First Night Blues

As far as real life goes, theblagg have been fam with The Intellex for a long time. Benson N Hedges - who is a third of the hip hop group (alongside Eternal Rhymes and KE Squared) - and The Ordinary Girl go back to high school. And even back then he was never one to shy away from self expression, whether giddy or gaudy. This week, Benson released First Night Blues featuring the very talented Dismental thee Axemple of One-2. The joint is frank and hella funny and will obviously remind those of you who are old enough of Monica's First Night song. I used to like that video. And for the longest time, I was convinced that the American r&b singer was saying "Usher made a move but I won't." Ha! Engrish. Anyway, you can download the song HERE or listen below:

15 Emcees

"Kill you then vacation in Knysna"

Remember that line? Yeah, that was Black Lez making everyone scratch their heads on the 15 Emcees Special joint that's taken off Reason's WenzTheAlbumCuminOut? mixtape. Truth be told that was a gem and a half and I for one wish it woulda received the radio airplay that it deserves. Big up to Instro who produced it.

In case you couldn't keep up, in order of appearance, here are the 15 emcees: Naked Eye, Saint You Know, N'Veigh, Dismental, Arch Rival, Miss Nthabi, Mr Beef, Poltagyst, Black Lez, Mo Katalyst, Big Ben, X-Rate, Iamaze, Mothipa and Reason.

15 Emcees Special by Instro01

In other Vaal Triangular Son To Be Particular News

Dude always does this thing with his mouth. It's both annoying and adorable at the same time. See if you can spot it in the video of One-2's first single off their album, We Aint Done Yet. The joint is called Ahuu.



Sidebar: "The video looks nice. But it looks like they were going for Ghetto Beautifulness and ended up with Rau Rau."
- paraphrasing The Rubberband Man telling EbonyWoman his thoughts on Ahuu.

Hype Awards: Pre-Show

Ok so we're only a few hours away from the second annual Hype Magazine Awards and although there isn't much er, hype (I'm sorry, my corny side took over ;-P) surrounding the do we are still showing love.

theblagg's favourite people on the nominees list are One-2 and Last Days Fam and while we wish them the very best tonight, theblagg knows that sometimes things just don't work out the way they should. Both are nominated in the Best Group category.
We caught up with Naked-Eye of One-2 as well as LDF's Bonafide - who both aren't as jittery as one might expect - and quizzed them on being nominees:

theblagg: What does being nominated for a Hype Award mean to you?
Naked-Eye: To me it means that someone, or rather the powers that be recognise what we do as artists.
Bonafide: It's an honour and it really feels good being nominated for the award. People are recognising the brand of Last Days Fam and it shows that they are appreciating the music and we're truly humbled by that.

theblagg: What would you say are the strengths that have made sure you make it onto the list?
Naked-Eye: We worked hard, performed everywhere, went almost half-way across the country. Did every interview possible! After making it onto the list we campaigned at shows we performed at. We encouraged people to vote via the One-2 group on Facebook. We did a campaign video and an MMS version too. We had people do campaign posters for us.
Bonafide: Being accessible to the people - that's one of our strengths that I can think of. Being out there not being out of reach and introducing our music to a new market growing the brand.

theblagg: If you don't win Best Group who do you think should?
Naked-Eye: Honestly Last Days Fam!
Bonafide: Teargas should win it because the guys are really working hard and we love the quality of their videos. Cool stuff.



More posts on the awards later - if they are something to blagg about.