Archive for December, 2008
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2009 is going to be WISDOM COMPLETE!
I have to work tomarrow, so I’m laying low. PEACE. Have a safe and happy new years. Thanks to everyone who made this year a great one. And to you our dear readers: thanks for over 80,000 views in 08. We’re going quarter mill next year!
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Hip Hop’s Worst Moment of 2008
There’s a lot of competition down there at the bottom of the barrel, but in the spirit of the Top 5 Moments in DC Hip Hop post below I wanted to flip the script and nominate one singular event for Hip Hop’s lowest low of the deuce double 0 Ocho. With no further Freddy adu: [...]
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Top 5 DC Hip Hop Moments of 2008
The good folks at The Couch Sessions (a dope forward thinking DC based music blog) asked me to submit a top 5 for their year end content. It’s a lil outside the box, but here are my Top 5 DC Hip Hop Moments of 2008!
Top 5 DC Hip Hop Moments of 08:
1. Kokayi getting nominated [...]
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The Warning – Produced by Surock for Black Wraith Productions
Featuring One.Two, Noyeek The Grizzly Bear, Enoch, 2009 Grammy Award Nominee Kokayi, Grap Luva
Directed by NasJota for NasJota Records
DC – STAND UP!
DMV, IF YOU KNOW LIKE I KNOW/YOU BETTER LEAVE THOSE NATTY DREADS ALONE!
cameos by Head-Roc, Ardamus, DJ Earth One, Melo D, [...]
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NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
Will Obama’s Plates Aid D.C.’s ‘Taxation’ Protest?
by Daniele Anastasion
December 26, 2008 ·License plates in the District of Columbia bear the words “Taxation Without Representation,” protesting the city’s lack of voting rights in Congress. Advocates want President-elect Obama’s limo to carry the message, too.
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GAZA STRIP CEASE FIRE
I’m not gonna editorialize or even say UPSET THE SETUP, but for real, errybody just need to chill. GAZA STRIP CEASE FIRE NOW. IDF, Hamas, Iran. Eye for an Eye or 1000 eyes leaves the whole word blind. PEACE IS NOW. NOW IS PEACE. 2009NOW. PEACE IS THE WAY//
EHUD BARAK | BARACK OBAMA
PEACE IN THE [...]
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Sock and Awesome
Sock and Awe.com rocks
Ok today is definately the day before winterbreak at The Office. Im audi 5000 till the 29th. PEACE!
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Tweets
We had these consultants come to work and convince Senior Management that we should have a corporate twitter account for our microsite mashup. Really, thats what they called it. LOL. Anyway, after Bahamadia started following me on Twitter (which I was never using btw) I signed up. You can follow me if you want. Twitter [...]
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Call on state and federal officials to investigate
In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, White vigilantes hunted down Black men who entered Algiers Point and even tried to expel their Black neighbors. Louisiana’s broken law enforcement agencies have refused to investigate these crimes.
Tell Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Louisiana Attorney General [...]
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Tags: Algiers Point, Color of Change, Katrina, New Orleans, Race War, Upset The Setup
Monkeys Unite
Angry monkeys turned on their trainer in a market in Sizhou, China, after he handed out a vicious beating to one of the trio during a performance of them riding mini bicycles
it feels like that day before winter break around the office today.
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Hip Hop Lego Album Covers
Awesome. 20 Hip Hop Covers in Lego
Props to Graham Omnipresent for the link
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12.18.08
Much like Hip Hop, the global anarchist youth movement isn’t much of a movement per se, but rather a living-methodology – a set of tools to use when necessary in order to mobilize masses of people.
Greek Protesters Unfurl Banners at Acropolis
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I’m off to the Artic
Nothing makes less sense than flying somewhere colder in the winter…
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DC51 Artist Collective Jumpoff
DC51 Artist Collective’s Jump-Off Party is on Friday, December 19th at The Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington D.C.! DC51, which began as an Artist Collective with local street artists in the D.C. area, has now branched out to include socially-conscious bands in the area as well. This will be a great night at RNR [...]
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For your grad school seminars
Kanye Westernization
The transformation of hip hop normative cultural aesthetics during this decade. A shift in tastes and norms including but not limited to; metrosexual fashion, bad hip hop electronica, and the emergence of the hyper hip hop meta celebrity
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Beat Grinder – 12/17
Beat Grinder pays homage to Gil Scott Heron on its 6 year anniversary Wednesday December 17th. Producers battle it out in for DC champ and beat king. The Tru Skool “Beat Grinder Championship” is the only beat competition that matters for the DC area. Ten producers battle it out for the Beat Grinder crown. One [...]
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Tags: Beat Grinder, Damu, Grap Luva, Major, Tru Skool, Underdog the DJ
epic win
Nothing says upset the setup like taking your shoe off and throwing it at a bamma
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Saturday at ESL
Saturday 18th ST Lounge. I go on at like 11.
1212 18th St NW Washington, DC 20036. Tel. 202.466.3922.
Dress fly.
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DJ Eurok | Diamond District Dubs [Test Press 008]
1. Hendrix Me By
2. Juicy To The Top
3. Lost Ones VS Shottas
4. I Contact Kryptonite (Thee Snuff Project)
5. Cali CEO Blend
6. GARVEY SOLDIER
7. djinja
Free Download 320 kbps MP3 | 20.6 Minutes | For Promotional Use Only
Photo by Satsun Photography
All Booking and Press Inquiries: djeurok @ gmail [dot*com]
RECORDED [...]
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Zing!
UPDATE – Don’t take my word for it. One of my favorite actual music journalist Christopher Richards weighs in on this lost-in-space record here.
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