TAG: Dead Prez

Jul12

@c_rayz_walz drops All blVck Everything (MP3)

C Rayz Walz is currently sitting on 16 albums. It smust be amazing to actually know that, and it must make you a bette rperson knowing that you kind of have the world in your control My favorite on this album is Blvck like Burt Reynolds

The Sun Cycle MC, C-Rayz Walz returns with his first “EVER” free full length project, as he connect with the UK’s Dub MD to bring you “All Blvck Everything: The Prelude” a 16 track concept album, an amuse-gruel for the main course”All Blvck Everything LP.” The Prelude is a funeral, that represents the death of C-Rayz Walz old ways (Business & Personal) that have proven unproductive in the past. It also symbolizes the death of the competitions careers…Enjoy the Wake!

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May16

DJ Premier @ Echoplex 5/14/11 (Live Review) (Video)

A celebration dedicated to too many people to mention both living and resting (R.I.P. Guru), DJ Premier and the Beat Junkies (including DJ Rhettmatic and DJ Babu) absolutely obliterated hip-hop at the Echoplex on Saturday only to reconstruct it via expertly crafted golden age-inspired sets.  Babu and Rhettmatic made their way through the likes of James Brown, Dead Prez, …

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Apr12

The Freshman Class: The 6th Annual Paid Dues Festival

The most difficult challenge an artist may encounter is the struggle that comes with generating new fans while remaining true to their core audience. Fans often feel alienated when expansion happens too quickly. More than anything, it seems like they want to know that they are still being represented by the artists performing. Now apply this relationship between expansion and fans to the growth of a festival. For the past five years, Paid Dues has provided fans with the most consistent annual hip-hop festival, but with each year comes higher expectations as fans argue how Guerilla Union and Murs will be able to top themselves.  On Saturday April 2nd, at the NOS Event Center in San Bernardino California, the sixth installment of Paid Dues demonstrated that the best way to bring in new fans is to bring in new artists that represent the Paid Dues culture, and in doing so this installment the most successful to date.

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Jan20

Chicago: Every Drop Counts Benefit Concert for Haiti Relief, January 31

Featuring performances by: Fred Hampton Jr., M1 [of Dead Prez], Jean Grae, Mystic, Rhyme Fest, The Cool Kids, BBU, FM Supreme, Mic Terror, Mikkey Halsted, He Say She Say, Kids These Days, Haki Madhubuti, DJ Sean Mac, DJ Izzo, and more 

Every Drop Counts is a grassroots organization assembled in response to the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti.

A group of young artists and activists in Chicago came together with the goal to raise funds in order to send filtration equipment that will provide sustainable, clean bathing and drinking water. Thus, the name Every Drop Counts. They began by establishing a hip-hop and soul benefit concert—scheduled to take place in Chicago on Sunday, January 31, 2010. The benefit is meant to create awareness of the fundamental need and human right to access clean water. Water is an essential resource to the vitality of human life, it engenders prolonged community building and development. They are partnering with local sponsors and non-for-profits to insure we maximize the urgency of survival in Haiti, and their primary partner is the World Water Relief.

Every Drop Counts Benefit Concert, will include performances by:
Fred Hampton Jr., M1 [of Dead Prez], Jean Grae, Mystic, Rhyme Fest, The Cool Kids, BBU, FM Supreme, Mic Terror, Mikkey Halsted, He Say She Say, Kids These Days, Haki Madhubuti, DJ Sean Mac, DJ Izzo, and appearances by countless surprise guests.

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Jan12

Hip Hop Congress Reaching Cincinnati’s Youths

Hip-hop is a culture. And the root of any culture is to cultivate. 

Even the U.S. president claims to have hip-hop on his iPod. And as hip-hop has moved into the cultural mainstream, Hip Hop Congress has moved into the political mainstream, too. One of the largest hip-hop organizations in the country, this collective of artists, educators and community leaders is now stepping into a new role as a respected political force in their communities. Cincinnati’s chapter of the Hip Hop Congress is a particularly good example of what Hip Hop Congress is doing. Operations are located in a neighborhood that became the epicenter of racially charged riots following the police shooting of Timothy Thomas, an unarmed black man. But with the help of Hip Hop Congress, it is becoming an important part of the revitalization process. URB checked in with chapter leader Hakiym Sha’ir to see what’s up a year after Obama’s inauguration.

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