Archive for March, 2009
The YES WE CAN DC STATEHOOD COALITION is hosting a rally/concert on the West Steps of the Capitol Building on Wednesday April 1st. 6 PM – 8 PM
Performances by Tabi Bonney, Rasi Caprice, Head Roc. Kyonte, Kingpin Slim and More. Speakers: Johnny Barnes, Michael D. Brown, Walter E. Fauntroy, Ann Likow, Anise Jenkins, Ron Hampton, [...]
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Tags: DC Statehood Now!
Monday Video Throwback
Submitted by reader g.dean. Submit your pick for next week in the comments!
It would also be good just to maintain a record of those
classic videos anyway as a good reference for any other
projects you have. Plus you could make it into a sort of Hip
Hop History course.
PEACE
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LunchBox Theory
This is going to be a really dope party. Good music, good people, no fronting fake pretentiousness. Presented by LunchBox Theory! SEE YOU THERE!
LunchBox Theory Presents…..
BLACK LIGHT SPECIAL….. Afro Beat for YourSoul!
Where: Selam Restaurant and Bar — 1524 U st NW
When: Friday, March 27, 2009 Party starts at 10pm till close
What: DJ Underdog spins [...]
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samples
Kutiman is a DIY producer from Israel. Recently, he released a collection of youtube remixes called Thru-You. Its really amazing work – he’s searching for videos of people playing instruments or singing and SAMPLING those videos and audio clips into new compositions.
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just in the lab making energy
TEST PRESS || EXCLUSIVE DJ EUROK | UPSET THE SETUP
NASA GULLY MONEY DANCEHALL BLEND * INTERGALACTIC SOUND SYSTEM
- MINUS THE VERSES THAT SUCK
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in a drum an bass style
WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE I HAD THIS DIESEL BOY JUNGLE TAPE. ONE SIDE WAS ALL HIP HOP REMIXES, THE OTHER SIDE WAS REGGAE MIXES. JOINT WAS NUTS. IT MELTED IN THE CAR IN THE SUMMER OF 96.
WHAT PEOPLE CALLED JUNGLE MUSIC IN THE 80S AND 90S WAS REALLY A HYBRID FORM OF REGGAE SPECIFIC [...]
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Tags: DJ Eurok | Upset The Setup, Washington DC
Friday at AU
Head-Roc‘s new band Godisheus is playing Friday night at American. If you haven’t checked them out yet, this would be a good show to catch them at. The sound at AU should be proper and the band is solid. Heady puts on a great show (YOU KNOW THIS, MAN) so check em out.
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Recomended Reading
Last Friday I spoke to a group of students from Buxton School – a progressive boarding school in Massachusetts. I mostly rambled on about hip hop for an hour and a half or so, and one of the things I mentioned was the book Bomb The Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt. I thought that kids [...]
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DC STYLES
SEE HOW DC GET DOWN:
ULTRA KGB (quick freestyle):
FLAM BACK ISSUE. CHELOVE CHARACTER (PIECES BY JASE):
COOL DISCO DAN:
DC SH*T
ONE MARKER ONE CAN!
WE STILL GET DOWN
FOR THOSE OF YOU TAKING MY STUDY BY BLOG COURSE ON HIP HOP METHODOLOGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE, HOW WOULD YOU USE THE DC STYLE DISPLAYED HERE FOR SOCIAL INTERVENTION AND ACTION?
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Tags: Che Love, Cool Disco Dan, DC Styles, Graffiti, Ultra KGB
Diamond District
Diamond District is the new DC Hip Hop group formed by Oddisee, YU and XO. Their first single “Who I Be” is an eerie synth boom bap production by Oddisee with ill verses by the whole crew. Their album “In The Ruff” will be released on April 14th. Check their website and the EPK – [...]
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Tags: Oddisee, XO, YU, Diamond District
ROOTS PICNIC
Oh so that’s why The Roots had P.E. and Antibalas on Jimmy Fallon last night. Roots Picnic 2009 : THE ROOTS, PE, ANTIBALAS PERFORMING NATION OF MILLIONS. I’m geeked.
Speaking of hip hop movements: please discuss
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Check out my exclusive post over at The Washington City Paper Music Blog Black Plastic Back. New Wale Single, DC Graffiti, DMV Awards, Lyriciss and more! DMV Hip Hop Round Up by PJ Urquilla.
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Tags: Wale, Sarah Godfrey, Teflon, XO, DMV Hip Hop, Apoxy, Asad Walker, borf, DC Graffiti, DMV Entertainment and Music Awards, Dot Com, Lyriciss, Paris Bustillos, Pro'Verb, Ultra, Word Beats and Life
DC GRAF
My man ULTRA has a great blog post about DC Graffiti – breaking down the go-go styles and evolution. Check it.
How can we use STREET VISUALS to communicate the urgency of the DC AIDS HIV EPIDEMIC?
HIP HOP – IT IS NOT A MOVEMENT IT IS THE METHODS
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Social Intervention
Look, we’re reframing UPSET THE SETUP’s local political action strategy right now and are going to be focusing on the AIDS/HIV PANDEMIC in the DISTRICT. This will be a direct action project to use the tools and methodologies of hip hop to address this problem locally.
Here is what I need to start
1. BRANDING. Lets [...]
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DC HIV/AIDS Rate at 3%
At least 3 percent of District residents have HIV or AIDS, a total that far surpasses the 1 percent threshold that constitutes a “generalized and severe” epidemic, according to a report scheduled to be released by health officials tomorrow. That translates into 2,984 residents per every 100,000 over the age [...]
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interislandsoundsystem.com
In the Caribbean sea a small squid came unto me and spoke:
Pedro, you shall work with DJ Eurok and Upset The Setup to build a mobile, interisland soundsystem for all of the massive and crew. You shall build an Ark to transport this system, powered by solar panels as you will travel the high seas, [...]
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Friday Night March 13
DETAILS:
Starting at 8: Art Party at Capitol Hemp
Featuring Optical Grooves Spinning
THEN
At 10 we are going to head up the street and Funk Out with GODISHEUS at Asylum
That’s a FREE show!
SO
Come for the new Art and
stay for the FREE show!
CAPITOL HEMP
1802 Adams Mill rd. Washington D.C. 20009
Asylum is located in the heart of Adams Morgan, DC [...]
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Tags: Godisheus, Head-Roc, Poem-Cees
Si Se Puede
A guest post by my cousin about the upcoming election in El Salvador where the leftist FMLN candidate is favored. Some are calling this the Obama-effect for Socialism in the hemisphere.
The Washington Post has a story today, In El Salvador Vote, Big Opportunity for Leftists.
Alexandra Marshall writes an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe [...]
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Tags: El Salvador, FMLN, Mauricio Funes
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