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As we prepare to launch our Next 100 issue in the next few days, we thought we’d give you a treat and post up the full digital version of our last issue with 88-Keys on the cover. Flip through the entire mag online and click the links found on the pages to discover even more surprises. Hope you enjoy and let us know what you think of this new format.
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New joint from Next 1000 alum P. Casso featuring our good friend Donny Goines. Yeah, as the name would suggest, it’s pretty damn epic.
Next 1000 Top Movers Cloaked Characters deliver this podcast of current hip-hop hits that inspire this three piece crew from Oregon.
NEXT 1000 PODCAST: Cloaked Characters (Download)
1. “Guilty as Charged” Gym Class Heroes
Kenan Bell provides URB with an exclusive download from his latest project, “Good News: The Mixtape.” Bell will be releasing one track every week over 8 weeks, starting Mar 10th, of artists ranging from Gang Gang Dance and Pink Floyd to Jose Gonzalez to Neil Diamond. The project is the result of a Smiths remix that Bell did that eventually made its way through the interwebs and into Morrissey’s lap. Describing his philosophy on covering such diverse artists, Bell says “I wanted to rap over The Smiths because people said it couldn’t be done…Rap is a fatherless music. So, there are no guidelines or blueprints to follow. ‘Hip-hop’ is a term developed by Bambaataa, who sampled Kraftwerk, a German techno outfit. So who’s to say what …
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