTT!! fuck yes bitches. fuck. yes. his voice is totally similar to luda, which is weird cuz he comes from cali.. and honest truth, he's one of the first cali rappers i've actually enjoyed in a LOOONGGGG time.. i'm more of an nyc rap person.. i dig that dirty grimey unh bitch unhhh type shit. however, with a swag like this, dom is dirty!!
still me follows and goes well. it's what every rapper thinks, summed up into a song, except it's said well. "dom grown up, better than we expected".. i like songs where rappers say "yo this is where i wanna be.. this is what i was, this is what i am.. and yo, i'm fucking awesome".. confidence is fucking key if you want to be a rapper.. and that is fucking manditory. MANDITORY.
1997 is a cali beat by faaaaaaar. that blaze with your top down type production. you can fucking feel it..!
love is the future is another favorite. it's fucking comical. "all we know is good weed, fine girls, palm trees, you know i'm that nigga girl, fuck haven't you called me?!.. i be on that now stuff, i know you see me round, you like the way i style huh?!" UUNNHHH.. that whole tip where it's like fuck you didn't want me, want me now, but i'm having fun swag issss tooooo dooope.
i liked this tape a lot, but don't want to speak too much on it. i feel like you need to listen to it.. because it will by far feed your ears in a fun way. lyrically, it's simple. his flows are simple, and his cadence is simple.. like he's talking to you.. like it's a simple fucking conversation.. and that sounds petty, but for some reason that fucking works. everything just fits together and it's worth the download. i think the only thing that hurt him, was that he got a little repetitive. i think i'm also a little biased because he payed homage to A LOT (nas, biggie, jay-z, atcq, etc.) of greatness. he's no nas, but i'm not afraid to put him on the same shelf.

you can get it at datpiff.com, enjoy!

3.5/5