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Rock Meets Hip-Hop, the Metermaids

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By YaBoyJavi

Since the Beastie Boys there hasn’t been another rap group to combined rock and hip-hop with a touch of old school Motown funk to deliver a much needed change of pace in this cliché rap world. With that said I’d like to introduce Vibe Source readers to the Metermaids. 
 
Unconventional by today’s hip-hop standards, Swell and Sentence’s musical fusion of mash up rock n’ roll alongside gritty break beats and heartfelt lyrics have the Metermaids steadily climbing the CMJ Hip Hop Chart - coming in at #9 this week ahead of notable artists like The Roots, Gnarls Barkley and Immortal Technique.
 
With songs like the synthesizer-laced “Feel Alive” and “Funk Terrorist,” on their new album Nightlife the duo is establishing quite an underground buzz for themselves.
 
Listen for yourself. Here is “Funk Terrorist” of their Nightlife album. 
 

Check the Metermaids out at 
www.metermaidsnyc.com and www.myspace.com/metermaids.
Here is the YouTube link to Funk Terrorist:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OKJ6qua9nSk

 

Mixtape Review Homeboy Sandman – Nourishment (Second Helpings)


By YaBoyJavi

 If you haven’t read a book since high school and you’re more than five years removed chances are Homeboy Sandman is not for you. The lyrically imposing emcee is not for the average A-B-C Hip-Hop fan. His clever rhyme schemes and creative conceptualization on Nourishment (Second Helpings) make the mixtape one of the best I’ve heard this year.

 

If you believe you can make it then “Buttermilk” is exactly what you need. On the track Boy Sand shows his lyrical prowess over a smooth trumpet carrying the beat. The Queens emcee turns into an anchorman on “Kain News” where he gives listeners a satirical broadcast of today’s pundit-filled uninformative news; covering everything from crime to the sorry ass New York Knicks.

 

The half-Puerto Rican/Dominican emcee earns points with YaBoy by using Latin vibes on “We Can Fly” where the use of arpeggiated guitar chords common in Dominican bachata dominate the beat. On “Guerra” (War) Homeboy implements a Spanish language hook to let adversaries know he’s prepared for drama.

 

Here are a few bars from Boy Sand on “Extreme Measures,”

 

Like I was Tom Cruise on a Mission Impossible/Dropped out da roof, cock back da tool, pass pop pops round the room…

 

I’m a lowa the boom like the boys in blue/Ya’ll gonna be da Amadous, I’m a do what I gotz to do.

 

Overall Homeboy Sandman’s Ivy League intellect and hood wit earn Nourishment a passing grade.

 

Visit myspace.com/homeboysandman or homeboysandman.com to listen to tracks off Nourishment (Second Helpings).

 

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