By – Steve P.
Shortly after former Clipse manager, Anthony ”Geezy” Gonzalez, was charged with running a $10-million a year drug ring, one-half of “crack rap’s” dynamic duo started blessing us with the greatest video blogging (VLOG) series in the history of hip hop.
Malice, the often overlooked and completely underrated brother of the best duo in rap (yes, they’re the best until Andre 3000 is kidnapped by the Dungeon Family and forced to rap again; or Pimp C rises from the dead) began releasing these brilliant mini-movies that challenge every stereotype ever thrown at hardcore hip hop.
Intelligent and insightful, not to mention ridiculously entertaining and well-shot, these VLOG’s, as well as the Clipse music, are giving the hardcore heads cause to be proud of their genre as well as incentive to never have to listen to whiny, off-beat nerd rap again when searching for intellect in our entertainment.
If you don’t have time to watch them all, be sure to check out Episode 2, it’s insane. Also, be sure to check for Till the Casket Drops late this summer dropping on Columbia Records. Rick Rubin (co-chairman at Columbia) is rumored to have produced a few cuts for the album!
Malice Video Blog 1 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.
Malice Video Blog 2 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.
Malice Video Blog 3 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.
Malice Video Blog 4 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.
Malice Video Blog 5 from Malice of the Clipse on Vimeo.
4 Comments
Never checked for these cats in the past. Don’t know if it was because I never cared much for Pharrell or already had my fill of drug-trafficking narrative over the years.
In saying that, these videos are great though! The first one really peaked my interest. Three and four stand out the most to me. Some pretty funny-ass moments throughout and Malice comes off like a real cool cat.
Other than the track “The Hater’s Wish” on the Clipse MySpace page, nothing stands out to me, much less comes off any more intellectual than you’d expect from someone with a vast knowledge of cars, drugs, broads and money (as provided in the other tracks.)
two of the most clever mc’s in hip-hop period-fuck categories, it’s either good or bad and these two are fucking brilliant. i used to spend hours trying to decipher what aesop rock said just to come to the conclusion he didn’t say shit. you can enjoy these guys on the surface for the witty punchlines and dope flow but you also need to rewind constantly to to dig through all the metaphors…. till the casket drops suckas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hear you about that Aesop Rock stuff… lol
yea i gotta agree, no clipse on the track then no pharrell for me…this genre never gets old!
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