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* THESE GUYS ARE THE FUTURE *
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Eat Skeet Mondayz has been bubblin' with the most talented DJ's, performances, and party people. If you missed the past few weeks, you should find a speaker and BLOW YOUR EARS OFF....
anywho, come through!
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I first heard the rumors on Twitter yesterday and I cried because a rumor to that magnitude was enough to hurt me, then when his death was confirmed I cried even more because losing Michael Jackson is losing part of me.Michael Jackson was apart of my childhood along with many other fans on a global scale.
My very first concert was a Michael Jackson concert thanks to my Daddy, and to this day my Dad will still ask me, "Do you remember when I took you to that Michael Jackson concert and when he came out on stage you took off running down the aisle and security had to grab you?".
I remember living in Pacoima and every Saturday my Dad would get up early in the morning and wash his light blue Regal, and like a Daddy's girl I would be outside with him probably getting in his way but in my mind I was just helping him. When my Dad had his Regal, he had Michael Jackson's Thriller album on an 8-track and every body in my family knew back then, that if they wanted to see Kristin dance all they had to play was "Billie Jean" and it was a muthafuckin' wrap.
So washing my Dad's car, one day his Michael Jackson 8-track began to deteriorate because we listened to it so much. So if you know me, then you know I will roll until the wheels fall off. So my Dad and I are washing his car and Billie Jean came on, on the worn out 8-track and the song was playing in slow motion. Well THAT slow motion version was new to me and became my new version of Billie Jean. After washing the car I would be home with my Mom singing Billie Jean in slow motion and she was puzzled when I first started singing the song in my new slow motion version because she didn't understand why I was doing that, then my Dad told her the 8-track was giving out while Billie Jean was playing and that really tickled her and my Mom still talks about that to this day.
I can talk about Michael Jackson and his achievements as an artist and what he means to music and HOW HE CHANGED MUSIC and how he was the first Black artist to be featured on MTV, that's right, IF IT WASN'T FOR MICHAEL JACKSON THERE WOULD BE NO MTV. I have so much to say about him and I hope to enlighten and stray people away from this so-called "Jacko" image that attacked him later in his career.
I plan to write every day next week about his achievements as a music artist because he is bigger than Elvis Presley, he is bigger than Beyonce, he influenced Justin Timberlake, and Usher, and Chris Brown, and I will get into all that next week. There is soooo much to know about this man and his fight for humanity and I am really sadden by his death. He will forever live on in spirit and I thank him for his inspiration. Today I leave you will his Billie Jean video.
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Here's Pac Div's video for "Mayor"
It's shot on location all over Los Angeles.
Right down the street from my house (THE FORUM)
I was expecting a lil more cameos, but hey what I can say??
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The track is produced by Illmind - so you know it's a banger. Definitely, listen to what Bambu is spittin'.
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The 87 Stick Up Kids hit the internet and the world with their first EP release "OUT 4 FAME" and this is what a favorite journalist/blogger/ear to the ground had to say -
"Besides establishing The 87 Stick Up Kids as one of the illest acts on the new school West Coast scene, ‘Out 4 Fame’ portrays a group that mxes the best elements of artists like Time Machine and The Cool Kids on a Cali tip.
With 808 kicks drums, electro claps, classic breakbeats, synthesizers, vocoders and irreverent lyrics that pay lip service to Hip-Hop's Golden Age and True-School eras, ‘Out 4 Fame’ is easily one of 2009's strongest Hip-Hop records.."
-El Keter - imageyenation.com
We celebrated this milestone in SK 87 history with a release party at their LA stomping grounds Dance Right at La Cita. Along with collaborators Hollyrock and DJ Mike B we rang in this new era.
Click to see video coverage of the party on VIMBY.com - http://www.vimby.com/video/music/us/all/detail/10141
Click here to download OUT 4 FAME - http://out4fame.com
If you've missed recent shows no need to fret because there are plenty coming your way over the next few weeks.
June 24 - Viper Room, Hollywood, CA - Early showcase with Nola Darling (Doors at 7:30)
July 2nd - Blunt Club, Tempe, AZ - With Troublemaker and Tate la Rock and more.
July 3rd - Party Foul, Phoenix, AZ - With Troublemaker, KevinM.O.B, Bigie and more.
July 4th - Shake and Pop, Salt Lake City, UT - With Troublemaker and more.
July 5th - TBA
July 6th - More Fire, San Bernardino, CA- With Troublemaker and more
July 8th - Awesometown @ Shortstop, Echo Park, CA - Tour return party and Troublemaker Album Release
July 27th - Spaceland, Silverlake, CA - With Andy Clockwise!
Hope you can make it to some or all of these shows.
Check http://myspace.com/the87stickupkids for always up to date information
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Tweeters - Follow @Deacon87 and @DJRockwell87
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Here's a couple tracks to get a vibe for each producer:
Moonshine & Diz Gibran - "Capital D"
Dibiase & UNI / Black Milk - "Castle Vee Re-Up"
Vann Clayton & Chris Phillips - "Get Large"
RC - "Amilli Remake"
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Butterscotch has blessed us with her performance at the Zu Crew/The Spliff Food Drive on Saturday.Check her out on America's Got Talent in 2007 and if you guys would like to know more about Butterscotch check out the other video "Butterscotch Impresses On America's Got Talent"...
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Thank you to everyone who was able to make it out to Hancock Park this Saturday. We raised about $600 in monetary donations and had five heavy ass boxes of canned good going to the Downtown Los Angeles Food Bank. The event was such a success that we may end up with more charity events before the year is out.
Here are two performances from Saturday. Butterscotch with her flyyy lady dopeness performance and another performance clip from DKLA, the artist that started to non-profit organization ZU CREW NATION.
Butterscotch
DKLA
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Here are two performances from Saturday. Butterscotch with her flyyy lady dopeness performance and another performance clip from DKLA, the artist that started to non-profit organization ZU CREW NATION.
Butterscotch
DKLA
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KARRIEM IS A LEGEND!
I was so starstruck back in 2004 when I first met Karriem on Common's "Electric Circus" Tour...He was part of Common's band at the time...I drove some odd miles to House of Blues Anaheim for the show. I remembered Talib Kweli & KanYe West opening up...I walked up to Karriem after the show and thanked him for making Electric Circus dope! I can't believe that was 5 years ago.
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TiRon was one of the artists on the bill back on May 30th Lyricist Lounge show with Pac Div x Mickey Factz x U-N-I. This morning I was emailed this interview that took place before his performance by The Guest List. It's pretty Dope. Watch...
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TGL - TIRON @ MIGHTY from BeatStreetS on Vimeo.
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I can only digitally express so much joy that I have and anticipation for The Spliff x Zu Crew can food drive. Being in The Spliff Alumni, we have watched it become the giant that it is today and feel that it is our responsibility to consistently give you the best talent that you may or may not have seen or heard before.
I will be sharing my favorite performances/stories through out the week in order to commemorate the food drive.
This video is of Inglewood's own Three-One-Zero for the March 7th Spliff.
This was one of Chuck's first performances and he was really excited about it, enough to make this own recap video that you see here. I also enjoyed the band Ars Poetria, they performed at the begging of the Spliff and it was one of those additions that Val added to "mix up" the talent. Anywho here's the video.
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I will be sharing my favorite performances/stories through out the week in order to commemorate the food drive.
This video is of Inglewood's own Three-One-Zero for the March 7th Spliff.
This was one of Chuck's first performances and he was really excited about it, enough to make this own recap video that you see here. I also enjoyed the band Ars Poetria, they performed at the begging of the Spliff and it was one of those additions that Val added to "mix up" the talent. Anywho here's the video.
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Detroit's Finest, MARV WON, released a song...
Marv Won - CHUCKY
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Okay so last I left off with a multitude of topics I could possibly drown you in and first on that list was this Charles Hamilton fella. Since the stories are becoming more sordid and ridiculous on the daily I figure the floor is free for me to drop my 2 cents into the collection plate. Long story short my experience is this: his ex and my good friend, Briana Latrise, calls me up raving about the bounty of people who are raving about my verse on Check 1, 2 with Verbs and Ty(myyyyyyy niggas). One of those people happened be Charles Hamilton who happened to be in the car as we talked, and she happened to put him on the phone in which he proceeded to tell me I "sound like and ill ass nigga from '96, dead ass." A typical industry conversation occurred where he asked me what my plans were, I told my quest to find a good studio and record my album, he invited me to a studio he had no connect to and never saw it through; much to my delight because I'm actually not fond of his rap skills to begin with (peer to peer rule number 3: if you give somebody praise for their work and they don't respond in kind, its one of two things: they don't know you or don't feel the same). The end. Now as for his ex and the "civil assault", he had it coming. Don't look for me to put any of her personal life out on the streets, besides that's her life tell anyway. All I know is that he deserved every knuckle that turned his jaw. There are just certain things you don't do to a stand-up woman. And involving the rest of this shit. This beat stealing and false executive production credit.. eh, let the chips fall where they may. If some wild niggas from the inner city slums of the "De-twa" hem him up like a seamstress, let the chips fall where they may. If this producer fella, who's, no disrespect, name eludes me right now, calls Mr. Hamilton out and thusly sabotages his career, let the chips fall where they may. What many don't know about Charles Hamilton is, though he is not diagnosed with any mental illness, this is not the case of a "foul nigga" but rather an emotionally and mentally retarded young man in the strictest sense of the word. Retarded as in regressed or stunted growth. He's more a child in a man's body. I don't say that in his defense but more to illustrate exactly what we're dealing with here. Any "man" who harbors an odd obsession of a video game character or passes off their religious wearing of pink as some sort of homage to women's vaginas as the birthplace of civilization is not only crazy but lying through their teeth and a complete narcissist. Narcissism is an obvious trait in children where typically they have to be taught to share and be selfless. And to remove bias, Dilla's not my favorite producer of all time or even the one I consider the best, but his skill and influence are unquestionable should be respected at the utmost level. If for nothing more than a respect for the dead. Now I'll use production and... death, I guess, to segue into the music and movies portion of this "catch up." I'll start with a group that my bro, Dj Val the Vandle hipped me to. Wait, real quick, this saying bro thing is funny to me. I've been saying bro for forever but for me it came from a short list of individuals I call "my bro"... as in my brothers. Even further than that it also was something I knew of only bloods saying. Now I can't go anywhere without someone using it as a greeting. Anyway, the groups name is Rah Band and they're what I call "the Neptunes before the Neptunes." They're a late 70's, early 80's, jazz, funk, disco, fusion group and are surprisingly ahead of their time. Here's on of their signature songs Messages From The Stars. To really see why I call them "the Neptunes before the Neptunes" check for a song called Float.
Now the film is a rather long one by a rather prominent actor. The movie's full title is "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. I'm an admitted movie buff so it's not uncommon of me to be up at 5 in the morning scrolling through HBO or Showtime ondemand looking for new movies. When I stumbled upon this movie last year, I did expect it to be a regular ole' western. Almost completely to the contrary it was neither regular or old. It was released as recent as 2007 and is apart of a long string of new westerns that use interpersonal script writing and better movie making techniques to tell the same story a new way. "Seven" made me a fan of Brad Pitt, "Gone Baby Gone" made me a fan of Casey Affleck (thought I've known about him since "Good Will Hunting") and this being the fourth time they've paired up, including the Ocean's Eleven series (some of my personal favorites), the haven't lost a step. Do yourself a favor and see this movie, homes.
See the trailer here: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2897281305/.
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Now the film is a rather long one by a rather prominent actor. The movie's full title is "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. I'm an admitted movie buff so it's not uncommon of me to be up at 5 in the morning scrolling through HBO or Showtime ondemand looking for new movies. When I stumbled upon this movie last year, I did expect it to be a regular ole' western. Almost completely to the contrary it was neither regular or old. It was released as recent as 2007 and is apart of a long string of new westerns that use interpersonal script writing and better movie making techniques to tell the same story a new way. "Seven" made me a fan of Brad Pitt, "Gone Baby Gone" made me a fan of Casey Affleck (thought I've known about him since "Good Will Hunting") and this being the fourth time they've paired up, including the Ocean's Eleven series (some of my personal favorites), the haven't lost a step. Do yourself a favor and see this movie, homes.
See the trailer here: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2897281305/.
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Shout out to The Takeover for giving us the heads up on this..
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GO DOWNLOAD THIS LOS ANGELES NATIVE'S MIXTAPE!
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These dances are getting more and more.... "feminine" .... someone bring back the crip walk or something... daamn!
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....and the FREE music jus keeps rollin in. STiX laced us with this fresh new mixtape of him goin in over some very beasty instrumentals from 2 of the greats.
STiX - 2Notorious
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Another FREE Download courtesy of DJ SeanO...
Make sure you keep your eyes/ears close to this man - He's going places.
He's one of my favorite DJ's becuase he does his homework, Which some of yall should start to do!
DJ SeanO Presents: I'm Pretty Sure I Got More Funk Than You
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Its been wayyyyyyyy tooooo long. I might have to title these posts "A Shot of Belvi to the Head... Yearly." Now that I'm finally posting something I'm really not sure what to talk about. I could talk about how Charles Hamilton seems to be affecting everybody's life in one way or another, defend his ex-girlfriend (close personal friend of mine) and tell my Charles Hamilton story. I could talk about this ridiculous "Closets and Elephants" series and how they supposedly are exposing industry homosexuals, most notably Kanye West. I could talk about the importance of the "D.O.A." track from Jay-z and how it relates to the decay of interesting music. I could talk about up and coming artists who aren't living or haven't sniffed a wiff of the shit they've spoken (don't ask, don't tell). Hmm.. so many lanes only one vehicle. I guess I'll stave all that off for later and just drop some new this or new that to make up for lost time. Lets start with the art, lets start with Nathan Sawaya.
Oh yeah... these are Legos! Further proving that there are no limits to art. Now for the fashion. Let's go with Live Mechanics and I.K.W.T. [(In Kicks We Trust) see inkickswetrust.blogspot.com for more].
Live Mechanics have without question mastered the art of the up-collar. Now of course they have more than thick leather coats with up-collars and spandex wrists/waists. But these are great illustrations of some of their best work.
Okay for all those that have no get up and go, no drive, no focus... be shamed. These shirts, these designs, that logo, all designed by a kid not yet out of high school. That's right. The last school he became an alum of was a middle school where he probably had to wear a uniform. Now he plans on dressing the world.
I'll leave it at this for now. The plan, tomorrow, music and movies. But for now... LAKERS!!!!!!!!
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Oh yeah... these are Legos! Further proving that there are no limits to art. Now for the fashion. Let's go with Live Mechanics and I.K.W.T. [(In Kicks We Trust) see inkickswetrust.blogspot.com for more].
Live Mechanics have without question mastered the art of the up-collar. Now of course they have more than thick leather coats with up-collars and spandex wrists/waists. But these are great illustrations of some of their best work.
Okay for all those that have no get up and go, no drive, no focus... be shamed. These shirts, these designs, that logo, all designed by a kid not yet out of high school. That's right. The last school he became an alum of was a middle school where he probably had to wear a uniform. Now he plans on dressing the world.I'll leave it at this for now. The plan, tomorrow, music and movies. But for now... LAKERS!!!!!!!!
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Yesterdat, I posted the LIVE footage from Master Blazter's show at the Natural History Museum (DAMMM, I wish I coulda caught the show). A few hours later I got an email about J1's fresh new beattape called, The YouTube Ep. So, by the powers above I pass it on to you guys. Here's a few words from THE DEER himself:
"THAT'S RIGHT Y'ALL WE COMIN WITH ANOTHER ONE. THIS TIME ALL THE CHOPS AND SAMPLES WERE TAKIN FROM THE SITE.. I HOPE YOU DIG IT AND PLEASE SEND US THAT FEEDBACK TO LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK...AVAILABLE NOW 4 FREE DOWNLOAD...WE ARE THE ANIMAL KINGDOM...WE REIGN SUPREME!!!!"
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I've played this track a couple of times during the Spliff, and always had heads askin me "Yo, what song is that?!?!?" I simply replied "DAM-FUNK, go research that."
Hopefully, you did your research, and if not, here's a LIVE version of the song.
Dam-Funk is accompanied by his band,
MASTER BLAZTER
(J1 - Drums, Computer Jay - Keys, Dam-Funk - Vocals/Keys).
Watch the video and go research all these amazing artists!
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This has got to be one of the sickest tracks I've heard in awhile.
Something about the drums just hypnotizes the mind...
Plus anything Karriem touches is grand in itself.
DOWNLOAD Karriem Riggins "Soul On Top"
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They will be coming to LA very soon so keep your eyes open!
(Lyricist Lounge 2009) from The SPLIFF on Vimeo.
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THE SPLIFF WILL NOT BE HELD AT REHAB!!!
Due to circumstances beyond our control(mainly on REHAB's side of the fence) The SPLIFF is being forced to re-locate.
In an effort to keep the Spliff BRAND alive, we are still organizing events, creating music, and promoting LA talent.
We have teamed up with Zu Crew Nation and put together a SPLIFF Showcase, that will be housed at "The 1st Annual Food Drive."
The food drive was put together to bring awareness to the world, that the URBAN YOUTH(Yes, that's how we are perceived by the general public) can do something good for their community. With that being said, I will leave you with the flyer for the upcoming Food Drive
PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE DATE
(THIS IS THE 1ST TIME A SPLIFF IS NOT BEING HELD ON THE 1ST FRIDAY!!!)
The SPLIFF
SATURDAY JUNE 20th 2009
11AM - 6PM
HANCOCK PARK (La Brea TarPits)
CANNED FOOD, CLOTHING, SHOES, & OTHER DONATIONS ARE ALL ACCEPTED!!
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Can you imagine how this little boy felt when he realized that President Obama's hair felt...just like his? What an inspiration this experience must have been. To be so young and realize the President is just like you. Look at the expression in his eyes, I can just imagine what was going through his free little mind.
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As always - The SPLIFF LA is ahead of the game with this one...
This time around Amsterdam-based producer Full Crate teamed up with Versis from Cali to create a lovely laid back hiphop track. In case you don't remember or haven't heard of "She Was Fly" or "Aftersexin'" please educate yourself and download these two gems for free.
Brand new joints soon to come so support good music and spread the word!
Click here to download "Make Me Laugh"
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Diz Gibran recently opened for Mos Def and here's a little footage from the tail end of the show...Its crazy that i'm just now getting this footage but whatever...
In 2 weeks, Diz will be headlining the Radionine show with Clipse & B.O.B. so make sure you go cop your tix now
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CLICK THE FLYER TO DOWNLOAD THE MIXTAPE!!
Broccoli Kung Pao x Diamond Supply Co. Presents
The "Skeme of Things 2" Mixtape Release Party
@ The Grandstar
943 N Broadway
Downtown Los Angeles 90012
9PM - 2AM
Live Performances by
Skeme & Special Guests
Dj's Spintelect and Printz
W/ Special Guest Dj Patrick Chewing
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Broccoli Kung Pao x Diamond Supply Co. Presents
The "Skeme of Things 2" Mixtape Release Party
@ The Grandstar
943 N Broadway
Downtown Los Angeles 90012
9PM - 2AM
Live Performances by
Skeme & Special Guests
Dj's Spintelect and Printz
W/ Special Guest Dj Patrick Chewing
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You ever ran into those emcee's that just LOVE to rap? Well after Da Poetry Lounge sometime last year the homie 2saunt from Long Beach wanted to play some beats for me and then ALL this ended up happening.
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Sooo since Captain Simian is one of the hugest VerBS fans I know, it's wierd that he didn't post this...However, if you've been tuning into the Los Angeles hip hop scene - then you know that Intuition/VerBs are the new coming of MURS/Atmosphere.Their new EP entitled "Buzz" has some pretty fresh new sounds for your ears...
Download Here:
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Peep the various spots Pooh hit up during his recent stint in the city of Angels.
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