Nas is always there for the people who grew up during the YO! era. We are the ones that are always talking about how hiphop sucks now or we wish it was like it was in 93′. Well, to wake us up and get us back into the game Nas has brought it right on time.
Read what smockingsection has to say and listen to the mix’s. “I want to commend hip hop for growing more mature in the last few months even as its crybabies ruled the airwaves with one beef stewing after another. Only a few months back, before HHID dropped, many of us openly questioned if the older generation of emcees were imperiled and outdated. Kingdom Come was a grown man’s album in a young man’s world. The same could be said about Hip Hop Is Dead, especially when all of those with stake in its current life starting bitching loudly about the proclamation of King Nasir. I say king here because he thrives on respect and admiration. 50 Cent is sort of the CEO of Hip Hop or the affirmative action grand dream realized. His riches have caused him to lose touch but he’s not at all fazed by it. Jay too is caught up in the mogul-guru splendor somewhat. Nas storms back into the scene like a bruised dictator steadily demanding more loyalty from the people he seeks to govern.”
Listen to his three mixes here.
80’s mix
90’s mix
West Coast Mix
Minus Prince and pads the Redbull BCone event that took place this past year had to be one of the most amazing displays of where bboyism has gone. In case you’re skeptical Redbull has been in the bboy realm for many years having Sponsored “Crazy Legs” and having many other battles including “Lords of the Floor and “Beat Riders”.
Now they’ve upped the ante again with this new event that can only be discribed as the B-boy super bowl. The presentation says it all and you can’t beat the action. It’s been going on for a couple of years now but take a look at how it goes down.
February 11, 2007
Filed under: Culture
Yup it’s time to get a new term into your musical vocab. RJD2 non for doing things his way sonically is not releasing his album in a way not done before as well. Check it out.
the PRE-mix, a unique opportunity for fans and music enthusiasts alike to work with the individual tracks that RJD2 uses on his song “Sweet Piece” off the forthcoming album XL Recordings release, The Third Hand (March 6, 2007).
Immediately available for download on IMEEM (http://rjd2premix.imeem.com/) are the .wav files and .snd files that comprise “Sweet Piece”. Rather than just uploading audio loops, RJD2 deconstructs each sample into single notes, as he explains, “Somebody brought up the idea of doing one of these re-mix things for a song, where you have all the parts of a song and you can move them around or whatever. These are cool, but where I always thought they failed was in the fact that all the parts would be broken down just as loops. This makes it hard to really get away from the basic vibe of the original song, for a few reasons. So I was thinking about how this could be improved upon, and realized there was an opportunity here. So now, you get to mess with these, you can see how somebody else would do with the same batch. When the record comes out you can see how it got put together and where it came from. Who knows; maybe all these versions are gonna sound the same. Maybe not. I hope not. I hope there’s a crunk version, a house version, a premiered out version, whatever.” IMEEM’s unique online capabilities allow participants to upload their versions of “Sweet Piece” to share with each other and the rest of the world. All posts are embeddable making their creations readily available to “post” on their personal sites or where ever they choose.
SACRAMENTO - The grapevine news posts:
So we heard Nino is a buddhist now, living in Nepal….Calvin has his own talk radio show in Nebraska….Martha and Malikka fulfilled their dreams of being backup singers/dancers at karaoke night at the Pine Cove….Jenny eloped with one of the ball boys from the Sacramento Kings…..and Julez, we heard that guy won the lottery in Atlanta and is in the process of buying the city of Sacramento to turn it into a parking garage.
We heard that PSol bought the rights to “Big Johnson” T-Shirts and lives in Beverly Hills with some brazillian girls.
We heard Planet is studying to be a cybornetic engineer so he can use computer, human, and household appliances to become the Ultimate Machine.
We heard Fooders has a baked good’s company strickely for pets and lives in Mexico with his many wifes. He is also the star of his own reality show.
When we hear more good rumors I’ll post them.
Yo, just thought we would share something we found out about late. We saw this YouTube post on 2hermano.com and figured we’d tell you about them and Epik in the same breath. Big ups to the homie Epik, keep it moving son.
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Yep Om is keeping it poppin with thier new hiphop lable (covered in issue 13 of THELEGEND magazine). check out the line up and gas up now.Â
If you are always looking for new art check out Chuck Anderson. His art is nuts and he’s done work for everyone from Nike to Royal Magazine. Check him out and support his art.
The No Pattern book.
