The mysterious London production duo, SNAKEHIPS, continue to own our speakers this summer as they have just dropped their 30 minute BBC Radio 1 guest mix for your listening pleasure. Packed with fresh beats, R&B vocals and plenty of sun-soaked grooves, this one has us even more excited to see what they've got cooking for their anticipated debut album.
Listen to SNAKEHIPS' excellent BBC Radio 1 Guest Mix Below:
Special Thanks: SNAKEHIPS, BBC Radio 1, Summer jams, positivity and a better tomorrow
Special Thanks to : Forefathers of methods to listening to music... vinyl records, turntables and diamond needles tearing into the groove to keep humans sane for over 75 years.
Spike Jonze virtually owned the music video industry throughout the 1990's
and has continued on into 2013 to produce and direct some of the foremost examples
of top notch American film and music video making.
Just to blow your minds before we discuss The Pharcyde "Drop" video,
here are my 5 "Random Instant Classics" Spike Jonze videos of all time :
Take a moment to watch them all... you'll thank me later.
You're Welcome.
Dinosaur JR - I Feel The Pain
Lakai Fully Flared Intro
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids to Die With the Sun
Kanye West - Flashing Lights
Beastie Boys - Don't Play No Games Ft. SantiGold
Notorious B.I.G. - Sky's The Limit Ft. 112
When it came time for Spike Jonze to work with The Pharcyde, he decided to use a new
technique that he had experimented with the video for "Sure Shot" by the Beastie Boys.
Spike Jonze directed the Beastie Boys to slow down their delivery with their mouths and bodies
so that when Jonze put it into slow mo, the lyrics would match with their mouth movement.
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
Why the hell is the thumbnail for this video a photo of Chloe Sevigny?
KIDS represent.
Spike Jonze's new technique for shooting the "Drop" video was to have the guys do the entire video shoot backwards. Oh and did I mention that they were going to do each scene in one take?
Hailed as one of the classics of 90's Hip Hop,
The Pharcyde released "Drop" as their follow up to their hit song "Runnin" which featured
a switched lifestyle in which the Pharcyde were rich slave owners of white slaves serving
them at their parties. It's a classic joint, but let's get back to the program.
"Drop" and "Runnin" is produced by the late Jay Dee who also produced
numerous other tracks on the album "Labcabincalifornia" seen below.
Spike Jonze challenged the members of The Pharcyde to learn and create a completely different language and act the entire shoot backwards. Little did he know that The Pharcyde were more
than up for the challenge and went beyond even their language teacher's expectations.
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Upperhands presents : "Drop" by The Pharcyde and Spike Jonze
See if you can spot Ad Rock and Mike D rollin down Broadway.
Upperhands presents : "Drop" by The Pharcyde and Spike Jonze
The Making of Documentary
Special Thanks to : Spike Jonze, Nerdy white guys who like skateboarding, Audible Ale, Charlie Hustle, PED's, being a Yankee twice in a decade ... no, not Ricky Henderson ... no, not Andy Pettite ... Alphonso Soriano, Yankees geriatrics squad, Simoneau frothing at the mouth over the 49ers in 2013-14, The Pharcyde, Wishing the Pharcyde stayed together and killed it for 10 more years.
Here's something fresh to ponder over the weekend....how awesome would it be if classic hip-hop duo, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, re-recorded their seminal album, "Mecca & The Soul Brother," with a live band? Well wonder no more because it's about to be a reality! Pete Rock recently confirmed in a new interview that this will indeed be happening!
So just think how good this jam is gonna sound with a live band!
Special Thanks: Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth for never resting on their laurels and Sunday hip-hop sessions
Just when you thought George W. bush was finally out of your life,
some hacker needed to dig into his email account and find out
#43 is actually a pretty ill painter.
Dabbling in world domination, classical torture techniques and helping make
"big brother" a reality wasn't enough for everybody's favorite redneck,
George has taken up the hobby of illustration painting.
With subjects like "Barney" Bush's Irish setter, golf courses, landscapes and even half nude self portraits in the shower, we can all thank a group of hackers and art curators for bringing this
Republican retrospective to life.
For fear of talking too much about him, I give you :
George W. - Painterly Fool.
Paired with my favorite Bush quotes from the good old days.
Thanks Skitten.
"My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007
"Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!" --joking about his administration's failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." --Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." --Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority." --Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right." --Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." --on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina
"Mission Accomplished".
Special Thanks to : Voters in 2000 and 2004... you suck.
