Monthly Archives: November 2009

Mike Schpitz and Shitty Ranx Live at the Celtic Fox in Topeka

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“This is just a quick reminder to let all ya’ll muthafuckers know” that myself and Shitty Ranx are performing tonight at the Celtic Fox downtown Topeka, Kansas for our 2nd and final show of the Thanksgiving break.  The McB’s turned out crazy.  Thank you to everyone for coming out and enjoying yourselves.  This show I will be performing an all Sunday Drive set in full costume.  Come out to support again.  Shitty Ranx will be holding down the dj booth all night.

Celtic Fox
118 SW 8th St
Topeka, Kansas 66603

Weekly Numbers 11/25/2009

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Another week has passed us and some more people bomb.  Well, I guess with the current state of things it is amazing that anyone is still buying albums.  50 Cent met his projected sales numbers.  Rakim does much better than I expected.  And Wale is still trying to meet expectations.  Check the top

Rank    Artist     Album     This Week     Est. Total
5 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct 160,000 161,000
7    Michael Jackson’s This Is It 96,000 782,000
20 Janet Jackson # 1′s (2CD) 37,000 38,000
25 The Black Eyed Peas E.N.D.     31,000 1,387,000
30 Jay-Z Blueprint 3     29,000 1,300,000

And for the bottom.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
61 Rakim The Seventh Seal 11,000 12,000
88 Wale Attention : Deficit 8,700 37,000
111 Felt Felt 3: A Tribute To Rosie Perez 7,000 7,000
148 Tech N9ne K.O.D. 4,500 51,000
199 Lil Boosie Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Bad Azz 3,000 110,000

Lil Boosie is kind of killing right now. Over 100K sold is the shit. Tech N9ne is still holding it down for Kansas City, MO too. Shout out to Nascent and QB Da Problem for 160K in the first week.

Mike Schpitz and Shitty Ranx Live at McB’s in Topeka

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If you are in my hometown, Topeka, Kansas tonight, I want everyone to come out to McB’s out on 29th and Croco to catch myself and DJ Shitty Ranx performing live.  This is the first event of the Thanksgiving holiday week and has become and annual event.  Last year we had well over 200 people come out and we want even more this year.  I will have physical copies of Love Potion and Sunday Drive for sale for five bucks a piece.  Come check us out.  The event is sponsored by Crown Royal and will also be on special.

Mike Schpitz and Shitty Ranx Live at McB’s
2920 SE Croco
Topeka, Kansas
9-2am

Same Song produced by Lord Quest

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The first mixtape from YNotMyDream just dropped yesterday and has been receiving lots of downloads of positive feedback. Today, I am releasing my joint from that mixtape, Same Song produced by Lord Quest from Canada.  Please listen, download and share.  Happy early Thanksgiving to everyone and enjoy some good music for the break.

Same Song produced by Lord Quest

Also, make sure you download the whole mixtape, Beneath The Surface presented by YNotMyDream.blogspot.com

Beneath The Surface

Downtime

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I had the pleasure recently for my song Downtime with Phys Edison to be featured in a short film directed by Gareth Dowdell.  He submitted his short film to the Red Bull film contest Reel Life out in Auckland, New Zealand.  I watched the film last evening and it was really cool to see.  The short films will be judged and a winner will be chosen and awarded $10,000 dollars towards their film career.  Please everyone take some time to watch Downtime.  Share your feedback, thoughts and comments here or on facebook, myspace or twitter.  Here is the link to Downtime. 

Downtime directed by Gareth Dowdell

YNotMyDream presents Beneath The Surface

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This was supposed to be my featured project for the day but now it is my featured project for the night and all day tomorrow.  My man, my mellow, Anthony who runs YNotMyDream.blogspot, has been working very hard for the last few months putting together a mixtape of some of his favorite artists.  Aptly, titled(I like that word aptly) Beneath The Surface(see Gza’s album), the mixtape features a lot of cats you may see around the net on various blogs and sites but who aren’t quite household names.  Everyone on the trap submitted exclusive tracks including myself to show their love and support to Anthony for all his hard work in supporting our journeys into this wonderful world of rap madness.  Sorry that was lame.  I want everyone to download Beneath The Surface and check out YNotMyDream.blogspot.com daily for all the latest.  He is one of the cats who genuinely supports and respects the artists he posts.  It’s not based soley on hits and page visits.  Enjoy Beneath The Surface.  Congrats to Anthony for the first of MANY dope tapes.  Artwork is ill too.

Download Beneath The Surface

Track List

1. Drekidd – Black Out (Prod. Johnny Cash)
2. BK Cyph – Drawin’ The Line Freestyle
3. QuEST & Donny Goines – Let The Rain Fall (Remix) (Prod. Numonics)
4. PHZ-Sicks – Yerrdig! (Prod. Black Milk)
5. The Kid Daytona – Black Superhero (Prod. 6th Sense)
6. El Prez – Flo Jackson (Prod. Vision)
7. Thr33zy Mcfly – Gone In 60 Seconds
8. D.Julien – Ventilation (Prod. Buzz)
9. Mike Dreams Feat. Christina Fisher – We Going Worldwide
10. Volition – Check The Style (Prod. Thelonious)
11. K. Sparks Feat. The MAD Poet – Smooth Thoughts
12. Love Jones a.k.a. Mike Schpitz – Same Song (Prod. Lord Quest)
13. Brown Bag Allstars – Brooklyn Queens Expressway (Prod. Marink)
14. Cymarshall Law – Officer Ricky Freestyle
15. West Restless Feat. Skipp Whitman, & Lo Tec – The Race
16. Anton Genius – Not An Amateur
17. J. Lately Supposed To Be (Prod. Jansport J)
18. Add-2 Feat. Franco De Leon – How Can I
19. The ILLZ – Faded
20. XV – Written In The Stars (Prod. Charlie Hilton)

Download Beneath The Surface

Add-2 “Cassette Tapes”

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I fell a little late on this but Add-2 dropped a new joint last week titled Cassette Tapes produced by Mydus.  I don’t think I need to say anything but this is definitely a real cool joint.  I can’t say enough about how nice Add is.  Every joint he just progressing and raising the bar.  Check out Cassette Tapes.  There are too many quotables in this shit.  Real smooth beat too.  Shout out to Mydus

Add-2-Cassette Tapes

Strong Enough

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Maybe I’m just feeling generous this year but I have stepped out and purchased 2 albums in 2009.  First was Raekwon and the most recent is 50 Cent’s new album, Before I Self Destruct.  Now I purchased them both for different reasons but none the less, I have the physical copies and pictures to prove it.  50′s album dropped Tuesday in stores and yesterday I purchased the triple deluxe version of the album, that includes a sample of 50′s new cologne and 2 movies.  50′s directorial debut, BISD the movie is one of the movies included and the other is a Jam Master Jay documentary.  Needless to say, I’m going to put on 50′s cologne and watch both movies back to back.  The real reason I purchased BISD is because two of my guys, Nascent and QB Da Problem produced track nine, Strong Enough.  The song is one of the “strongest” on the album and is Sha Money XL’s favorite joint.  So today is dedicated to Nascent and QB.  Check out Strong Enough as well as the other track they did for 50 called RedRum(187) from his mixtape War Angel. 

Goodie Mob Live

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I have been trying to figure out how to post the video on here since I saw Goodie Mob live on Jimmy Kimmel perform their classic cut, Soul Food with The Roots.  FINALLY, I got it to work.  For those of you who missed this performance, it was really dope.  Goodie Mob STILL sounds incredible and of course The Roots absolutely kills this song.  Goodie Mob also performed Cell Therapy at the BET Hip Hop Awards a month or two ago and did a great job as well.  Check out both performances.  These are both must have in your lives.

more about “Goodie Mob Live“, posted with vodpod

Weekly Numbers 11/19/2009

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Yes yess yall.  Sorry for the day delay updating everyone with the weekly numbers, as if you couldn’t just go to HipHopDx anyway.  I gotta figure out a new source for the numbers but for the time being this is what I got.  Michael Jackson’s soundtrack, This Is It is still selling more units per week then most people will dream of, Jay-Z and the Black Eye Peas are holding it down and Wale’s debut Attention Deficit didn’t quite move 30K.  Check out the top.

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
4 Michael Jackson Michael Jackson’s This Is It
 116,000 687,000
16 Jay-Z Blueprint 3
 33,000 1,271,000
20 Black Eyed Peas The E.N.D.
 28,000 1,356,000
21 Wale Attention : Deficit
 28,000 28,000
37 Beyonce I Am…Sascha Fierce 16,000 2,492,00

And for the bottom. 

Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
104 Tech N9ne K.O.D.
 6,200 47,000
105 Kid Cudi Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
 6,100 203,000
165 Triple C’s Custom Cars & Cycles
 3,400 21,000
166 Lil Boosie Superbad: The Return Of Boosie Badazz 3,400 107,000
171 Wyclef Jean Toussaint St. Jean: From The Hut, To The Projects, To The Mansion
 3,300 3,300

I guess I wasn’t the only one not feeling Wyclef’s mixtape/album.  50 Cent dropped this week and they are predicting that he will move around 150K-160K his first week.  Time will tell.  I’m getting my copy today.