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Since conducting the first Closed Session with New Orleans’ recording artist Curren$y, artists such as Amanda Diva, Kidz In The Hall, Tanya Morgan, U-N-I, Bun B, Donnis, Rhymefest, Skyzoo, Big Pooh, and many others have participated. The first Closed Sessions EP, presented and mixed by DJ RTC, will be released in March 2010 and will contain nine songs. The collection will be distributed digitally as a free download.
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America’s largest independent hip-hop gathering falls victim to economic and internal pressures. Will this king of Midwest festivals rise again?
Summer 2009: For the first time in its 13-year history, Cincinnati’s Scribble Jam, one of America’s largest hip-hop festivals, was cancelled. The event had become a Midwest institution, featuring both independent and internationally known artists while representing all aspects of hip-hop culture including graffiti art, DJing, break-dancing and audio production. For performers and fans, the event was a chance to participate in hip-hop as a living, breathing culture.
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In one week Rakim will be dropping his first album in 10 years. It seems hard to believe that one of hip-hop’s most legendary legends has not dropped an album in a decade. Since enough time has passed after all of the anticipation and musing that was taking place over Rakim’s collaboration with the good doctor and the recovery for everyone involved when that project never saw the light of day due to “creative differences” , fans are eager to unwrap Rakim’s early Christmas gift: The Seventh Seal (11/19). Hip-Hop, at its essence, has always been an exercise in mathematics, so as we look forward to the Seventh Seal dropping in a week, let’s also take a look back to a little over a week ago when Rakim and …
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