J.Period & “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels (Video Music Box, The Bridge) bring Biggie back to life with the “March 9: Video Remix Collection”—a collection of exclusive B.I.G. remixes set to classic videos, in honor of the 13th Anniversary of B.I.G.’s untimely passing. “Flava in Ya Ear (March 9 Video Remix)” marks the first release, a club-shattering blend of old and new that begs the question: where would hip hop be if B.I.G. were still alive!? Tune into jperiod.com/march9 to view more “March 9: Video Remixes”
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Posted on March 9th, 2010
Taken from a Swedish? documentary, Jay-Z and the 45 King speak about the creation of “Hard Knock Life”. There’s a little cameo by Kid Capri as well. This was my first time ever seeing 45 King talk and spin in real life. Very cool interview. In related Jay-Z news, there is a vid of Jay and Bun B doing “Big Pimpin” on his BP3 tour stop in Houston. Pretty Cool. Via NR. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted on February 24th, 2010
Part 2 of Stussy’s Dilla Documentary. This part focuses a lot on Dilla’s move to LA and how it changed his sound. I definitely could empathize when Houseshoes mentions that floods make you want to start over and how Detroit sucks the life out of you. Cool thing I learned was the generational connections of musicians from Detroit to LA over the decades. I’ll post Part 3 soon.
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Posted on February 24th, 2010
Khalid of The Smoking Section got a chance to sit down with the real Avon Barksdale who described his portrayal on The Wire. As expected, this is “his” side of the story. I think the part where they talk about rappers taking famous druglords name is pretty comical. Check the interview after the jump. Props to TSS crew for this one.
“Stussy produced a three part documentary series about J Dilla’s life in Los Angeles that they’ll be releasing every week. They just threw up part 1 of the documentary on their site, along with the accompanying pictures to go along with it.
They’re releasing part 2 (”Detroit to Los Angeles”) on next Wednesday and then part 3 (”Donuts”) on the Wednesday after that.”
Has HouseShouse, PBWolf, Rhettmatic, J. Rocc and many other people you should respect.
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Posted on February 17th, 2010
The homies from Toronto have made it to Hip-Hop Official. A really good interview from these guys. I’m proud of them! Tune looks sober, Matisse, looks happy, and Flo looks like he shaped up the beard for the interview. They are currently working with a few dope MCs and new remixes that will hopefully come out later this year. In the meantime, get to Canada and watch them wreck shop!
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Posted on January 14th, 2010
As sole member of the Committee to Approve of Star Wars Burlesque Shows, I send this event to the KTL public vote: “Yeah” for Approval or “Hell No!” for Disapproval. Bordello in LA put in a Burlesque show with females donning the iconic images of our favorite Star Wars characters. Boba Fett, Darth Vader, C3Po and more after the jump. I REALLY want to hear your opinions on this one. I know its 2 weird posts in a row. I promise I’ll get back to hip-hop after this one.
Wu’s own DJ & Producer, Mathematics, put together an album of self-produced beats featuring the whole Wu and dope line-up. Check it out here. The Clap 2010 is dope beat w/ Rae showing some tenacity with his flow. Not a classic but something to keep your mouth watering for that Wu-Massacre album. Don’t worr, U-God has very little to say on this joint. He doesn’t ruin it. I know what you were thinking because I thought it, too.
Ivan Rott from HHIR has a guest blogging spot at one of my favorite sites, Daily Mathematics. Ivan has a cohesive and enticing write-up on the book, Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. (By The way, shouldn’t be just an apostrophe? Grammar nerd, please comment.) I am going to give you the link here and encourage you to visit the site. If I can muster up the funds, I am gonna buy 2 copies – 1 for me and 1 for JGILLA. Enjoy!
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Posted on January 8th, 2010
