Stay With You
April 21, 2009
Dana and I got married yesterday in the heart of White Plains, New York. It was a perfect spring day that couldn’t have been any better. I’m still soaking it all in and fielding pictures that family and friends are sending to us as we pack for our honeymoon. There were truly so many amazing moments I won’t even attempt to try and list them. But before I bounce to Hawaii with my beautiful wife, I have to leave you with these video highlights (and sick pic above of all fellas with the bride) from the reception at the VIP Country Club in New Rochelle, courtesy of my homegirl Maddie….check these out….”SWITCH!!!!” is definitely a must watch…
“Ipcus and Matisyahu Throwback Dance Moves”
“Max Bee and Matisyahu GO IN”
“SWITCH!!!!!”
“My Ferris Buellers”
See you all in two weeks. Hollerrrrrrrrrr….
OUR WEDDING SONG–JOHN LEGEND “STAY WITH YOU” UNPLUGGED VERSION (updated link)
Morning Glory
April 17, 2009
Check this video out right now. Jadakiss, who just dropped his album last week, bugs out over one of his new cuts in the Hot 97 studio and offices with Cipha Sounds, Peter Rosenberg, and the rest of the Hot 97 morning show crew (plus some other Hot 97 DJ’s, personalities, etc). Featuring a nice cameo from my boy out of WP Just Boogz who you can see rocking a Dirty Jax sweatshirt in the video. Big ups to Jada of course for always holding down the 914, and to Ciph and Rosenberg for supporting Stan Ipcus by playing my songs on Hot 97. And watch out for my little dude Just Boogz, he’s coming up in the game!!!! Peace family….
Pot Head
April 16, 2009
My cousin Chris Isenberg over at No Mas NYC just put me on to his new documentary style video of the legendary Yankee fan Freddie Sez. Here’s his description from the No Mas website:
As a tribute to the old Yankee Stadium (or the newer incarnation of the old Yankee Stadium) we made a short documentary last year about Fred Schuman aka Freddie Sez. On the way from his Upper West Side apartment to the Bronx for the Stadium’s last opening day, the eighty-three year old tells tells the story of his transformation into the Yankees’ pan-and-spoon-carrying unofficial mascot. We’ve saved it for this moment, and we hope you enjoy.
Check the video below, and hopefully we’ll see Freddie at the new ballpark…
If you missed my post on Yankee Stadium closing from last October, CLICK HERE
Larry David’s Greatest Hits Part 2
April 6, 2009
I haven’t heard much about the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, other than the lead cast of Seinfeld is slotted to make a guest appearance (dope). However, Larry David is starring in the upcoming Woody Allen film WHATEVER WORKS, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month. So to celebrate, I present to you Westcheddar’s own LARRY DAVID’S GREATEST HITS PART 2:
Larry Buys weed from a guy on the street to give to his father who is suffering from glaucoma. Amazing.
Cheryl and Larry renew their wedding vows after 10 years. This is so funny, especially since I’m about to get married myself. I love how he doesn’t want to commit to her for eternity, only until death. He finally gives in at the end. Still, a hilarious concept to want to be single again during eternity.
This is great. Larry checks into a hotel in New York City, and the bellhop describes every amenity in site. Classic.
One of the all time best Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes is when Larry trips Shaq by accident while sitting courtside at the Lakers game, and then no one wants anything to do with him afterwards. This clip is from the day after he trips Shaq, and he goes to Starbucks with his wife Cheryl. He’s so annoying in this scene. I love it.
*That’s all for now. Stay up to date with the latest in the world of Larry David at this great fan blog:
And if you missed Westcheddar’s LARRY DAVID’S GREATEST HITS PART 1, check it out HERE.
Classic Crack
April 6, 2009
Back in 2003 during my days living in Washington D.C., my boy DJ Roz and I had a nice little mixtape spot at the Lake Forest Mall in Gaithersburg, MD. It was great. Straight cash coming in, all the mixtapes we wanted, a great set up in a local urban clothing store with lots of cool and appreciative customers. We were the first of our kind in that area, and we always had exclusives from New York and down south too. At the time, Rocafella Records was really hot, and Peedi Crack, a hood MC from Philly and recent Rocafella signee, was starting to buzz. I was a big fan of his, mainly because he was just a ferocious spitter and had an ill style, and he picked good beats to rock over. Plus he did collabos with lots of my favorite Rocafella/Philly artists. So Roz and I decided to put out a couple mixtapes of our own under our store name, Strictly Classics. This was our first one. I gathered the music from anywhere I could find, Roz took care of the artwork, and as a promotion, we gave the CD out free with anyone who purchased three or more mixtapes from our spot.
Since then, Peedi never got a chance to put out his album on Def Jam, and Rocafella and State Property had its share of breakups and problems. Peedi went to jail and back, got into beef with Hov after getting kicked off Def Jam, and managed to put out lots of material that never really popped off the way I thought his stuff was going to pop back in 2003. But STRICTLY CLASSICS PRESENTS THE BEST OF PEEDI CRACK is timeless, and features lots of exclusives (trust me) from when he first came out on Rocafella. Download it here…
DOWNLOAD STRICTLY CLASSICS PRESENTS THE BEST OF PEEDI CRACK
More Strictly Classics circa 2003 mixtapes to come….
Hotsteppers
April 6, 2009
The BGC Souljah Steppers made their 2009 debut recently up at Lakeland. The step team, which is made up of 3rd-7th grade girls, practiced many hours up in our Cultural Arts Center preparing for this show, and they did a great job. Lots of traditional stepping, and also a full out hip hop dance routine too. They even did the Stanky Leg!!! Are you up on that move?!?!?! I’m still trying to figure out how to do it without looking like a big tall dork. Check the performance…
More performances to come….hollerrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Top Five
April 5, 2009
Here’s my Top Five hip hop albums of all time, in order of release date…
Discuss.
Good Morning
April 4, 2009
I’ve heard a lot about My Morning Jacket in the past years, especially when I have conversations with people about Band of Horses, The Shins, or Fleet Foxes (my indie bands of choice). But no matter how hard I searched, I just couldn’t find a song of theirs that I liked! Well last weekend, on my car ride home from the Jersey Shore with a couple of my dudes (BACHELOR PARTY: BANANAS!), this song came up on Jiggs’ shuffle. I labeled it a classic instantly. My Morning Jacket “Just One Thing”.
Now I see why people kept recommending these guys to me. Unfortunately, I checked out the rest of the album (they’ve got a bunch of albums, this is off IT STILL MOVES which is like their second or third LP) and couldn’t find anything else that really grabbed my attention. Someone prove me wrong, please. Holler in the comments section if you know any other classic My Morning Jacket songs that are of the caliber of “Just One Thing”. If you don’t, I’ll just continue to play this tune on repeat. Peace out.
The End of an Era
April 1, 2009
Here it is. DIRTY JAX PRESENTS THE BEST OF STAN IPCUS. Yeah, that’s a new Dirty Jax spring 2009 shirt I’m wearing, and their designer Josh Kimerling put the cover artwork together for me. As I said last week in my promo post, this mixtape features a bunch of my favorite material from my last three projects, and some new remixes (shout out to the great Large Professor thanks for the remix!!!!), radio appearances, leaks, etc. Check below for the tracklist and free download link. Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD DIRTY JAX PRESENTS THE BEST OF STAN IPCUS
Now. Here’s the complete Stan Ipcus discography, a decade in the making, dating back to 1999 when I recorded my first studio album as a University of Maryland at College Park junior. I’ll start from the present and go back….
BACHELOR PARTY is my most recent release. This got some major shine on nahright.com and some other dope internet hip hop websites (shout out to sarcasticdbag.com for calling it “fuckin classic”), and a few of the songs got spins on Hot 97, Shade 45, etc. This project is my personal favorite, and not because it’s my most recent work. I just really love the songs on here. The download includes the bonus tracks “My Ferris Buellers” and “The Great White Hope (Asher Roth Diss)” which were recorded after the project’s completion. Check the tracklist and link below…
DOWNLOAD STAN IPCUS BACHELOR PARTY
In 2006, my friend from WP and business partner DJ Roz (we owned a mixtape spot out in Maryland called Strictly Classics and went to College Park and WPHS together too) decided it was time for us to put out an official Stan Ipcus mixtape. So for a couple months straight, I would just send mp3′s of songs I was recording at my crib in WP down to him in MD. You wouldn’t believe it if you saw how I recorded for this mixtape in the crib, with the laptop and the built in mic, spitting into the computer screen. That’s why some of the tracks have that fuzz in them. It was the first time I had the ability to record in the crib, and I still hadn’t perfected the “no mic” technique. I was learning along the way. Ha! It was mostly just random freestyles, or beats I looped up and went in on. And Roz gave me a couple beats to rock over too (see “Real Ganja Talk”). When he finally put it all together, it was a certified classic around the way. White Plains was fully with me after I put this out. Dudes from the hood would come up to me quoting songs and all that, giving me my props. We were doing a lot of shows in the city around this time too. I love the way this mixtape flows. And the title perfectly describes the content. REAL BREEZY. Peep the cover above (hilarious!!!) and tracklist/download link below…
DOWNLOAD STAN IPCUS REAL BREEZY MIXED BY DJ ROZ
I managed to get one single, WESTCHEDDAR/DO US, on Itunes with the help of my boy Lev Dog from NY Fresh Records. It was produced by this band from across the Tappan Zee Bridge called The Wax Machine that I used to do shows with, and it was recorded with all live intruments. We all ended up going our seperate ways, but to this day this is still the only two solo Stan Ipcus songs on Itunes. It dropped right before Roz and I came out with Real Breezy in Spring 2006. Peep the cover for the single and the link to download it via Amazon.com, or grab it on Itunes if that’s easier, either way your support is appreciated…
DOWNLOAD WESTCHEDDAR/DO US ON AMAZON.COM
This is the original promo for Matisyahu’s YOUTH album. See how it says IN STORES JANUARY 31, 2006? Well it actually came out March 7th, 2006. I remember it getting pushed back at the last minute, and how excited everyone was for it to drop. My feature on his song “WP” is probably what I am best known for, and truthfully it’s my favorite verse I ever wrote. We’ve performed this song everywhere and in between, from MSG to the Greek Theatre in LA. I’m very proud to be on this grammy nominated album with one of my closest childhood friends. Here’s the link to download it on Amazon.com…
Ahhh, FLIRTING WITH FAME. I put a bunch of songs from here on The Best of Stan Ipcus. Most of this album was recorded in Sony Studios with Inyerface Records, a small label based on 54th Street that I had a little production deal with back in late 2003/2004. This album is timeless, and was recorded while I was getting a real taste of the NYC music industry life after moving back home from D.C. I got a chance to work with some great producers on this, and I also threw a couple mixtape style songs on here too that I recorded before my move back to WP. Dirty Jax laced the cover for this, it’s definitely my favorite of all my covers. This marked the first time I ever had one of my songs on a major hip hop radio show (DJ Eclipse played “Pay U No Mind” on The Halftime Show which I was recently a guest on). I got a lot of favorites on here. All the material on this project was recorded from the end of 2003 to 2004, when I had some really great hip hop moments. I met a bunch of people I was fans of while I was recording this, from Kanye West to Kay Slay, and had the chance to open up shows for Smif N Wessun and Slick Rick during this time period too. Unfortunately, the label fell apart before I ever had the opportunity to release anything properly. But they gave me all the songs to keep, so I put this out myself in early 2005. I threw a release party at my apartment in WP that was crazzzzzzyyyyyyyyyyy. Tracklist and link below…
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EM & IP THE WHITE ALBUM was a mixtape I wanted to put together for fun. I called it The White Album for obvious reasons (we’re both white!), but also because I was living in D.C. at the time right near The White House, hence the cover shot. In addition, it was around the time that Jay-Z’s The Black Album was getting alot of hype before it’s release (Summer of 2003), and I thought it would make a clever title. I should have known that everyone was gonna play off that title. At the time, I wasn’t recording too much, just here and there when I could, but I was running the mixtape spot with DJ Roz so I figured it could be a cool way to put something of my own on the shelf that people could check out, especially if they already liked Eminem. It’s not Em vs. Ip, it’s Em & Ip, back and forth. I put all my favorite Eminem songs on there and tried to match mine up with his so it flowed. And my boy K-Wet aka BonDon did a hilarious intro for it. Check it out below, it’s not bad…
DOWNLOAD EM & IP THE WHITE ALBUM
CREAM CHEESE never was really released. I never had a cover made for it. At the time I put it together, in early 2002, I had some songs from my final year living in Maryland that kind of all fit together. It was made up of all original production from Bless, Max Bee, and one song from my boy Kalash. And it features one of my few collabo tracks, with my classmate Nef, who to this day is the nicest rapper I’ve ever been friends with. Straight College Park. This (above) would’ve mad a great cover. Tracklist and link below.
STAN IPCUS CREAM CHEESE
1. Cream Cheese
2. On My Grind
3. Bravo
4. Nef and Ip
5. Ready for the Drami Poppy
6. Chubby
7. Fall Back
8. Piggly Wiggly
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Yo, I can’t find the actual front cover for EXTRA HIM that Josh from Dirty Jax, my second official release. So I’m gonna use this picture from the album cover photo shoot (above), where I’m dunking at the court next to the campus pool. On the actual cover I’m dunking over like 5 gippy frat dudes (if anyone has that holler). Yes, this hoop was only like 9 1/2 feet, but true story back then I used to be able to bang it on a regulation hoop too. Ask Max Bee how I banged it on him on this pool hoop the first time we ever balled together during a game of 21. Hahahaha! Anyway, this is really representative of my College Park years, when I was just doing my thing on campus, rocking at campus events, frat parties, clubs around the way, and Knox Road barbeques heavy. It has original production from Max Bee and Bless, live cuts from The Kaffa House in DC, a radio freestyle, and some crazy lyrics. I was really coming into my own at this time. This one is close to my heart. It brings back so many great memories, when I really was EXTRA HIM. I dropped this in June 2000. Download link below…
And here is the first official Stan Ipcus CD release. I made a couple tapes before this, but never in a studio. For this one I spent 4 nights at this little studio on Irving Place in Manhattan. I brought a bunch of songs I wanted to get looped up, and the engineer looped them, and I just put some songs together with a bunch of verses I had written. Some of the lyrics are from high school! It’s kind of like an EP. My boy Andrew Goldberg, who now writes for The Family Guy, made some hilarious guest appearances on here as Harvey Yackerbottom (a character from our old public access TV show) and Edith Bunker. And me, well I just went in as Stanley Ipcus. This one was for my boys, plain and simple. That’s why it’s called PU CLICK POETRY. This had a nice little buzz in White Plains and College Park. People still hit me up about this. It was recorded in January 1999. Ten years ago. Crazy. I used to sit in my boy’s dorm room and burn copies whenever I could. He was the only dude I knew with a CD burner. The cover photo is by Josh from Dirty Jax aka Sure Shot, but my dude Jon Jo helped me put the design together at Kinko’s. That’s my pops on the back, shoveling snow on Ogden Avenue. Link below…
DOWNLOAD STAN IPCUS PU CLICK POETRY
Funny thing is I have MAD TRACKS left over that I never put on any of these projects. Some of them are from the Inyerface/Sony Studios years, but most of them are just songs I just did on the fly at the crib. They’re either not fully mixed down or they’re really fuzzy. Some of them are great quality but they just didn’t fit on any of the projects. Some are straight freestyles or singing. Regardless, if there’s big Stan Ipcus fans out there somewhere, they’re gonna love this. It’s a bunch of unreleased songs, like 60 plus tracks. I call this THE FUZZY PHLEGM GEM FILES. All zipped up and ready to download for anyone who really wants to hear some raw Stan Ipcus material. Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD STAN IPCUS THE FUZZY PHLEGM GEM FILES
So that’s it, a decade of Stan Ipcus. Enjoy THE BEST OF STAN IPCUS, and check out my discography when you get a chance. For those of you who have been with me since the beginning, thank you for always supporting me as an artist, coming to my shows, rocking my tapes and CD’s, and chilling at my recording sessions. And to my new fans, welcome to my fly whiteboy rap world, and thank you too for your support. Did I miss anything? Oh yeah, I’m not retiring or anything, but I am getting married. I have a feeling my music is going to shift a bit in the next years. We’ll see in which direction, not sure yet. Let me know your thoughts on this post in the comments section if you get the chance. Thanks again. Peace….
