ProbCause | Pale Moonlight (Live at Lincoln Hall 2015)
Check out the live version of Pale Moonlight featuring ProbCause, Cofresi, KSRA, KAT V and Charlie Coffeen of Sidewalk Chalk. Live at Lincoln Hall 2015.
Action Bronson ft. Chance The Rapper | Baby Blue | Official Music Video YTMAs
The new music video for Baby Blue by Action Bronson featuring Chance The Rapper directed by Lil Chris off "Mr. Wonderful" presented by the 2015 YouTube Music Awards. #YTMA
Exclusive screen printed posters featuring the “Terry," "Actin Crazy,” “Easy Rider” and “Mr. Wonderful” cover art now available. Check them out: http://store.warnermusic.com/action-b...
Dwayne Bacon won the 2015 Powerade Dunk Contest (MCDAAG) tonight in Chicago. His final dunk was over ESPN's Jalen Rose. Bacon won over Stephen Zimmerman, Carlton Bragg, Perry Dozier & Kristine Anigwe.
This is the twenty-third in a series of vignettes that will feature everyone interviewed by Midway: The Story of Chicago Hip-Hop, leading up to the release of the film in 2017.
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Record Store Day special edition vinyl from Mr Brown, limited to 250 copies. Originally only available as a free digital download via Mr Brown's Bandcamp. On Record Store Day (18th of April 2015) it will be available on wax with 2 exclusive bonus joints.
Live Right Now | Home: A Celebration of Chicago, I
The first of our Chicago double-header brings together house pioneers with contemporary figureheads, broadcast from one of the city's oldest and most beloved institutions (which we're keeping secret for now!). Gene Farris, DJ Hyperactive, The Black Madonna, Jamie 3:26, Mike Dunn and Andrew Emil aka Change Request will all play across the day with some bonus surprises to come.
For information about the Official Tribute to Frankie Knuckles the following day, head here.
You can donate to the Frankie Knuckles Foundation below.
Since launching in summer 2013, DJcityTV's "Bedroom Sessions" has featured DJs from North America, Europe and Asia. Today, the series travels to Africa for the first time, where South Africa's DJ Shameless throws down a brief yet entertaining mix that's heavy on tone play. The Durban native is an experienced party rocker and battle DJ, and his three-and-a-half-minute session showcases both of these styles.
DJcity recognizes there’s a ton of dope DJs from around the world who deserve more shine. To showcase their talent, we created a series called “Bedroom Sessions” that features folks throwing down sets in their homes. The mixes are open format without special effects, fancy club decoration and other fluff. If you have what it takes to be featured in the next episode, send a sample video to brs@djcity.com.
The Super Chill Pizza Spot, C1RCA Slices Through Texas
Following the annual pilgrimage to Houston’s Make-A-Wish, the C1RCA boys: Jack Olson, Windsor James, Robbie Brockel, Jimmy Carlin, Blue Turner, and Chris Gregson pillaged the Southwest on their way back home to Cali in search of a super chill pizza spot.
Apathy ft. Suave-Ski & Jus Cuz | How To Breathe Underwater
Produced by Apathy
First release from Apathy's EP "Weekend At The Cape" on Dirty Version Records.
Featuring Dirty Version Records artist Suave-Ski and Jus Cuz. Filmed in Connecticut
Video Directed by Apathy & @Camachodidit.
Filmed and edited by @CamachoDidit.
Wyclef Jean & MC Jin Trade Freestyle Raps and Beatbox at SXSW
After Wyclef Jean and Nick Huff Barili's conversation at SXSW came to a conclusion and Q&A with audience started, rapper Jin stepped to the mic to thank Clef for producing and working on Jin's first and only single more than 10 years ago called "Learn Chinese". On the spot with some encouragement from Nick and the crowd both Wyclef and Jin decided to go back and forth freestyling off the dome and beat-boxing for the audience in attendance. The Hard Knock TV cameras caught all the action. Tune in next week for video of
Wyclef Jean being interviewed about his life and career by Nick Huff-Barili of Hard Knock TV.
Wyclef got his start as a crucial member of hip-hop trio the Fugees in the mid-1990s. Since winning multiple Grammys with the group, including two for the classic album The Score, the musician has gone on to have a very successful solo career blending several genres - from reggae to hip-hop and more - while working some of the best artists in the business.
Good Grades | Catch Me (Dir By Always Dreaming Visions) | Music Video
New Music Video from Good Grades, "Catch Me", Directed by Always Dreaming Visions. The Miliano Supreme produced track is off Good Grades upcoming project 'Good Grades Gots A Tape' dropping April 20th.
Run The Jewels ft. Zack de la Rocha | "Close Your Eyes (And Count To F**k)" | Music Video
"When Run The Jewels sent me this track, I knew we had the opportunity to create a film that means something. I felt a sense of responsibility to do just that. We had to exploit the lyrics and aggression and emotion of the track, and translate that into a film that would ignite a valuable and productive conversation about racially motivated violence in this country. It's provocative, and we all knew this, so we were tasked with making something that expressed the intensity of senseless violence without eclipsing our humanity. For me, it was important to write a story that didn’t paint a simplistic portrait of the characters of the Cop and Kid. They're not stereotypes. They're people - complex, real people and, as such, the power had to shift between them at certain points throughout the story. The film begins and it feels like they have been fighting for days, they’re exhausted, not a single punch is thrown, their violence is communicated through clumsy, raw emotion. They've already fought their way past their judgments and learned hatred toward one another. Our goal was to highlight the futility of the violence, not celebrate it.”
For El-P of Run the Jewels “this is a vision of a seemingly never-ending struggle whose participants are pitted against each other by forces originating outside of themselves.”
Adds partner Killer Mike "this video represents the futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system. There is no neat solution at the end because there is no neat solution in the real world. However, there is an opportunity to dialogue and change the way communities are policed in this country. Salutes to AG Rojas for his unique take on the subject matter and to Shea and Keith for giving us their all and bringing it to life."
UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
04/10 - Coachella
04/17 - Coachella
05/09 - Big Guava Fest, Ft. Lauderdale FL
05/23 - Boston Calling Music Festival 2015, Boston, MA
05/29 - Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain
06/06 - Field Day 2015 - London UK
06/07 - The Forum - London, UK
06/12 - Bonnaroo Music Festival 2015, Manchester TN
07/05 - ATP Iceland 2015 - Keflavik, Iceland
08/11-08/15 - Oya Festival 2015 - Oslo, Norway
08/14 - Flow Festival 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
08/28- Reading Festival 2015 - Reading, UK
08/29 - Leeds Festival, Wetherby, UK
From the upcoming album "The Night Took Us In Like Family" coming April 21st.
Produced by L'Orange; Vocals by Jeremiah Jae.
Directed and Edited by Zack Kashkett
Video Produced by Ryan Khoury
Director of Photography Cory C. Warner
Gaffer Steven St. Peter
Production Designer Flora Ortega
Costume Designer Whitney Oppenheimer
Executive Producer Michael Tolle
About the album:
Enter those bloody alleys blocked off with yellow tape and chalk outlines. Secret backrooms riddled with sly crooks and blunt smoke. Slink into the underworld, the seedy shadowland owned by Jeremiah Jae and L'Orange on their noir-hop opus, "The Night Took Us In Like Family."
Consider it the alchemy of Madvillain and "The Maltese Falcon": a five-part fable of tangled crimes, narrow escapes, and raining lead. The door busts open with "A Conspicuous Man." L'Orange's carefully severed cinematic clips hold the frame steady. The Windy City-raised Jae muscles the narrative forward-the hitman creeping.
Beats bend sinister with imagery aiming for the temples. Jae invokes dark clouds, crowns of thorns and LSD eyes. Bars written in dirt. Samples are disembodied and ethereal. It's like a grand jury indictment doubling as a Greek chorus. A song title like "Ice Obsidian" says it all. This is frozen lava, black and white celluloid, the spoils won by sinners. Watch your back rap.
Or maybe it's the hip-hop version of the gangster flicks made before the Hays Code-raw and uncensored, deeply artful without pretension. Pitchfork once described Jae as: "a lot of people talk loud and say nothing; Jeremiah Jae finds strength in the inverse." On "The Night Took Us In Like Family," he inhabits both eulogizer and executioner. He triumphantly looms over the corpses and explains how this all came to be. L'Orange supplies concrete requiems of dusted soul: beats to crack safes, soundtracks to stealth assassinations.
If gangsta rap remains one of the genre's most well worn tropes, Jae and L'Orange take inspiration from the rarely tapped roots of the tradition. This isn't riffing on Oliver Stone's "Scarface" like popular cliché, but rather the original Al Capone exploitation flick from the early 30s. Jae conjures a villain who vaporizes. Run-the-Jewels-raw but still sophisticated. Cuban cigars stuffed with California chronic.
The picture unfolds wide frame. Guest stars include New York poison dart-thrower, Homeboy Sandman and Blackalicious' Gift of Gab. The chapters flesh out the story: The Conspicuous Man skulks into "God Complex," "The Damning," "Revenge and Escape." Jae and L' Orange build their world as a catacomb and find a way to escape just as the walls feel like they're closing in. It fades out as "A Macabre Instrumental" plays. The funeral is closed casket. The memories aren't easily disposed.
SynthBASED: Jazzy piano loops, afrobeat percussion, breakbeat exoticism, and bounce make up Drew Dave "SynthBASED," an instrumental ride. Residing in the crux of vintage and modern techniques is Drew Dave, who's faithful to the soul that lives in his hardware, but maintains forward vision for live instrumentation and midi-synths on his latest project. Drew Dave has doodled over the orginal syllabi of Hiphop instrumentalism, creating ornate embellishments of prerequisite texts. Drew Dave's aspirations for musicality over straight beats, his the ability to deliver bangers that loop gravelly roars, and his smooth crisp production lead listeners on a rhapsodic journey.
Produced by Drew Dave @DrewliusDave
Vocals by Kenn Starr @KennethCold
Directed by Jay Brown
This is the third clip (Wildstyle & murals),The original 21 minute video has more edits than these separate clips, i made like four or five videos and mashed them up together for the original one.
Youtube messed up the HD on the Original 21 minute video. It was playing in 720p HD for seven months, now it's not HD anymore, now it's at 480p, I'm gonna upload those clips separately at 1080p !!! Because the HD situation is fucking bogus! Excuse my language, but i worked on that 21 minute video for a long while, recorded it in 720p hd, rendered it at 720p hd, and uploaded it in 720p hd.
For 7 months no problem at 720p hd. And now it's at 480p?!?!
YOUTUBE FUCK YOU!
Dennis Smith Jr is considered the top point guard in the junior class and, at only 17 years old, it’s easy to see why. Dennis plays for Trinity Christian School based out of Fayetteville, NC and helped lead his team to a NCISAA State Semi-Final.
Watch as Smith deals with double & triple teams throughout the season and still is able to put up highlight after hightlight, averaging 25 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals. Be sure to keep yours eyes out for Dennis all summer long on the adidas circuit and follow us on the east side!
This is the twentieth in a series of vignettes that will feature everyone interviewed by Midway: The Story of Chicago Hip-Hop, leading up to the release of the film in 2017.
Rap music and Muslim women... they are not four words that usually come together.
But two women from London are breaking down the boundaries for Islamic females across the world with their brand of inspirational hip hop.
Together, Muneera Williams, 34, and Sukina Owen-Douglas, 33, form Poetic Pilgrimage - a self-described 'hiphop hijabis' duo that has created a new type of rap music for the masses that addresses religion, gender and issues of identity.
The women, who were both born and raised in Bristol to Jamaican migrant parents first entered the hip hop world after they moved to the capital together to study at the University Of London a decade ago.
Since then, they have cultivated a global fan base of devoted followers from both inside and outside the Islamic community.
The attraction for their followers is, in part, the unlikely partnership between the fact that they are Muslim women who have an impressive ability to write and perform verse.
Sukina and Muneera converted to Islam ten years ago, just three weeks before the 7/7 bombings, and while the path hasn't always been easy, they haven't looked back.
They met at school in Bristol and first became friends while performing in a gospel choir, but only decided to form a group after moving to the capital to study at university.
A few years later, they decided to convert to Islam after learning about the religion through the Autobiography of Malcolm X and academic books about Islam and Feminism.
Like most other female Muslims, they now pray five times a day, avoid alcohol and wear the hijab.
The marriage of their religion and their profession has both inspired and upset many people though.
Sukina told FEMAIL: 'There are people who have messaged us from all over the world who are appreciative of the bravery in our character.
'But on the flip-side there are people who have been unappreciative from both the Muslim community and the non-Muslim community.
'People who have suggested were using our hijabs as a gimmick to make money and that we aren't Muslim at all.
'Then there are people who are really derogatory. In the opening lines of the Al Jazeera documentary we did recently, I rapped about being taken from Africa as a slave to the Caribbean in the opening scene.
'I got comments like "You should be grateful that we colonised you, otherwise Africans would still be in mud huts."
'It's the nature of our technological society though, you get a lot of trolling.'
To say that the woman have cornered a niche in the market is an understatement - their lyrics are based around feminism, Islam and political issues.
Sukina said: 'We talk about political situations but we try and take a different stance.
'For instance, with something like the Palestine issue we talk about someone who has lost a husband or someone who is a mother.
'So we talk about it from a female perspective.'
At first, the women had a difficult time convincing the Muslim community that they should be onstage rapping.
But in the last ten years, they have turned the prejudice around.
Sukina said: 'In the Muslim community it was very difficult because the topic of hip hop is very flammable.
It's everything that can be wrong with the world - drugs, violence and everything.
'Parts of the Muslim community do find it very difficult.
'People have approached my husband and asked "why do you allow your wife to do this? Why do you allow your wife onstage? I would never let my wife go onstage, I would never let my wife travel without me."
'He's a rapper as well, he's in a band called Native Sun and he has always known me as a rapper, so for us there has never been even a consideration that this shouldn't happen.
'But that is hard for people to understand.
'But in the last few years people have come to understand that it is a very positive thing and we have been asked to speak on panels at conferences on Islam.'
While there may have been problems with the way the women have been received, the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive overall.
One of the biggest surprises for the women was how wide their fan base was when they started.
Sukina said: 'When we first converted to Islam we though tour main following would be young Muslim girls from England.
'But at that time it was the beginning of Myspace - it was the first independent platform to put your music online - and some comments we got from people blew our minds.
'We had amazing comments from people like a middle aged white guy from Austria or a couple from Portugal.
'It wasn't just people from the Muslim community.
'It is hard to put it into a box, we represent the voice of women, the voice of black people and the voice of people from Islam.'
And with a huge surge in interest into their music over the last few months, their popularity is only going to grow.
Sukina said: 'Some of the reaction we've had from people is amazing - we can't get our heads around the attention we've got.
'Ours is not a story of sorrow, we are not women wounded, rather we have found strength in what may seem strange to overs and we wouldn't have it any other way.'
We all remember the cruel and unexpected death of Prince Oberyn Martell in Season 4, and we all felt sorry that we didn’t had the chance to see more of the charismatic and unconventional prince.
His death by the hand of The Mountain is the most violent in Game of Thrones, a result of an impressive fight which unfairly finishes with the death of Oberyn. However, if Gregor Clegane thinks his victory was enough, he is wrong. Because the Kingdom of Dorne does not forget. They are Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken, and the Sand Snakes are just the girls to show that.
The Sand Snakes is the name given to eight of the numerous bastard daughters of Prince Oberyn, the ones which decide to become fearless fighters, and to form some kind of ‘intervention group’. They will appear in the fifth series, their goal being to revenge the death of their father. They are all named Sand, as this is the common name given to the illegitimate children of the Martell’s.
The Sand Snakes Casting was carefully chosen, and the actresses that have the chance to play The Sand Snakes are Rosabell Laurenti Sellers as Tyrene, Jessica Henwick as Nymeria and Keisha Castle-Huges as Obara.
We are surprised not to hear anything about Sarella Sand, the most important Sand Snakes in Songs of Ice and Fire Books. The HBO producers decided not to cast her in Game of Thrones Season 5, but just in case she appears in the next seasons, we have some drawings of her after this hot video.
Meet Tyrene Sand, Obara Sand and Nymeria Sand in this video.
DJs can be a lot like car owners. Some love clean factory styling, and others can't wait to pimp their rides. Currently, there are only a handful of companies that make aftermarket knobs and fader caps for DJ equipment, and this week Mojaxx takes a look at all three options.
From the album The 1978ers "People Of Today"
Vocals by yU | Produced by Slimkat78
Directed by Jay Brown
Video Premiered w/ OkayPlayer: http://www.okayplayer.com/news/the-19...
About the album:
Music is an exchange of ideas. This album is something for those exhausted with the shuck and jive of pop culture, who believe in the purification rituals offered by hard snares, funky drum kicks, soul-coughing bass, and deeply rooted vibrations.
Steadfastly infusing their songs with spirituality and positivity, yU and Slimkat are everymen with preternatural talent. Over the years, they've tirelessly built a rep in the DMV, collaborating on yU's The Earn and Before Taxes, which OkayPlayer called "one of the best hip-hop albums released in the last few years." In 2009, yU released In the Ruff as the philosophical heart of super-group Diamond District, a record hailed by MTV as "arguably the best hip-hop ever released in D.C."
Slimkat supplies the beats that make the blood rush to your head. Named one of the best producers of 2010 by KevinNottingham.com, he's dished countless production dimes to the likes of Muhsinah, Eric Roberson, Diamond District, and more.
The People of Today is a seamless and head-spinning record. It's hard-boiled beats and raps laced with wisdom and virtue. The sort of record that you can sit with today and tomorrow, and any time you need to be reminded that we're all in this together.
“Grief” taken from Earl Sweatshirt’s new album I DON’T LIKE SHIT, I DON’T GO OUTSIDE. Pre-order now and get “Grief” instantly: http://smarturl.it/IDLSIDGO
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