How can you not love the Living Legends? Check out the video for She Wants Me, a send-up of VH1’s I Love New York. The track comes off the ’08 EP The Gathering (get it at eMusic). Living Legends | She Wants Me Remember to download the latest Murs and 9th Wonder collaboration, Sweet Lord, … Continue reading Living Legends: She Wants Me (video)
In the almost three years I’ve been keeping this blog, I’m not sure I’ve seen a better batch of live offerings in the metro Phoenix area in one night than what’s going on Monday. You’ve got Nada Surf and Sea Wolf at the Clubhouse in Tempe. Then there’s Born Ruffians and Cadence Weapon at Rhythm … Continue reading Living Legends: She Wants Me
It’s hard to imagine a more prolific crew of musicians than Living Legends, an eight-man hip-hop collective from LA and Oakland. I like to think that I’m up on the trends, yet every time I check it seems the Legends have put out a group album or something solo. Murs’ Murray’s Revenge was one of … Continue reading Living Legends: Legendary Music, Vol. 1
As a member of the Living Legends collective and a longtime solo artist, Murs is as prolific as any rapper out there – sometimes to a fault (I’m afraid he’s showing some Ryan Adams-like tendencies). But for my money, some of his best work has come in the company of producer 9th Wonder, who played … Continue reading New Murs and 9th Wonder: The Problem Is
Nick Andre has spent the past couple years working on the indie-electro duo City Light and touring with Her Space Holiday, but his background remains true to hip-hop. He’s a DJ/producer and co-founder of
The 43rd installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from Nick Andre, a Bay Area DJ/producer and co-founder of Slept On Records who has worked with, among others, artists from Quannum and Living Legends. His newest project is City … Continue reading I Used to Love H.E.R.: Nick Andre (City Light)
Damn. It was back in December that I posted about Say G&E!, the first single from the album of the same name by Living Legends members The Grouch and Eligh. Well, that album finally hit stores this past week, just a few weeks before the duo’s May 15 stop at the Clubhouse in Tempe (tickets … Continue reading Incoming: The Grouch and Eligh, May 15
If you’ve paid just a little bit of attention around here, you’ll know I’m a pretty big fan of the Living Legends and all the group’s various offshoot combinations – like, say, the Grouch and Eligh. The pair is getting ready to drop the full-length Say G&E in March, an album that features guest spots … Continue reading The Grouch and Eligh: Say G&E
In support of his 2008 album Murs for President, the man himself dropped by KCRW for a set on Morning Becomes Eclectic. If you haven’t heard, Jason Bentley has taken over for Nic Harcourt on the show, and I gotta say, I found this interview to be really refreshing and not the humdrum “who are … Continue reading Murs on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
The 38th installment of I Used to Love H.E.R., a series in which artists/bloggers/writers discuss their most essential or favorite hip-hop albums and songs, comes from Belief, who in 2006 dropped his great debut Dedication (featuring the likes of Murs and C-Rayz Walz and previously discussed here). Belief’s newest project is a 40-minute mixtape, Let … Continue reading I Used to Love H.E.R.: Belief