Showing posts with label DC. Show all posts
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Monday, December 22, 2014

DC vs. MARVEL Who WON 2014??

We've got some cold hard facts on who won 2014 but most importantly, who we think won between DC and MARVEL!

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Trillectro Festival DC 2104 | Big Sean, Travis Scott, Migos, Sza, Baauer!



Trillectro Festival DC 2104 | Big Sean, Travis Scott, Migos, Sza, Baauer!

The KarmaloopTV team invaded Washington DC for the Trillectro Music Fest August 24th ! This 2nd annual concert series featured the likes of Big Sean, Travis Scott, Migos, Sza, Baauer even premiering some new talent like Goldlink & Rome Fortune!

Monday, June 30, 2014

Last Winter Tour | Bas | TX-DC-NYC



The second stretch of the Last Winter Tour takes Bas and the #FIENDS thru Texas to DC and then back home to NYC.



Last Winter available now:

iTunes - http://fiends.co/1m4CSKf
Spotify - http://fiends.co/1kp0yt4
Google Play - http://fiends.co/1rNS4go
Amazon - http://fiends.co/1rHr588

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

SA-ROC | DC X ATLIENS | Produced by Organized Noize





"My introduction is too much pressure for your brain.
The opening lines be like dark clouds and flooding rain.
But sharp mouths get to the heart of the matter, the beat is gon keep you moving the lyrics will help sustain.
my body of work is black girl thickening, ripe like a peach just right for the picking.
And ready to serve it to the world on a silver platter.
But real talk, my ill talk, will get your ego shattered.
Im paddling behinds like the kinds that pappy gave.
Hiphop classic...kinda like a nappy fade.
But these days class is suffering thru a ratchet phase.
giving out degrees to bottom feeders and scholastic failures, money never made us, but now it tell us go.
Green lighting suckas like the legend and 3 stacks show.
Relax, open up your mind.
My rap flow spark electric charges to inspire when your nerve synapse slow.
Im making ghosts, not the kind to make a mommy grieve.
Just preying on my competition, thinning out a dying breed.
No I in we, but the US got their eye on me.
Cuz I be hollering peace but I mean the kind for firing.
I am the daughter of royalty on some queen shit, roots are lain in foreign soil, on some Ben Vereen shit.
ninjas chicken george sipping lean while children bleed.
On lonely streets where no one cares about their color scheme.
When others dream freedom's screams keep me up at night.
Conceal my private pain, while y'all reveal your public hype.
Making moves controlled by string holders like a puppet might.
I cover life through my microphone, a quill and scroll, and hieroglyph the world with pictures from my feeling soul!" - Sa-Roc

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Interview with GoldLink | DC-born proprietor of “future bounce”

GoldLink Might Be the Wildest DMV Rapper Since Wale: “I could start a revolution”

STORY BY: DUNCAN COOPER
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GoldLink is a rapper who immediately seems to have carved his own lane—”future bounce” as he somewhat imprecisely calls it, “dream rap” as I even more poorly first conceived it. Basically he’s rapping over pittering dance beats that you can’t always dance to. Born in DC and now based in Virginia, he’s got a weirdness that could make him the biggest DMV rapper since Wale; at the very least, he shares a refreshing left-field newcomer’s confidence to experiment. Download his debut album, The God Complex, and below, read what he has to say about discovering club music, linking up with Soulection and the excitement of not knowing what might happen next.



Where exactly are you from? I was born in DC. I was born in Columbia Hospital, not that that matters… I ended up in Maryland. My apartment burned down and then I lived in Cheverly. My mother wanted better for us, so we ended up moving to Virginia, then my mom got divorced, but I stayed there.

Where are you living now? A few places. Woodbridge is one. Alexandria. It’s aight. There’s not a lot of minorities, so everything’s kinda awkward, but it’s cool. We manage. We stay on the west side, it’s calm and quiet.

I saw you said used to go to Busboys and Poets “on the very low.” What were you like as a teenager? At 17, I was wild. I was really wild. I was really smart for my age, but I thought I knew everything. I was really hardheaded, but I couldn’t control my temper. I was really smart-mouthed. I was the opposite of everything I am now. I was super loud and annoying. I was 17, you know what I’m saying?

Were you recording and putting out music at that time? Not at 17, no. I was just chilling.

That was a few years before Wale started blowing up, and Baltimore Club was having a big moment too. Did you feel that excitement? Even though I was young, I remember it. Wale was cool. You know how you had that friend circle and out of that circle one guy gets everybody hip? I was that kid. So I was like, yo, Wale, you head 100 Miles of Running? I got hip to Baltimore Club music because I took somebody’s CD out of their car and it was a blank CD with nothing on it. I was like, ‘What is all this?’ He was like, ‘Oh, it’s Baltimore club music, all this red light district music.’ I remember I caught that riff. I was young but I was old enough to understand that there was something in the DMV going on.



When you came out, your sound was already really solid. Did that take time? Were you fucking around over Zaytoven beats a few years ago? No, that was the sound. I never crossed over like, trap is cool, I’m going to do this. This is what I started with. I heard Ta-Ku beat two years ago and I thought it was cooler than all the bullshit that was hot. I didn’t care what the fuck was hot. I thought that was cool. I didn’t get it when I was 18 at all, but I just rode with it. That’s why it’s so natural over the beats. I wrote to those beats to challenge myself, not knowing that this is the route I was going to take. I was like, ‘Man, this is weird. I know someone wouldn’t rap over this so I’m going to challenge myself.’ So I just did. I was never really influenced by anybody.

How did you link with the Soulection team? I know you’ve worked with Sango. A friend of ours introduced us through email. We ended up talking and I ended up sending him tracks that I did over previous beats to see if he liked them. He ended up loving them and became a fan and he started sending me beats. From there we built a friendship. We got each others numbers and started talking and we both did Broccoli City Festival. That was two weeks ago and we kicked it there and we kicked it the whole day. It was all through email at first, though.

There’s more in the pipeline coming with him? Yeah, maybe.

I was going to ask you about Broccoli City—Cam’ron and Kelela performed, and you’re kind of like midway between them, to me. I met Kelela. Cam’ron was really protected, so he was kind of in and out. He did his job. But the scene was cool. DMV is such a soul, neo-black city. So people accepted both. There were a lot of people there who liked soul and they liked Kelela and were singing along, and there was a lot of people from the hood because it was in Southeast, and Southeast is like “Oh it’s Cam’ron!”

How do you deal with the not-showing-your-face thing at shows? I did UStreet with a mask at the beginning and then I took it off. I guess it’s like a suspense thing, but I’m really into the music and not into the imaging and I don’t necessarily think we should put an image to the music. I’d rather just make music, and people like that. For performing it’s different, because you actually get to look people in the face—these people that have been following you for months or maybe a few days and you get to look at them. It’s really intimate. I don’t mind showing my face to people because they get to deserve it.

It’s funny that you mention not putting an image to music, because your videos are so striking. The beats are on a spacey, electronic thing, but the videos have a very real street feel. Is that an important tension, for you? I could see why you could say it’s tension, but I don’t think it is. I make it work. Even though the beats are really outlandish and wild, that bounce is really familiar. It’s really different, but it’s the same trap bounce, the same street bounce, the same hip-hop ruggedness, but it’s really new it’s really futuristic sounding. That’s why I feel like people can actually accept it. It’s at a fine line where it’s different, but it’s not so new that it’s annoying or trying too hard. I made it mesh and meet in the middle. Tasteful.



Have labels been reaching out? Is it at that point? I guess it’s at that point. I like what I’m doing and I think it can grow naturally because it’s been growing naturally to this point. I want to see how far it can go naturally. If it makes a complete 100 percent sense, then maybe I’ll consider a label, but right now I’m content with what I’m doing.

What most excites you about what you’re doing right now? Knowing that I don’t know where it’s going to go or how big it could possibly be. The unknown is really exciting. This could be big! It could be on the radio, and it could change what people think. It could change the way the music goes. It could change the BPM. Knowing that I don’t know that makes me excited. Knowing that kids could take this route and add something to it is cool. Knowing that I could start something and start a revolution is exciting. That’s the coolest part about what I’m doing. In my city there’s a lot of hate, but I don’t get any of it at all. I get so much love it almost doesn’t make any sense. Kids are changing up the music and starting to let that image shit go. They’re starting to make better music and clique up more. This is the best era for the DMV.

What else do you want people to know? I want fans to be like, ‘Damn, that nigga tight.’

Friday, January 24, 2014

DC Snowboarding | Justin Fronius Remix | Rookie of the Year

Justin had an incredible year. He not only had an insane ender part in VG but won Rookie of the Year from Snowboarder Mag and Newcomer of the Year at the Reels Festival in France. Check out this remix to see why.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

DC SNOWBOARDING: IIKKA BACKSTROM REMIX

Iikka had such an incredible year filming in the backcountry that he decided to take up fly fishing and we decidic to remix his footage from the winter. Don't sleep on this one.
Music from The Orwells - "Who Needs You"

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

DC SHOES | 17TH ANNUAL JOHNNY ROMANO SKATE JAM 2013

Check out the video from the 17th Annual Johnny Romano Skate Jam at Southside Skatepark in Houston, TX, where Nyjah Huston won the Street and Zumiez Best Trick and the entire DC team helped raise money for the Make-A-Wish foundation.

Featuring Mikey Taylor, Evan Smith, Tristan Funkhouser, Wes Kremer, Felipe Gustavo, Matt Miller. Chris Cole, and Nyjah Huston

Monday, November 18, 2013

Curren$y | JetFlix | Washington, DC (Documentary Short Film)

Curren$y | JetFlix | Washington, DC (Documentary Short Film)



This documentary short follows @CurrenSy_Spitta & The Jets from New Orleans to Washington and back over 24 hours to appear at a signing and then perform with @Young_Roddy. Ft. @Mousa504, @lordsteez, @Stan599, @JLR_TY



Edited & Photographed by CJ Wallis, @fortyfps #birdseyeview

Friday, November 15, 2013

DC SHOES x WuTang 20 Year Collection | STREETS & BOARDS & BEES & SWORDS

In conjunction with the release of the DC x Wu-Tang 20 Year Anniversary Collection, which celebrates the anniversary of the groundbreaking album "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," DC is proud to present, "STREETS & BOARDS & BEES & SWORDS," a short film which follows the parallel stories of one album's effect on the music and skate industries and the simultaneous launch of a brand onto the skate scene that forever changed footwear.

The film is told through interviews with the icons that paved the way, and chronicles the common thread amongst underdogs and visionaries... Musicians, skateboarders and forward thinkers alike must believe in themselves and break the rules in order to change the world. For more on the limited edition DC x Wu-Tang 20 Year Anniversary Collection and the short film



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