Some New Ish Ish

This is my 200th blog post! Pretty serious. Never thought I'd keep 'er going for this long, but what d'ya know?

I've been working quite frantically lately for that paycheck, and when I'm not working I'm skateboarding, so sorry for lacking in the updates department. It could be worse and I could be like my friend Kellen who hasn't touched the Mock Turtle in over a month! Yikes bro!

Alright, before I get into it, who else is pumped for the Lakers VS. Celtics NBA Final? That is going be quite the spectacle. Hopefully Rondo stays healthy (looked like he was nursing his back last game against the Magic) and tears up the floor like he has been this playoffs. Kobe is on fire, but what else is new... fuck the Lakers, really. I'm gonna be watching the game tomorrow with my Celts jersey in full effect.

Now on to the main event: some new music.

A Roots track featuring Chitown's John Legend leaked the other day titled "Doin' It Again," pretty nice track. I always like John Legend, and as usual, he drops a nice hook between Black Thought's verses. Pretty much sounds like a classic Roots track with ?uestlove on the drums and I'm only assuming Legend on the keys. Check the link above for a download link, and if that doesn't work then google search the track, I'm sure it'll come up. The Roots' album How I Got Over comes out on June 22nd, get hyped.

Anyone remember Capone N Noreaga? After starting out in the nineties then going solo for a bit they dropped an album titled Channel 10 last year, which was decent, none of the tracks really stuck to me. However, I just heard "Hood Pride" from The War Report 2 and must say that I was really feelin' it. I always felt that N.O.R.E. had one of the strongest voices in hip-hop, so to hear him go off on a solid beat with a lot of energy was pretty exciting - reminded me of old Capone N Noreaga. Faith Evans on the feature!

Royce and the gang from Slaughterhouse have been killing it lately... well, forever, really. Royce's Bar Exam 3 dropped not too long ago and goes hard. The track "Nobody Fuckin' With Us" features Texas legend Bun B, Joe Budden and Crooked I. Budden flows real nice on this one. (Side note: Can't find the version I have with Budden's verse, which is a damn shame)

That's about it for now, enjoy some of these new(ish) tracks and maybe check out Royce da 5'9"'s Bar Exam 3 mixtape while you wait for The Roots' latest to drop.