Your Old Droog & RATKING Emcee Wiki Unleash What Happened to Fire? EP with Production from Black Milk, RTNC, Statik Selektah, araabMUZIK, !llmind & Tony Seltzer (Letter Racer Download)

"Today, New York-bred emcees Wiki & Your Old Droog are sharing a new collaborative EP. What Happened to Fire? is a 5-track joint effort that demonstrates a chemistry between Wiki & Droog that could only come from both artists growing up in New York City; narrated by found samples of Kool Keith, the focus of the EP for Wiki & Droog was having fun while putting down the best bars possible," read a press release I received late last week from Nick X Dierl at Orienteer (formerly Liberal Arts and Life or Death PR). What Happened to Fire? EP was recorded in tandem with an art installation under the same name, which ran at Romero Gallery in late 2016. "What Happened to Fire? was recorded at Wiki's Chinatown apartment as the installation was being formulated and displayed and the art that accompanies the EP contains imagery from the gallery." Your Old Droog was compared to Nas early on in his career and was even believed to be some sort of new-found alias Nasty Nas may have been launching around the time of his 2014 Your Old Droog EP-LP. Since his last two EP's KINISON and The Nicest, Your Old Droog has released nearly an entire album's-worth of non-album loosies produced by Jonwayne, RTNC, Marco Polo, Alchemist, Oh No, Black Milk, and a number of freestyles over Kanye, Seinfeld, and DJ Hart beats.

Although, I've never listened to RATKING before What Happened to Fire? EP, Wiki does sound a lot like yet another New York Golden Age Hip-Hop legend: A Tribe Called Quest founder Q-Tip. What Happened to Fire? EP evokes the same Beastie Boys-reminiscent 2 MC's & 1 DJ vibe as fellow New Yorkers Homeboy Sandman and Portland transplant Aesop Rock's critically-acclaimed Lice and Lice 2: Still Buggin' EP's. Your Old Droog & Wiki managed to recruit an impressive who's-who of Alt. Hip-Hop producers and beat-makers including Black Milk, RTNC (with assistance from Droog himself), araabMUZIK & !llmind, Statik Selektah, and new-comer Tony Seltzer. Your Old Droog & Wiki first appeared together on a "Complex City Cypher" last March along with A$AP Ferg and GRAMMY-nominated Jazz musician Christian Scott. Your Old Droog is currently gearing up to unleash his long-awaited Your Old Droog EP-LP follow-up PACKS this upcoming March 10th, which will feature Heems, Danny Brown, Edan, Chris Crack, and comedian Anthony Jeselnik. Wiki will additionally appear within Droog's PACKS and rumor has it, he's currently working on his proper album-length follow-up to his 2015 debut mixtape, Lil Me. What Happened to Fire? EP is currently available for streaming and FREE download from RATKING's "NYC Music Collective" Letter Racer.

"Let Me Shine for You:" Lindsay Lohan for Playboy (Winter 2011-12 Leak)

Lindsay Lohan essentially embodies exactly "What NOT to Do In Hollywood :" Fame, fortune, success... sex, drugs & Rock "N" Roll . Within a fairly short period of time, Lohan somehow managed to obtain a plentiful helping of POWER @ a very young age. This gradual rise-downfall was captured on film; Between 1998-2010, she portrayed a wide array of roles across the silver screen in movies including: Mean Girls, Bobby , Herbie Fully Loaded , Georgia Rule, Machete , and Freaky Friday . Between rapid-paced film shoots, Lindsay Lohan also found time to record 2 Pop Rock albums for Casablanca , Speak (2004) and A Litter More Personal-Raw (2005). Needless to say, Lindsay Lohan has gotten roped up in a lot of troubles and woes with the law over the last 3-5 years... a vicious cycle of drugs, arrest, court, rehab, "daddy issues," jail time [Repeat]. That's the pure basics of it - But Google that shit for additional info, if necessary. Towards the end of...

[W]reckless, Topless American Youth: Lana del Rey - "Born 2 Die" (Britney Spears Birthday 30)

Lana del Rey [Lizzy Grant] effectively became 2011's "It Girl" with the release of her phenomenal debut single, "Video Games" (Stranger) . Like many struggling singer-songwriters, Grant has been signed, dropped, and significantly changed her public image since bursting onto the scene (2009). With that said, it can be assumed that Lana del Rey has collected just as many "haters" as she has avid supporters. To be perfectly honest, the only other artist I can think of that made this much commotion... garnered so much wide-spread buzz/hate and critical acclaim -- right out of the gates -- with just one track is Britney Spears . And maybe in this post- Mike musical era, that's the true synthesis of Pop Culture: Britney Lynn Spears . After months of repeated teasing and speculation, Lana del Rey 's major label debut, Born 2 Die will [finally] be released this coming Jan. 30-31, 2012. Pitchfork reports that it will feature "Off to The Ra...

Liberty Bell Cracked In 1/2: Ween - "Freedom of '76" (Gene Ween's Final Send-Off)

Chocolate & Cheese (1994) was one of the first albums I bought with my own money. I was in some sort of BMG Music Club , where you'd buy 5 CD's and then get 10 for "FREE." It was all sent through mail order and you picked the titles from some special booklet. I'm almost positive that Chocolate & Cheese's side boob-baring album cover was what initially drew me in... mind you, I was 12-15 and the zany Ween logo/middle finger CD graphic really didn't hurt either. Honestly, I forget how I really felt about it @ the time, but a few years later, my older cousin Josh told me that Ween were this BIG college "jam band." CKY did some sort pf 93.3 radio takeover to promote their new album and played "Freedom of '76" late that night on air. Needless to say, I re-visited Chocolate & Cheese @ about 20-something this go 'round and I fucking loved it! Ween were really weird, yet talented... almost too talented. I can vaguel...

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