What happens when you cruise South Memphis looking for enough weed to make three blunts then lock yourself in an attic until you're done spitting verses? The answer is this new jawn called "Fame x Money" from Preauxx, Cities Aviv & Royal'T.
NOTE: This track has received the Good Hoodkeeping "Seal of Approval".
Memphis today has its fair share of people grinding away at what we would call 'traditional hip-hop' -- and if you're familiar with the city's Oscar-winning exploits, you'd see this as an opposing force to what the city is best known for creating. Memphis is, after all, the city that brought you Three 6 Mafia, Yo Gotti and Al Kapone, just to name a few. The current cultural emphasis on chillwave, lo-fi, echoes of latter-day indie rock and game-spitting masters of hip-hop like Guru (R.I.P), Mos Def and Pete Rock, have subliminally entered the regional zeitgeist, trickling down ...
Tonight at the Hi-Tone in Memphis, IMC (that's Iron Mic Coalition, y'all) hosts a CD release party for one of Memphis true school hip-hop family, Jason da Hater. All the details are on the flyer, but if you want more info peep these d's --
IMC presents...Jason Da Hater (CD Release) performance along with special guests...Artistik Approach, Infinito 2017, Mordecai, and comedian Richard Jones (other special guests TBA)
DJ Shamrock & DJ Capital A on the 1s &2s!
Doors open at 9:30p. Shows starts not too long after that...
$5 admission
Hi Tone Cafe
1913 Poplar Ave
Memphis, TN 38104
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Cassandra Ft. Tableek (Remix) by Scribble Records
Thanks go out to Hype Machine (who, if you haven't noticed, just put their site back in high gear) for adding me back to their queue. Thanks to The Confused Eclectic for posting this track by Yolazy today from Irish hip-hop label Scribble Records. This jawn is on point. We see you now. You next, aiight?
Along comes a video for yet another totally ill track off Skewby's epic "Proving You Wrong Since 1988" mixtape which, if you don't have already, you can get by clicking here and downloading it, aiight?
Skewby - "Talk 2 em'"
Is the world ready for Total Savage? Fresh off an opening bid with the Mashter of Ceremonies Girl Talk, Memphis rapper Total Savage is about as next as it gets. I think this video, directed by Brad Phelan, speaks for itself -- so let there be no question. Tonight, he'll be blowing up the stage at Hi-Tone with the grand masters of Aristocrunk, Lord T and Eloise. Get ready to get it bumping out the frame, Memphis.
As part of the 2009 International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, the Red Bull Music Academy put together a creativity workshop session featuring ?uestlove (the drummer for The Roots) and jam-jazz-folk legend Bela Fleck. During the weekend presentation at Ardent Studios, Quest addressed a series of questions from moderator Lucia Kaminsky about both his personal background in music and the state of the music industry over the 22 years in which The Roots have been together. Now, if y'all haven't ever heard Quest talking about anything before, you really ought to listen: he offered up to the tightly-packed ...
This is a very fresh new video for N.A.S.A.'s track "Hip-Hop". Featuring guest appearances from Slim Kid Tre, Fatlip and KRS-One, it's a bumping video bound to turn a party out. N.A.S.A.'s The Spirit Of The Apollo (including the song "Hip-Hop") will be released on February 17th.
Last year, I procrastinated heavily. I think there were a lot of good records that came out the last couple of years, but I started to think that for every record that came out, there was an equal number of these "best-of" lists being bandied about. At first I thought, "Wow, it's finally happened. Everyone's a music critic." Then, with this pervasive thought entrenched in my gourd, I started reading these other lists before making my own.
I suddenly felt small.
So deadlines for the "best of 2007" rolled around, and I was in a tailspin, dogged by ...
It's been a very busy and awe-inspiring year for A-Trak. Looking at the whole picture, he's worn the hat of DJ, mixer, arranger, producer, record label magnate and you know...what can I say? The man has really stepped up his game to another level. Even with so much on his plate, he appears to be taking it all in stride. If you read this blog with any frequency, you already know we tend to dote on A-Trak pretty heavily around here because, well....I mean, skillz. He's got mad skillz. Respect.
So we had to let ...
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