Seems like more of a Jungle Brothers show than a Native Tongues reunion but I can dream right? Music by none other than Kool DJ Red Alert. link

Casual would probably agree. Dj Premier? Maybe, although he won’t say it in front of his parents.

Cold Crush Brothers

Natural Elements

Ras Kass

Craig G

Hakim

Kurious

Artifacts

peace to Crazy Al Cayne

Last Sunday @ EOW, video by Ka5p.

Kinda hurt that Ming & Chris didn’t bring anything back for me. I really wanted to taste that chris brown cornbread.

This was an AWESOME event, we had a great crowd full of wonderful people of all sorts of backgrounds with the common thread being HIP HOP!
The food was great but nothing could compare to the VIBE and LOVE that was flowing throughout wineLIFE that night.
I’d like to take this moment to thank a few folks that made this possible.
Artina Sharpton – Qp doll event planning
Chef Shehu / Vee Fitzgerald – wineLIFE
Verb – Stars of WWW (video)
Wakeem / Smoke – Brothers Care inc.
Serena Mohammad – YTG
Hakim Green
DJ Green Arrow
Smoove the Great – PEMG/ Team G money S.I.
Shakara / Jenice – The Get ‘em Girls
DJ Immortal Monk / Carlos – Dano Radio Crew
DJ Dano
UNO the Prophet

I would also like to especially thank Culture Freedom and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers for not only engaging me in the promotion of this event … but mainly for being such great sports and visionaries .. certainly without yall this wouldn’t have happened!!

Straight up clownin in this video!

Aight so some of you saw the one or two parts of that video that Culture freedom had of himself cooking. Some of you are just getting hip to what’s going on understandibly .. but understand this: NYOIL is the IRON CHEF.. now I called out Wise Intelligent, He hid behind Culture Freedom.. I called Out Culture, These cats are DUCKING ME FAM..
We set the date, Sat. December 12th 2009 @ wineLIFE located at 386 VanDuzer Street SI. NY 10304. I’ve got my dude DMC coming, DJ Johnny Juice, Roxanne Shante, Tone Crush, I got the outreach programs coming.. I got the community leaders coming out.. I got the people coming out.. We helping to get the sisters business off the ground.. and where are these cats at?? acting like they don’t know what it is!
Hakim Green (Channel Live) flew in from Florida for his ass kicking, Jamarhl (UNO the Prophet) Crawford is driving down from Boston for his ass whupping, DJ Green ARROW is ready for that ass whupping, the Get ‘em Girls is ready for they spanking, now why you hiding Culture?? why u hiding??

Peep the first video here. link

This is the 3rd series I’ve come across with cats spittin in whips, from Dollars Vans to Phantoms?

Crazy Al Cayne is behind this one, gangsta!

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Wednesday October 22, 2008

Presented By: Ghetto Metal & CMJ

Artists: WITH IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE DEAD PREZ BAZAAR ROYALE RUFF RYDER DRAG ON, M16 AND MORE…

Doors: 8pm

Age: 18+

Studio B
259 Banker St. (Btwn Meserole Ave. & Calyer St.)
Brooklyn, NY 11222

The Video Music Box 25th Anniversary Show was a historic event. The artists either performing or in attendance was a virtual who’s who of Hip-Hop aristocracy (partial list below). The whole concert lasted about three hours with 10-15 minute sets for each act, which meant a steady stream of classic material. If you couldn’t make it to the show and want to get a sense of what tracks were performed, just throw on your best of 80s and 90s hip-hop mixtapes.

I gotta give props to Ralph McDaniels and crew for a few things that added to the show’s success. One is keeping the event so organized. Even with the hustle and bustle of artists continuously going on and off stage, everything ran smoothly. Also, the set lengths. There was always enough entertainment throughout the night to keep the crowd involved and on their toes. Of course, major props are due for the line up. Honestly, when was the last time you heard Spoonie Gee, Schoolly D or Milk Dee rock the mic? Let alone at the same free event! Throw on the fact that none of the artists who hit the stage got paid a cent. They all did it out of love and respect for Uncle Ralph and Video Music Box. Hip-Hop unity at its finest.

Obviously, there are plenty of highlights I could run through like Ralph showing off his DJ Clark Kent designed Air Force One’s made specifically for the anniversary. Or July 18th being officially declared Video Music Box Day by Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson. However, the livest part of the whole show was when the Sugar Hill Gang hit the stage to the tune of Rapper’s Delight. By now, most of us should know the back story behind Big Hank’s verse. After Wonder Mike finished up, I wondered how the crowd would react to Hank’s part of the song. The answer was that they didn’t get a chance to because Grandmaster Caz suddenly ran onto the stage and started spitting the rhymes! The icing on the cake was when Rahiem and Mele Mel of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five joined everybody up there. Amazing.

Big ups to Ralph for being the first and putting in 25 years of hard work. And here’s to another 25+! I got video footage for most of the sets but until those are edited and uploaded onto our youtube channel, check out some pictures I snapped in between recordings (after the jump).

Sugar Hill Gang
Grandmaster Caz
Rahiem
Mele Mel
Lovebug Starski
Crash Crew
Chubb Rock
Naughty By Nature
Nice & Smooth
Special Ed
Milk Dee
Spoonie Gee
Schoolly D
Dana Dane
DJ Jazzy Joyce
O.C.
A.G.
Fab 5 Freddy
Kool Herc
Awesome 2
Mr. Cheeks
Kool DJ Red Alert
Large Professor
Dres
Hakim (of Channel Live)

Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Caz, Rahiem and Mele Mel

Special K

Smooth B

Ralph McDaniels and Kool Herc

Ralph McDaniels

Rahiem

Naughty By Nature

Mele Mel

Kool DJ Red Alert

Greg Nice

Greg Nice

Grandmaster Caz and Rahiem

DJ Jazzy Joyce

Dana Dane

Chubb Rock

Just want to take a moment to send a huge shout out to Ming for holding it down with the live video footage. If you ain’t know, he’s a regular at shows and he recently acquired an external mic so he’s been syncing some nice audio. Dope.

Thursday, Apr 17, 2008 // DOORS 8:00 PM
ADV $14 // DOS $17

Knitting Factory – New York
74 Leonard Street
New York, NY 10013

Hakim (from Channel Live) Freestyle Live


KRS-One & Hakim (of Channel Live) Acapella Live

Yes, yes, a new exclusive joint by Hakim of Channel Live courtesy of Sit Down Stand Up. Supposed to be from his upcoming album, A Revolution Televised. The track is titled Hip-Hop Nation. You might have noticed we’re Hakim fans over here, but if you missed it, here’s a performance recorded live @ Southpaw on 12/7/06. You can visit Channel Live’s mysp*ce page for more videos recorded by our very own Ming-Tzu. Link (via Sit Down Stand Up)