New Young Money Member...

As you may or may not have heard there was a new member added to Young Money, today. Cory Gunz was announced to be the new member, by Lil Wayne via Ustream. I have on major problem with the fact that Cory is going to Young Money. Well first actually more upset at the fact that he's such a slept on artist. Especially considering he is the son of Peter Gunz. The main reason, however, that I'm upset about this announcement is due to the fact that no one on the Young Money label shines besides Drake and Nicki Minaj. Take Curren$y for example how long was he with Cash Money and Young Money and barely anyone knew he was. The only reason you would is if you saw him featured on a track with Weezy. Now that Curren$y is off Young Money he's making major moves. Hopefully some good comes out of this, at least with the move he's getting some more coverage. So good look to Cory Gunz over at Young Money now, do your thing.

Look Out.

Samson

theGrindStoned's Top Ten Tapes of '09

also i figure this was appropriate theme music

Ok, this one has been in the works for a little while. All year I listen to enormous amounts of tracks and tapes by an array of various artists/ groups. All the while I am considering which ones deserve to be called the best. Then out of that "best" group there is an even finer categorization of the 'Best of the Year'. This is the list that you have all been waiting for and here on New Years Eve it has arrived...

This is theGrindStoned's Top Ten Tapes of '09, as follows in no perticular order:

1.) Freddie Gibbs, The Labels Tryin' To Kill Me

2.) Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa, How Fly

3.) Kidz in the Hall, The Professional Leisure Tour

4.) CunninLynguists, Strange Journey Vol. 2

5.) Lil Wayne, No Ceilings

6.) Slaughterhouse, Slaughterhouse

7.) Willie the Kid, The Fly

8.) Curren$y, This Ain't No Mixtape

9.) The Cool Kids, Gone Fishin

10.) B.o.B., B.o.B. vs. Bobby Ray

Happy New Years.

Samson

New Leaked Wayne

Just got this track today it's reportedly off of Lil Wayne's upcoming rock album Rebirth. Eminem is featured on this track, I would have to say for not loving Eminem's newer work he killed Wayne on this beat. The beat is real nice with a dingy rock feel to it...

Free Track Download

zSHARE - Drop The World _Feat. Eminem_.mp3

So Enjoy.

Samson

She as Hot As Hell, Lets Call Her Helen...

A track off of Lil Wayne's upcoming rock album Rebirth was recently leaked. So here it is for free download. It's a pretty sick song with a sample from the song She's on Fire from the Scarface soundtrack. The track starts just like the sampled version then when the original singing would come in the beat becomes blended with drum patterns and guitars fading in and out; seemlessly interwoven with Wayne's lyrics. This beat is produced by Cool & Dre.

Free Track Download

zSHARE - 04 On Fire.mp3

Enjoy.

Samson.

Follow Me...

As promised here's a selection of videos taken from my iPod's top 25 list:

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Stay Up.

Samson.

Sent Your Girl a Text, Said I'll See You When I Can...

Drake has made a pretty big presence for someone who started out on the Canadian teen show Degrassi. Currently he's working with a lot of other up and coming artists and some rap veterans. Lil Wayne has taken him under his wing, and Drake also signed with Young Money Entertainment in June of this year. He even has a spot on Jay-Z's new The Blueprint 3. The only qualms I have are that some of his songs are a little watered down and rely on autotune. A couple songs I do however like are...

Which gives a shout out to the deceased DJ Screw, the inventor of chopped & screwed remixes, and also a song by Page ft. Drake which samples the beat from 'Still Fly' by the Big Tymers

A good mixtape for actually the majority of Drake's dope shit is Property of October which is a 2 Disc Mixtape that came out a couple weeks ago.

So keep doing your thing and Enjoy...
Samson