Lay off the drank, Weezy.

NYC rap station HOT97's annual Summer Jam was on yessirday in NYC, and, amongst other, ahem, 'highlights' of this festival was the above: Lil' Wayne bugging out to Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You." In further WTFness, Weezy plinks out 5 minutes of improv guitar work (he's not exactly Buddy Guy) and decides to do half his twenty minute set a capella. At least he brought out Kanye for the "Lollipop" remix.

So it wasn't as eventful as Hov calling out Prodigy or The Game beefing the shit out of Fiddy in '05, but I still wish I was there. There's a whole bunch of other stuff from the day worth checking out at HOT97's YouTube Channel, especially if you're into hip-hop palling-about: Rick Ross' shirtlessness, Jim Jones and Juelz Santana still being idiot mates, half of Wu-Tang showing up for Alicia Keys' set, and about seven thousand interviews with rappers and DJ's dropping platitudes about what a great day it is. And oh yeah, more live footage of Kanye being the most fire human in the world right now.

HOT97 YouTube Channel

Personal Top 10 - Nat Jones

Just to be totally original I thought I would post my top ten albums of this year and as a little bonus to those who give a crap my top ten movies as well.

Albums:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

MIA - Kala

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Burial - Untrue

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Battles - Mirrored

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

High Contrast - Tough Guys Dont Dance

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Movies:

Ratatouille

Knocked Up

Superbad

Hot Fuzz

Grindhouse

Children of Men

Transformers

American Gangster

Rock the Bells
Sicko

C'mon Baby

And so it begins again - a new blog with a focus on music and a new partner in crime. So let the beats flow.

A quick one to start off - a killer remix of an already great track. Saigon (who you may have seen on Entourage) finally gets the producer he deserves in the form of Just Blaze. Never one to miss out on a hot track this is Jigga's verse from the remix. Enjoy

Saigon - C'mon Baby (Remix featuring Jay-Z)