Casso's Toughts

Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune) Music Video Teaser

2009-06-26T19:17:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

2009-06-25T15:59:00.000-07:00

August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009

Damn...I can't...I'll get back to ya'll
Peace
Casso

Stevie Wonder Portrait

2009-06-22T21:56:00.001-07:00

Peace
Casso

Bob Marley Portrait

2009-06-22T21:55:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Aaliyah Portrait

2009-06-22T21:54:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

James Brown Portrait

2009-06-22T21:53:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Method Man Portrait by ME

2009-06-04T22:39:00.001-07:00

Peace
Casso

Slug (From Atmosphere) Portrait done by ME

2009-06-04T22:37:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Air Yeezys + Logo Art by ME

2009-06-04T22:36:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele Portrait by ME

2009-06-04T22:34:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Album Art by ME

2009-06-04T22:33:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

ODB - N!99@ Please Portrait by ME

2009-06-04T22:32:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Ice Cube Portrait by ME

2009-06-04T22:31:00.001-07:00

Peace
Casso

Megan Fox Portrait by ME

2009-06-04T22:29:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Update - Doper Video - Kanye West - Paranoid (Starring Rihanna)

2009-06-04T22:21:00.000-07:00

I guess the version that I posted was the wrong version. Here's the real one, enjoy:

KANYE WEST "PARANOID" feat: RIHANNA Dir: NABIL from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Peace
Casso

Dope Video - Kanye West - Paranoid (Starring Rihanna)

2009-05-28T01:24:00.000-07:00

Be back with some art later.
Peace Casso

Step Brothers - Boatz 'N Hoez (WOW)

2009-03-20T00:07:00.001-07:00

Peace
Casso

Watchmen - Silk Spectre II (Vector Based)

2009-03-12T21:22:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Tupac Portrait (Vector Based)

2009-03-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Watchmen - Rorschach (Vector Based)

2009-03-11T19:11:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Watchmen - The Comedian (Vector Based)

2009-03-11T00:38:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

Notorious B.I.G. (Vector Based)

2009-03-09T16:48:00.000-07:00

Peace
Casso

King & Obama Portrait

2009-03-06T21:20:00.000-08:00

Peace
Casso

Jay-Z Portrait (Vector based)

2009-03-05T19:39:00.000-08:00

Peace
Casso

Kanye West Portrait (Vector Based)

2009-03-04T19:09:00.000-08:00

Peace
Casso

Mike Tyson Portrait (Adobe Illustrator)

2009-03-03T18:40:00.000-08:00

You know it!
Peace
Casso

WTF!?!?...

2009-02-26T12:16:00.000-08:00

And I don't mean that in a good way nor a bad way. Just...I don't...wow..I don't know

Peace
Casso

Jamie Foxx - Blame It feat. T-Pain (Music Video)

2009-02-25T19:51:00.000-08:00

Cameos: Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Forest Whitaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cedric The Entertainer, Morris Chesnut, Tatyana Ali, Bill Bellamy and more!

A Word From Our Sponsors....

2009-02-25T14:40:00.000-08:00

Advertising at it's finest.

Peace
Casso

The Cortez Bros.

2009-01-19T17:45:00.000-08:00

Never really was a Cortez person, but this is tight.
Peace
Casso

Black Dynamite (2009)

2008-12-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

But Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community. haha

Nas - Queens Get The Money

2008-12-27T23:26:00.000-08:00

.

I am not a NIGGER, I'm a MAN.

Peace
Casso

808's & Heartbreak Album Art By Me

2008-12-13T12:45:00.000-08:00

Thoughts opinions

Peace
Casso

Preview: Ludacris - I Do It For Hip-Hop (Live) Feat. Nas & Jay-Z

2008-11-11T17:17:00.000-08:00

Crazy!

Off of his 6th album, Theater Of the Mind, which is now scheduled for November 24.
Peace.

Kanye West - Hearless (Video)

2008-11-07T19:56:00.000-08:00

It's Friday, Obama's el presidente de negro primo and I still got work. DAMN. Well anyway, I came across this new Kanye video for "Heartless" off of the new album, 808's & Heartbreak. The video retroscoped, meaning the video was shot live first and then hand drawn cell by cell (Details like a mugfug). Dir. by Hype Williams.

American Pop (1981)

Kanye West Good Morning

2008-11-04T15:38:00.001-08:00

Kanye West - GoodMorning (Official Video) from Mylo on Vimeo.

I voted...

2008-11-04T12:49:00.000-08:00

did you?

Casso

I've been meaning to update.

2008-11-04T12:45:00.000-08:00

What's hananin (whoever is reading this).

Peace, Casso

808's & Heartbreak

2008-09-21T20:18:00.000-07:00

my version

Peace
Casso

Damn....

2008-08-20T18:39:00.000-07:00

I know i'm know I'm late, but i'm at loss for this one family. This is kind of a wake up call for all in a sense. If you got love ones or anyone close, love them and don't (and I stress) take them for granted.

R.I.P

Murs & 9th Wonder Sweet Lord LINK

2008-07-23T21:33:00.000-07:00

FREE is the magic word, as Murs and 9th wonder released their third collaboration album "Sweet Lord" today for free. Link after the tracklisting:
1. The intro
2. Are you ready?
3. Nina Ross
4. Free
5. And I Love It
6. Pusshhhhhh
7. It’s For Real
8. Marry Me
9. Love the Way
10. Murs Inatra

MURS & 9th Wonder - Sweet Lord

Peace
Casso

Beats By Dr. Dre

2008-07-22T18:02:00.000-07:00

I know what you're thinking (album leak, hahaha), but no. It's actually the name of the new headphones created by Dr. Dre and Monster Cable. These headphones are suppose to recreate the sound that comes out of a Dr. Dre studio (the highest of high quaility). USA today reported that Dre spent two years working with Interscope Geffen A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine and audio accessory maker Monster Cable to develop sets that replicate what he hears in the studio. "People in the studio took them home to listen to music they've been working on, and the sound was so different, they wanted to start over," Dre says. The headphones have already been featured in videos by Keri Hilson and Kardinal Offishal. Beats By Dr. Dre will hit electronic stores July 25.

Also from USA Today, Dre speaks on the highly anticipated Detox:
“I’m just now — over the last couple of months — starting to feel that it’s going to be right and it’s something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it,” says Dr. Dre (aka Andre Young). “In a perfect world, I’m shooting for a November or December release.”

The Press Conference ($399.00!):

Here's the actual product being opened:

Here's Sickamore rockin' the headphones (nevermind the date):

when I get these (somehow, someway), I will redo EVERY SINGLE BEAT I'VE MADE. REAL TALK!
Peace
Casso

WHO DAMMIT?!?!?!!?

2008-07-21T22:04:00.000-07:00

More real talk

Joe Budden - Who pt. 3(or finale?)

Murs & 9th Wonder Sweet Lord Sneak Peak

2008-07-19T22:39:00.000-07:00

Two joints off of Sweet Lord, the 3rd collabo album from MURS and 9th Wonder. It's FREE and it comes out next week!

Sweet Lord Intro

Are You Ready

Watchmen Trailer

2008-07-17T17:45:00.000-07:00

Based off the most "gansterific" comic book series ever. Set in the 80's (weird, The Comedian gets thrown out of a window, while Run DMC's "Rock Box" was the new hotness). Anyway, Watchmen will hit the theaters 3/6/09.

Fonzworth Bentley ft. Kanye West & Andre 3000 (prod. by SARA) - Everybody

2008-07-16T00:08:00.000-07:00

Off of Bentley's debut album C.O.L.O.U.R.S (CoolOuragousLoversOfUniquelyRawStyle)

DOPE

Max Payne Trailer

2008-07-11T14:05:00.000-07:00

Max Payne, one of the few games I was able to finish in my 19 years of living (15 years of video game playing). Not to say it was easy, It was just the fact that I had time to play and finish the whole thing. And when I did... I was happy. The excitement of blood, sweat, tears and... painkillers, were all there, waiting for me to go through the twisted city of hell in which you call New York City.

Unless you got stuck on this dumbass level and gave up (which I understand greatly):

Well, on to the trailer. By the looks of things, you can say that this movie will stay true to the series, but this is just the trailer. Not to say I have my doubts, but again, this is just a trailer (and it's also PG-13). But it looks like a good movie too, so peep when it comes out. Movie stars "Marky" Mark Wahlberg and Ludacris.

Until then, I'll be lookin out for this movie and a sign of a third installment to the Max Payne video game series.
Peace.

Jordan XX Fusion Low Black/Graphite/White

2008-07-11T01:39:00.000-07:00

Bishop Lamont - Grow Up (Prod. by Dr. Dre)

2008-07-11T01:07:00.000-07:00

I'm late on posting this but, f*ck it. Off The Reformation, coming this fall.
Grow Up (Prod. by Dr. Dre) CDQ/No DJ

And you say Hip-Hop is Violent

2008-07-10T16:15:00.000-07:00

First of all, I found this. Second, I don't watch Fox News (really, I don't and they can all get terrorist fist jabs to the face). Anyway, this video shows the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson ploting with his patna on how get at Barizzle Obizzle.

In true player fashion, Obama replies with this:

protect ya nuts kid (watcha nuts kid, watcha nuts kid). **pause and no pedophile**

Peace

Big Boi & Mary J. Blige - Something's Gotta Give

2008-07-10T15:58:00.000-07:00

Off of Big's solo debut, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty coming in August.
Big Boi ft. Mary J. Blige - Something’s Gotta Give (Radio rip)

Who's "2" Blame

2008-07-10T15:47:00.000-07:00

Real Talk pt. 2

Joe Budden - Who pt. 2

Nas - Sly Fox

2008-07-10T15:21:00.000-07:00

Nas - (Untitled, The N..., N1993R) July 15th
Terrorist Fist Jabs to the the good folks over @ OnSmash.com
Peace

Air Jordan 20/Air Force 1 Fusions

2008-07-08T19:24:00.000-07:00

Another idea that's good, but again, people hate. SMH.

Words can't express how clean these look. SPEECHLESS.
Until then. PEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCEEEEEE!

Black/Lime Green-Purple Spizikes

2008-07-06T16:25:00.000-07:00

Or as I call them, The Incredible Hulks

I don't know why people hate on the Spizikes. With many companies copying the Air Force One mold, ya'll decide to hate on something that's creative, innovative (concoction of a bunch of Jordans), and original if you think about it. The pair in the pic were spoted on the feet of Jordan Brand foot director, Gentry Humphrey. Not much is known about a release date or the locations of stores holding the lastest version of the Spizikes.

Until then.
Peace Casso

Who's To Blame?

2008-07-06T10:50:00.000-07:00

"Was it T-pain with that funny voice sh!t/ or was it Lil Wayne with that funny voice sh!t/ The whole game dick rode that funny voice sh!t."

Every word in this song is real talk. That's all I'm going to say. Until then, I leave you with this.

Joe Budden - Who pt. 1

Peace
You know who it is.

"I Shot My Way Out My Mom Dukes"

2008-07-06T09:39:00.000-07:00

In celebration of Nas' ninth solo album (Untitled, The N and... N!993R) dropping in nine days, I decided to compile nine favorite songs from the man himself. Shall we get started.

No particular order, just the first nine songs that shoot up in my head:

1. Fetus

2. 2nd Childhood

3. Purple

4. Rewind

5. The World Is Yours

6. Street Dreams

7. If I Ruled The World

8. Nas Is Like

9. N.Y. State of Mind pt.2

Notable Mentions:

N.Y. State of Mind (illmatic)

Got Ur Self a Gun (Stillmatic)

Either (sorry Jay) (Stillmatic)

Made You Look (Godson)

Black Republican (you know, that little callabo) (HHID)

As you all might know or not, "Be a N!993R Too" didn't make the cut (hhmm I wonder why, good song though). But as I ponder that thought, here's the song if you don't have it already Props to the good folks over at 2dopeboyz:

Be a N!993R Too (Untitled, The N and... N!993R)

Ed. Note: Sample Clearance

Cop The album July 15th

Peace Casso

Also a shout out to Ivan over @ Hiphopisread.com

Lil Wayne - Let The Beat Build Sample

2008-07-05T23:48:00.000-07:00

I can't take any credit for this crazy record dig (or itunes search), it was the good people at B.M.S. (Bulldog Music Site). But what I will do is share it with ya'll. Since the first day of the Carter III release (or the first day of the Cater III leak), we (or the confused and frustrated crate diggers like myself) were all searching for the sample that looped over and over (and over and so on and so forth) on the track "Let The Beat Build. Now my search is fulfilled.

Here's the link

"eddie kendricks - day by day"

The Golden Era vs Internet Era: Fight 2 The Death

2008-07-05T23:36:00.000-07:00

What's crackin world (or whoever's looking at this), this is my first blog post, so I'ma come in with a bang

Here goes nothing. Hop aboard the rusty Cadillac eldog and take a ride wit ya boi.

Here's my 2 cents on this whole Ice-T vs. Soulja Boy hoopla:

Flat out: Though I respect Ice-T, he was wrong for what he said. Ice-T had got at Soulja Boy first by saying "Fu*k Soulja Boy" and "eat a dick". Before that, soulja boy never said anything about him. Now if a person had said the same thing in the same fashion, I to would reply (legend or not), but it would contain much more "bad" words if you know what i'm saying. Now if Ice would've pulled him to the side and said "o.k. what you're doing is aight but it's not good or great, here's what you should do or need to do in order to get better", then that would be different, your're a legend in the game, he's just starting out, give him some tips on how not to "kill Hip-Hop". Don't just flat out say eat a dik and fu*k you. Also, at the age he's at, tha's kind of childish if you think about it (even crazier for people applauding such behavior). Though I'm a not fan, I'm siding with soulja boy. And though I got respect for Ice-T, he was wrong on how he went about this situation.

Even though Soulja Boy is NOT a NAS, JAY-Z, TUPAC, BIGGIE, ICE CUBE, OUTKAST or any of our other "heroes"(or forgotten heroes) of the "Golden Era", you gotta give him some props/or at least a break. He's making music for KIDS (at least late elementary through early high school) and people that like to dance. Unless he/she or you grew around it, do you really think an 8yr old is going to understand or even care why the economy is fcked up, or why our president is a dumbas, why you sell coke, why your dad is not here, why you gangbang, why she's a bitch, why he or she is a snitch or why you can't get a deal because your music "too real" for radio. Let's face it, dude made a catchy song that had a catchy dance to it (don't act like you didn't do it, at least the YOOOUULL part) that became a hit on the RADIO, BET, and MTV, so it's not like us "Hip-Hop heads" were forced to listen to it. Matter of fact, do me a favor. If you hate Soulja Boy or an artist(s) of that type of caliber, turn off the radio (turn off that bullsh!t(freak freak yall) - dead prez), turn off the t.v. (or change the channel), click off the youtube page, or GO THE F*CK OUTSIDE. There's plenty of other avenues to get good music and sh!t that has some sort of "content" or "meaning" and I suggest you should look for it instead bitching to me on how Hip-Hop is DEAD or who killed it (NOT Nas or any other artists I listen to, but some people I know), and I know Soulja Boy nor any other artist has that type of power to do so. If it was SO dead, then tell me why The Grammys still recognizes Hip-Hop as a category or why Hip-Hop based companies such as The Source , Sean John, Rocawear, SOHH and Allhiphop.com are still in business or how an artist like Kanye or Lil Wayne are still able to go platinum in the internet era. Maybe the essence is in question, but it's not dead, it's very much alive, you just have to look for it. Disco is dead (yeah I said it).

GOOD NIGHT
CASSO

Casso's Toughts

Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune) Music Video Teaser

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

Stevie Wonder Portrait

Bob Marley Portrait

Aaliyah Portrait

James Brown Portrait

Method Man Portrait by ME

Slug (From Atmosphere) Portrait done by ME

Air Yeezys + Logo Art by ME

Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele Portrait by ME

Album Art by ME

ODB - N!99@ Please Portrait by ME

Ice Cube Portrait by ME

Megan Fox Portrait by ME

Update - Doper Video - Kanye West - Paranoid (Starring Rihanna)

Dope Video - Kanye West - Paranoid (Starring Rihanna)

Step Brothers - Boatz 'N Hoez (WOW)

Watchmen - Silk Spectre II (Vector Based)

Tupac Portrait (Vector Based)

Watchmen - Rorschach (Vector Based)

Watchmen - The Comedian (Vector Based)

Notorious B.I.G. (Vector Based)

King & Obama Portrait

Jay-Z Portrait (Vector based)

Kanye West Portrait (Vector Based)

Mike Tyson Portrait (Adobe Illustrator)

WTF!?!?...

Jamie Foxx - Blame It feat. T-Pain (Music Video)

A Word From Our Sponsors....

The Cortez Bros.

Black Dynamite (2009)

Nas - Queens Get The Money

808's & Heartbreak Album Art By Me

Preview: Ludacris - I Do It For Hip-Hop (Live) Feat. Nas & Jay-Z

Kanye West - Hearless (Video)

Kanye West Good Morning

I voted...

I've been meaning to update.

808's & Heartbreak

Damn....

Murs & 9th Wonder Sweet Lord **LINK**

Beats By Dr. Dre

WHO DAMMIT?!?!?!!?

Murs & 9th Wonder Sweet Lord Sneak Peak

Watchmen Trailer

Fonzworth Bentley ft. Kanye West & Andre 3000 (prod. by SARA) - Everybody

Max Payne Trailer

Jordan XX Fusion Low Black/Graphite/White

Bishop Lamont - Grow Up (Prod. by Dr. Dre)

And you say Hip-Hop is Violent

Big Boi & Mary J. Blige - Something's Gotta Give

Who's "2" Blame

Nas - Sly Fox

Air Jordan 20/Air Force 1 Fusions

Black/Lime Green-Purple Spizikes

Who's To Blame?

"I Shot My Way Out My Mom Dukes"

Lil Wayne - Let The Beat Build Sample

The Golden Era vs Internet Era: Fight 2 The Death

Murs & 9th Wonder Sweet Lord LINK