La The Darkman and Willie the Kid, who I think is his younger brother, come together for this nice track. Lots more joints on their new mixtape.

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Now I know what this myspace page I came across a while back is all about: myspace.com/daybydaycomics. Grimm is releasing a graphic novel through DC Comics. That’s such great news. Especially pleasing because I was listening to American Hunger this morning. If you don’t know, American Hunger is his triple cd that was just released and that sh*t is like whoa. Keep a look out for our upcoming audiocast where we’ll feature one or two tracks. Link

San Diego, CA, July 24, 2006: MF Grimm is writing a graphic novel based on his life story to be released on Vertigo (DC Comics) in 2007. The project titled Sentences: “The Life Of MF Grimm” was announced at the San Diego Comic Con this past Friday by Karen Berger, Senior Vice President of Vertigo with the illustration above previewed to the media and audience assembled. Illustrated by hot newcomer, Ronald Wimberly the project is an unflinching look into the life of underground hip hop legend Grimm from his youth until today.

NPR piece on Os Mutantes who just set off their first US tour. NY times article

Pioneering Brazilian band Os Mutantes will perform in this country for the first time. The group came to prominence in 1968, as part of the Tropicalia movement that polarized Brazil. The band got back together earlier this year, performing for the first time since 1978. link

Quick Q&A with Skateboard P, who also has a new HP Pavilion commercial. Link

I’m like extremely boutique, I’m a controlled, numbered edition, quality kinda person. Y’know what I’m sayin’? When it comes to, like, my gear, like Ice Cream and Billionaire Boys Club, or y’know, what I did for the sunglasses for Vuitton, I’m just kinda like, a boutique, exclusive kinda person.

3:24 Radio essay Mp3

4:38 Radio essay Mp3

via Prison Radio

audio essay by Mumia Abu-Jamal on hip hop music around the world

BCC’s new album has some dope joints. Our next audiocast is gonna have a crazy track called Here We Go produced by 9th Wonder. For now enjoy this video for Trading Places. (thanks spine)

Cover art to new busdriver single dropping september 26 on Epitaph Records - Kill Your Employer. Album, titled RoadKillOvercoat, probably getting released a few weeks later. Any chance we can we hurry it up a little? Link

Production on the record is masterfully tackled by L.A.’s own beat champion DJ Nobody (Plug Research, Ubiquity) and multi-instrumentalist/programming whiz, Boom-Bip (Lex). The songs themselves seamlessly leap from the inadvertent club-banger, “Kill Your Employer (Recreational Paranoia is the Sport of Now)”, accented with sneering criticisms towards the innocuous left-winger, all the way to the psychedelic onslaught of “Secret Skin” and it’s almost hokey optimism. This time around BD wields the pop song framework, beats it into submission and interjects his skittish sense of the absurd.

Article on popularity of rappers verses the artists behind the boards. Link

Plain jane article in the NYTimes about mixtapes and hiphop. Link

Surface Sincerity DVD/CD Project from Bomarr Monk. I like. Link (via)

Description: found footage with original music by the bomarr monk. if you enjoy the video, please purchase the dvd (with audio companion cd), available in the anticon online store thanks

Great article, by Ben Mcgrath for the New Yorker, investigates the details surrounding some of the recent violent incidents that have taken place at the Hot97 building. He focuses on rapper Gravy who gained attention for getting shot then playing it off so he could continue with his scheduled radio appearance with Flex. This essay is much more than a regurgitation of events though, Ben raises a lot of probing questions regarding HipHop and it’s portrayal in popular media. Link (thanks Sahil!)

One way to view the situation at 395 Hudson is as a kind of tribal struggle: Irish union men of the Old Guard bristling at the presumptuous ascendance of black hip-hop culture, and a changing set of social norms. The result is that black dignitaries affiliated with the radio station, like Busta Rhymes, enter the building through the mailroom, on Clarkson Street, while white political dignitaries courting the union, like Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer, arrive grandly through the glass doors on Hudson.

Trailer to Dead Prez Film: It’s Bigger Than HipHop. Link

Kool Herc and hipsters galore. RSVP, via waxpoetics

Anyone else see anything wrong with the way this (bolded) is written? Link

The other standout is Denis Hennelly and Casey Suchan’s Rock The Bells, which, though first and foremost is a concert film, is also as nail-biting as any Hollywood disaster movie. It follows the fortunes of promoter Chang Weisberg as he struggles to reunite famously dysfunctional hip-hop nine piece the Wu-Tang Clan for a one-off festival. The group haven’t performed together since a disastrous tour supporting Rage Against The Machine in 1997, which they pulled out of after three weeks. What’s more, Wu members such as RZA, Method Man and the idiosyncratic Ol’ Dirty Bastard either developed successful solo careers, developing their own individual egos in the process (see RZA), or died (RIP ODB), so to assemble them on stage would be an extraordinary coup.

Thwarting much of the speculation about his possible hook-up to G-Unit, G Rap has signed with the indie label Black Route Records in California. Expect the new album Uncontrolled Substance to be released later this year. (Didn’t Inspectah Deck already rock that album title?) source, koolgrapsite.com

Not nunchuck skillz, dj mixed-media type skillz. Impressive. Link, mikerelm.com (via)

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Cut Chemist - Metrorail Thru Space
Thom Yorke - The Clock
Dr. Octagon - Doctor Octagon
Prince Po - Mecheti Lightspeed
7l & Esoteric - L-L-Listen
Mobb Deep + 50cent - Nightmares
AZ + Dj Premier - The Format
Prolific vs. Zeale 32 - Scribble Jam
J Dilla - Over The Breaks
Dextah - Untitled Track 7
Bobby Outro

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