Memphis 10 stand up (we gotta stop beefing and killin one another): Response to L'Daialogue video

Peep this video homey. I love the unity message pertaining to Memphis, Memphis' musical sound and its future coming from youngmarc901. I love that mane...M-Town Luv (Love). 2009 is the year. Memphis will be that city, dude. Just wait. Bluff City Daialogue is coming, mane. Number 2...

Check out this video:

Behind the Music: The Making of Marielaveau (words by L'Dai & MiZUnderstatistic)

Now,


Looking at this radio station playlist...that would mean that the new Ovaground/L'Daialogue-Tygah Woods collaboration "Marielaveau" is GETTING AIRPLAY on the radio!!!!! That is crazy!!!!! But, before we really get into jockin' the song itself...we wanted to get into what made MiZUnderstatistic and L'Daialogue DiCaprio pursue a collaboration of this magnitude.

Also, congratulations to Tygah Woods and L'Daialogue!!! (You have to pat your own back sometimes...lol)


-L'Daialogue

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Transcribed interview by: M. Notceb

MiZUnderstatistic: "Marielaveau actually started as just your regular beat. Nothing more nothing less. L'Daialogue was the one who came up with the idea of throwing Tygah Woods in the mix."

L'Daialogue: "Well, Mr. J'ai and J-Dubble are fam anyway...so, I definitely wanted to get them in the 'yo again. But, then they started telling me about the new click Tygah Woods and the members. I was like 'I want to see if they want to get down on this music tip."

MiZUnderstatistic: "Once L'Daialogue gave me what he wanted...I started building the track with these loud thumping drums. Also, I had to have the melody to seem Creole-feeling but not necessarily Creole-sounding...if that makes sense."

L'Daialogue: "Mane, I was just thinking: Blaze, Francis and Slangston has to feel this. J'ai and Dubble are certified beasts..it was just like I wanted to get that good old feeling we always have with the music that we do together."

MiZUnderstatistic: Then, I added this swing to the beat that really made the track what it was. After the bassline, it had a strong essence. All it needed was the emcees."

L'Daialogue: "Yep, just like MiZUnder said...the emcees came through on this one. I needed a hard name to describe the track and all I could think of was the voodoo priestess named Marie Laveau from New Orleans. Not that we practice voodoo but it defintely had that homegrown feel that showed New Orleans and Memphis in the same breath.

I just hope that it moves on a street level because I'm definitely throwing it on too many mixtapes to mention at this time..lol. Check it out and I believe you will feel the same."

















To check out the "Marielaveau" track (tentatively until official release), go here:

www.myspace.com/ldaialogue

Tygah Woods Radio Episode 6: The Mardi Gras "Tit-Tays" Edition

Peep this podcast out, mane. And I got a little shout out too...lol. It's a surprise though...


So, for these last few hours peep my New Orleans fam and try not to think about tha' tit-tays tooooooooooooo hard. Laissez bon temp rouler on to Ash Wednsday.


Check it out. It's the truth.


-L'Daialogue


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HAPPY MARDI GRAS BITCHES!!!!!

Yo Yo here's another episode of Tygah Woods Radio
very very special show on the internet super highway
with the show featuring music from:

Get'em
Wes.B

and a music-ography and music AND an interview from Mr.Jai the other half of J-Squared and founding member of Tygah Woods YA KNOW!

Also on today's show we we'll give yall The World Premiere of Tygah Woods and L'Daialogue Dicaprio NEW SINGLE Marielaveau.......

Enjoy's Today Show!!!

http://tygahwoodsradio.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-02-24T12_33_31-08_00

New Project Pat Article by Jabari Oliver

Dear People (and MIDIMarc),


I will be on that Pata tommorrow (and so will MIDIMarc). That's it. Read this article about Mr. Pat...and cop that "Real Recognize Real". Peace.


-L'Daialogue






















Project Pat – Real Recognize Real (Album Review) – Jabari Oliver


“Play me some pimpin’ mayne.”

“Now they was thinking the Dirty South was like….hee haw hee haw/ is you worth over a hundred mill?/….we are we are!”

These were the words that came from a man that went for the ghetty green as a youngster where he was easily labeled a murderer and robber. From all of his extra-curricular activities in the streets, he built bonafide credibility and became known as “Mista Don’t Play” who had everything working because he was recognized as one who laid the smack down. Through revealing too much muscle for the smack he became a crook by the book and had his own fed story. After being released from hard time, he then returned to being a walking bank roll. Now after all of his life’s experiences he knows how the real recognize the real. This man is Patrick Stephen Houston better known as Project Pat and brother of Three Six Mafia member Juicy J.


“Play me some pimpin’ mane.” It has been a long time coming for Project Pat. He served time in prison on various charges in the mid-1990s, before releasing his first solo album, Ghetty Green in 1999. After serving nearly four years in prison (for possession of a firearm and violating his parole), he was released and motivated for the betterment of his life and rap career. Before his last incarceration, he was considered the spokesman for the entire southern hip hop movement. He released a major distributed album every year before being locked up in 2001, after his platinum release “Mista Don’t Play: Everythangs Workin’.” Today Pat releases his latest album entitled “Real Recognize Real” during the time of a recession where currently, in some states in the U.S., prisons are releasing tens of thousands of inmates because of overcrowding facilities. On another note, in being a rap veteran with acclaimed commercial success with his affiliation with Academy Award winning group Three Six Mafia and being featured on MTV’s reality show “Adventures in Hollyhood”, Project Pat in some instances has had his street credibility questioned. In this fittingly titled album, Pat answers the critics with his latest project, “Real Recognize Real.”

“Play me some pimpin’ mane.” “Real Recognize Real” is a Hypnotize Minds release and Project Pat’s first album to be distributed by Asylum Records. Pat maintains his hood credibility in various tracks on the album. One particular song that adds validity to his street credentials is the smash hit “Keep it Hood” which features So Icy Entertainment’s OJ da Juiceman and a heavy laden classic O’Jays sample from their hit song “Listen to the clock on the wall.” Three Six Mafia show their production genius by proving that a mixture of “OJs” is a fitting recipe for a gargantuan hit radio musical blast. “I got plenty cars/money wads/ ghetto star/hood broads/ felony charge/ I’ma’ keep it hood!” proclaims Project Pat on the chorus as he is supported by the live brass horns in the background. “Catch a Hot One” and “Dead in the Streets” are two of the darkest songs on the album where Project Pat reveals the wars that go on in the streets. “Ain’t Scared of Ya” is a typical Project Pat song where his hood story telling depictions keep listeners on the edge of their seats with possessed head nodding. “Slick Hater” is a common Hypnotize Minds song that sounds repetitive to past productions. The spin-chilling monster laugh in the background of the beat adds for an entertaining listen. “Gold Teeth” is another north Memphis anthem track that Pat delivers with production from DJ Paul who repeats “Drop it off, drop it off” in the beat’s background. Project attempts to take it back to Mista don’t Play with “Talk Dat Gangsta”. In “Choppa to ya dome,” Pat goes to his old self as if it was a song made for his underground album “Murderers & Robbers” where DJ Paul samples a young Pat rapping in his Killa Klan Kaze days. Pat describes what would happen if someone messed with his money in “My Money” which features DJ Paul and Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia.

“Play me some pimpin’ mane.” Project Pat loosens up and puts his glock on safety and has a little fun on tracks such as “Bang Smack” which features the animated Gucci Mane, “Pogo Stick”, the strip club anthem where he salivates over a stiletto, skinny jean honey through his lyrics. Pat maintains his usual content of Sex, Money, and drugs with tracks such as “Dats The Way You Do It”, “Horny”, and “Stayin’ High.”

“Play me some pimpin’ mane.” A big hint for sifting out the heat-seekers on the album is if Project Pat’s brother Juicy J says “Play me some pimpin’ mayne” at the top of the song, from there it is a proven bumping banger. Other than the smash “Keep it Hood” which has taken radio airwaves for ransom, the best song on “Real Recognize Real” is “I Be Fresh”. After Juicy J asks for the “pimpin’” at the start of the song the explosion of soul runs through listeners’ ear buds as if they have just received an injection of that same magic that ran through the blood of the late Isaac Hayes and Otis Redding. Project Pat releases classic rhymes in his lyrics in “I Be Fresh” with what many in Memphis would say, “spittin’ that pimpin.” Project Pat spits “I’m riding in the Aston Martin/ Beg your Pardon/ Juicy lips like Gina/ Give me head like I’m Martin.” This song proves to be a Memphis rap classic.

“Real Recognize Real” overall falls short of being a “Mista Don’t Play: Everythangs Workin’” platinum classic but holds itself high as being one of Project Pat’s best albums yet. Some of the content fails to be relevant to the times, even though in “Stayin High” he claimed to stay high like the price of gas. This album was authentic nevertheless and revisited the Project Pat that many have grown to love. A lot of the tracks on the album were taken back to the basics with the raunchy, no holds barred style that has catapulted Pat to where he is today. The two strongest instant classic tracks “Keep it hood” and “I Be Fresh” both make the entire album a must buy. “Real Recognize Real” will send a wave through many hoods and keep the “pimpin” played.



Link: http://www.memphisrap.com/2009/02/23/project-pat-real-recognize-real-album-review/

Street Fighter 2 Spoof: Ryu Chris (Brown) vs. Chun Li "Ri-Ri" (Rihanna)

Okay,


I'm not laughing at this...but I am laughing. Well, that's messed up to say...but whatever. Check it out.


-L'Daialogue



p.s. Pray for Chris Brown and Rihanna...like for real.

Good Ole' Mardi Gras RACISM: The Classic Perception of New Orleans' Blacks by Whites

New Orleans is my 2nd home AND I have something to say to defend that city from any crazy comments about Katrina or whatever. But this video takes the cake and bakes it again.

So, they can come to New Orleans and talk about the people who built that city from the ground up? Blacks people are lazy and love to live in sub-standard conditions, etc. Come on people. This is 2009.

This is sooooooo sad. So sad. And all of them have on LSU shirts. That's crazy because my doubloon bet is that all of them (or most) are alum from LSU. Yeah, post-civil rights/ political correctness education my ass. This is madness.

And you wonder why it's so many people ignoring the city's plight. But they can bring their asses down to enjoy a cultural holiday (Mardi Gras) that was partly influenced by the way the Blacks in the area shaped it.

I hope they eat a poisoned King Cake. Lol..no, really.


-L'Daialogue

Tygah Woods...GOES L'DAIALOGUE???? What's this???

Hold up????


Does L'Daialogue have a new clique???? What is going on???


No, but this crew is actually my extended N.O. fam and the tightest collective in the city right now. Yes, "Tygah" Woods like the golfer. And yes, they GO HARD!

Mr. J'AI, J-Dubble, B.L.A.Z.E the Verbal Chemist, D.Francis, Slangston Hughes and the Legendary Dj Mike Swift...TYGAH WOODS!!!! (I'm going wild with these exclamation points tonite, huh...lol)

But, I'm hearing rumors of a L'Daialogue/Tygah Woods collabo COMING SUPER-DUPER SOON???? You will have to wait and see.

-L'Daialogue


In the meantime...check out Tygah Woods in action:

Gus's Chicken in Mason, Tennessee-The Best Chicken in The World

So yeah,


I had to slide back home on some family business and amongst studio sessions with Cane (finally) and family time with my family (which is self-explantory)...I went back to where I was literally raised.

When I say I am a country boy, I really mean country. Before we moved back to Memphis many years ago...I used to spend a majority of my time at my grandmother's home in Arlington, Tennessee. This was the COUNTRY country. Straight up trees and twigs, folk. Cotton and plows. Pigs and cows country. But anyways...
















As I rolled through Tipton County (for my music heads...this is the birthplace of Issac Hayes), I came across Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken (not the one on Beale Street). I remember this place when I was younger but I went in with my older sister and WOW!!! I have NEVER in my life tasted GREASELESS chicken...but Gus's is it.

Now, if you're not scared of slavery darkness, winding roads and happen to be between Memphis, Tennessee and 100,000 miles of country...stop by Gus's. You'll be glad you did.

-L'Daialogue

L.E.G.A.C.Y. & DJ Flash's N.C. Chainsaw Massacre Article on IndyWeek.com

By Eric Tullis



It's hard to say who's to blame, but Durham rapper L.E.G.A.C.Y. epitomizes North Carolina hip-hop's horde of missed marketing opportunities: Early in the game, L.E.G.A.C.Y. was known as the Jim Morrison, wanna-be-rock-star of local rap. He'd arrive at shows dressed completely in red or in metal-studded leather belts, crawl around the stage in the clutch of pathos and moan his verses into a microphone. Someone should have shipped the dude and his horror-show persona to a label like New York's Def Jux, home to fellow miscreants El-P, Aesop Rock and Vast Aire. Instead, L.E.G.A.C.Y.'s debut LP, Project Mayhem, was released as a package deal with the party jams of The Away Team. It fell victim to a misdirected promotional campaign, and opportunities dwindled for L.E.G. here. He headed north.

But just when you thought this brand of bloodthirsty douche-baggery couldn't take L.E.G. any further, the sweet little Cub Scout is back with a new mixtape, N.C. Chainsaw Massacre. It's meant as a prelude for his second LP, Suicide Music. Someone has one too many Disney classics on his DVD shelf...

Given his battles with a corroding Justus League crew, a thinning Carolina hip-hop scene and generally being misunderstood, L.E.G. is entitled to some lunacy on his comeback, and he fits a nice chunk of it into this 30-minute exercise. Hosted by DJ Flash and featuring area standbys like K-Hill, Chaundon, KAZE, and Nervous Reck, Massacre illustrates that L.E.G.'s still packed with stocky wit and beastly insults. His tenure as an underappreciated Carolina rapper is likely what's led him to sound so often like a conceited nut-job spewing tough lines, and that quality's top-shelf here. On "4 Cornered Room," for instance, producer Khrysis' drums come drilled by volts of lightning guitar samples, and his verses are surrounded by frightening melismas.

Even when he borrows Big Pun's beat for "Leatherface," he slays it: "I was raised on hate/ Kinda like Atlas I will raise my state/ Got it on my back like a piggy back ride/ We selfish in the Kack like, 'Gimme that sky'... and I ain't leavin' this time." We hope not. After all, in these days of hope amid turmoil, where would we be without our favorite pissed-off pessimist?

Correction (Feb. 6, 2009): Did we say miasmas? We meant melismas, of course.



LINK: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A279842

Happy Birthday To Me, God's Blessings and Daily Stresses by L'Daialogue (REAL STORY)

So,

I woke up on Feb. 2, 2009 thinking that I was going to have a great week. My birthday is on Feb. 4 so I knew some great things was going to happen. I was wrong.

First, my oldest brother's mother died (I knew this this weekend). This is not cool in the fact that I didn't know his mother (we had different moms) but I feel like he at least need a support system seeing that lost my mother 9 years earlier. This requires a trip to Memphis again. It's not a casual trip in this sense. Family business for sure.

I woke up 7:20 a.m. to a blurred T-Mobile Sidekick. I knew that my 'Kick for a was trippin' for a few weeks but dang...a blurred screen. It looked like the Box channel (for all my people that remember the Box video channel) with all of that blurry mess of colors. I couldn't see a thing. But, I wasn't trippin' because I had insurance on the phone.

Now, my girl car was acting up so I let her drive the "Black Stallion" Nissan Sentra and I took her car to the repair shop to see what's up. $100 dollars later I'm told that I would be $400 dollars to to fix what I later found out was a $20 problem (thank God for the internet and me not falling for the okey doke).

So, by me taking the car to the shop...I was already late for work. This is around 11 a.m.
but my boss wasn't trippin' too hard so I filed in and got to work.

A half-day of work later I come home for a minute to cook dinner. My girl needed something from Walgreens so I volunteered to go. A very bad choice.

I roll into the Walgreens parking lot around 9 p.m. and see a lady directly in front of my car. I stopped and directly to the right of me is another car parked. I see the ladies' brake lights so I put my hand up in a pausing motion to let her know that I was behind her.

Suddenly, she pulls into reverse and BAM! This (****) hit my car!!!

So, I get out of my car and it's a white woman who looked visibly drunk. Very visibly drunk.

I ask for her insurance information and she appeared to look for her information as I scrambled for a pen.

Now, unbeknowest (which is not a word) to me, this piece of piss poor white trash was strategically plotting her escape. In retrospect, I could have physically prevented her from leaving but I would have surely got an assualt charge (again...that's a whole other story).

So, I turn around and see this lady pulling out and as I run into the Walgreens to get a pen.SCCCCCRREEEEEEEHHHHHHEEEEEECCCCHHHH!!! That lady bailed out. Out the clear blue, you would have thought she was Reginald Denny the way she drove off. I ran just to catch a glimpse of her rusty Gold Seabring going toward Hollywood.

Not only did my brother's mother pass, my Sidekick crash and burn, my girl's car try a stop-n-go AGAIN after I stayed in a repair shop 2 hours trying to get it fixed and being involved in a hit-and-run that the dummy cops said they could not pursue...I was going through some thangs.

But out of all of this, I thank God for my birthday today. People don't make it where I am where I'm from especially at this stage. Even after all of these things...just me being alive is a blessing.

So, shouts out to Mr. J'ai...who if he would have stayed on the phone I wouldn't had to go to Walgreens axing that accident totally out of the equation...lol. But, it's just another day in my life.

Hopefully for my b-day, I'll take it a little slower. I'm thankful still.

-L'Daialogue

J-Squared (Mr. J'ai & J-Dubble) "Let It Go"

My favorite New Orleans group. That's it.


Check 'em out:



Let It Go by J Dubble & Mr. Jai' from Jonathan Jackson on Vimeo.

J. Bizness Red Bull BIG TUNE Interview (OVAGROUND PRODUCER'S SPOTLIGHT)

Finally,


As we continue on....I actually got a chance to catch this kid J. Bizness in a beat battle in West L.A. Dude was murkin' cats on the tracks and ended up winning the L.A leg of the battle.

And when I say murkin'....I had that smeared face like when you were a kid putting your face on the window in the back seat of a car with steam coming out of your nose the whole competition...lol. So, yeah...he's SUPER OFFICIAL.

6 degrees of separation is a mug.

J. Bizness is from the producer from the I.E. (Inland Empire, California).
He has an artist by the name of Blak King from the same area.
Blak King has a 7" inch called "Takin' Me Places" by a producer by the name of Olde Soul.
Olde Soul is MY PRODUCER.


So, in many ways...he's family by not even being family per se...lol. But, check out his interview after winning the Los Angeles leg on the Red Bull BIG TUNE Beat Battle.


-L'Daialogue


Check it out:

Some more of that undaground L.A. "ish"...

Just was checkin' my homey Olde Soul's myspace page and caught this fly vid. The artist name is Camel and this song is dope.

I also see some Brothaload cameos from Spliff and some more dudes. Didn't catch who was on the production though.


Also, nobody really cared about this year's Superbowl....at least me. Maybe next year for Tennessee...lol.


-L'Daialogue

Check it out:

FREE CAMEL!
West L.A.'s Finest

Camel "2 Many Things"