Archive for February, 2010
On record stores closing
I was just up in Philly around 12th and Market looking for old record stores that I remembered from the 90s and most of them were closed. My man @vrbpro just tweeted me with this video he put together covering the closing of DC’s DJ Hut one of the greatest record stores! RIP Update 3/10/10 [...]
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Tags: decline of independent music stores, DJ Hut, VRB Pro
OFFICIAL RELEASE
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Say no to Venue Polling
go-go, punk rock, DC hip hop// POLLING AT VENUES HAS GOT TO STOP! Read this excellent piece from the City Paper on the practice of venue polling: a fairly common practice by which venues ask patrons what act they’ve come to see and sometimes use that data to determine payouts at the end of the [...]
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Tags: Black Cat, Head-Roc, Rock and Roll Hotel, Steve Lambert, Venue Polling, Washington City Paper
Reboot
In this era of the machines, the humans still make hip hop art. join us 4 turntables, 1 canvas, 2 mics, 4 drum machines and a laptop. Aniekan Udofia, DJ Undadog, Surock, DTMD, dunc, dj eurok, Orbit122, Maverick, hosted by Reemstarr Ikeso presents: Reboot Friday Feb 19, 2010 Velvet Lounge | 913 U St NW WDC [...]
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Diamond District is one of my favorite DC Hip Hop projects of ALL TIME. Check this footage from their 2010 European tour with Trek Life – ROCKING FOR DC OVER IN GERMANY!
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Tags: Diamond District, Oddisee, XO, YU
alli por calvary
Big Chuck had the block on lock with jocotes and mangos, summer of ’99 – slanging coconuts and jicama in front the Latin American Youth Center on Columbia Road Northwest like “hey PJ i heard they gonna put a Best Buy up there on 14th street. You think they gon’ put a Best Buy there? [...]
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Tags: CH
Dilla
once again, it seems like its “profit from J-Dilla’s legacy” time of the year. Anyone throwing events or making shirts in his name better holla at the Estate and Ms. Yancey less you get Charles Hamiltoned.
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Tags: Dilla, Exploitation, Ma Dukes, Yancey
MAYBE
maybe the next rally against Fenty, or for DC statehood, or against the wars should include a snowball fight – that way DC’s transient class of well-connected 20 and 30somethings will show up and we can get some press coverage.
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Tags: DC, snowball fight
This is why
this is why I don’t post local-rap mixtape demo spam. I’D RATHER WATCH JAPANESE CROCHET UKULELE VIDEOS.
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DTMD
DTMD – the new DMV hip hop group formed by producer Dunc (XO, Diamond District) and MC Toine – will be making their DC debut at Ikeso presents: Reboot on 2.19 at the Velvet Lounge. Check out their new EP – this is some really quality hip hop. Looking forward to rocking with them on [...]
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Tags: DTMD, Dunc, Ikeso Presents, Reboot, Toine, Velvet Lounge
Upcoming Shows
2.19 at the Velvet Lounge. Producers+DJs+MCs+Live Art = TRUE HIP HOP CULTURE
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Tags: dj eurok, Eighteenth Street Lounge, Velvet Lounge
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Hip Hop music, culture and politics from Washington DC. by dj.eurok aka PJ Urquilla aka PEACE JUSTICE UNIVERSAL.
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