Video: Diamond District - A Capella Freestyle + “Gully”
Celebrating their recent release, the members of DMV’s luminary hip-hop trio Diamond District take fans back to their birth, re-introducing the track “Gully” off of emcee/producer Oddisee’s album Foot in the Door. This percussive, up-tempo track marks the first time that Oddissee, YU, and X.O. ever came together to create the signature sound that now defines this dynamic threesome. Oddissee’s grooving drum track and dragging, behind-the-beat melody underlie the three emcees as they take turns spitting their respective verses, creating the effortless chemistry that now is Diamond District. This track, released in 2006, was the beginning; the cornerstone to this group’s development. YU’s lyric says it all. “In a cocoon like a butterfly, before the wings, never thinking like a peasant, I was born a king.”
In addition to “Gully,” Diamond District recently recorded a video with all three showing their lyrical dexterity a cappella style, like true emcees do. XO and YU set off the cipher with strong deliveries and tongue twisting punch lines while Oddisee ends the session off with a scorcher, “I doubt they’ll ever cross over to the rap game so they rootin’ for me yellin’ cuz get a plaque mang, done and I don’t even want the rap fame, it’s a by-product when you always give a track flames, One.”
In The Ruff is available now.
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November 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
T2 is the shit.
^^
Top five action movie of all time.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
You should of left that Jay Electronica post up for 7 days
November 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
b-ease Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:29 am
did you see Terminator Sal or Transformers 2 in the theators?
^^
Yep, saw ‘em both on the first day. TRASH. Although T4 was slightly better than Transformers.
^^^
GI Joe was better then DaTwoADem.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
J-Hood was a pawn
Remy was a pawn
Beans isnt a pawn in this situation. This was just the planets lining up, a more than perfect situation for 50. And I really belive he wanted to sign beans years ago, after hearing how true the story beans told about being locked with 50 uncle and hearing 50 reply shows you that 50 wanted beans on his roster years ago
I really wanna hear beans on a track with 50, that shit would be so fucking dope.
LF: Broad street bully is a fucking crazy album (if you haven’t heard beans verses already, lol)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Yo Broadway Joe did you kill your friend yet?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Dude needs a shower [pause]
November 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Jay-Z just needs to come out and be like ‘I don’t care about Beanie Sigel, he can do whatever the fuck he wants now.’
Jay-Z has money to make.. he doesn’t have time to be messing with broke dudes.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Yo Broadway Joe did you kill your friend yet?
^
*cannon balls into and empty elevator shaft*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am
edit- an
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Total Recall > T2
just fact
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
# D_Bleek_4_Life Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Yo Broadway Joe did you kill your friend yet?
^
*cannon balls into and empty elevator shaft*
^^^
*spit-take* (Nh)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I mean it’s evident that if 50 wasn’t going at Hov that he wouldn’t be having Beans on the radio dissing Hov, becasue then what would be the motive? He is using Sigel as a piece in his going at Hov movement…is he not?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
TheCo!!inB Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Total Recall > T2
just fact
^
no-sign. But TR > T1
November 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
is that you completely either miss or dismiss the irony of saying A MOVIE ABOUT GIANT ROBOTS is nonsensical. Duh. Of course it is. It’s a movie…about GIANT ROBOTS. Also, if the one thing you recall from the film is 2 separate shots of dogs humping, you’re wired to pick out and magnify the bits you DIDN’T like, as opposed to someone like me, who saw it, chuckled, then concentrated on the rest of the stuff that there was to like: Cool fights, some funny dialogue, some good ol’ fashioned heroism, megan fox (repeats x 4), and the kinda movie that 8 year old me would’ve watched 652 times a year for 3 or 4 years.
^^
The first Transformers made complete sense. It had a plot that could be followed. So no, just because you make a movie about giant robots, it doesnt have to be nonsensical. As far as the dogs humping, it wasnt that that was the one scene that I thought sucked and let it ruin the movie. It was an example of the type of unentertaining nonsense that we were subjected to for the whole three hours. I could add the mom tripping on weed brownies, or the indentured servant at John Turtorros deli, but I thought you would have gotten my point without me pointing out ever individual shitty thing from the flick. Guess not. The fight in the forest was dope, admittedly, the rest were almost impossible to follow. Megan Fox is overrated. You’re still the e-homie tho, no homo, you just like shitty movies. Sall good.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
LF: Anybody up on the rap battle scene?
Did Math battle T-Rex yet? Heard it was suppose to go down on holloween.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
# TheCo!!inB Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Total Recall > T2
just fact
^^^
*in will ferrell voice*
“You’re fuckin’ high!”
November 4th, 2009 at 10:38 am
# TheCo!!inB Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
*daps feces for using Kanye “Thank You and You’re Welcome” quotes*
^^Actually that was a quote from Ja Rule..new schoolers may give credit to Kayne..i dunno…there’s nothing new under the sun
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Yo Broadway Joe did you kill your friend yet?
^
*cannon balls into and empty elevator shaft*
———–
*goes right behind D Brow with glorious swan dive*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
LOL @ B-Ease.. I’m just wired differently, Captain. I like what I wanna like, good or bad. You know what we can both agree on?
*searching*
*still searching*
*continues searching*
Well, you know, whatever.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
# TheCo!!inB Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Total Recall > T2
just fact
^^
Hmmmm…Total Recall is kind of slept on. And I never hear many people talk about how hilarious True Lies was on top of being a pretty dope action flick.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Furthermore, i know Sigel is dissing Hov on his own accord but 50 invited Beans to that show for 1 reason and 1 reason only…and that’s to use Beans in his grand scheme of things…and that’s how i basically feel…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’ve officially given up pork red meat and
white women… applaud me.*daps massive*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:40 am
# COCCA88CRAZY88SINCE88 Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:31 am
KingPoetic Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:29 am
# COCCA88CRAZY88SINCE88 Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:27 am
RIGZ Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Just cos 50’s trying capitalize off the situation doesnt make Beans a pawn…You lot need more chess lol
Does it make Beans eskay’s pawn because he capitalized by posting the audio…?
I dunno…maybe you lot just like the word pawn lol…but thats definitely the wrong word here. Unless you are implying that 50 set this whole thing up from the gate….
^^^
if BEANS was really tryin to make noise, hed go back to fuckin w/ Dame & do some Press release shit…
^^^
Comment fail. Haven’t you been listening?
^^^
naw, i dont give a shit what niggas be talkin about, its 10:30, im talkin shit so i can wake up & get on w/ my day. Truth.
^^
Lol I meant to Beans, but I can dig it
November 4th, 2009 at 10:40 am
You think “Diamond District” is one of those guys eskay “respects” but doesn’t listen to?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:40 am
don’t sleep, cause when you sleep you dreamin’
and while you dreamin’, your girl get pumped full of semen
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I’ve officially given up pork red meat and white women… applaud me.
*daps massive*
^^
Word? I thought you been off the swine?
*eats bacon*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Hmmmm…Total Recall is kind of slept on. And I never hear many people talk about how hilarious True Lies was on top of being a pretty dope action flick.
^
Arnie has a decent filmography when you look at it. The patronising action movie undertone in True Lies makes it a very good film
Plus i thought 6th day was a decent flick
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
D_Bleek_4_Life Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Furthermore, i know Sigel is dissing Hov on his own accord but 50 invited Beans to that show for 1 reason and 1 reason only…and that’s to use Beans in his grand scheme of things…and that’s how i basically feel…
^if Beans gets paid who gives a shit
$$$ > relationship with Hova
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Total Recall > T2
women with 3 titties > women with 2
see the logic there?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:41 am
T2 is the shyt.
^^
Top five action movie of all time.
——-
cosign
and whoever said Tatal recal is better than T2 can is out of there mind
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am
…nigga you small change, I only fucks with figaro chains
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am
TheCo!!inB Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:36 am
Total Recall > T2
just fact
^^^
Yea, u out your rabbit ass mind.
T2 > True Lies > running man > Conan 1&2 > Dolemite > Total Recall
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Rigz
I was speaking to my boy he came down from Canada over the weekend. Hes yard and he was telling me one of the reasons yardies don’t eat the box is because it’s like symbolic that they are bowing down to the women, like it’s a sgn of weakness. But he also said that a lot of yards do and deny it…
Truth?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:42 am
true story I smashed the chick in the Camay video. On my youngin.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
^if Beans gets paid who gives a shit
^
I suppose…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
@cOLD
the ghost song?
November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
dont sleep, cause when you sleep you dreamin
and while you dreamin, your girl get pumped full of semen
———
woooooooo, holup holup holup
November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
*Enters room wearing Harvard Baseball Cap and Sweat Shirt*
Hopes Beans got more the gas from 50. Sadly realizes that while I thought Beans was a General he’s just a Soldier. Prays that Ahki finds his own lane instead of forming with 50. Or maybe he can get with other Muslim Rappers.
Beans, Free, Lupe, Jay E , Mos Def with beats by Swizz Beats among others.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Word? I thought you been off the swine?
*eats bacon*
^ nah slowed down consumption, but just made it official…
yo the veggies that come in the steamable microwave bag>>>
November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Would 50 have Sigel on a radio show if this hov fiasco wasn’t happening?
^^^
Lets be serious D Block, everyone & their mother wants to interview Beans right now…50s on a promo run & happens to be a character in the story like it or not..
And Im willing to bet inbetween 2005 & now, 50 & Beans never ever stopped talking behind the scenes…
I just dont see where the “pawn” label comes from…50s just an opportunist that attaches himself to whatevers hot…nothing new on that front…I just dont believe he was talking reckless on account of 50 being there like some of you choose to…
If 50 aint controlling him, then PAWN as a word is non applicable. Language says so, not me lol
*shrugs*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Maybe it’s all an elaborate plan..
Beans goes with 50.. gets money.. goes back to Jay and disses 50 and makes 50 look like a fucking clown.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
a tribe called quest Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 am
@cOLD
the ghost song?
^ yessir.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
# cOLD Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’ve officially given up pork red meat and white women… applaud me.
*daps massive*
^
hey man.. please tell me how that goes… i been tryin to get off of pork for AGES… everytime i get 8 days in i fuck up and order a pizza…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
cOLD Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’ve officially given up pork red meat and white women… applaud me.
*daps massive*
^^^
Shit, my snowflake got me doin Yoga & eatin Tofu. i fuck 50% better then i have been in years, i feel like im 19 again. i could kick a horse in the ass right now.
(smacks snowy on her tannlined ass)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
LOL @ if Joe killed his friend. gem
November 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hes yard and he was telling me one of the reasons yardies don’t eat the box is because it’s like symbolic that they are bowing down to the women, like it’s a sgn of weakness.
^^^
Thats one of the reasons yeah, but not the only one, or the most important…
****************
But he also said that a lot of yards do and deny it…
^^^^
This is true…especially the ones that live outside of JA & aint deep rotted into their culture…& especially the ones that live in the US…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
If 50 aint controlling him, then PAWN as a word is non applicable. Language says so, not me lol
^
Checkmate.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
bacon > religious and moral fortitude
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hold up, you’re gonna give up pork? AND meat? AAAAND white women?
you’re crazy and stupid
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
@ B-Ease.. True Lies was awesome. Needed a sequel. The bit with the imposter agent (Bill Paxton) was great.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
@Rigz
D_Brow_4_Life Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Furthermore, i know Sigel is dissing Hov on his own accord but 50 invited Beans to that show for 1 reason and 1 reason only…and that’s to use Beans in his grand scheme of things…and that’s how i basically feel…
Rigz
I hear what your saying but the moment an individual uses another individual for for his benefit (especially when attacking another party) then to me that is being used as a pawn (or exploitation) in the grand scheme of things…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Remixznflow Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:45 am
# cOLD Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I’ve officially given up pork red meat and white women… applaud me.
*daps massive*
^
hey man.. please tell me how that goes… i been tryin to get off of pork for AGES… everytime i get 8 days in i fuck up and order a pizza…
^ on the reals, shout out to Nahright.com… but the last few times I ate pork I felt funny… so I only ate it once in a while, then not at all. The red meat is a different story, word to those white castle burgers. Anyway wifey been going hard on me about my health and what not… The beef Oxtail that I had on sat, sealed the deal. Shit had me leaning.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Eating the box >
November 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
a tribe called quest Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hold up, you’re gonna give up pork? AND meat? AAAAND white women?
you’re crazy and stupid
^^^
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
November 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
(EDIT)
a tribe called quest Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Eating the box of Lucky Charms >
November 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Maybe it’s all an elaborate plan..
Beans goes with 50.. gets money.. goes back to Jay and disses 50 and makes 50 look like a fucking clown.
^its obviously deeper than rap
November 4th, 2009 at 10:50 am
*agrees to disagree*
Daps
November 4th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hold up, you’re gonna give up pork? AND meat? AAAAND white women?
you’re crazy and stupid
^ as far as the white woman goes, wifey got some Euro blood, so that’ll never happen.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
a 1, 2… a 1, 2
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Not all women deserve to get their box eaten out. My rule is, if you got a fat pum pum or if we get competitive and were trying to fuck each others brains out.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
..oh and wifey of course
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Anthony Sowell = DMX cousin
November 4th, 2009 at 10:53 am
a 1, 2… a 1, 2
moderator, please …
November 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Bloomberg > Corzine.
what good is having Billions if u cant win relelections? Fuckin fool.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
^ as far as the white woman goes, wifey got some Euro blood, so that’ll never happen.
–lol mix women woooooooooo
November 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
*daps*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Eating the box >
^ sizzler.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Oh, and Beans is basically Tia here. 50 doesn’t give a shit about dude at all. Wanting to sign beans in ‘05 woulda been great, just ask M.O.P., Ma$e, Mobb Deep…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I want to go to atlanta one day and just fuck maaaad black chicks, i hear they have the jackpot of beatiful black women.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
*daps Farve*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
beat boxing > eat boxing
November 4th, 2009 at 10:56 am
*daps RJ landFAVRE*
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I’m not gonna front like a Beans/Banks/50 track wouldn’t be crazy either…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
In yard & some places in Africa, its seen as common knowledge that ingesting pussy juices has poisonous effects on the spirit…not even saying its true…Im jus saying….lol
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
If you want to see a hot black girl in NYC you have to A) live in downtown Manhattan B) hang out at the campuses C) Hit up a modeling agency
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Dammit…
Jay E is STILL on rotation…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Dang. Just checked the company calendar to see if we got Veteran’s Day off, saw we don’t, and then made the Cam True-Mag face. (nh)
November 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
a tribe called quest Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:55 am
I want to go to atlanta one day and just fuck maaaad black chicks, i hear they have the jackpot of beatiful black women.
^^^
gonna be hard 2 find “the jackpot of beatiful black women” down there, damn near all the niggas dress up in wigs & wear pumps, like bitches. Word ll ma$e Murda.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:58 am
^
ayo at myself…
November 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
D_Bleek_4_Life Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
I’m not gonna front like a Beans/Banks/50 track wouldn’t be crazy either…
^^^
Beans & Bank$, yea. 50 on it, no, he would fuck it up.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
gonna be hard 2 find “the jackpot of beatiful black women” down there, damn near all the niggas dress up in wigs & wear pumps, like bitches. Word ll ma$e Murda.
–You watch real housewives of atlanta too? lol
November 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
G-Unit is a rappers graveyard, Beans wouldn’t be any better off there than he was with Jay.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Jay aint gonne respond to Sigel, because Sigel knows Jayz’s dirtiest laundry … in fact, Sigel probably used to help Bleek do Jay’s dirty laundry… literally and figuratively …
Jay aint gonna say shit … waaaayyyyy too much face to lose … and its a fucked up face to begin with …
its all downhill from here for Jay… niggas know he’s at the end of his glory days as an MC, and their getting their shots in at the old man …
Jay better sit this one out, cause he has nothing to gain and everything to lose… Sigel knows too much …
November 4th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Eating the box >
^ sizzler.
^
Absolutely.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:01 am
i want to fuck Lisa from RHOA
November 4th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Jay aint gonna say shit … waaaayyyyy too much face to lose … and its a fucked up face to begin with …
^
*DEAD*
November 4th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Jay has been sitting them all out
November 4th, 2009 at 11:03 am
RIGZ Says:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:57 am
In yard & some places in Africa, its seen as common knowledge that ingesting pussy juices has poisonous effects on the spirit…not even saying its true
————
i been telling these folks that shit is bad for self esteem and even worse for the soul …
there are potentially unlawful demons and filthy curses involved in that type of frivolity … and at the least, grave health concerns …
November 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am
This nigga Jay has some how managed to get out the barrel. he’s yelling fux u crabs
November 4th, 2009 at 11:05 am
And honestly, people getting caught up in this loyalty thing or whatever.. Beans is known as Roc guy. He’ll get those diehard Roc fan sales, and that’s about it.
At this point, I’m guessing there are more Roc Stans than G-Unit stans in terms of diehards, so his career is gonna suffer. Why not just put out a f**king album whatever way he can, and get a Jay feature? Nooo, instead he does this asshurt “I thought we was brothers” shit.
I mean, weren’t these problems around when beans had his (terrible) ignorant shit verse? Or when jay did his feature on whatever beans’ last album was? C’mon, man…
(nh)
November 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am
A) live in downtown Manhattan
^just Manhattan in general, downtown sucks
November 4th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Roc stans= Jay-Z Stans… That shit didn’t carry over to the other artists, or they would have all went platinum, and we wouldn’t be having this discussion now.
G-Unit stans= choose a group member… people tend to choose which member they like or dislike, depending on musical tastes (or level of hate).
JihaD