Casual (Hieroglyphics) "Smash Rockwell"

[Emmanuel]

Enfin!

L'album solo de Casual sortira le 9 septembre sur Hieroglyphics Imperium (est ce toujours Chronowax qui distribue le label californien en France?).

J'ai hâte!

(Pep Love, Del The Funky Homosapien & Casual un jour en concert à Paris, le rêve!).

[Benwa]

Enfin!

L'album solo de Casual sortira le 9 septembre sur Hieroglyphics Imperium (est ce toujours Chronowax qui distribue le label californien en France?).

J'ai hâte!

(Pep Love, Del The Funky Homosapien & Casual un jour en concert à Paris, le rêve!).

Pour ceux qui sont a NYC cette semaine ils sont en concert dimanche prochain ( le 14/08 ) au BB King...

[Emmanuel]

L'album du rappeur d'Oakland est produit par J Zone, Jake One, Dante Ross, Automator, Domino et A-Plus. Les invités sont E-40, Too Short & Richie Rich, Young Zee (The Outsidaz) et Psalm One.

[Emmanuel]

Intéressante explication de l'embrouille Casual / Saafir back in the days (extraite de son interview sur dubcnn.com):

"When that beef started, it was between Casual and Safir, and it really started because I didn't want to be on his album. (This is the first time I told anyone this.) Truth is, I asked Saafir to be on my album because he was my boy at the time. But in the short time we kicked it, I seen he was a fake ass nigga. I mean, I met Saafir, through A+. I needed some weed one day, and Plee was like, "my nigga got bomb." I was like, "Who," Plee was like, "this nigga Saafir, he be trying to rap and shit." I'm like, "cool." Saafir was a "street nigga" so when we met we was cool like that from the gate. I mean, I was blowing my money on weed and he had fat sacks, so we started to see each other often. We started to kick too. That nigga had a clean ass white 72 malibu, I had a 80 Z28 Camaro. And we was on some "nigga your shit ain't as tight as mine!" shit. Chillin though, now here comes the bullshit. First out, it took me a minute to notice how much this nigga was bashing 2 Pac (Pac was alive then). I would have been like, "yeah whatever" but this nigga and Tupac was really boys. He would tell me stories about how Tupac punked out and he had to whoop some niggas for him, hella shit like that. But I'm sitting there like, "damn I thought this nigga was Pac dogg?" Anyway his boastfullness and his betrayal qualities were starting to surface, I was like "I ain't fuckin' with dude know more"(subconsciencly). This is about the time he asked me to be on his album, I tell no lie, when he called, I was layed up. He asked me to come to the studio at bout 8. I was like "alright," but I really was thinkin', "damn, I don't wanna go." I called that dude back at about 7:45 and threw some drama about how I couldn't make it and he should work on something else. He was like whatever. A few days later I got a call from Sasfir, I was at Domino's house playing video games. I answered the phone, "Hello"? he was like, "Blood you wrong fa fakin' on me." I was like "what?! (still talking calmly), he said, "You made me lose money the other night." My sense went off instantly. Before I replied I was thinking "damn, he trying to play me, i fucked up," and to keep it real, i replied (verbatim) "Dude you putting too much on it." This is when the calm broke. "Too much on it!!!!!!!!! Nigga what!!! How am I putting too much on it? etc. blah blah nigga blah nigga!!!!!!!!" Next think I know, I got beef with these niggas.

[Emmanuel]

Now every time I seen them niggas in the street, I was with some nigga that they probably didn't expect me to know. To keep it real, this shit was big, it was all in the streets, every body I knew was talking about this beef I had with Ssafir. Niggas started really fonkin'. The cold part is, them niggas was from Fresno, I was born and raised in Oakland. Don't get it twisted, Fresno is gangsta,
but when you start some beef with a well known artist, in the streets of his home city, its gonna be problems. What everyone didn't know is, me and Saafir would speak on occasions. If I seen that nigga in the club, I would always address him first, like "Whats up Saafir?" He would be like,"sup nigga" and we would go on about our business, no prob. But when other members of our crews seen each other there would be confrontations. It was all typa shit. (Buy the Book when it come out!)

Saafir came to my house in North Oakland a few days before the battle, bout 8:30.pm. I looked through the peep hole and said, "Hell haw!!!!!!" I went and grabbed that little 380 he was rappin bout, and tucked it in the pocket of my Hiero hoodie. I opend the doe', this nigga was like "blood i need to holla at you," i was like, "alright." We went outside, I'm thinking its about to get grimey. I see this nigga got his homie sitting in the car bout 15 feet away, I got my hand in my pocket, heart just pounding, then this nigga gonna start talking about his rap strategy!!!! "I'm gonna kick some written shit Cas, how you comin'?" This was the weirdest Hip Hop beef moment. I was like "What!! I'm coming freestyle dogg."

The night of the imfamous Wake Up Show Battle, dudes heard that and was coming out the woodworks!!! I tell know lie, when we entered the studio room before the battle it was Hiero and  Hobo. After that two hour broadcast we exited the studio and it was all typa niggas, nigga from the block, niggas I was raised with, dudes I hadn't seen since the second fuckin' grade was like, " you alright my nigga?" Seagram(R.I.P), a local rapper at the time, was in the lobby of KMEL Punking them niggas!!!  Dudes road all the way from Vallejo to San Fran to hold me down. It was big. The only thing that was in the back of my head was, them horrible freestyles I was kicking. I was so dissapointed in Kmel, Tech, Sway, Saafir, and mostly, myself. I don't know why, but I felt exploited. It really was the single biggest event in Wake Up Show history. And I didn't see how me or Saafir would benifit. After I was like, "Thats it?!! Did the beef end with the broadcast? Damn was this shit staged? Written ass raps? Hell naw!"

[mister renard]

Mon premier voyage à NYC, je trace dans la rue, je vois un grand gars baladeur sur les oreilles, cahier à la main, CASUAL, je suis allez le voir en lui disant ke j'était un grand fana hiero (de lui et opio surtout) de FEAR ITSELF son premier solo. Il était en concert le soir sur NYC avec Del. Putain de rencontre et bonne discution. C t la période juste avant qu'il sorte IT MAKE IT RAW (putain d'album avec une grande phase ou il dit qu'il veut être le premier PIMP à envoyer une pute sur la lune... MDR

Bref juste pour dire que ça fais plaisir d'arriver à New york et de rencontrer un grand monsieur comme CASUAL

[mister renard]

En parlant de SAAFIR juste pour dire que son premier album BOXCARR SESSION est un chef d'oeuvre, un grand moment de HARDCORE plus je l'écoute et plus je me demande commant il a fais pour sortir un album paeil sur une major

[AWER_HHR]

quand on l'avait reçu dans Underground Explorer, Rashinel, a raconté que c'était devenu une histoire de dingue avec fusillade, baston et tout le bordel...

[mister renard]

Est ce ke quelqu'un à la pochette et le tracklist?

[Big Paul Castellano]

01: Say That Then
02: Rap Game
03: Smash Don’t Hurt 'Em
04: OAKtown (f. EMAc, Too $hort, G Stack, Richie Rich)
05: Styles
06: Bitin & Freakin (f. Psalm One)
07: In The Whip
08: Nickel & Dime Gangsta (f. E40)
09: Critical
10: Hierollers (f. Tajai & Opio)
11: Single Mother
12: All Around The World
13: Bay Vs. Bricks (F. Young Zee)
14: I'll Hit That
15: Make It Hot
16: Wakemup


un feat. de Richie Rich ça fait bien plaisir.

[mister renard]

merci pour le tracklist. Pas de pochette?

[Emmanuel]

[mister renard]

jolie pochette

[Big Paul Castellano]

Voilà, j'ai écouté ça. Je ne connaissais que Fear Itself de Casual, donc j'ai été un peu choqué par cette album. Je trouve les prods apart un morceau (Oaktown) très faible et l'album assez chiant. Il ne retrouve son flow que sur 2-3 morceaux, et les refrains chanté rnb sont trop présent.

[ted_striker]

il est super zero cet album