Video: The Coup – “Your Parents’ Cocaine”

Oakland’s The Coup dropped a great video for “Your Parents’ Cocaine” from their recently released LP, Sorry To Bother You. Rich-kid puppets doing lines of cocaine and partying like idiots with no consequences while the kazoo-led track plays in the background, complete with a bouncing ball sing along, comes courtesy of Eat The Fish. 

Download/Listen: Kool A.D. -“51' Mixtape”

Last week we shared a tune from Kool A.D.’s 51 Mixtape,  the follow up to 2011’s  The Palm WineDrinkard. The Das Racist member dropped the complete 51 today which is free-to-download HERE. Paying homage to his Bay Area roots, Kool A.D. offers up a very California-esque delivery with the help of San Francisco rappers Main Attrakionz, the Coup's Boots Riley, and numerous other California producers and rappers. Some more on the project via Mishka…

"The Greedhead/Мишка Records/Veehead world takeover continues, this time with another salvo from the bodaciously bearded baron of brainy braggadocio and one half of Das Racist, Victor Vazquez AKA Kool A.D. The Kool one is back with a new mixtape called 51, and it’s here for your eager consumption fresh on the heels of January's The Palm Wine Drinkard. 

For a change of pace, Victor recorded all of these tracks in Oakland - way on the other side of the country from DR's NYC home base. Landing on the left coast after visiting family in Cuba, Kool A.D. was inspired to make a set of tracks featuring production from almost exclusively California artists, and numerous guest spots from some of the Bay's best up and comers. 

The main producer is Amaze 88, who played with Victor in a hardcore punk band in high school, and also happened to take his sister to prom. They've obviously buried the hatchet on that one though, as Amaze is behind eight tracks on 51, and is joined by other producers like Young L, Trackademicks and Kechphrase. 

There's also frequent guest spots from some of our favorites, like MondreM.A.N. and Squadda B from Main Attrakionz. They link up on four of 51's tracks. And if that wasn't enough, Himasnhu, Meyhem Lauren, Trackademicks and even Boots Riley of the legendary Coup all lend guest verses. But, as expected, the star of the whole thing is Kool A.D., whose gloriously laid back flows consistently impress with their humor and wit, languishing in greenery depicted on the cover."

Onomatopoeia celebrates 1000 Posts with a Giveaway!

Onomatopoeia reached 1000 posts! I can hardly believe this little experiment has made it this far, and we did it just under our 1 year anniversary which hit’s in June.  Myself and the other collaborators would like to give thanks to our loyal readers so we set up a friendly competition. We have two signed and numbered metallic inked screen prints of Mr. Lif, the  Coup and Blue Scholars, at the Independent in San Francisco. These were designed by myself and Scraped Knee and could be yours. All you have to do is introduce us to something we might not know and will enjoy. Maybe it’s an artist or a band, maybe it’s a recipe for your secret peanut butter and bacon sandwich, maybe it’s a standup comedian that deserves our attention  or maybe it’s your own raw talent that we need to know about and you draw us something or record a tune. The choice is yours really. We ask you to leave your suggestions in the comments section of this post or email us at onomatopoeiaone@gmail.com, we will review them and our favorite two will each get one print. We will announce the winners on our one year anniversary June 3^rd. Thanks for all the support and we look forward to another year of sights, sounds, smells and laughs. 

Listen: Kool A.D. – “Ticky Ticky”

Das Racist member Victor Vazquez, aka Kool A.D., is following up his 2011 mixtape The Palm Wine Drinkard with 51, out via Mishka/Greedhead next Tuesday April 24th. The new album features contributions from fellow Das Racist member Heems as well as the Main Attrakionz, the Coup's Boots Riley, Trackademicks, and others. Have your first taste of 51 below via "Ticky Ticky", which was produced by Young L from the Pack and features guest spots from Main Attrakionz and Green Ova.