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While diggers keep avoiding reissues like my dog avoids her dry food I think most heads will have no problem with the recently professionally pressed cd reissue of Liferexall’s Frequency Response. Smoggy Day Entertainment has made this available with five or six extra tracks and a second cd with the instrumentals. Shapeshifters holding it down.

San Jose hip hop veterans Dave Dub + Persevere finally release a Real version of their long awaited Subcontents album that 75 ark fronted on…SoFarWest is carrying it…but whats up with the Dub Brothers??

I heard Mobb Deep’s official single off the new lp will probably be “Throw Your Hands In The Air” which is produced by Kanye West.  Some kids (or should I say men?) over at SoulStrut posted the original sample Kanye freaks and they actually give him props.  Kanye getting props on SoulStrut?  What does this mean for hateration?  Anyway, if you want a copy of the original record here’s a hint:  “….all I will say is that it is from 1975 on A&M Records.”  And if you want to take a quick listen of the single Trickology posted a snippet in real audio, which doesn’t do the song justice but whatever, don’t complain, its free!

Toyota is now saying: You Are HipHop (see original random post from July 6th).  If you can convince Just Blaze, Bryan Leach or Eric Cubiche that your music is proper, you could win $50k and …….drum roll….. a Scion marketing deal! Jyeah!

Queen Latifah and friends are contributing music to a compilation to help raise money for charity and help boost sales for Cover Girl.  Nothing wrong with a win-win set of circumstances, right? 
 

BEAUTIFUL inside and out. It sounds like one of those personal-ad clichés, up there with candlelight dinners and walks on the beach. But to Cover Girl, Procter & Gamble’s 43-year-old cosmetics line, it is a longtime mantra…..The cosmetics company has teamed with Atlantic Records to create its own record label, CG Vibes: Music That Gives Back. Some 20,000 copies of its first CD, a compilation of nine songs from popular artists like Queen Latifah - already a Cover Girl spokeswoman - Brandy and the Corrs, are scheduled to be in 700 Sam Goody and Media Play stores on July 20…..For now, Cover Girl plans to sell the CD’s through the end of December. Early next year, it will use the proceeds - and supplement them, if need be - to finance $10,000 grants to five young women in recognition of their community service……Marketing experts say they are not surprised that P.& G. is going all out. The company has for some time made it clear that it intends to move away from mass advertising in favor of narrowly targeted ads…..For Atlantic Records, a division of the Warner Music Group, interest in the partnership stems from a recognition of the difficulty of breaking through the clutter on radio and television, which are the traditional avenues for creating stars and selling albums. Company executives say they see the CG Vibes connection as a fresh way to promote their stable of performers, both as artists and as role models.

 
 
Alright I think that’s enough, don’t want to get sued or receive harsh emails or anything. Go to the nytimes article and read the whole thing if you’re interested.

Got an email from the cats at Legacy Unlimited about this free New Jersey based Hip Hop Newspaper.  Was this a joke or can we expect some editorials?  Don’t have much info except a few links and a contact:  link1, link2

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So we gave our random updates its very own page.  Why?  Why not?  Y’all missed a few if you came here first, quick recap: friends, dave dub, bingo gazingo, more friends, black mamba serum, shyheim tv, son of a whore, toyota says: i am hiphop, dead bent now and then, and transform.  Please feel free to go to the main GrandGood site for more info on these posts.