Archive for August, 2009
Mohammed Awol
So ancient it’s futuristic.
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Monday Video Throwback
I think I saw this video once back in 1996 when Ray and I would crash in the campus center room with the TV to catch a public access Philly hip hop video show. This was before I started the party and bullshit. WISE INTELLIGENT! Double Bonus: The 12 inch for this was amongst the [...]
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Dear U Street
Dear U Street I complain about you a lot; the traffic, the hype, the clueless transplants and the line at Ben’s. But deep inside, over the last 9 years – living in this neighborhood has changed my life. to all the friends, musicians, artists, business owners, and homeless peeps that make being my ‘hood great, [...]
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Latinas Unidas
LATINAS UNIDAS Performances by: LA BRUJA | NYL | MARIA J | JAH’NETTE | ISIS DIAMONDZ | CICI CARMEN | CRISTOPOLIS & DJ SOYO spinning the best in Urban Latino music! More info at www.latinohiphop.org Latin Jazz Alley – 1721 Columbia Rd. NW | Washington, DC 20009 Doors open @ 9pm | 18+, No Cover, [...]
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DJ set at ESL – 09.05.09
DJ Eurok (dj set) at Eighteenth Street Lounge. 9.5.9 I PLAY [HIP HOP | SOUL | FUNK | REGGAE | ELECTRONIC] RECORDS FOR THE SOUNDSYSTEM TO MOVE ELECTRONS SO DANCERS MOVE THEIR BODIES. A BALANCE OF THE OLD AND THE NEW FROM AROUND THE PLANET ROCK IN THE SPIRIT OF THE TRUE AND ORIGINAL HIP [...]
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Monday Video Throwback
Double Bonus: Rapper behind ‘Roxanne’s Revenge’ gets Warner Music to pay for Ph.D
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What’s wrong with DJing in 2009
1. That the technology exists to play something this wack and yet maintain cool points by doing it on a Technics 1200 2. That there are people of legal drinking age who have some fond pre-teen memory of this song’s existence. 3. That playing something this wack could be justified as being ironic or somehow [...]
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The high price of cheap food.
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won’t bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and [...]
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My two cents
1300 U Street NW- 10 AM She was walking out of the Rite Aid with her friend and threw something on to the sidewalk. I assumed it was trash until I realized that she had tossed her spare change on the sidewalk. “You got it like that shorty?” I asked. “Excuse me?” [Blank stares abound] [...]
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Jump and Funk
Saturday Aug 22 at Liv – 2001 11th ST NW – DJ Rich Median and DJ Underdog. Also, next Friday – Lunchbox Theory and DJ Underdog are back at Selam. THIS IS GOING TO BE OFFICIAL. Dopest party in DC right now. No corny DJs/Hipsters/Fashionistas. Dance or get out.
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Ramadan Mubarak
Strength, guidance and blessings! Ramadan Mubarak.
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Tuesday 11PM I was on my way home from 14th and U when I saw her walk out of the Tattoo shop with two garbage bags. Every night after close, she takes out the trash and leaves the bags in the trash can by the jumbo slice. The tattoo trash bags rest upon a pile [...]
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Just Ice ft KRS One “Going Way Back” Dolge – tell Just i said what up!
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Sundays are for digging
My ideal Sunday: coffee, the Post, plato la union from El Paraiso, and 3 hours digging for records at Som. Lets me dodge the U street tourists and still enjoy my neighborhood which is a rare occurance these days. Came up on this Mecha Branca record from Brazil – 1959. Classic samba.
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Da Apple Store Kid
Nicholi Flav goes to his local Apple store and makes videos of himself lipsyncing to songs from iTunes and uploads them to YouTube. He gets more views than most local rappers. GENIUS. If I was going to pitch a social media strategy to a major record label tomorrow this might be on the top of [...]
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Saturday at Almaz
DMV Vs NEW JERSEY BEAT BATTLE August 15th @ ALMAZ 1212 Ustreet Tonite – FRIDAY – DMV vs NJ Producer Battle. Featuring the DMV’s Surock, Nick da 1da, Ardamus, Soulograph. Performance by Enoch. DJ Eathe1ne and DJ Max on the 1s and 2s. UPDATE: Surock won this joint hands down crushing the competition. MentPlus from [...]
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Monday Video Throwback
I reminisce for a spell.
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UPSET THE SETUP VS THE HUNDREDS
I’m humbled they think so much of our motto that they want to bite our shirts. Thanks for the design guys. SEE YOU ON THE STREETS. First Alife now The Hundreds! El Gran Diego, PLEASE FIRE UP THE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE! I see anybody rocking or slanging this in DC they getting run on! YA [...]
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RIP John Hughes
Dear John Hughes. Thanks for helping me contextualize my otherness in a sea of 1980s suburban whiteness.
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Upset The Setup
Hip Hop music, culture and politics from Washington DC. by dj.eurok aka PJ Urquilla aka PEACE JUSTICE UNIVERSAL.
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