Entries associated with the tag "Hollywood Holt":

One weird development in the Internetization of music is that the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has become one of the best online distributors of really well-made compilation albums. Ghostly International's Ghostly Swim comp has replaced most of the stuff I've skimmed from Discobelle on my electro playlist, and Chocolate Industries' new World Wide Renewal Plan looks equally solid, with contributions from the Cool Kids, Diverse, and Hollywood Holt, who doubles as a pitchman in commercials for the comp.

I'm not about to make any wild claims about WWRP stealing spins from Tha Carter III or anything, but in terms of easybreezybumpin nice-weather mix tapes this one's pretty quality.

(Video via Fake Shore Drive)

So either half the rappers in town got together and decided to just take over October, or else it's just a coincidence that they've all clogging the Internets with new stuff. Either way, it's a pretty nice situation.

Hollywood Holt's following up on his unexpectedly blown-up tribute to the moped lifestyle with a full-length mix tape, available as a free download at his new site. He's got the energy and attention span of a Ritalin-amped six year old, and bounces from Dirty South-style ringtone joints to neo-hip-house club tracks to throwback shit that can remind you of a time when LL Cool J wasn't a complete embarrassment. There's not a lot of nuance going on here, but it's a partywrecker, and who wants to think about stuff at a party?

Vice has more good-times rap from Kid Sister on a Sinden remix of Chromeo's "Tenderoni." That latest Chromeo album is near the top of my "most listened" list for the year, Sinden consistently slays with his remix work, and Kid Sister is pure fun, so if someone wants to blend it all up into one big hedonistic electro-funk mess, that's fine by me.

The Cool Kids just dropped their new video for "Black Mags," strengthening the connection between Chicago rappers and unconventional forms of transportation. In this case it's BMX bikes, but they throw in some mopeds to keep themselves covered. I was given "Black Mags" while I was working on my Cool Kids column, and somehow without my noticing it's gone from being my least favorite of their songs to maybe my most favorite. The video looks completely professional. We'll see how it competes with the moped hit.

Flosstradamus-affiliated rapper Hollywood Holt—you might know him better as the hype man to about half the parties around town—just got posted up to Discobelle with his moped-obsessive take on Rich Boy's "Throw Some D's." Taken by itself, "Throw a Kit" might be a little too obscure for most listeners who aren't pushing a two-stroke; there are a bunch of shout-outs to Chicago moped gangs like Murder Club and Peddy Cash, while most of the lyrics are about cruising low-cc-style around the Chi, rattling off a laundry list of manufacturers only the real obsessive types would know. But the video's got enough of the hilariously unlikely combination of hip-hop and moped love for anyone to get with.