De La Soul members, Kelvin Mercer (Plug 1) and David Jude Jolicoeur (Plug 2) have taken on all new identities for their new project as duo, First Serve. Jacob “Pop Life” Barrow (Posdnuos) and Deen Whittier (Trugoy) have come together to release The Goon Time Mixtape. Check the Soundcloud description below for some context:
First Serve is the brainchild of French producers/ DJ’s, 2 & 4 (aka Chokolate & Kahlid), who met as master turntablists at the 2004 DMC Championship. After an instant meeting of minds they decided to embark on a musical adventure – a Hip Hop album played by musicians. All they needed was a couple of MC’s to help complete their vision. Enter NY based Jacob ‘Pop’ Life and Deen ‘D’ Whitter.
Check the teaser video, “Mrs. Whittier”:
It’s so refreshing to hear Pos and Dave once again. De La Soul is a big influence on a lot of the music we make and, personally speaking, has dictated my taste in music on more than one occasion. First Serve’s official album is slated for an April 2012 release and we are definitely looking forward to it. Make sure to check the single, “Pushin’ Aside, Pushin’ Along.”
Listen or DL the free The Goon Time Mixtape now on Soundcloud:
In other news…about video games:
Some crazy visuals dropped in the past couple weeks for a couple upcoming games– check them out and try to endure without having a seizure. Seriously. Make sure to step away from the screen and turn a light on. Epilepsy is not a joke. Jerk.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
This 5 minute tour de force is masterful in its action scenes and replete with guns, gore and mf’n zombies. Scheduled release in March 2012:
Soul Calibur V
Get your iPhone ready and open your Googe Translate app– unless you know Japanese. With an elaborate character creation mode and what appears to be clean, seamless gameplay– not to mention a playable Ezio from Assassin’s Creed– SC5 certainly looks to be a contender for fighting game of the year. Scheduled release towards the end of Jan 2012.
Make sure y’all head over to The Weekly Beat Sessions as a new edition of our on-going beatmaking series will be posted around midnight tonight.
- @bsoco













