Liner Notes: Wale "Ice Cream Girl" (Trackademicks Remix)

I love it when folks rep their city. Those who've let it permeate every piece of them till they're inseparable from it. Locality and region in music are getting lost more and more in the shuffle of today's Viacom/Clear Channel fed generation. Things are sounding the same. Regional colloquialisms are getting edged. New rappers seem to adopt the accent of whoever is on top of the charts. Many producers are copies of a copy. Shit is outta control.

I don't say this to say its all bad. There are a lot of good things going on; you just have to pay attention a little bit harder to get any substance though all the filler.

When I first heard of Wale putting the nation's capital on his back with his brand of hip-hop, I was all for it. DC isn't the first place people think of when hip-hop comes to mind. So when Wale dropped a Go-Go infused "Ice Cream Girl", I had to respect it.

This also meant, as a Bay Area representative, I had to bring it right back home with the remix. What else than to reference Dru Down's "Ice Cream Man" feat the Luniz. I borrowed first line of Yukmouth's verse for the hook. Originally I flipped Funkadelic's "Nappy Dugout" like Dru Down's, but decided to a create something Fresh(Coast) from scratch and jump on that thang.

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I must say that I had blast this weekend.

This past Friday I supported Wale at Mighty the NoisePop festival here in SF. The show was off the hook. Mighty isn't know for having the best sound, and the stage was only like 10' bx 2'... Hella Small! Despite this, a good amount of people from the front to the back were right with me the whole time. I must say the Honor Roll was in full effect.

If you came out, Thanks... If you have pics/video...Holler at me!

Saturday got off to a late start but free cocktails @ Diesel wasn't a bad way to kick off the evening. After that, we hit a karaoke spot w/ some folks, had a chance to butcher Tears For Fears' "Head Over Heals". Then we hit Poleng Lounge to catch the Daz I Que of Bugz In The Attic for a DJ set... Broken beat soul, crackin' as usual...

After that we skated over to Mighty, where 3/4 of SF's population were crammed in one room to catch MSTRKRFT... It was Complete Mayhem... Just in case you aren't hip or forgot... MSTRKRFT used to be Death From Above 1979, and although I'm sad "Black History Month" is over, if they had never switched it up, we wouldn't have gotten this...

MSTRKRFT "Easy Love"

Goodnight.