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WBAI’s Hip Hop TakeOver is a yearly radio event that airs in New York on 99.5 FM, WBAI. With music from known to unknown Hip Hop artists, old to new school, interviews & commentary. (more…)
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Come Back Home’ is in the vein of Common’s ‘I Used To Love H.E.R.’, and perhaps skewed a bit to my perspective.
It speaks of the want for a more sincere meaningful hip-hop, but attests the willingness to accept what it’s become and move forward.” ~Dres of Black Sheep
19 years after they released the classic “The Choice is Yours” Black Sheep is back with a new album called From The Black Pool Of Genius. Can you believe it’s been that long? Was I not supposed to mention that so young people can be interested in them? If young folks don’t care about Black Sheep from ’91 I think it’s their loss cause “The Choice is Yours” and more are still dope. (more…)
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Peace to DJ3D for giving Rasheed Chappell’s song “Building 8″ a spin on Underground Railroad. It’s dark, Golden Era, Tri-State soundscape matches Chappell’s political and Five Percenter references. I got the chance to chop it up with it’s creator who explained “Building 8″ isn’t a place at all. Download below the jump. (more…)
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UPDATE: DJPremierBlog posted this on Twitter:
Everybody who loves Guru,sign online register and spread it,i don’t care how famous you are,thank you http://bit.ly/ct1BW3
43 year old rapper Guru died Monday of cancer related complications. The rap legend recently suffered a cardiac arrest in February then slipped into a coma.
Gang Starr was formed in 1985 with Guru and DJ Premier. The two went on to make Hip Hop history with songs like “Words I Manifest” and one of my more recent favorites “Dwyck”.
I grew up listening to these guys and this is a sad day for me and other true Hip Hop fans, particularly based on the circumstances surrounding his death.
According to MTV.com Gang Starr has a falling out, which we all knew about. I guess the falling out was so bad Guru, born Keith Elam, allegedly, specifically left word he didn’t want DJ Premier “to be able to participate in any tributes or events surrounding his death.”
That letter is painful to read as a fan but if you’d like to you can at MTV.com
Here is the tribute DJ 3D and DJ C-Reality did as a tribute to Guru while he was alive, back when we hoped our positive energy would help the Hip Hop star get through. This mix is truly heartfelt
Free Download: Gang Starr/Guru Tribute Mix from DJ C-Reality & DJ3D
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As I wrote before The Source magazine (“The bible of Hip Hop music, culture and politics”) has put out a “green” issue that’s on stands now. I set out to find out what was so green about it. That involved me getting my hands dirty and actually buying the magazine.
That’s right I bought it and I think this was the first time in my life I ever did that. People always gave me their Source’s for free which was unintentionally eco conscious I guess. This green issue was of particular interest for me so here’s what I learned. (more…)
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Main Entry: sim·u·la·crum
Pronunciation: \ˌsim-yə-ˈla-krəm, -ˈlā-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from simulare
1 : image, representation
2 : an insubstantial form or semblance of something : trace
Recently I was on Twitter when I saw this tweet from prolific twitterer and DJ for the legendary Hip Hop group EPMD @drscratch.
sofreshsogreen’s reply:
I was womaning the sofreshsogreen twitter account that day and I knew at the time I could do better than that answer. Maybe not in 140 characters though so here goes.
In 5 years Hip Hop will be the same as it is now only younger with less powerful statements being made to illuminate the Black or the human experience. Oh yeah, there will be lots of bright colors too.
I think even further in the future we can have rap without rappers. (more…)
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Kid Cudi has teamed up with vitaminwater to sell you a dream. The dream is that vitaminwater is actually healthy, so healthy it could help you beat the common cold, for which there is no cure as far as I know.
Also girls will not you more, not just cause you’re not sick but because they won’t have to take care of you while you’re sick. Way to be self sufficient guys.
The campaign is called “Strong Man” and no I didn’t make that up. The commercial features the music of Kid Cudi and I admit I was a bit disappointed that Cudi wasn’t in the commercial holding a bottle of colored water and trying to break dance without spilling it. (more…)
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I became diabetic in May of 1990. It’s hereditary.
My moms is diabetic but even growing up seeing her having to take insulin shots and things of that nature, I didn’t take heed because I was still waking up to a glass of Quik, you know what I’m saying?
Oreo cookies for breakfast, just stupid shit. It didn’t make it any better that we were on the road performing, eating KFC, McDonalds, shit like that and I was going hard when we was younger…
We did Low End. We did Midnight, Beats, Rhymes, The Love Movement, all of that but I wasn’t always taking care of myself and it finally caught up to me when we broke up. ~Phife
Phife of the legendary Hip Hop group A Tribe called Quest has recently had an interview with okayplayer.com where he opened up about his struggle with diabetes. (more…)
