So.... how ya'll doin?

Lets see, I've been listening to the first Apostle of hustle album, its superb and grows on you more and more with each listen. I'm also fallin deeper and deeper into old school hip hop. I finally got my hands on some Kool G Rap. The first and best Gangster rapper. Its like all that 50 cent and the game garbage only with these beautiful prestine funky drums, great funny tongue in cheek lyrics and absolutely none of this guns, bitches and money nonsense at least not the way you think. I also got MC Shan's second full length Down by Law. Its got this f'ing brilliant song called Jane,stop this crazy thing. Man its good. Listening to these dudes opens your eyes and ears to how inept and sad these gangster rappers operating today really are. There's no creativity anymore. Just anger and violence.
I also came across a great album by the Analog Brothers called Pimp to eat. The Analog Brothers are Ice T and Kool Keith. Kool Keith for those who don't know is probably the most talented mc of the last 18 years. He also goes by the name Doctor Octagon and under that name made Dr Octagonecologist. One of the greatest hip hop records of all time. Getting back to the Analog bros though, Pimp to eat is a far less serious record but a great great record none the less. Basically Ice T curses and swears while Keith lays down these bizarre surreal rhymes over sparse funky beats.
What else? Oh Edan. Edan is a one man hip hop record makin machine. He produces,dj's and rhymes all by himself at the sametime. He put out a great record last year, that I just got, called Beauty and the beat that sounds like some lost psychedelic hip hop masterpiece from 1987. His live shows are meant to be spellbounding.
On a much lighter, more small town in the middle of Saskatchewan, note, I discovered this heartbreakingly gorgeous record just put out by a Canadian band called Great Aunt Ida. Its all very alt/country/indie. The vocals are beautiful and there's one song on it called Fisherman's Blues that may be the most devastatingly beautiful song I've ever heard.
I've also been listening to a lot of Hank Williams. Particularly the song Lost Highway. And just two days ago at work I put on this astounding record by an old blues guy named JB Lenoir for the first time. He died in 1968 from bad hospital care basically. He was in a bad car accident and the hospital sent him home too early. He died of a heart attack two weeks later. Sadly he left this planet before he had a chance to really make an impact. But his voice was incredible. It really grabs you by the heart. One song Moonshine Blues was especially great. And what about that name? JB Lenoir. Man alive. Thats a great handle.
Ali Farka Toure's last album Savane is devastating as well. He died just after he made it and its considered his masterpiece. He sings in a mixture of french and another African language and mixes this great blues sound with this haunting old African sound, singing old African folk songs. It has to be heard to be believed. If it doesn't move you in some way deep deep down than maybe your the machine.
I think thats all for now. I just felt like talkin bout some of the music I love.