Tame Impala happened to be a featured guest recently as they tour through their homeland. Interestingly, the band chose a far out departure from their expected sound in the ATL rap group Outkast. However, the song they chose, “Prototype”, isn’t so far off center actually. Take a listen to the original below before watching the performance and compare for fun.

Next, watch Tame Impala’s echoed, funked out interpretation.

I’ve heard the band mention before how much they love Outkast, so this is a real treat for me. Musical Chairs has been online for too long without a Tame Impala post.

-JC

 

I also haven’t done a playlist since the first and only 100 post one and nobody else seems to appreciate them except the internet – don’t think of it as a music blog posting the cliche summer playlist though, think of it as me providing your                       B A N K  H O L I D A Y 88 track ambience for when the realistically black clouds start forming right after your 23rd attempt to light the barbeque has finally succeeded, or something.

Stick it on shuffle or ‘Time’ because this widget destroys my order, sigh. 

Note: I typed that out on Friday afternoon and it is already been raining and cold here all day by the time I got to post this (after giving up on the barbeque in favour of chicken & sweet potato – well we are in Surrey - chips, of course) on Saturday…..I told you.

This is a pure classic coming from a crew that is both highly heralded yet not fully recognized. Listen to Cee-Lo show how his lyrical ability pushed him into the forefront. Listen to the rest of Outkast make sense of their present lives (in the 90’s, no doubt). Notice the realities that they speak of. Notice the responsibility that they take for their actions (and inaction). Conclusively, they understand that it is OUR actions that tend to manipulate many of our situations.

Still, people want to say that “karma is a bitch” when we make bad decisions. No, not always. The problem is that many people don’t understand that what YOU DO brings about YOUR issues (most of the time). How can “Karma be a bitch” when people put themselves in their positions. If anything, they need to say that “Karma is great at customer service”.

I’m just saying. Now, I have just the perfect situation to explain that great customer service.

Question:

I’m having problems with my husband. He leaves home and stays gone for 3 to 4 days out of the week. He says he is frustrated because he doesn’t have a job. I asked if he wants this marriage to last and he said he’s not sure.  It has been 14 yrs. I THINK HE IS CHEATING! Can you give me any advice?

Answer:

Well, here is the problem in this situation: you are allowing him to do whatever it is he wants to do. This issue, meaning him being gone for 3-4 days, is inexcusable unless he is out on business or checking on family. However, he is doing neither. He is out to “clear his head”? This makes no sense whatsoever.

There is another issue I am beginning to wonder about: how do you actually treat this man? I only ask this because NO MAN should want to spend 3-4 days away from his wife with NO proper explanation. Honestly, this begs me to wonder if YOU may have caused any of this madness. There are two sides to every story. Thus, you should actually try to see where you went wrong.

However, there may be a chance that you have been as supportive as you should have. Sometimes, people deal with significant others that do crazy things. When this happens, all we can do is make the most of the situation. Once that “most has been made”, you figure out what you need to do. You analyze your situation and say “So, should I stay or go”?

Now that you see your situation is headed to utter ruin, you just need to let him go. Maybe he will get it together and get back with you. Maybe he will go on about your business. However, it doesn’t do you any good to hold onto a relationship that isn’t even functional. In short, Karma has come to collect for the product in which (at least) one of you asked for.

As I said before……..

Sometimes in life, we don’t get what we deserve: we get what we negotiate.

‘Nuff said and ‘Nuff respect!!!

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05/03/2013

4) Outkast – Roses
3) Aaliyah – Try Again
2) Skee-Lo – I Wish
1) C-Side – Boyfriend, Girlfriend
+1) Jay-Z – 99 Problems

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Tame Impala visited Australian radio station, Triple J to cover André 3000′s “Prototype” from Outkast‘s The Love Below double album. Check out the video footage below:

Tame Impala were on Australian radio station triple j the other day and for the Like A Version segment, they covered, “Prototype,” by Outkast. They nailed it. The vocals, the music — listen to that groovy bass! Happy Friday, friends.

1. Chance the Rapper- Favorite Song (feat. Childish Gambino)

I posted Chance the Rapper’s “Good Ass Intro” last week but with the release of Acid Rap, I couldn’t resist posting another song. The Andre 3000/Childish Gambino hybrid, Chance the Rapper is being billed as the “next great thing.” Here he teams up with Gambino for my “favorite song” on the mixtape.

2. Daft Punk- Contact (feat. DJ Falcon)

Here is an early version of the “supposed” new songs from Daft Punk’s new album, Random Access Memories.

3. Busta Rhymes- Twerk It

Produced by Pharrell, Busta Rhymes returns after a long absence with a new club track, “Twerk It.”

4. Vampire Weekend- Ya Hey

Vampire Weekend has been super busy these days between going on Easter marches with Steve Buscemi, livestreaming concerts and doing overall promotion of their new album. Here the guys premiere the new “lyric video” to their song “Ya Hey” off Modern Vampires of the City.

5. Tame Impala- Prototype

Australian indie group Tame Impala covered Outkast’s “Prototype” on an Australian radio station recently, with awesome results.

Enjoy!

You can’t go wrong with an Andre Three Stacks cover of his “Prototype” on a Friday morning! Tame Impala manages to do a dope little cover to Andre’s hit on the epic , The Love Below. Peep it out above!

I had to share this video I saw on Stereogum this morning. It’s of the Australian band Tame Impala doing a cover from Outkasts’s 2004 release Speakerboxx. The song is “Protoype” which describes Andre 3000‘s relationship with a woman that is so dope, he considers her the predecessor for all women hence “The Prototype”. The broadcast was on the popular Australian radio show Triple J’s-Like A Version series. Tame Impala‘s psychedelic sound lends itself surprisingly well to the track. Vocalist Kevin Parker plays it down while giving into the groove as does the band. That’s usually never the case when groups do cover songs. The tendency in the past seems to always be “push”, but how do you push something that is already brilliant? You don’t, you lend what little you can to what’s laid out and you see what happens and that’s precisely what Tame Impala did and the execution was flawless.

Holy crap, this is amazing. Tame Impala covers Outkast’s “Prototype” for Australian radio show Like a Version. It is uncanny how much Kevin Parker’s falsetto matches Andre 3000′s.

This track was one of the standouts from the ATLiens double album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. With the band’s penchant for trippy guitar licks and deep bass grooves, this cover seems pretty natural for Tame Impala. It is still kind of funny to hear a bunch of Aussies playing an Outkast song.

The actual song starts around the 1:12 mark.

Julian “J. Kwest” DeShazier

For nearly a decade, the ministry of Julian “J.Kwest” DeShazier has been an exploration in the relationship between music and faith. As artist, this Chicago native has used his unique rhythm to tell stories of deep meaning, inside and out of the church. A 2007 Holy Hip Hop Award winner, his song, “So Blessed,” was featured on the Grammy-nominated compilation Holy Hip Hop: Taking the Gospel to the Streets and J has been celebrated as “Living Black History” by Urban Ministries International. In 2012 he and his group, Verbal Kwest, were featured in the OXFAM and Bread for the World-produced documentary The Line, providing a critical voice against poverty and violence in the US.  A graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago Divinity School, Julian currently serves as senior pastor of University Church in Chicago, and is a regular to Sojourners, UrbanFaith and Kidult publications.

Rhymes: Outkast “13th Floor/Growing Old”, Common ft. Lauryn Hill “Retrospect for Life”, and Wu-Tang “Triumph”

Reasons:

Click here to download Julian’s interview

More Info on Julian:

J. Kwest.com

J. Kwest on Facebook

@MrKwest

Verbal Kwest

Songs from this Interview:

Outkast “13th Floor/ Growing Old”

Outkast “Hootie Hoo”

Common ft. Lauryn Hill “Retrospect for Life”

J. Cole “Lost Ones”

Little Brother “All For You”

Shaquille O’Neal “Biological Didn’t Bother”

Outkast “Church”

Eminem “Lose Yourself”

Wu-Tang “Triumph”

Verbal Kwest “Believers”

Verbal Kwest “Crazy Streets”

JM

Flow =

Tonight, while shuffling through my I Tunes I landed on Outkast’s classic “Aquemini.” It inspired a quick flow, I hope you enjoy it. I ended the track with a classic excerpt from one of my favorite movies, “Snatch.”

Be sure to sign up for soundcloud. Follow me JuiceAtomic. Click on the link below and then hit the orange “play” button on the left hand side.

https://soundcloud.com/justin-mccahren/lets-be-clear-by-juiceatomic

“Lets Be Clear” Lyrics>>>

Go ahead and step my way,

You Get bull-dozed.

7-11 Flow,

Son I never keep the pool closed.

Deep end shit,

Stays wet, but I’m in full clothes.

Looking like the 80′s,

With a snap back and some shell toes.

But you know I loved-

The Fila’s with the Velcro…

When I rocked a mullet,

Looking like a young SAMCRO.

Suplexing bitches,

Like Bam Bam Bigelow.

It was back then-

I realized I had a sickening flow.

The plot thickened though,

I had to take a different course.

Been writing since before-

Illmatic got five mics from the Source.

C’est la vie,

No regrets and no remorse.

Besides-

I still spit it with that Jedi force.

And I’m endorsing that-

Seven Zero Three..

If you don’t know,

You better wake up and smell the potpourri.

I’m just having fun man,

And that’s how it should be…

9 out of 10 medical doctors-

would have to agree…

I flee the scene scot free,

In a burgundy whip.

Juice Atomic,

Holstered up with a ball point at the hip.

They’re not equipped,

I grew up on Fife Dog and Q-Tip-

Rakim and Kool G Rap,

So I’m well-versed when I let it slip.

Still following the same manuscript.

After all these years.

And one thing’s stayed consistent-

I always persevere.

…And there isn’t one single lyricist,

In this entire world that I fear..

Lets Be Clear.

JUICEATOMIC

You’re probably accustomed to associating the name Tame Impala with summery psychedelic rock, but you probably didn’t expect to hear them like this today.

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Tame Impala drop by Triple j studios and cover ‘Prototype’ by Outkast. Watch as Kevin channels his inner Andre 3000 for Like A Version.

Yeah this is pretty darn awesome…so random but awesome.  And they also performed the stellar Lonerism jam “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” which can be watched below:

I do not own the rights to this video. This video is the property of Atlantic Records 2013

The crisis of black music today is not the content being racy. I say its that true creativity is dead. Gone are the days when black musicians took you on journeys through parallel universes and defied the laws of gravity through elaborate costumes and presentations. Today we are alive in the Zombiefied world of keeping too-real, which ironically is normally not real at all. Then we have Janelle Monae a breath of fresh air, an Oasis in a desert of Zombiefied thugs and unrepentant vulgar hootchie-mamas. She struts her stuff, sings and even out-raps most the people on B.E.T & M.T.V. Then to add to the already knockout punch that is this song, she recruits another black-exile, Miss Erykah Badu. This song is everything from Prince to Sly-Outkast.

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