Here’s a brand new video from my dude Lex One that captures his dorky personality perfectly. The song is called “Polar Cool” off of Lex’s GTPS Mixtape which just dropped a little while ago. Lex has a rhyming style that strikes that weird balance of joke rap that’s kind of not a joke. He’d fit in well with the Das Racist boys if they ever get a chance to do a show together. He’s a New York via Miami cat that’s living in London these days with his rhyming partner Mike Beatz of Wizard Sleeve who we hipped you too awhile ago.

The music on the GTPS (Get That Paper Son) Mixtape is less raunchy and than the Wizard Sleeve material but still comical and fresh. Be sure to check it out for free with the download link below.

Take a look at the new video and don’t get any wild ideas about trying to steal dudes haircut.

Download: Lex One — GTPS Mixtape.

Here’s a video that came out a little while ago in support of Madlib’s Sound Directions project. Madlib came up with the Sound Directions pseudonym several years ago to essentially put out more Yesterday’s New Quintet type material. But where YNQ used a lot of straight ahead jazz flips, Sound Directions is more ’70s Blaxploitation low-brow funk. It’s a solid album and you should get it if you’re into that stuff.

Anyway, check out this weird ass video that the Stones Throw folks put together featuring some of the oddest Mexicanploitaton footage I’ve ever seen. After the jump, check out the original tune that Madlib flipped from Bobby Womack and JJ Johnson called “Harlem Clavinet.”
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Sarcasm and parody raps are rarely done smartly. Weird Al Yankovic and Kool Keith could pull it off, but most rappers appear to be trying way too hard and the pun falls flat. Here’s a video that doesn’t make a drop of sense from Texas rapper Fat Tony that features comical lyricism and lot’s of, well, food. Any music vid that starts out at a grocery store automatically reminds me of Jane’s Addiction’s “Been Caught Stealing” but this video is even more weird. Believe it. Anybody that is going to SXSW this year should check out Fat Tony and his website to get the haps on his shows in Austin. Considering he’s playing gigs with friends of LxNxM such as Invincible and Das Racist, the guys is definitely alright in our book.

Who knew that Himanshu (Heems) Suri would ever refix a Katy Perry track? If you say, “I did,” you’re a motherfucking liar. Nevertheless, one of the funniest rappers from Queens has chopped, flipped, and rapped over Katy’s Perry’s omnipresent jam of 2010, “Teenage Dream.” Check it out below. And for more commentary from brother Hima, check out a piece that came out today from yours truly in the Metro Times of Detroit on Das Racist. The trio are cracking jokes the whole time.

Das Racist’s Heems x Katy Perry – Teenage Dream by Hypetrak
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Coming fresh off their hilariously smart NY Times Q & A, our homies Das Racist made a super special guest appearance on Anthony Bourdain’s Travel Channel Holiday Special last week.  No, really.  I’m serious.  And, yes, shit is crazy…  Heems and Victor pop out of an egg carton in Tony’s fridge and start rapping “Ek Shaneesh,” which, of course, has a reference to Mr. Bourdain in it (first verse, actually).  Watch it like Youtube:

Here’s a new Christmas jam that’s catchy in all of the right ways from South Florida artist JRandall. At first, it seems a little cheesy. There’s no two ways about that. But give the video a chance to develop and JRandall’s voice and presence should start to grow on you. I’d honestly say dude is somewhere in between JT and Robin Thicke, with a solid sense of humor to go along with his music. Cause it takes a mixture of jokes and cajones to come up with a song like this.

This whole Detroit Heat column got started roughly a year ago when I realized how crucial it is to highlight music from my hometown that more of the world needs to experience. One of the first group’s to get the Detroit Heat treatment was Stoopz N’ Breeze, a comedic tandem of producer Bob Stoopz (Hugh Whitaker) and rapper Drew Breeze (Leaf Erikson). Their last project, Turn Up The Smooth, was a concept album linking the underworld cultures of Miami and Detroit, something I explained more in depth during Detroit Heat Part 2. As of last week, these cats shot finally got around to releasing a proper video and it’s some of the most lo-fi, low class, crass, piece of comedic coonery you’ll ever see. All of that I mean in a good way.

Check out the vid for “DADE COUNTY CRUIZIN’” above and head over to Wax Poetics if you want to purchase the album. Be on the lookout for Detroit Heat the Compilation from yours truly as a digital stocking stuffer later this month.

Dear Tanlines:

You’re lucky that I’m in a good mood. It’s Friday and I’m keen to share good music with the LxNxM readers who keep coming to our site faithfully (thanks all 19 of you!). As I dig for new goodies, I notice you’ve just released a European only project entitled Volume On. Fellas: It’s almost 2011! Who in the hell makes European only releases anymore when music is so global now-a-days? Even if you release an album in Papua New Guinea, it sure as hell won’t stay in Papua New Guinea. It’s on the web, and then it’s worldwide. Faster than you can say Soundcloud.

But yeah, back to you Tanlines. Your new project, aimed at the riki-tiki Europhiles, actually isn’t bad at all. It’s solid like three day old shit. Dance-y tracks, xylophonic beats, and enough sonic exploration that it’s worth sharing w/ the masses. You were “clever” enough not to have an embed link on your Soundcloud page, but clearly, you want the world to hear it. And they should. Since I’m in a nice mood, I’ll give ya an assist. Even though you’re two New York (read: Williamsburg) art-rock hipsters who I probably wouldn’t want to meet in person.

Sincerely — Reality Mr. Wordlush

Go check out Tanlines new Volume On project for free over here.

This made me feel better after getting my wisdom tooth pulled and the US loss to Ghana today.