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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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In honor of their recent re-release of four extremely influential west-coast hip hop albums from the likes of Ice Cube, NWA, and Eazy-E, Priority Records and URB have joined forces to provide one lucky grand prize winner with all four titles on vinyl. Hit the jump for the full prize break down as well as the details for entry. You only have until this Friday (Oct. 15th) to enter, so hurry up and put that bid in!
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Think back for second, it was 1988 and five dope boys comin’ “Straight Outta Compton” were dropping an album by the same name. If you remember it was furor. Politicians and the like were up arms from this new style “ganster rap” that (gasp) cursed in every verse. God lord, what are we teaching our kids?
Fast forward 22 years. Holy shit! My how times have changed. That is unless you watch Comedy Central and get annoyed by the constant bleeping of Chris Rock’s entire act. Some stones are yet to be overturned… or thrown depending on which side you are on. If you feel like reliving those arcane glory days when words were more than words you need to hit THIS SITE. Someone with far more time than you and I has edited out the entire Straight …
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The Sounds of VTech / Hypnotic Brass Ensemble by Mochilla
This is a video re-cap from a recent live performance in Los Angeles from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, featuring an arrangement by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson (Suite for Ma Dukes), in their cover of Rene Costy’s “Scrabble,” a song sampled by the late great hip hop producer, J Dilla for his song “Fuck the Police.”
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are a family, literally. Born in Chicago, these 8 brothers are all sons of their father Phil Cohran, who was a songwriter and trumpeter for Sun Ra. With a heavy upbringing in the jazz tradition, the brothers also started listening to hip …
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