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DJ Premier visits the Kremlin during his recent trip to Moscow for a Boiler Room performance. Preem also speaks on all the places hip-hop has brought him and the rest of the Gang Starr Foundation; Guru, Group Home, Jeru the Damaja, and Big Shug.
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DJ Supreme was the legendary DJ/Producer behind the sick UK Hip Hop crew Hijack from back in the day, the Brixton native is back from sabbatical leave, talking on his upcoming Supreme Legacy EPs version 1.0 and 2.0.
As an ageing old skool head, slightly disappointed that there’ll be no Hijack reunion but man I’m HYPED for these projects coming from DJ Supreme
Pete Rock was raised in Mount Vernon, but his face belongs on Mount Rushmore. The Chocolate Boy Wonder perfected an art form, inspired millions, and sound tracked a generation. By contrast, Teddy Roosevelt seems like a chump.
This is the man who Dilla told, “I wanted to be like you.” Kanye once called himself the “new Pete Rock.” But the original Pete Rock remains permanently vital. The evidence bangs in his latest opus, ‘Petestrumentals 2’, the sequel to the 2001 classic that helped define the hip-hop instrumental record. It marks the legend’s first album on Mello Music Group, a fitting union between the author of the boom-bap blueprint and the label that’s expanded upon his legacy.
Describing Pete Rock’s productions do them little justice. They resonate in your gut, heart, and brain. The title of one of these beats says it all: “Makes Me Feel Like.” You fill in the blanks based on your personal experience and current mood.
‘Petestrumentals 2’ conjures memories of BBQ cookouts and 70s Blaxploitation scores, rattling summer jeep cruises and blunted Jamaican vacations. There’s a gorgeous requiem to Dilla (“Dilla Bounce (R.I.P),” where the originator pays tribute to the prodigy. You see the full range of Rock’s gifts on display: the meticulously chopped horns, unquantized drums, and air raid sirens. It contains the emotion of a thousand eulogies.
No record can’t be resurrected. There’s no sub-genre or era that can’t be converted into Rock’s singular brand of soul. His music is the closest thing we’ll ever get to a time-traveling DeLorean, effortlessly shifting between past, present, and future.
For the last 20 years, hip-hop heads have argued over the best Pete Rock original productions and remixes. Is it “They Reminisce Over You” or the “Shut ‘Em Down Remix?” Do you prefer Soul Survivor or the first Petestrumentals, his work with INI or the UN? His catalogue can’t be compressed into a bio; you need a book.
This is the latest chapter—an even 20 slaps and rhythmic levitations. It’s Pete Rock at his best, accelerating and kicking cosmic slop, extending wishes, hope, love, gritty drums and eternal wonder.
From the upcoming album “Petestrumentals 2″coming on Mello Music Group June 23, 2015. Video Directed by Jay Brown & Zack Kashkett
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VIRUS SYNDICATE X DOPE D.O.D. – ‘Beast Mode’, taken from ‘Battle Royal’ dropping 4 May – preorder here: http://hyperurl.co/VSDopeBattleRoyal
The UK’s seriously talented turntabilist DJ Woody decided to flip his favourite track from the recent D’Angelo LP.
Controller One x Dicers x Rane SixtyTwo = endless possibilies!
Afrika Bambaataa recently chopped it up with VladTV and discussed violence in Rap and how it has gotten progressively worse over the years. “People think you must attack each other to be in Hip-Hop,” he states in this exclusive interview.
The former Black Spades gang member (who was known to be the one who could bring both peace and war) feels that the industry is directed by “mind control,” and that there’s no balance in today’s music. In this interview Afrika calls out the program directors who only play negative music and people who still use the n-word in casual conversation. “I’m not crazy about it,” says Bambaataa. “Too many people die for that word.”
Afrika Bambaataa also had this to say about people who put up video footage of violence on social media: “That’s not keeping it real, that’s being crazy as hell.” Bambaataa feels that in the end, it will be the next generation who will suffer the consequences of our actions. “You’re not caring about the young ones who see this that might copy and follow in those footsteps.”
See what else Bambaataa had to say about staged fame, the Black Spades and the beef between Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj in this exclusive clip.
Legendary UK rapper Life MC gives us some fire with an exclusive unreleased verse, produced by DJ Nappa.
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Heavy track from Paul, Jordan & Thomas aka VVV
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