Dashah and DJ Pause better known as Fresh Vetz, release the video and song for “Cigar Break“. The track appears on their latest album, “Fresh 2 Def,” which was named one of the top albums of 2011 by the legendary DJ Premier. The video was filmed at OK Cigars in Soho, NYC. Video was shot and edited by Charles A. Lamour and his crew “Gold Street Collective”
We might be nicely settled into 2012, but that doesn’t mean there’s not room for one more Best of 2011 list, especially when that list comes from DJ Premier. Of course, like all vinyl junkies, Preemo doesn’t actually stick to the assigned 25. How many of these Premier-approved records did you check last year?
Here’s the music video to Dope Addictz. I asked Dashah for a quote on the video and here’s what he had to say:
This is just a real raw rap video! The song is tough and we wanted to do something simple but also something that people can relate to. You know how many skaters are out there? It was really DJ Pauses’ idea to shoot at a skate park, seeing as he use to be a skater back in the day. We shot it at “Astoria Skate Park” in Queens NY, and Belief Skate Shop shout out to our director Charles A. Lamour and the whole Gold Street Collective, be on the look out for more …
With a new solo album and a new label (Rhymesayers), rapper Evidence will be the first person to tell you he is prepared to put in nothing less than hard work. We caught up with him before his show right as he received the news his DJ (Fresh) couldn’t fly to the show due bad weather conditions. But obstacles be damned, not only did his improvisational DJ deliver, Evidence also brought a female fan onstage and began to do a flawless rhyming duet and fearlessly rocked the spot without any “evidence” of hesitation.
“In 2011 putting out a successful album is a mirror of your effort. If you’re working hard at it and you deserve it, you’re getting paid.” …MORE
How was your year? Did you fall below the poverty line? Did you occupy something? Did you punch a Tea Partyer in the groin for ensuring the American Dream may forever languish behind your fading childhood memories? Maybe you lost your job because of real-life pressures or perhaps you stopped watching The X Factor and started recording your own shit. Whatever you did, here’s a few songs you might not have heard this year, because clearly you suck:



























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