A short ‘Love’s Gonna Getcha’ routine on the turntables from DJ Rasp
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Cypress Hill: Haunted Hill (Documentary), Directed by Myster DL for ILL Mannered Films. The Haunted Hill Documentary was filmed in one night in Boston, Massachusetts at the legendary House of Blues.
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Mass Appeal talk with Swizz Beatz for his episode of #TheStudioInterview “Is this artist prepared to do a party song tonight? Or should he just talk about a chick, ’cause he’s all emotional,” says Swizz Beatz…“It’s different levels to it.”
To what? Producing. The somewhat lost art that Swizz Beatz, born Kasseem Dean, has specialized in since he was 20 years old dishing beats to Jay-Z and DMX. It isn’t just about pairing drums with snares or dancing in the back of the videos. It’s a curation process that’s earned the Yonkers native millions of dollars, more plaques than he can count on two hands, and a reputation that stretches across the seven seas. We’ll be reminded of that pedigree when his first new album in over a decade, ‘Poison’, drops this Friday.
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Part 2 of the Styles P and Dave East Funk Flex Freestyle with new beats.
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It’s Episode 6 of Wordplay TV’s studio series, this time Nick Russell links with Gi3MO to chat about his new album ‘Big Gizzy Is Boss’ and life with Rum Committee.
Filmed by Eldraw & Shane O Edited by Eldraw & Shane O
Interview filmed at IQ Studios, London https://iqstudios.co.uk/
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The History of Gangster Rap – From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar, the Rise of a Great American Art Form by Soren Baker.
In the mid-1980s, Gangster Rap didn’t have a name; but virtually everyone who heard it realized its potency. Artists like Schoolly D, Ice-T, Boogie Down Productions, Eazy-E, and N.W.A had created a new style of Rap, one that contained graphic, x-rated stories of violence, drugs, and sex and served as first-person street reporting that recounted the violence ravaging Black, urban America at the time. From still-swirling conspiracy theories about the murders of Biggie and Tupac to the release of the 2015 film Straight Outta Compton, this era of Gangster Rap continues to fascinate music junkies and remain at the forefront of pop culture. The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into this compelling phenomenon from one of its most noted documenters, journalist Soren Baker.
“Respect to Soren Baker for documenting the history of Gangster Rap in these pages.” – Ice-T
Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of Gangster Rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. With a critical eye and insider’s perspective, Baker covers all the most important singles, albums, and projects, and reveals how their music led to the next generation of artists and the evolution of the genre. Filled with interviews with key players such as Snoop Dogg, Ice-T, and dozens more, as well as sidebars, breakout bios of notorious characters, lists, charts, and more, the book hones in on the story of the music itself. The History of Gangster Rap is the essential book that contextualizes the importance of Gangster Rap as a cultural phenomenon.
“History has so often been written by the victors that you very rarely ever get the real story behind anything. So it’s really important to hear from the people that were there which is exactly what Soren Baker shares in this book.” – The D.O.C
The History of Gangster Rap is available from https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/history-of-gangster-rap_9781419729157/
Be-troit is an exchange project between the cities of Berlin and Detroit during which 16 different artists (slam poetry, rap, singing, beatmaking) came together in Detroit in 2016 in order to unleash creative vibes resulting in creative outputs which far surpassed their wildest imaginations.
Through the different genres, styles, backgrounds, experiences, age and ethnic make up of the group this collective created a full length album in a time span of merely 10 days. Influenced by contemporary and historic happenings and trends in these two cities they found common ground and subject matters on which to work on. This film documents these 10 days and represents the visual priming coat for the album ‘Be-troit’.
A film by Philipp Halver
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Check out this footage of Dolby D freestyling over Sly Fader Track titled ZIA in Honour of a great friend.
King of the Cobbles Dolby D (London AllStars Crew)
CCC Click Clack Connection
The footage is from the dope Allcity TaxiTalk Show, a series where Hip Hop loving cabbie Steve interviews UK Hip Hop pioneers, Legends, Music Artists, Graffiti Artists, Producers, DJs, Beat Makers, Bboy and Bgirls, Beat Boxers, Street Artists from the UK and around the globe in the back of his London Black Cab
Check previous videos from the channel below. If you’re an ageing Hip Hop junkie like myself you’ll love it, if you’re of the younger generation you may learn something from the History and artists that paved the way for this thing called Hip Hop that we all love!
Here’s a few personal faves
Yo for real I’m such a Hip hop nerd I could post them all, go check out the channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd3lbMK4pciSMQqGkhOFn5w/videos
The legendary Poor Righteous Teachers join Tribeca-Grand for the heavy RBG Remix of ‘Take A Knee’, now streaming on all digital platforms http://smarturl.it/takrbg
‘Refuse2Kill’ by Lowkey was commissioned by Roundhouse with the brief for him to create a song and film about the anti-war movement in Britain during WW1. Check out the thought provoking track and visual as Lowkey tells us about those who stuck to their principles and morals and reject conformity by refusing to kill.
Check the new Lowkey EP ‘Unplugged, Vol. 1’ here https://lnk.to/UnpluggedVol1
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