Edan remix redeems this song. Link, mp3 (via)

As we’ve stated in the past, we strongly support net neutrality. Read Davey D’s article for reasons why. Link

Remember that lost, Paul C. produced, Jamaica Queens reppin’, Mikey D album that was found last year around this time? Well, it’s officially out now. If you’re looking for an album to cop this weekend, this is it.

TurntableLab Review with streaming audio
Press release via Unkut
Mikey D Mysp*ce Page with mp3s for download
Redline Music Distribution (edit July 1st - didn’t realize this site has snippets to stream also)

Peep this 3-part video interview with Method Man. It’s worth watching just for the words he expresses about Wendy Williams airing out of his wife’s medical condition. F*ck NY radio.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Video masher System D128 mixes DiVinci’s instrumental music with scenes from Ringu (the original japanese flick that inspired the semi-blockbuster the Ring). Link

29 hours of hip hop on WBAI in New York (99.5 FM) started last night and will continue through Saturday. In case you miss anything, WBAI archives their programming. link

7p-9p - Money Love - Then There Was “HIP HOP” - Pioneers of Hip Hop in discussion, guest include DJ Kool Herc, DJ Yoda, others to be announced. Expect to hear old school classics.

9p- 11p- B-boy Omega - The Originators - Old school music and
interview/discussion show with DJ Disco Wiz, Grandmaster Caz, and other special invited guest. This show features a pre - Sugar Hill Gang Discussion as well as old-school record mixes.

11p- 1a- Max Jerome - What New Jersey Makes Hip Hop Takes - Real Talk & True HipHop Culture With: NJ Legends Who Paved The Way. Special Guests Include: Das Efx, Mr. Len, Black 45, Hakim (Channel Live), Seven Shawn (World Renown), Do It All Aka Du Kelly (Lords Of The UnderGround), Beat Box Entertainment, Tame One, Wise Intelligent aka Timothy Taylor.

1a- 2am - MC Battle Competition - Real-HipHop.com MC competition with dialogue on Hip Hops most notable MC battles.

2a- 4am - DJ Showcase - World famous DJ’s The Wonder Twinz with the late night mix.

4a- 7am - Hip Hop Takeover back in the day - Clips of past Hip Hop marathons.

7a- 8am - Hip Hop Wake Up Call ( Saturday Edition)- Mitch Jeserich and Sujatha Fernandes.

8am- 10am - Ricochet - Prison Talk

10a - 12pm - Shannon - Sexuality - “Let’s talk about sex in Hip Hop” - Exploring sexuality in Hip Hop from its inception to present day expressed by the artist, lyrical content, music videos, and magazines. Guest include MC Lyte, Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary, author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, Michaela angela Davis of Essence Magazine, Kim Cooper, former managing editor of Source Magazine, former talent scout for BET, and current CEO of BG Unlimited, Inc, Maori Karmael Holmes, producer and director of the documentary, Scene Not Heard featuring Philadelphia women in hip hop.

12p - 2pm - Capital G!! - Gospel Hip Hop - “Spread the Word” - Examination of Hip Hop in the church. A compilation of Gospel Hip Hop music and talk.

2pm- 3pm - North Star - New Breed - Music of underground signed and unsigned artist.

3pm -4pm - North Star - Best of Premier - Best of producer DJ Premier

4pm - 5:30pm - Emskee and G Man - Golden Age of Hip Hop - “Bangin B-sides & Lost Nuggets” Golden Age of Hip Hop (1986-1995) - History and personal experiences of the Golden Age of Hip Hop. To play album cuts and B sides of artists.

5:30pm - 7pm - Jay Smooth - The Rise and Fall of the “Conscious Era”- A mix of music and interviews from the major figures of Hip Hop’s “conscious era” (1987-1991).

7pm - 8pm - MG & DJ Solo - “The Producers Show” - This show will focus on the production side of Hip Hop. Discussion on the inner workings and artistry of Hip Hop production. Industry guest and countdown of top 5 producers.8pm - 10pm - Mazi O - The Life and Death of 2 prophets of our Hip Hop Generation (Biggie & Tupac) - Music of the Notorious B.I.G. & 2Pac. Guest include Lil’ Cease, Rakim, Buckshot, & The Outlawz.

10pm - 12mid - Ife’ - Roundtable discussion with pioneers of Hip Hop and new school - Music and discussion with Hip Hop artist, producer’s, and DJ’s from Hip Hop culture to the politics of today’s society. Guest include DJ Red Alert, DJ Tony Tone of the Cold Crush Brothers, producer DR Period, The Wonder Twinz, and other special invited guest. Listener call ins for this show.

Stay Gold Gallery Presents OPEN AIR STREET ART or GRAFFITI with TIKI JAY ONE. Link, Stay Gold Gallery

Props to Tesko. Nice wallpaper. More here: link

This is the sh*t.

Download MF GRIMM - THE TREES

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Through this site you can make Snoop call anyone to let them know their breath is kickin’. It’s kind of funny. Especially if it’s your co-worker sitting next to you. By the way, Mr. Wrigley, I’ve never tried Orbit gum and I’m not going to proactively try it because of this ad. But thanks for the laugh.Link

I guess Buck65 does remember about rappin’ and making beats. He just made Language Arts Part 7 available for free download on his website. It’s on the same vein as the earlier projects in the series but seems slightly more lo-fi. I guess ’cause he’s less concerned about having to push it as an official album in the future, an album which he is already working on. He also released a new single called Temporarily In Love and a short documentary via Itunes Canada which I have yet to peep. But I have listened to this mixtape on some crappy headphones and I have to say, it’s soundin’ pretty freakin’ great. buck65.com, article, side 1.mp3, side 2.mp3

Strong Arm is a “mixtape” in the New York-style underground hip hop sense of the word… with a twist. None of the instrumentals are from hip hop records. The music comes from the worlds of punk, classical, folk, library music, everywhere else.
It was recorded in a day on a budget of $0 and it shows. This is a scrappy piece of work. There are loud vinyl pops, mistakes, vocal glitches… In other words, it’s very lo-fi. Considering the patch-work, collage-style assembly and that everything was done by me, by hand, in my bedroom, I’m calling this Language Arts Part 7.

The music runs down like this:

Side One:
-Intro (music: This Heat - Horizontal Hold)
-Dang! (music: Incredible Bongo Band - Let There Be Drums)
-Hole In The Road (music: Dub Specialist (Coxone Dodd) - Rastaman Version)
-What Grace Means (music: John Fahey - Sunflower River Blues)
-Don’t Belong (music: Trans Am - Firepoker)
-Suspect feat. Claire Berest (music: Sebastien Tellier - Trilogie Femme)

Side Two:
-Brace Yourself (words: Rev. Sister Mary Nelson - Judgement)
-F.O.S. (music: The Homosexuals - Snapshots of Nairobi)
-Old-Time Stuff (music: Gorecki - Olden Style Pieces II from the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
-B&W and Read All-Over (music: David Wescott - Passage Of The Red Sea)
-Full Blown (music: Six Finger Satellite - Pulling A Train)
-Cutthroat (music: Broadcast - Microtronics 02)
-The Old One-Two (music: Flowers/Morgan - Activity Three)

A few other notes…
- I think something like Hole In The Road puts this project into it’s proper context. Most people trace the roots of hip hop to Jamaica and the DJ who “toasted” over b-side dub versions of singles. That’s exactly what this is. It’s a following of that older tradition that pre-dates hip hop as we know it now.
- What Grace Means is a song for my new niece. It’s just for her.
- Suspect features Claire reading a nursery rhyme that comes from a
Canadian children’s book (from the Sixties, I think) called Garbage
Delight by Dennis Lee. A classic…

* WARNING - F.O.S. is an exorcism and contains strong language!

- The little spoken word clip at the beginning of The Ole One-Two
comes from a Charles Bukowski recording.

Enjoy.
Buck

For all you producers, Dante Ross and Scion are organizing a competition. Link

Haven’t heard the name Darc Mind for years. Last time probably was when I bought the Soul In The Hole soundtrack and I asked my friend, who the f*ck is Darc Mind? I think the producer, X-Ray, still runs mindbenda records. Peep the excerpt from the press release for more background. anticon.com

Download Darc Mind - Outside Looking In

Recorded from ‘95 to ‘97 for Loud/RCA (before Loud’s ignoble fall from grace), Darc Mind’s Symptomatic of a Greater Ill is a record almost without comparison in the history of NY rap. One could, at perhaps too great a length, detail Kevroc’s powerfully unique sense of timing, his nearly instrumental phrasing, and the density of his lyrics, the strange words he cobbles together and lets off in bursts in a voice that’s the lowest, Moses-fresh-from-the-mountaintop rumble. Like a shadowy take on DITC at its prime, a treasure chest of horns, vibes, and pianos are taken in, ruggedly reworked, and laid in with full-bodied basslines and chopped drum breaks. Darc Mind’s DJ/Producer GM Webb D (aka X-Ray) released his first rap record in ‘89, and in Symptomatic’s span, one can almost hear rap’s history and its future being willfully crosscut and interlaced.

Sample video from Hoodborn dvd with Thriston Howl spittin’ spanglish. Lots of video remixes on the site, I wonder when it’s coming out? Link

Better late than never. Please go out and support your favorite artists and they will support you. Don’t just be a spectator, participation is critical.

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Mekalek + Time Machine - Here It Is
Tim Dog + Ultramagnetic Mcs - Mind Games
Dabrye + AG - My Life
KrsOne - Still Slippin’
Lord Jamar + RZA - Deep Space
Dez + Nobs - Before
Mr Lif - Collapse
7L + Esoteric - Everywhere
Aloe Blacc - Whole World
Aceyalone + Abstract Rude - Deep and Wide
Royce + Qwel + Meaty Ogre - Heat
Bronze Nazareth - Hear What I Say
Ceschi - End Of Skies
Large Professor - The Break
Dom Pachino + Shyheim + Hasstyle - NY Monstas
Blockhead - Crashing Down
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Somewhat amusing satirical piece on what rap will be like without Cristal. I for one hope the boycott is a success. It would be a great show of power. Link

“It’s a real problem,” said the Yale musicology doctoral student. “The tripod that hip-hop music stands on is bling-bling, Cristal and women who are sexually attracted to guys with anger management issues. So by removing Cristal, you’ve essentially crippled 33.3 percent of rap music.”

Discussion with Hank Shocklee and Dj Spooky from an NYU conference on copyright and intellectual property. link