Diplo, “Track 13”, Favela Strikes Back

(via thedailywhat)

Dear Maya,

I know everyone I know, knows this, but I love you. Not just like, but love. Love like that way Ta-Neshi Coates described it like smoking a blunt, while eating apple-pie good kinda love… If I married you, I imagine we could walk around with our hood shit on, without me feeling as out of place. You like all that stuff too so, we’re well on our way. (Word, yo, we could rock like camo Air Ones or something—laces untied. Or Chucks, even, I got a gang of ‘em. No pun. )

We could even two-way page each other in the aisles of the supermarket or even get on some Boost mobile steez, while picking up some Similac joints for our child that’s not Diplo’s. Look, I even used to blog him here. But because of you, not so much. Now, his name doesn’t even grace this place. I also think that our Ice Cream truck with the skull and bones emblazoned on the side would be a warning to all the herb-type parents, that our kids were about to roll on their kids on the playground with some mean dodgeball throwing.

And we could even go back to the P.I. with my mama dukes once and a while and not be all afraid of the Abu Sayaf and I could completely see you smoking those thin brown cigarettes that all the old ladies like to burn. Or we could just roll to scoop knockoff Louis wares there or in Malaysia; I know some spots. I’ll buy you a wedding bandoleer if you want. Serious. Let’s get all revolutionary gangster. Let’s do this, kid. Really, though. Think about it.

-Vaughn

P.S. I still listen to Piracy Funds Terror Vol.1 and Vol. 2, weekly.

P.P.S. I think American Apparel stole designs from your line sheet.

Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.), “Untitled” (Diplo Mix), Piracy Funds Terror Vol. 1

If you’re from the Third World, you relate…

skeetonmischa:

“Good Time” (Diplo Remix) by Brazilian Girls

Okay, this song is fun and I want to have this much fun back east in a couple of days.

Via The Fader

I love me some Diplo tracks.

-Vaughn

The Fader blog on The Clash and its lack of being sampled by hip-hop (so far), excerpted:

As the rap world’s fascination with MIA’s “Paper Planes” and the parade of “remixes” featuring the likes of 50 Cent, Jim Jones and Freeway (possibly) starts to subside, we’ve been thinking about why more hip-hop producer’s haven’t sampled The Clash, whose “Straight To Hell” is the basis of Diplo’s beat. After the jump, FADER editors Eric Ducker and Eddie “Stats” Houghton discuss over instant messenger what the beatmakers have been missing, who probably blew it and whether you’ll be hearing the harmonica from “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais” on Myrtle Ave. any time soon.

Eric Ducker: Let me just fire up the iTunes and put The Clash on shuffle.

Eddie Stats: Word. Let me get my Clash coffee table book, so I can drop random facts.

ED: Okay, my first question is: why haven’t more people sampled The Clash?

ES: Good question. I have no fucking clue, except that maybe it’s hard to clear? Or at least that’s what I assumed until “Paper Planes” came out. I would think Simonon and Jones would be easy sells

ED: I can’t imagine they would take a Rolling Stones/Beatles/Barry White anti-rap stance.

ES: Maybe you have to get clearance from CBS or some kind of Bernie Rhodes/ Joe Strummer estate combine. That’s the only good excuse I can think of.

ED: Yeah, I don’t think they would not clear things from an artistic standpoint, money could be the only issue, because the only people who really have sampled them before “Paper Planes” were Will Smith and Ice Cube & Mack 10.

ES: Will Smith! I forgot about that. It must be a money thing. I always got the feeling The Clash didn’t make too much money when they were “alive.” They basically took a loss with Sandinista and London Calling by doing double and triple LPs for the price of one.

ED: But isn’t that like the opposite thinking of the Tom Tom Club who will basically let anyone sample “Genius of Love” as long as it’s not super offensive, because that way they can make money on it?

ES: I think it’s like if you want to sample “Guns of Brixton” you probably have to pay off all their debts to CBS, including hotel rooms Topper Headon trashed in 1980 that still aren’t paid for.

So wait, let’s review the short list: Ice Cube & Mack 10, Will Smith and MIA?

More.

Santogold x Diplo, “Guns of Brookyln” a remake of this classic. It goes hard.

Santogold, “Starstruck”, (Diplo Remix)

So this blog is supposed to be a quick-hitter station, but I wanted to share this Diplo track, and I might as well add my text from momma site filthy/skies:

Why do I love Diplo you ask? Well its really academic at this point, but for one, his mash-ups work. Every single one. (Which is more than I could say for a lot of DJs who pass out their work at myriad events and I am soon bombarded with ‘terribleness’.) Diplo takes the songs we love (and girls I love), finds semi-obscure records for them to co-mingle with sonically, and blesses all the parties involved- well (on the track). Diplo’s ‘Brew Barrymore’ has been making the rounds on these here interwebs and I am adding this post to the roster. (What he does on ‘Brew Barrymore’ with Tribe’s ‘Electric Relaxation’ is pretty amazing.) Recently at the now-going-to-be-annual Roots picnic a couple of weeks ago, Diplo released a special mix just for the jammy and his label Mad Decent is on some serious noise-maker movements. Is this not a convincing argument?

Listen and download “Brew Barrymore” [Here]

As seen originally… [Here] and [Here]

P.S. Now officially stepping away from my: “I am not writing anymore cool-culture stuff” statement, made to colleagues. It’s my Rasheed Wallace “guarantee.”