THE INBOXXX: "Five O" - Reese Chubbs

Welcome to The INBOXXX, a feature that hovers between peer review and ritual sacrifice. For today's installment we've tagged in DJ Multiple Sex Partners, live from Los Angeles, CA.



DJ Multiple Sex Partners: DUMP RECORDS?

Hump Jones: ...which stands for Do U Make Paper. No question mark. Still, it's kind of bluntly catchy for a label name. And as for "Reese Chubbs"...?

DJ MSP: ...yeah, that is a big fat win of a name. It's fun to say and it looks good on paper.

HJ: This video looks fucking great, though, props to Itchy House Films.

DJ MSP: Itchy House? These guys could just make up names all day if rap doesn't work out. Do U Make Paper Brand Consulting, LTD. I agree, Itchy House has some cinema chops, this is crisp.

HJ: That opening shot on the sidewalk right as Reese Chubbs starts yelling at us is great camerawork, looks like some big boom technique. This is definitely some movie-level production value, they did a lot of shooting for this.

DJ MSP: Love this dude's flow. Screaming, yet supremely laid-back. It's not really his flow, I guess, everyone is rapping like this in 2014 if they're not rapping like Mac Miller.

HJ: Yeah, Mystikal's Kids are winning everywhere, word to Stitches.

DJ MSP: Great boom work on this chase scene in the second verse, too. So many rap videos have the sheen, the slickness, of a professional film shoot, but you don't see this kind of technique. Itchy House is dope. Also, Reese Chubbs can run surprisingly fucking fast.

HJ: A video with a plot twist.

DJ MSP: Oh, I see, that wasn't Reese Chubbs at all. Man, I like saying Reese Chubbs. REESE CHUBBS WAS NOT RUNNING. REESE CHUBBS WAS ELSEWHERE.

HJ: Reese Chubbs was lamping in a luxury sedan watching this cop cold play himself.

DJ MSP: Man, you told me we were supposed to shit on people and all, but this was overall really good.

HJ: Well, we can shit on people, the option is there. I agree, though, this was a perfectly executed trap story.

DJ MSP: Well, motherfuck Joe Budden, then. There. I said it.

"Pale White Cutie Pie" - DJ Multiple Sex Partners

Since Sweaty Summer, the Ol' Dirty Russian has been seldom seen. That's probably a good thing in any language. Every year, though, World Around drops a new label compilation -- to the limited and laughable extent that what they do can be considered a "label" at all -- and Ivan Vilavonavich takes a break from his rollercoaster Hollywood life to dust off the MPC 1000 and get to work. The latest sculpture is this "Pale White Cutie Pie" jamalam, presumably inspired by, or dedicated to, Charlotte Stokely.

Word to Vault 46.

FRESH: Turntablism and LSD

"We take acid, drink OJ, and eat Subway sandwiches. And then scratch at two hundred beats per minute. Non-stop for eighteen hours. Subways, two hundred bpms, and acid. That's it."



From How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from WWII to Hip Hop by the extremely awesome Dave Tompkins:

DXT has made a living from this susurration. "That's why I'm here, I guess," he says with a weary smile. "I was the first to scratch that sound." DJ Disk, who trained on "Change the Beat," calls fresh the perfect freak accident. "We take acid, drink OJ, and eat Subway sandwiches. And then scratch at two hundred beats per minute. Non-stop for eighteen hours. Subways, two hundred bpms, and acid. That's it."



"When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light... and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns." - Mitch Hedberg