“Pass Dat” featuring King Sun is the second official single off of Fokis’ upcoming Vintage Album, produced by HipHipHeredia (Fokis’s older brother). It’s alway interesting to hear an old school cat spit it when you haven’t heard them in a while. True Grownheadz remember King Sun from back in the day: he had that kind of monotone Rakim-flow on songs like Hey Love, Be Black and a personal fav of mine (I even rocked it at a few parties), hip house song On The Club Tip.

WHEN WE REMINISCE OVER SUN (MY GOD…)
I actually have a King Sun story, and what better place to use it?

My senior year at Hampton University saw its share of rappers loitering around campus. Now, maybe down in Georgia at Morehouse and Spellman, they’re used to that but at Hampton in ’92, we weren’t. At one point, Flavor Flav was known to roam the yard in a big green mask. Rumor was he was going to to enroll in the music department.

Anyway, me and the crew were hangin’ out near the dorms when a tall dude flanked by a couple of guys crossed the street in front of some girls. His boy said loud enough for everybody in the DMV to hear, “A-YO KING SUN, when we gotta be at the soundcheck?”

We looked, the girls looked and we all shared a collective moment of “Oh….And?”

(from Fokis’s people)
The Vintage Album is scheduled for release this summer and features Hip-Hop legends Kurtis Blow, DMC, Grandmaster Caz, Brand Nubian, Kool G. Rap, Spoonie Gee, King T, MC Eiht, Mic Geronimo, N.O.R.E. and more. Created with two purposes in mind, Vintage was intended as a salute to Hip-Hop’s pioneers and to re-create the sound and feel of the early 80’s through the mid 90’s.

“Pass Dat” has been made available as a pay what you can download via Bandcamp. Pay nothing or pay something, the choice is yours.

This Thursday, May 17th is the Beats, Rhymes & Life Edition. Don’t miss it!

Get an inside look at Talib Kweli on his way to a sold-out performance in Paris with Yasiin Bey (Mos Def). Talib discusses his love for French food and production and lets us in on how he prepares differently for a show each night.

Yeah Camp Lo is still at it. The first song from their LP 80 Blocks From Tiffany.

Grownheadz is a community of lovers of hip hop who came up in the Golden Age through the Renaissance, and does not condone discrimination against young bucks, old heads or the other man. But you can only truly call yourself a grownhead IF…

169) …you were sadly surprised to hear about MCA of the Beastie Boys passing.  
170) …you remember a time when rappers died from violence not health reasons.
171) …its hard to believe the Beastie Boys first album, License to Ill, came out over 25 years ago  
172) … after seeing The Avengers, and waiting on the next Batman  movie, you see we reeeeeeeally need to get us some black superheros other than Hancock and Blade  
173) …90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work
174) …your ringtone is something generic and not the hottest song on the radio     
175) …you see a whole lotta commercials with black people in them and its not just during a “black” show i.e during Soul Train, Living Single,New York Undercover ,etc.

Reppin hard for Portland (home of a lotta good hip hop by the way) its Illmaculate featuring Ness Lee on the hook. His new CD Skrill Talk is out now

Unless you just TOTALLY don’t keep up at all you know by now that Adam Yauch, MCA, of the Beastie Boys passed on Friday.  You know your grownhead if you were sincerely surpised and aghast at the news.  Here at GHz we were most definately surprised an aghast at the news.  So here are our top Beastie Boy songs. Notice we say songs and not videos cause sometimes the dopest songs didn’t always have a video and sometimes the video (Sabotage) is a better video than actual Hip Hop song. Just so ya know we didn’t just go for the hits but ones where they were truly representin hip hop

The New Style
Before Fight For Yor Right blew them all up on MTV this was the first release of Liscence to Ill.  It was hot in the streets with no MTV pub. BTW this video is courtey of Neal Brennan, he helped produce and write a little program called the Chappelle Show.  Apparently this was going to be a music segment on the never finished 3rd season.

Shake Your Rump
Off Paul’s Boutique the second album and the first after they left Def Jam. The Beasties sampled the “Woo Ha got ya all in check” thing years before Busta made it into a hit record.

Pass The Mic
From Check Your Head yeah yeah everybody loves So What Cha Want. But this gem had the three rockin hard. Plus it waaay easier to understand tha So What Cha Want it dosn’t have all the distortion on the voices.

Get it Together featuring Q-Tip
Off Ill Communication their fourth album. I actually wanted to put Root Down on here too but gave the nod to this one cause they had Q-Tip on it.

3 MC’s and 1 DJ
The Beasties took it way old school with this one from Hello Nasty. It literally is just 3 MC’s and 1 DJ doin somrthing that seems almost forgotten now a song given love to their DJ MIxMaster Mike.

WHO does it better?

WHAT is another word for synonym?

WHEN people go mental, why do they get physically violent?

WHERE is the Double XX Posse?

HOW does NEW slang get started?

WHY does Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) act like that?

DO robots dream of electric sheep?

IF horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

WONDER if Kim K, and Kanye really got somethin goin on?

We been feelin REKS for a minute we featured his CD “More Grey Hairs” on GHz. REKS new LP, Straight, No Chaser, is entirely produced by Statik Selektah and features appearances by Slaine, Termanology and this banger below featuring Action Bronson is now available where fine music is sold.

REKS f. Action Bronson “Riggs & Murtaugh” (prod. by Statik Selektah) by clockworkmusic

Buckshot, Sadat X, Charlie Brown, Dinco D and Dres got together with Revive Da Live Big Band to pay tribute to A Tribe Called Quest at Harlem Stage in New York. They performed some of Tribe’s classic cuts.
By the looks of things, it’s been a long time. Who ever thought Charlie Brown would be anything besides a beanpole? He could paraphrase Q-Tip’s line on Bonita Applebum: “I gained 20 pounds, 6 inches wider…”