Rapsody | Godzilla | New Video

Peep the Nu Video Godzilla from Rapsody's Ep "Beauty and the Beast". Available Now!



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Official music video by Rapsody performing Godzilla. 2015 Jamla Records / Culture Over Everything

STREET OFF presented by LILOU

Bboy Lilou Delivers a New Project which is a Web Series that shows bboy Lilou sharing his love with talented bboys in different ghettos accross the world. Each dancer, each place has their own history. Accidents, gun shots, handicaps, misery... thats why this WEB SERIE will promote these dancers and give them motivation because they cannot have the chance to travel in different competitions.



Start in january 2015, STREET OFF (season 1) will be active every month for 8 episodes.

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Shon Roka | "20 Minute Train Ride" Hip Hop 102 | DJ Set Part 1 & 2

Shon Roka of the Brickheadz Giftin U A Nice Mix.

Listen and share. #BHZLife

"20 Minute Train Ride" Part 1 (Going)



Playlist:

1. J. Cole - Fire Squad
2. Maffew Ragazino - Never Ran, Never Will
3. O.C. - Bboy Stance
4. O.C. - Catch Wreck
5. The Audible Doctor ft. Guilty Simpson - Leave Me Alone
6. Vince Staples ft. Teyana Taylor - Limos
7. uMaNg - Correct Techniques
8. Lil Dap - Code of Silence
9. Saint Millie - Take Me Down
10. HexOne & 5th Element ft. Ruste Juxx & Halfcut - Dinner Time

"20 Minute Train Ride" (Part 2)(The Way Back)



Playlist:

11. Reverie - Far From Perfect (Prod. by Louden)
12. Joey Bada$$ ft. Maverick Sabre & Dyenond Lewis - On & On (Prod. by Freddie Joachim)
13. Lewis Parker & EastKoast - All Or Nothing
14. Wu-Tang Clan - Keep Watch
15. Sylvie Grace - Zilch
16. Common ft. Cocaine 80s - Young Hearts Run Free
17. J. Cole - St. Tropez
18. Apollo Brown - Deliver Us From a Evil
19. Qwel & Maker - Lake Effect
20. Action Bronson - Actin' Crazy (Prod. by 40)

Physical copies available at #HelloHipHop.

SUB.Culture | Jersey Club Documentary | Part 3 | Presented by Sengled

In the final section of our Sub.Culture: Jersey Club Documentary, we explore how a local music scene has transformed into a global phenomenon.



Featured Music:
“LOV3” - TR!CK$
“Move It” - TR!CK$ (Ft. MBreeze)
“Ponanay” - R3LL
“Nxwrk” - Nadus

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Part 2: http://bit.ly/1JOBj0k

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DJ EVIL DEE | BROADCASTING LIVE | MIXTAPE ALBUM

1 half of the legendary Da Beatminerz, Dj Evil Dee drops a whole new mixtape album called “Broadcasting Live”. This that vintage grimey New York Hip Hop Boom Bap Sh*t! Alot of East Coast Independent artists on the album such as Stahhr, Dysfunkshunall Familee, Shabaam Shadeeq, Finsta & Bundy, & of course Black Moon. All production by Da Beatminerz and mixes done by Evil Dee…..as the saying goes “Dj Evil Dee is on the mix, cmon…KICK IT!”



BROADCASTING LIVE TRACKLISTING

1. INTRO – SWAY & HEATHER B
2. OPEN SEASON – STAHHR
3. HOW MANY MORE – DYSFUNKSHUNAL FAMILEE
4. REFUSE – THE MOOD DOCTORS
5. REAL LIFE – CHIEF JUSTICE
6. GIMMIE – RIZ THE GREAT
7. WHAT YOU SAYING – KARNIEGE
8. I JUS DON’T KNOW – NUTSO
9. CAN’T SAY GOODBYE – MAKEBA MOONCYCLE & YEJIDE THE NIGHT QUEEN
10. REALLY – DYSFUNKSHUNAL FAMILEE
11. GO TO WAR (2) – BLACK MOON
12. GULLY SEASON – PEARL HARBA & G POS FEAT. DJ RED BOY
13. IN THE MIX OF ACTION – THE VILLANZ
14. FREE THE DOME – SHABAAM SAHDEEQ
15. NOBODY – FINSTA BUNDY
16. ME & MY PEEPS FROM TWITTER (PARTS 1,2, & 3)!!! – THE REAL SUNDANCE, BUTTER B, ORZO, PLEASURE PETE, ROCK MECCA, YME, ROCK
ON BALBOA, WISE FREEDOM, CARL MADISON & ZEEQ

Henny B | The Intro | Directed By @WeTheVillains

Peep the new video by Chicago Artist Henny B.



"The Intro" produced by King Mickey
Follow us @HennyFBaby @WeTheVillains @iAmKingMickey

Directed by Victorious Villains Society

Breathe Again EP out now!

LUDO | CHAOS THEORY | NEW VIDEO

WRITTEN BY: ANI PALEN/GreenLabel



Last summer, Paris-based contemporary artist Ludo took the streets of Thailand as part of a series of global street expeditions.

"Thailand's capital was an obvious choice to hit for many reasons," he says. "First, because the city is not over saturated at all with art on walls. That makes it a new, interesting place to discover and a virgin land to cover."

Perhaps more important was his second reason: "The endless chaos. The unlimited mix of noises, smells, and colors."

He showcased all these things in his new film, The Chaos Theory, a video created as a way to push his exhibition of the same name at Lazarides Gallery.

As for possible reasons behind the chaos in the world, Ludo says this: "Disorder creates order or order motivates our disorganization."

The Chaos Theory from ludo on Vimeo.

OPEN CITY MIXTAPE | THE DREAMER | SHORT FILM

Open City Mixtape is a mixture of narrative and non fiction films that depict the occasional diabolic streets of New York City that are typically overlooked by New Yorkers. The 2-year long project is curated in the form of a mixtape, the film features a collection of stories about inner-city life created by Queens filmmaker A.V. Rockwell with the help of producers Amy Colladoand Julius Pryor.



On November 4th , the duo celebrated the finale of Open City Mixtape by displaying past work that lead to the premier of their latest film, EL Train. A special Q&A moderated by Jinx of Complex TV, artwork by graffiti collective URNewYork and a special photography showcase by Jai Hall and Britt Sense.

For more information and to watch clips from Open City Mixtape, checkout www.opencitymixtape.com.

Also, you can watch the Open City Mixtape (Finale + Celebration) recap filmed by JeffStashBox below:

EARTHGANG X 6LACK X J.I.D. | BATMAN SMELLS

The Atlanta based lyricists linked up to deliver their Christmas themed track “Batman Smells”. With production from Ryan Mellow, the smooth track features the Spillage Pillage artists spitting about daily life in the 404.

Listen to “Batman Smells” by Earthgang x J.I.D. x 6lack below:

An Interview with Chicago's very own Steff Skills | Chicago Reader

Interview by Brianna Wellen/Chicago Reader
Photos by John Sturdy and Kevin Kujawa

From an early age, Skills has had a love of handwriting and hip-hop. She eventually combined the two passions, making flyers for shows and becoming a pioneer for women in Chicago’s graffiti scene beginning in the early 90s. Still an active bomber—she was among those featured in the Cultural Center’s recent survey “Paint Paste Sticker: Chicago Street Art”—the 42-year-old single mom teaches Chicago Park District art classes as she plans for the day she’ll travel the world as a full-time artist.

I felt comfortable in the street art scene because I was around a bunch of guys, and I was more or less one of the guys. As long as I was with them, I didn’t feel alone. It was later on in life when I became a mother and the crew split up that I felt like a weirdo. After I became a mom, I realized that guys don’t have this deep experience of being a mother, and I started to cherish my friendships with women. That’s when I realized that I wasn’t going to major in being someone’s wife.

I have two boys, a 16-year-old and a 21-year-old. I always make jokes that I’m getting so old I’m going to run into my kid at the club. As a young mom, I would take my son with me everywhere. I would take him to walls, I would take him to recording studios, I would take him to college with me. There was a rumor that I was putting him in my backpack and [painting] rooftops. I wasn’t, but that was my parenting style. My second child I had when I was 26, and I was much more chilled out and ready. My first child I had when I was 21, so you feel like you can still do everything. I just wanted to keep things going as much as I could. And it worked for a little while—at least I thought it did.



I’m a “cool parent.” Knowing what I know now I would have gone back and invested more in my little one because now I teach little ones, and I see parents taking their kids to classes. I didn’t know anything about that; we were just about pajamas and cartoons until kindergarten.

A lot of women whose careers I admire don’t have children. But I certainly don’t regret my children. My children add to my experience, my pushing a feminine aesthetic in my work that I didn’t feel was important before. I’m starting to feel my freedom now that my kids are older. Once my little one graduates high school, I’m ready to attempt to make it on artwork solely, my own hustle. Or if I can’t, maybe be an airline stewardess, something where I can travel, my own little midlife career change.

Both of my kids have drawn from an early age. Because I am an artist and also teach art full-time, I didn’t want to push it on them. As for being into graffiti and all that, they kind of see my world as another knitting circle that they’re just not interested in. Maybe if I was their dad and their male role model they’d be more interested. My kids will appreciate me once they get away—“Oh, cool, that’s a poster my mom did.”

My mom is extremely creative, but she’s more of a seamstress, she knits. She can go to the store and look at something she likes and go home and make it. She was trying to pass that on to me. I remember she bought me a Holly Hobbie sewing machine when I was six. I was terrified of the needle. My mom, coming from Costa Rica in the 40s—I feel I kind of broke a tradition of textile crafts, but ironically some of my paintings look like embroidery. That aesthetic is still there, it just comes out in a different way.

I really loved handwriting. I felt it was powerful. I really took pride in handwriting because my dad was in the navy and we moved a lot, and handwriting was an easy way to impress my teacher, fit in. Anytime anyone had to write anything, they’d ask me to go to the board. That was the beginning of a graphic background and made me pay attention to fonts and letters. As a kid, I would visit my godparents in New York, so I did see trains and graffiti around the city. I soaked in the aesthetic, and it just made sense: I always wanted to use letters in my art.

My mom married right out of high school. She was kind of a renegade in that she did divorce her husband back in those times with three kids. That was another seed that was planted: independence. My mom would always say, “It doesn’t matter who you’re with or how long you’ve been with them, they could always walk out the door.” So I was like, Wow, why even bother? My parents are still together. They’ve had rocky times where each one would call me and say, “I don’t think we’ll make it, I think we’re getting divorced.” Even as a child, independence was more of an influence than trying to be part of a team, and that’s been hard. I think I’ve subconsciously picked people that make you independent regardless. Now I have a boyfriend who is a really good guy. But it’s not my first love; my first love is graffiti and street art.

In 1990 I was supposed to go to the Art Institute, but my financial aid didn’t work out. I was pretty bummed, but I went to Truman College and studied astronomy, which really influenced my art. I lived on Honore and North Avenue, when Wicker Park was still a bohemian neighborhood. I had a two bedroom, and my rent was $260 a month. I had a roommate and she had a bigger bedroom, so my rent was $100 a month. I fell in love with the freedom, the bohemian community, the artists. I had never lived in a Latino community, and Wicker Park, Humboldt Park, and Logan Square were thriving Latino communities. I learned Spanish and learned how to cook the food. I knew a few dishes from my mom, but I immersed myself in a culture that I was a stranger to and that was a part of me.

I would love to move to Costa Rica. I have gone and painted out there. There’s definitely a thriving street art scene there. Their style is more influenced by Brazil and South America than New York. I’d be some old-school relic novelty out there. As soon as I get the gumption and time to travel, I can go to probably any country in the world and there would be someone in the graf community that would let me stay with them. Graffiti is a global community. It’s a really good feeling to be a part of a community like that.

Radius | Time Travel Is Real | A Prelude To Japan​​.​​​.​​​.​​

Limited to 100 silver cassettes

Includes unlimited streaming of Time Travel Is Real (A Prelude To Japan​.​.​.​) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality
download in MP3, FLAC and more.
shipping out on or around 23 December 2014
edition of 100

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Digital Album Available from ETC Records



Radius is the legendary jet setter from across the States. In "Time Travel Is Real (A Prelude To Japan...) Radius takes the listener on a journey - through time and space, with jazzy beats and loops that roll smooth and delicate. Created as an ode to a future trip (now in the past) to Japan, the album resonates the sound of free form improvisation. The loose constructions collide and form into beautiful beats and inspirational sounds. Limited to 100 silver cassettes. Includes cassette only bonus track.

"I created an album to promote the journey & also to give thanks to the many that have supported and inspired me on my travels & shows etc. This project was finished in my current "home", Oahu, Hawaii. All tracks were created within Chicago, St. Louis (One For Ferguson) & Honolulu. I hope that it serves as an inspiration to all those that listen. Supreme full circle energy reflection is the key. Stay strong & keep creating and pushing YOUR dreams to REALITY. Thanks for your support. Much respect. Enjoy and see you soon. "

credits
released 23 December 2014 Cover Photo Shot(in Chicago)/Edited by Ramon Etc. 2014

Mick Jenkins | Fate | Prod. by Ambi Lyrics

This is track number four off of the upcoming project entitled: "Fate" by Mick Jenkins. This track was produced by AmbI Lyrics and Engineered by THEMpeople. Your Music, due out December 28th.

EDWARD ELECKTRO FT. JADE LATHAN & BEVLOVE | SONIC DISRUPTION

Sonic Disruption's release party last was weekend at the Rager Haus and if u couldn’t get your hands on a copy of the CD, worry no more because Eddie has uploaded the entire 12-track project on soundcloud for you.

Detroit got alot of goodness yall!

The SEVENth | Adult Swimish | Live @ Beat Suite N°4

"Adult Swimish" is a hidden track on my latest EP, Skygod (Side A).
Listen to the whole 7-Track project here: bit.ly/1Fcq13P

The SEVENth - Live @ Beat Suite N°4 from The SEVENth on Vimeo.

HelloHipHop | 2nd Annual All City Cypher | ft 4th Disciple of Wu Tang Clan

#HelloHipHop presents the 2nd Annual All City Cypher

Featuring a DJ set & beats for the cypher by 4th Disciple of Wu Tang Clan

Cypher features include :

Pugs Atoms
Tony Stanza
Pozlyrix
Scenic Roots
Menoover13
Noah
JX
Encyclopedia Brown
Elementz Emcee
Conway Da Creature

All other mc's welcome !

North Side x South Side x West side x East side

Plus the Chi-Town vs. Shaolin tour with performances by :

VISUAL
Detin8
Big Herc

December 17th

At Subt Lounge
2011 W. North ave.
9pm-2am
21+ $7
Ladies free before 10

Music by 4th Disciple x Shon Roka x Illanoiz

SUB.Culture | Jersey Club Documentary | Part 1

From the Brick City to the Brick Bandits, Part 1 of our Sub.Culture Jersey Club documentary explores the local origins of the sound.



Featured Music:

"Sexy Walk 2K12" - DJ Lilman
"This Pussy Will Drive You Crazy" (Uniique Remix) - DJ Technics
"Nwxrk" - Nadus
"The Business Break Beat" - DJ Tameil
"Booty Work Instrumental" - Kayy Drizz

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SABA FT. LUCKI ECK$ | NEXT DOOR

On new single “Next Door,” Saba and equally world-weary Chicagoan Lucki Eck$ join forces to look back bittersweetly on childhoods still so close at hand (Saba is 20 years old and Lucki is 18 years old). Over beautiful, bubbling production, the duo puts a poignant cap on a year of excellent musical output.

ZHU FT. GOLDLINK | PARADISE AWAITS PART 2

With some adjustments to the beat and an added verse from GoldLink, ZHU’s “Paradise Awaits” gets a second edition. The original didn’t seem in need of a rap remix, but with a slower tempo, it works, and GoldLink is the perfect choice for a rapper who can bring enough energy to tie it all together.

Alo Wala - Timbuktu (feat. The Clerk) | Cityboy

A monster of a song, “Timbuktu” by rising global bass rapper / group Alo Wala melds into all sorts of moods–calm, jumpy, even forlorn. Opening with a small percussive swirl of taps, jangles, and pings, the song suddenly stops: “Here we go/See me flow/’Round and ’round I go,” the project’s Chicago-born, Copenhagen-based vocalist Shivani Ahlowalia (aka Alo Wala) starts in her candied voice, hand claps and drum bangs circling under her. Strings and a cascade of muffled electronics then crash hard as she continues, “I rolled through Timbuktu a long long time ago, I got my people and fresh heat no matter where I go.”

As it turns out, Ahlowalia spent time in a different part of West Africa: Guinea-Bissau. It was there that she co-founded the country’s first quality recording studio. Prior to the professional Cobiana studio being built, Bissau-Guinean artists would need to travel to Lisbon or Paris for quality recording sessions, Ahlowalia says. “I worked very hard in particular on a project called Hip Hop Harmony,” a program that brought her to Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Mauritania and Morocco, to work with regional unification through hip-hop. After joining with tropical bass group Copia Doble Systema and VJ Mad Es to become a full band, Ahlowalia / Alo Wala toured India earlier this year, and went on to play shows in Morocco (at L’Boulevard Festival– more on this to come on Okayafrica) and Russia. This Monday, the group is set to release their debut EP, Cityboy, which closes with “Timbuktu.” Speaking on her connection to the Malian city the song takes its name from, Ahlowalia explained:

“It’s a common expression to say ‘from here to Timbuktu,’ Timbuktu referring to a place far away, almost intangible or impossible to arrive to. So what happens when you’ve been there to the impossible place so very far away? Where do you go from there? That’s what the tune is about. For me Timbuktu represents the turning point, where the journey becomes less about a destination, and more about knowing one’s self; the journey within.”

Listen to “Timbuktu” & her other releases below. Alo Wala’s Cityboy is out November 10th via Enchufada.







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Black Zheep DZ's '8th World'

Peep DMV favorite Black Zheep DZ latest full project 8th World.



DOWNLOAD LINK -

download940.mediafire.com/ise6oqbakbtg…-+Zheep+.zip

There's 7 Wonders of the World. An 8th wonder was always a question to people. I feel like my mind state & where I'm from(Baltimore, MD) is that 8th wonder that people don't get to see that often. My creation is a thing in it's own, which I like to call "8th World".
What you hear is what it is, man. Just some good ol' stories told on good ol' production, good ol' vibes, good influences, bad influences & all of what you can ask for from a nigga coming from East Baltimore, but has seen more than just that. Its just me. I put my thoughts, personality, my hometown, places i been & experiences into this project. I also had some great features from my homie & ace from VA, D.R.A.M. & Baltimore-based singer, Chrissy Vasquez, along with some cool ass bonuses. Enjoy.

Album Artwork by Nicholas Fulcher
(eyebone.me)