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Friday, January 09, 2009
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Scarface- High Note (Video) Produced by Jake One **NSFW**
I'm sorta late on this one, but I had to represent for the town, Jake freaks the track and Face comes correct (pause).
Don't watch this at work/in public/with chill'rens, I warned you.
OLDOMINION 10TH ANNIVERSARY!
Word direct from Barfly Da God:
On Saturday January 31st Seattle will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Oldominion crew with an all ages show at The Vera Project that afternoon, a live radio performance by Nite Owls on 90.3 KEXP and a 21+ show at Neumo's later that night.
The Vera Project
4pm doors (Admission TBA - not more than $5, possibly free)
Oldominion 10th Anniversary
Oldominion
Dim Mak
Suicide Riots
Nite Owls
DJ Mr. Hill
KEXP 90.3fm and KEXP.COM
6-7pm Nite Owls live in studio set and interview.
Neumos
8pm doors - $10 adv tix
Oldominion 10th Anniversary
Oldominion
The Saturday Knights
Grayskul
DJ Mr. Hill
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Joe Budden Vs. DJ Vlad (The Journalist)
Joe Budden climbs up my "smartest" rappers list by the day.
Hey Lar, Vlad is your colleague.
Common Market - "Tobacco And Snow Covered Roads"
Oh shit- it's the "Roxanne's Revenge" to the Scholar's "Coffee & Snow". It's on now! Is the Duranged Pitt remix far behind?
Inverse - SO TRUE EP - Free Download!
Inverse! I fucks with these cats- and so should you.
Had the good fortune to rock with them in their (and my) hometown of LA, well Pomona in this case. It was a weird utility room @ Pitzer College with a free keg, and it was a damn good time. Some kids knew about Seattle hiphop, some girls talked to Grynch (who blew it) and somebody had "Sagaba"as their ringtone.
And Inverse killed it. I kinda feel like they're lost cousins of Seattle hiphop- their soulful head-to-the-sky, perseverance-rap sounds to me like it could be straight out of the 206. Hell, our own DJ Hyphen, he of the awesome Audacity Of Dope and the one and only Sunday Night Sound Session, is their former DJ (and like them, a Pitzer alum). Of course, their sound benefits from the sunshine that lacks in our own diets up here (we instead have to get our Vitamin D from The Pharmacy), giving their vibe a top-down breeziness that's hard to cultivate anywhere but Cali.
Whatever the case, this town loves them, even if they don't even realize it yet. Well- consider this your chance, Seatown!
INVERSE - SO TRUE EP
If you find this to your liking, be sure and see Inverse rock @ Chop Suey on 1/17.
Had the good fortune to rock with them in their (and my) hometown of LA, well Pomona in this case. It was a weird utility room @ Pitzer College with a free keg, and it was a damn good time. Some kids knew about Seattle hiphop, some girls talked to Grynch (who blew it) and somebody had "Sagaba"as their ringtone.
And Inverse killed it. I kinda feel like they're lost cousins of Seattle hiphop- their soulful head-to-the-sky, perseverance-rap sounds to me like it could be straight out of the 206. Hell, our own DJ Hyphen, he of the awesome Audacity Of Dope and the one and only Sunday Night Sound Session, is their former DJ (and like them, a Pitzer alum). Of course, their sound benefits from the sunshine that lacks in our own diets up here (we instead have to get our Vitamin D from The Pharmacy), giving their vibe a top-down breeziness that's hard to cultivate anywhere but Cali.
Whatever the case, this town loves them, even if they don't even realize it yet. Well- consider this your chance, Seatown!
INVERSE - SO TRUE EP
If you find this to your liking, be sure and see Inverse rock @ Chop Suey on 1/17.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
FREE R&B MIXTAPES FROM DJBLESONE!
don't sleep on these Soul Shot tapes, they are quite fire- here's a message from my ace boon cracka Bles:
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Mic Phenom - "Like Ohh" Video
Mic Phonem- Like Ohhh from wes goodlife on Vimeo.
Quickie nobudget vid by Wes Goodlife. Mic's spitting here though.
Phenom recently moved back to Michigan, which is too bad, as dude's very talented and was just seeming to get his thing rolling here again; hopefully a fresh start is what he needs to get his shit out there. I definitely have seen him beat a few cats' ego bad in battles- i vividly remember him telling a clown in yellow camo that he looked like he was "hiding in a banana tree"- but i think he can make good music, my dude just gotta drop something. The Day The Earth Stood Still hopefully coming soon!
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
BILLY THE FRIDGE "A NEW HOPE"
Another bit of battered, fried, and frosted gold from The Fridge. Gotta fucken love this guy.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Freeway's Entire Month of Madness
Download all 32 (there's a bonus track) songs!!
OnSmash is on point for this one, catch up if you've been sleeping
Black, white, straight, gay, Kanye in 2008
I played the new Kanye to a friend, and his first remark was how white it sounded. His second was how it ripped off Italo Disco, specifically Telex.
Kanye Paranoid 2008
Telex Moskow Discow 1978
Kanye is too white to be black, too black to be white, and his genius is using media to be a hero for both groups.
He's black because he can say the Nas word and talk about how big Tracee Ross' ass is (shout out to Girlfriends, the show that brought together Saul Williams and Kelsey Grammer) and because he said George Bush doesn't care about black people, and etc. He's white because he's metrosexual and likes Euro dance music, some of which has roots in the homosexual community. In 2008, he maintained his blackness by rapping on "Put On" and "Go Hard" and maintained his whiteness by releasing 808s & Heartbreak, an emo Euro dance album. Both black and white offerings were artistically relevant.
Is there a problem with ripping off gay disco in 2008? Not for whites around here who are into Chromatics and Glass Candy, Portland groups that, like Kanye, ably steal from Italo Disco, but, unlike Kanye, aren't Madonna-famous.
But what about American whites in general? American blacks in general? What about people outside the Pac NW American Apparel region? People who didn't know they were wanting to hear more gay-ish disco? After all, I think Russell Banks had it right here:
"Using the most popular medium without seeking the endorsement of the audience is always courageous and difficult, and often destroys your career."
Surprisingly, the backlash wasn't bad, and neither was the blacklash. Whites liked the black stuff, blacks liked the white stuff, and everybody, consciously or not, got more into disco.
What does it mean? IDK. Maybe nothing more than, as my friend pointed out, Joe Budden now raps homophobia over gay beats.
Kanye Paranoid 2008
Telex Moskow Discow 1978
Kanye is too white to be black, too black to be white, and his genius is using media to be a hero for both groups.
He's black because he can say the Nas word and talk about how big Tracee Ross' ass is (shout out to Girlfriends, the show that brought together Saul Williams and Kelsey Grammer) and because he said George Bush doesn't care about black people, and etc. He's white because he's metrosexual and likes Euro dance music, some of which has roots in the homosexual community. In 2008, he maintained his blackness by rapping on "Put On" and "Go Hard" and maintained his whiteness by releasing 808s & Heartbreak, an emo Euro dance album. Both black and white offerings were artistically relevant.
Is there a problem with ripping off gay disco in 2008? Not for whites around here who are into Chromatics and Glass Candy, Portland groups that, like Kanye, ably steal from Italo Disco, but, unlike Kanye, aren't Madonna-famous.
But what about American whites in general? American blacks in general? What about people outside the Pac NW American Apparel region? People who didn't know they were wanting to hear more gay-ish disco? After all, I think Russell Banks had it right here:
"Using the most popular medium without seeking the endorsement of the audience is always courageous and difficult, and often destroys your career."
Surprisingly, the backlash wasn't bad, and neither was the blacklash. Whites liked the black stuff, blacks liked the white stuff, and everybody, consciously or not, got more into disco.
What does it mean? IDK. Maybe nothing more than, as my friend pointed out, Joe Budden now raps homophobia over gay beats.
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