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Hosted by Just Blaze and a feature from ex-enemy Joe Budden, I anticipate this’ll be a good mixtape. Especially as the blogs have been praising the quality of the singles that Saigon had put out there from this tape. Grab it below. Saigon comes through with some animated visuals for a track off his brilliant Greatest Story Never Told album. A good song to introduce yourself to what Saigon’s about, if you’ve never really heard his stuff before (here’s another good example). Here he lets loose his feelings about greed of certain churches and preachers in America… Fun video to watch! You can buy the album from iTunes by clicking here.
Praised for conscious lyrics in addition to his technical ability, Saigon teams up with anti-drug establishments In Arms Reach and Drug Policy Alliance to reach the youth and send a positive message. Excellent, powerful production on this too with heavy guitar and progressive synth. Grab below.
An upbeat, bouncy instrumental sees each emcee here attempt to out-do each other. The winner? It has to be Term himself who comes through with that treble-time multi-syllabic flow that G Rap in his prime would be proud. Termanology ft. Joell Ortiz, Bun B, Saigon & Freeway-Say It (Remix) Saigon gives us some more visuals from The Greatest Story Never Told in the form of the uplifting Clap with Faith Evans. Not much more I can say about this track than what Liam said back in January when we first heard the audio. Very inspirational and feel-good with Faith doing her thing on the chorus. Visually, nothing ground-breaking, yet much needed for this tidy effort which in my opinion should have been the first single. Saigon is mad underrated. Swag that audio from here. Visuals for what’s certainly one of the most intense tracks from Saigon’s mightily impressive Greatest Story Never Told album. Hip hop anthems are increasingly becoming a rarity in this day and age, so it’s always great to see rappers still trying to make them. Bring Me Down is one such anthem, incredibly hard hitting – in production and in the lyrics. The lyrical content and tone of this track is immediately relatable to the listener no matter where you’re from or what you’ve experienced. The video itself encompass everything about the tone of the track, with black and white visuals and the imagery displayed. A good example of this is where, half way through the video, Saigon knocks down a woman and a car, which are revealed to be 2D ‘cardboard cut outs’, suggesting that such material things are not what hip hop is about. With Saigon (quite literally in this video) flying the hip hop flag, it’s good to see a rapper not tone down his music or buckle under a major label’s demands. This track is so good that there are 3 versions of it, this one being on the album, which you can go cop from iTunes (it’s certainly worth it). You can grab part III of this track, which features Joe Budden, for free by clicking here.
Here’s a track that did not appear on the album, but is available as a “bonus track” on certain versions. Click here to get hold of it. This was unexpected! Saigon gives us the visuals for a track that was one of the first Saigon tracks I ever heard back in 2003/2004! As relevant today as it was then, Saigon raps about the foolishness of gang culture. Decent enough video which helps contextualise Sai’s lyrics. Red + Blue = Purple (the colour of love, apparently).
As a big fan of both I did enjoy their battle raps against each other, but with that said and done it’s great to see them patch up their differences and collaborate. No doubt their mutual friend Just Blaze (also in the photo that you can see to the left of this post) mediated in what seemed to be lost cause, given what seemed like genuine animosity between the two. As with the beef itself; Saigon surprises me and raises his game to give a blistering verse and Joe Budden certainly matches him. Great track.
As is most of the production on the album, this one is on-point with a deep and meaningful chorus which swells neatly into each emcees’ verses. The Roots’ Black Thought (my personal revelation emcee of the past six months) provides a typically-relatable punchy verse sandwiched between Sai’s rhymes which stand toe-to-toe with the veterans’. Pre-order Saigon’s long awaited debut here.
Click here to go hear them. Brief impressions is that on the production side of things Just Blaze has handled himself as well as you’d expect him to and Saigon’s conscious raps and easy-to-the-ear flow should ensure this album isn’t a disappointment. There’s certainly a few tracks on here I look forward to hearing in full. Better than illmatic as claimed by Saigiddy though? Hell naw.
Sai joins forces with Faith Evans and Just Blaze, to give us this uplifting piece of hip-hop that’s quite simply fantastic. Faith Evans’ soulful vocals are perfect alongside Saigon’s smooth flow, whilst Just Blaze’s production on this is nothing short of awesome, adding an old-school gospel vibe. Feel good hip-hop at it’s best. Ajay posted this excellent track recently, and now we have the visuals – pretty apt given the weather right now too! Echoing Ajay’s statements, this along with other recent releases have been the strongest material I’ve heard from Saigon in quite a while, and I’m very much looking forward to the release of his much delayed album this February. You can go see the tracklist for this album and also grab the audio for this song by clicking here. Oh btw, (according to Just Blaze) a Saigon/Joe Budden collaboration should be dropping soon! I do love a good hatchet being buried.
Now I wasn’t familiar with Jon Connor before I’d heard this joint, but with bars like these I’ll certainly keep an eye for the guy as he more than holds his own alongside both rap mainstays Saigon and Consequence, who come through with sharp verses themselves. A must listen for any hip-hop fan out there.
It’s Cold isn’t on the album, but is another top track from Sai. Oddly, it appears none of us posted Bring Me Down, which is probably one of the best tracks he’s put out in a very long time, and Sai continues that quality with this track. It’s got a more ‘positive’ production than the aforementioned track, throwing a lighter melody in with easygoing percussion to push his raps to the forefront, and Sai doesn’t disappoint with decent flow and lyrics. Probably preferred the darker style of Bring Me Down, but this is still a good track. → Continue Reading Saigon-It’s Cold (Plus Album Tracklist and Artwork) Sai seems to be churning out the visuals as of late, this, the latest edition to his visualogue (I like that). It’s the first joint, Strength, which really catches my ear drums in their sweet spot. Saigon reels out the multi’s like they are going out of fashion over a typically, soulful Just Blaze production. The Tony the Tiger sampling in the second joint is just too annoying to even give a chance. The Greatest Story Never Told will finally be told in February 2011… (And apparently it’s better than Illmatic… *shrugs*).
Feeling this beat, and Joell’s opening verse is very good. Jae Millz isn’t completely terrible, but definitely gets overshadowed by the two rappers around him as Saigon comes in and does his thing as ever. Liking some of Sai’s rhyming patterns on this one, good job. DJ Kay Slay-God Forgive Me ft. Joell Ortiz, Saigon and Jae Millz
I’ll let the guys from Mac Media describe this new video for me: “Here is the first video off Scram Jones’ upcoming album “Beast Music” dropping Spring 2010 on Nature Sounds. Although Scram rhymes on this track, the album is more of a producer showcase featuring top tier MCs like Styles P, Ghostface, Raekwon, Nore, Fat Joe, Cam’ron, Slaughterhouse and more rhyming over Scrams blazing beats! This is just the beginning…” Needless to say if you’re already a fan of Saigon or Crooked I/Slaughterhouse you are going to enjoy this. As any true Hip Hop fan would. This track isn’t that old, in that it was made just over a year ago – however it makes it in this week’s Sunday’s Classic Collabo as this track is just vintage Hip Hop. Taken from Statik Selektah’s album Stick 2 The Script, this song just oozes that laid back Hip Hop vibe that first got me into the genre itself. Go check the video to your left, and then download the track below.
Click below to grab some new stuff from Saigon. This is taken from the soundtrack of some upcoming horror film or something, hence the gory title.
A video has finally been put out for the track, and you can find it after the click. The audio is there for download too. |
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