Archive for March, 2008

Wednesday March 26, 2008
Flex Mathews presents Good Will Ink at the Velvet Lounge 915 U Street NW WDC - Doors at 9 - FREE

DJ Eurok (AKA Peace Justice) w/ Head-Roc and the Package: a live mixtape - 2008 Infinite
Mr. Free and More


Some of us can’t make it to WMC. DJ Stylus and Jahsonic are going to bang out one good time before they get on the plane so we can share in the fun.
Monday March 24
Pre-WMC jump-off with DJ Jahsonic & DJ Stylus
Marvin
2007 14th St. NW, WDC
9 until whenever
cover charge: FREE(style)


Lately, I’ve been listening to Midnite non stop - they are one of the few contemporary musical acts who speak to my worldview these days. Enjoy this video of their live performance of their classic “Propaganda”
Word sounds and power!


Local hip hop artist/poet (remember - he’s not a rapper) Bomani Armah has a piece in Sunday’s Washington Post on Barack Obama. It’s supposed to be satirical, but I didn’t find it that funny and felt it lacks the intellectual bite to be effective satire.
I’ll give props the Post for reaching out the local hip [...]


Peep my man Davey D step to this fool from Fox News! Gotta give Davey mad props for this…I’ve always been a fan of his work since Jomo put me on to his website back in like 1997. Me, Head-Roc and Grizz went out to his lab for an interview while on our West [...]


sorry for the single link youtube post, but um, i got work to do.


MN8 presents Amp Fiddler & Tortured Soul w/ Fertile Ground - Special guest DJ Tom B
Saturday, 3/22/08, 9:00PM EDT - $20
9:30 Club - 815 V St NW Washington, DC, USA
Bonus comment points: Why doesn’t MN8 have a blog for their shows?
OH they do!
Double bonus: Which production legend is Amp Fiddler credited for putting on?


OC & A.G. - “2 For The Money” (Clean)
Produced by ShowBiz, Cuts by Dj Premier
The Official Street Single.
Look for the album to drop on DITC Records in Fall 08’
www.myspace.com/ditcrecords
(shouts to Next Mill Entertainment)


Radio CPR Benefit Performances for the survivors of the fire at 3145 Mount Pleasant Street NW

  
FRIDAY 21st ~ Hip-Hop Extravaganza:
·         Flex Mathews (DC/South Dakota) www.myspace.com/flexmathews  
·         Ghetto Fama (DC/MD, El Salvador) www.myspace.com/ghettofama   
·         Rosetta Stoned (DC/NYC) www.myspace.com/rosettas  
·         Camilo Cienfuegos (DC/VA, Panama)
·         DEO (DC/MD, Colombia) Radio CPR’s original lengua beats master…
 
SATURDAY 22nd ~ Righteous Rock + Otras:
·     Cris [...]


DJ Dredd and DJ Stylus dig up the old school realness.
Friday, March 21
Black Cat backstage
1811 14th St. NW WDC 20009
9pm/$6
dress code: classic hip-hop styles are encouraged.


Hear Mt. Pleasant has the roundup on relief efforts for victims of the recent fire. Shout outs to the Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative for helping to raise 10K! They are a great organization and have done so much for this city.


Don’t let this dude fool you like he flew in from Damascus to report this shit, it happened across the street from his office. The AP guys just had to walk outside to get this priceless footage
One of the stated goals of the mobilization was to
disrupt traffic, hamper commuters and block access to some [...]


Fuck The Onion

19Mar08

And not just for encroaching on the local alternative weeklies, but because I have a feeling this is the kind of it’s not racist because it’s funny / it’s funny because it’s kinda racist, but not really, you’re just being sensitive low-brow humor we will increasingly find towards Barak Obama.


 
ZOMG - The baby panda aka lil butterstick makes run for freedom! He must have been trying to take advantage of the fact that every able bodied police officer in DC was in a 10 block radius on Thursday.
LBR8DC!


Angela Valdez has a great article in this week’s Washington City Paper on the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ. If you don’t know about them, you should check it. They are a hot topic for the local blogtrifier community.
BONUS COMMENT POINTS: Today’s mathmatics


Fresh post at the WashingtonCityPaper.com Black Plastic Bag blog by PJ Urquilla


More inside (more…)


Calls Mount for Olympic Ceremony Boycott
PARIS (AP) - Moves to punish China over its handling of violence in Tibet gained momentum Tuesday, with a novel suggestion for a mini-boycott of the Beijing Olympics by VIPs at the opening ceremony.
UPSET THE SETUP! FREE TIBET! BOYCOTT THE 08 OLYMPICS!


Just got home from the Amnesty International / Hip Hop Caucus We Care Concert at the 930 Club. It was a really great show bringing together activists, artists, youth, seasoned older heads, anti-war veterans groups and other other folks for a night of hip hop and resistance. Organized by Rev. Lennox Yearwood and folks from [...]


DJEurok.com and Upset The Setup.com are proud to announce my new street theater residency at Logan Circle Park. There will be two daily performances, ~ 9:30 AM and ~ 6:00 PM, where I work to develop my one man show - Logan Circle is not a Dog Park. A modern classic in the making, it [...]