I'm The Hip Hop Hype

17 Jul 2011
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Wugazi | Shame On Blue

Mashup Week!..apparently. Ye I’m not usually the most down for these types of things, but the concept behind this one was too intriguing. Assorted acapella Wu-Tang Verse accompanied by Fugazi music. Most people know who the mighty wu are so I’ll stick to Fugazi. Fugazi were a late 80’s, 90’s all the way up the early 2000’s washington punk band. Although punk kinda limits their sound a little. They were kinda all over the place. They worked amazingly well together musically, and their two frontmen Ian Mackaye and Guy Piccioto were said to have been inspired by the character foils of Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Flavor Flav. So they also had some roots in hip hop.

Now the only problem I really have with Fugazi is Ian Mackaye’s voice. Jesus christ it can get annoying. So atonal (I like Guy though) (also Fugazi kinda started emo music, but that’s a whole other story). So when I heard about this I was naturally stoked. Take some awesome Wu verses and get Ian Mackaye’s self righteous voice out of there!!!

And by god sometimes it really works. This song takes a bunch of ODB verses, strings them together and then throw the best part from Fugazi’s Blueprint over it. Powerful shit, seems like it should have been written this way. Which I guess is the sign of a good mashup/remix whateva. Proof that those things are way harder to do then people think. Music doesn’t mash itself nicely…Lil Wayne…nu metal…

Ps. Speaking of Nu metal, linkin park totally ripped off this song’s root track (?), BLUEPRINT! What a bunch of dickheads. my meteora compact disc is out the window.

What a good fucking mash-up!

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