pitchfork wrote:What the world needs now is a solid rap-rock project. At least that's what the Black Keys are thinking. Hence: Blakroc, a new hybrid endeavor spearheaded by the Ohio blues-rock duo and entrepreneurial MC Jim Jones, who alluded to the meeting of the minds on Twitter back in June. He was not kidding.
Blakroc's self-titled debut LP is out on November 27 and features an impressive guest list: Mos Def, RZA, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, M.O.P.'s Billy Danze, Jones, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard. Check out a trailer for the record with Rae reading lyrics off of his Blackberry here.
As an added bonus, we've got a track from the album called "Ain't Nothing Like You"-- with Mos Def singing, Jim Jones providing surprisingly emo verses, and the Keys' Dan Auerbach la la-ing in the background-- ready and willing to meet all of your audio streaming needs after the jump:
click the link up top to hear the first song.
i hope this comes out good, i'm a big black keys fan.
i like Auerbach, the 2 albums he did with Nathaniel Mayer for example are great
but this kind of high concept shit never works, see that NASA thing as the most recent example. there's several others. they're usually made with no thought beyond 'wouldn't it be cool/interesting to put a and b on the track together'. it's just an eye catching gimmick without much regard for things that actually make collaborations work.
the track on pfork pretty much proves my point. didn't mos def learn his lesson about singing already?
i hope something good does come from this but realistically i doubt there'll be more than 1 or 2 tracks (if that) that i would actually want to listen to more than once
Yeah, though the Black Keys are a favorite of mines, as well, I too think this won't be good on the whole. It so funny that someone like Damon Dash would be the catalyst here, and how everyone's on the BK's tip since the Dangermouse collab, which was probably their worst record, imho. Anyhow, I'd like to hear it, nonetheless.
christopher walken wrote: the Dangermouse collab, which was probably their worst record, imho.
really? i thought that record was great as a whole. very cohesive.
but anyhow...i don't have high expectations for this either, just thought it was cool they are working with jimmy, but i've always thought that someone should do a "black keys v. black moon" mixtape.
christopher walken wrote: the Dangermouse collab, which was probably their worst record, imho.
really? i thought that record was great as a whole. very cohesive.
ditto, i thought the danger mouse black keys was a good record.
I didn't say it was a "bad" record, just their worst. It was the first record they ever recorded in a proper studio, and it was painfully obvious to me, and i.m.h.o. they're a band that sounds better when recorded raw, R-A-W.
Black Keys live...they always come out to Wu-Tang...I thought they pushed a bit with Danger Mouse but this is just diving head first into a shallow rap pool.
I hope we get to hear more of Dan Auerbach than the rappers, I don't want this album to be all beats pushed out by The BK's and rap over it with no Dan Auerbach singing that he's a son of a bitch. More blues, more guitar, more drum, less rap.
The Black Keys are the shit and an album of just them and Jim Jones would be awesome. It's the Mos Def, RZA, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Ludacris, and Pharoahe Monch guest spots that assure mediocracy.
ObeseJesus wrote:The Black Keys are the shit and an album of just them and Jim Jones would be awesome. It's the Mos Def, RZA, Raekwon, Q-Tip, Ludacris, and Pharoahe Monch guest spots that assure mediocracy.
album has potential to be either sweet in the sense that they would take live instrumentation and go beyond the typical hiphop sound (unlike Gold Lemons, unlike a lot of Roots records) but it could also have the potential for pure suckery
. that was fucking dope.