JAHDAN & 77KLASH – BEST I EVER HAD FREESTYLE
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Jahdan Blakkamoore featuring 77Klash – Best I Ever Had Freestyle
Jahdan’s album Buzzrock Warrior drops in September. In the meantime, we’re setting the Summer on fire with Jahdan’s Bazooka Shot mixtape, which is coming sooner than you think. The night this freestyle was done, I think the guys (Jahdan, Klash, and Matt) recorded five other tracks, and this was the last one. It was pure fun. I gave the instrumental to Matt, he edited/re-shaped it in less than two minutes, Jahdan & Klash went in. Jahdan was alredy familiar with the hit song by Toronto’s own Drake, and was singing it the minute he heard the beat. I had never heard this song by choice. Klash wasn’t familiar with it, so he start singing Radiohead’s “Climbing the Walls,” and I was like yeah! Anyway, the vibe at Casa de la Jones (Geko Jones’ home-studio, where it all goes down) was great, and everyone was having a good time. We’re doing it again next week, putting the finishing touches on the Bazooka Shot tape. Jahdan and Klash are going in again, and they might be remixing, freestyling, covering whatever tune they feel like again.
June 23rd, 2009. 77klash, african, american, autotune, dancehall, everything, global south, hiphop, jahdan, jamaican, matt shadetek, non-rap rap, optimism, rap, realness, rockist habits, soul, tropical | 7 comments »
June 24th, 2009 at 6:40 am
‘freestyle’ with autotune?
June 24th, 2009 at 8:17 am
I’ve always been apprehensive about how that word is used too.
But watching Jahdan work there’s really no other word for it. There’s the songs he goes home and writes, the ones he cuts and pastes from verses in his rhyme book, the ones he outlines in the studio and improvises on and ones like this, where he just walks up to the mic and it flows
We’re not on the radio here tho so we can go back and put on the finishing touches on a tune after the fact. 2 cents from one auto-tune hater to another.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Lil Wayne (& many others) record DIRECT through autotune: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/pitch_perfect/
June 24th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
werd “climbing up the walls”….thats my joint
June 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
craaazy.
Y;all (& JahDan) might like to know that “Nice Green” is always well-received when I play it in Kingston. Club Djs especially ask me about it.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Yes fam , as soon as i got this link in my email , i loved the riddim!! An w jahdan & klash on it , bwoy!! forgettaboutit!!
BOOM BAM BAM!!!!
Scandinavia rates Jahdan!!
1. j.t.r
July 14th, 2009 at 7:32 am
[...] Soca, and Dancehall, and Zouk, and House, and Reggae and Mambo Violento and the Dutty Artz Remix of Best I ever Had, and they DUG IT! Sometimes in the States people let their pre-conceptions determine what their [...]