Hitman Sammy Sam feat. Big Yo-"Concrete Jungle"

Sammy Sam feat. Big Yo-"Concrete Jungle"

Although I see him posted up at the Chevron on Whitehall and McDaniel from time to time, its been a hot minute since I've heard some Sammy Sam music. According to Jacinta Howard this new song pretty much sums up some of the more recent events that have gone down in his life:

...it's funny because a couple of days before this song was recorded, Sam was robbed and shot in the arm. That's not really the funny part, obviously.
It's funny, because Sam, who has no issues with holding his tongue, told the robbers that they were "ashy" and looked like some pimps in their wore out gators. He was clowning them as they told him to get on the ground and was so funny that one of the robbers couldn't help but burst out laughing. This angered his burglar friend, so he shot Sam in the arm. Good thing it was just the arm. As I said, Sam is doing swell now. Damn recession.

Anyhoo. "Concrete Jungle" is below. He even mentions the Case of the Ashy Robbers in his verse.

I'm sorry for making light of this because like Howard said, its not funny, but for real... I can really picture and hear Sam screaming "STOP! STOP! STOP!" as the robbers attack him.

Produced by Big Yo

Spotted at 4COL

Behind the Scenes Pics: Bun B x Pill x Motion Family x Bertell

Yesterday the OG Bun B was in town to shoot a video for this song "She's Bad" with Bryan-Michael Cox's artist Bertell. He hit me and invited me out just to chop it up for a sec and fall through the shoot. As expected small crowds started forming when Bun was spotted walking around and posting up. Sheid, folks was running up on Pill too.

The video was shot at Dallas Austin's ROWDY store at Lenox Mall, they actually had some ish in there that was kinda fresh. Quite snug, but fresh. The video was shot by Motion Family. Figured I'd take some pics for the cause. Hopefully I'll be using this above pic for a track that I'll get to leak in the near future...


Chris Johnson, Bun B, Pill and Whiteboy D


Bertell, Case, Bryan-Michael Cox, Bun B and Pill


Bryan-Michael Cox, Bun B and Pill


Bun B and "She's Bad"


Pill and David KA of Motion Family

www.MAURICEGARLAND.com Ticket Giveaway: Big Boi x Clipse x Yelawolf at The Gallery at King Plow (LAST PAIR!)

Wow. Ya'll really want these tickets. Yesterdays contest recieved alot of participation and everybody got the answers right, unfortunately there could only be one winner. Just for kicks, here are the correct answers. I only asked for three but as you can see there were four...upping your chances for winning.

1.) Has served in the US Armed Forces
2.) Has been nominated for a Grammy (In case you're wondering...Clipse was nominated for a Grammy with Justin Timberlake for Best Rap/Sung collaboration for "Like I Love You")
3.) Has owned a clothing line
4.) Has been Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher
5.) Has been signed to Jive/Arista Records
6.) Has recorded a song with Bun B

Anyways, here is today's trivia question:

Big Boi is known for representing Atlanta. Clipse are known for representing Virginia Beach. But neither of them were actually born there.

What are the birthplaces of both Big Boi and Clipse respectively?

Just like yesterday, the first person to answer the question correctly in the comments section gets the tickets. Make sure you leave an email or twitter name or something so I can contact you if you win. Good luck folks.

Tickets also available Gallery Group Atlanta

Prayer Request: Ex-NBA'er Maurice Lucas Hospitalized Again

Sad development coming out of Portland. Former NBA player and current Portland Trailblazer Assistant Coach Maurice Lucas has been hospitalized again due to a recurrence of bladder cancer. He was diagnosed with the cancer last season after complaining of weight loss and fatigue. He eventually had surgery to correct the problem, but it has returned unfortunately.

If you're wondering why I'm posting this its because my pops was a huge Maurice Lucas fan...so much that he actually named me after him. Plus Mr. Lucas is from my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. There's still a huge poster of him hanging in the pool room/basement at the family headquarters.

I know alot of you may not know who he is, but he was the man at one point in time. Though Bill Walton is usually considered the face of the 1976-77 Blazers championship squad...Lucas is the "enforcer" that actually made it happen.

If you or anyone you know would want to, you can send Mr. Lucas letters of encouragement to this address:

One Center Court
Suite 200
Portland, Oregon 97227

Joakim Noah vs. Derrick Rose...on Greg Oden

I noticed everyone going crazy on the internet over this Derrick Rose dunk on Greg Oden the other night. Well...it looks like nobody watched the entire game. Because if they did they'd agree with me in that Joakim Noah's dunk on Oden earlier that night trumps Rose's.



I guess Rose's looks better because he's smaller and it always looks good when guards dunk on big men. But Noah's dunk is on some straight up "ooops, I didn't see you standing there" or "don't forget we whupped that ass in the championship" ish.

Either way, Mr. Oden caught the short end of the stick twice in one night for the entire world to see. Which one do ya'll think is better?

Senor Kaos: Funeral of The Fro

So the homie Senor Kaos decided to cut off his 'Fro...

Due to the current U.S. Economic Recession Atlanta emcee Señor Kaos is forced to cut off all his hair to save money.

Welcome to the Funeral Of The Fro.

Follow along as friends share their favorite "Fro Memories" and witness as the man who's fro ruled in 09, cuts it all off.

Also Señor Kaos performs with 4-Ize the fans get the see the new hair cut live and direct for the first time. Check for Señor Kaos on the new 4-Ize project "Illuminated Animals." Also make sure you download SK's latest project "Walk Softly & Carry A Big Brick"

Well, I used to have a 'Fro of Snoop Dogg proportions from '99 to '03. For a minute folks thought I was damn Slimm Cutta Calhoun. So I know what its like to be relieved of having to actually "do" your hair in the morning. But, shood, I think I've ended up spending more money on haircuts every 2-3 weeks than I ever did on maininging a 'Fro and braids. So, good luck Mr. Kaos.

Make sure ya'll check him out when he performs with Raekwon and Capone N Noreaga on Saturday Dec 5th @ The Masquerade.

www.MAURICEGARLAND.com Ticket Giveaway: Big Boi x Clipse x Yelawolf at The Gallery at King Plow

Thanks to the wonderful folks of The Gallery Group, I'm able to giveaway two pairs of tickets to this incredible show which goes down this Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. I'm letting one pair go today and another tomorrow.

As usual with my giveaways, were going to do some (simple enough) trivia:

Out of these six facts about them, name three that Big Boi and Clipse have in common:

1.) Has served in the US Armed Forces
2.) Has been nominated for a Grammy
3.) Has owned a clothing line
4.) Has been Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher
5.) Has been signed to Jive/Arista Records
6.) Has recorded a song with Bun B

First person to leave the correct answers in the comments section gets the tickets! Make sure you leave your email addy or twitter or something so that I can contact you with how to claim your prize. Good luck folks.

Tickets also available HERE

UPDATE: Contest is now closed. Check back tomorrow for the next giveaway.

Random Jam: The Pharcyde-"She Said"

This song used to jam but it seems like the only songs/singles people remember from The Pharcyde's Labcabincalifornia album are "Runnin" and "Drop." Granted both of those songs were effing great, but "She Said" is pretty jamming too.

This version that I'm posting isn't the original that appeared on the album or in the American version of the video. Rather, this more laid-back, Jay Dee (J-Dilla) produced version that I'm posting is on the Cydeways: The Best of The Pharcyde CD and is referred to as the "Amsterdam version."

Folks already thought that Tre and Fatlip were the stars of the group and their performances on this song, on top of not having Imani and Bootie Brown's high-pitched voices on it, pretty much cemented that. I always thought the way Tre could go from rapping to singing without missing a beat was dope, just like how Fatlip's ability to sound like he was talking on a track made him standout. Hated that this group wound up dissolving.

Anyways, hope you enjoy this track. I never saw this version of the video on TV back in the day though. Thanks youtube.

Prynce Performing "Studder" at Hot Beats studio in Atlanta

Last Friday night Greg Street invited me a few other folks to Hot Beats studios to check out Prynce and hear some tracks from his latest mixtape What The DEC Been Missing Vol. 2. If you've stopped by over the last couple of weeks you already know that I'm up on this tape. But I figure the purpose of this listening was to let people meet Prynce and get to know him a little. All I'll say is that dude didn't dissapoint anyone (neither did the hot wings, Ciroc and wine).

Dude can really rap his ass off if you didn't know already. He performed a couple songs in the studio and did a damn good job. He also let us hear a couple tracks from his album thats set to drop on Konvict Muzik/Def Jam sometime next year. Granted, Prynce is being backed and supported by one of the biggest radio personalities in the country, the biggest rap label in the world as well as Bu Thiam (Akon's brother) who is now VP at Def Jam...but even with all of that I'd still think that dude would make it on his very own, dude is dope. And I'm not just saying that because he reps for my side of town (hell damn near my street).

I'm slowly making the transition away from Flip cam footage but I captured some of Prynce performing what's probably my favorite song on the mixtape "Studder." If you didn't catch this song or tape when I posted it last week, here you go again.


Prynce-"Studder"

DOWNLOAD: Prynce-What The DEC Been Missing (mixtape)

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Behind The Scenes: Juelz Santana feat. Yelawolf-"Mixing Up The Medicine" video

"...that niggas dope, he's a super artist."-Juelz on Yelawolf

I've been waving the flag for years but it really looks like my man Yelawolf is gonna win big in 2010. Here's some behind the scenes footage of "Mixing Up The Medicine" which will be directed by Ric Cordero. I'm curious to see how this comes out, because me personally...it seems like his behind the scenes videos be better than his actual videos. That's just me shawty.

Spotted at NR