... the other Black experience
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DJING (deejaying / turntablism)
B-BOYING ('breaking', uprocking, downrocking and boogeying)
GRAFF (graffitti art)
for starters: www.zulunation.com
Whether ol' head classicist or newbie rap fan, put it out there.
What you like or don't like, events, music, films, videos, websites, publications, performances, gears, artifacts, etc.
If you're curious have questions or think you know everything about Hip Hop, let's discuss it. This is open but let's be easy on the " f**k pop / ol' school / new school " 'cause there mad other spots to spit vitriol. Hold me accountable too.
It's yours!...
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Permalink Reply by X-D-D-M*9 on
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Will check that Thrift Shop, CE. You're in "the desert"; is that a metaphor or for real with the cacti & scorpions?...
I'm almost angry I only discovered dude this year. Yeah PV I'm actually purchasing GKMC retail on CD (ol' school, ha) the special edition with the van on the cover. This is the rare case today of buzz & hype being worthy. Big shout to their producers; Willie B, MixedByAli and a few cats I don't know yet. Their music is bangin' and atmospheric, fits each song perfectly.
Here's the opening track; the rest are on YT with the sequence somewhere. Below that is the whole album uniteruppted 'cause you don't have to skip a song, ha (for real). I don't do iTunes (yet) so I did 'legally' download Section 80 but I will be giving TDE my cash for their merchandise & quality product.
X-D-D-M*9 said:Westsiiiiide!
Ya boy Kendrick Lamar's Section 80 album. Released as a free download, I've only heard 3 tracks and it's a banger and creatively breaking new ground. Hope Dre knows what to do with him...
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on -
metaphorically and literally. I was in a classroom at one of the local junior colleges once and the teacher stopped the class and had everybody stay in their seats because a scorpion was cruising across the floor.
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Oh sh...word? I hear the Good, Bad & the Ugly whistle theme playing; rock you like a hurricane.
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I did check that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 'Thrift Shop' fnunnuy stuff. His other stuff is cool & I respect his indie hustle.
Bros, I still can't stop laughing. Real and outrageous, check the tattoos & lyrics haa...
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Oh and now with my new gig I've had a crash course in popular audio gear & technology. So if anybody has any questions about speakers or headphones, holla a bro I might have some info on quality & prices.
For the record to start: the Beats by Dr. Dre have excellent sound yet the construction of the frames & wires has had complaints. Expensive starting $200 for the Solo HD, the entry-level on-ear phones (which still have cool sound). The Studios range about $250+ and the Pro $300, Executives $300+. All have great sonics but you could probably get the same for about half from Seinheisser (sp?) or under $100 from Skullcandy with the Hesh editions.
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on
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Congratulations on the new gig, XDDM. How do the platinum headphones compare to the 15 buck ones? Bus pass to Enzo?
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
Let the death threats begin!!!!!!
Hahahahaha. These kids killed them boys worse than 50 did. That is some creative ass, real ass, you know everybody else has been thinking the same thing ass shit.
X-D-D-M*9 said:I did check that Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 'Thrift Shop' fnunnuy stuff. His other stuff is cool & I respect his indie hustle.
Bros, I still can't stop laughing. Real and outrageous, check the tattoos & lyrics haa...
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^^^^ that whole song is comic genius. My favorite is the tatt "I think I'm everyone but me" ha
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On the headphones: yes Dre's Beats are superior quailty in sound. You can hear your music in clearer richer audio. I'd say the hype is about 93% true & worthy. But you can get excellent sound from headphones that cost half & even one quarter of Beats high price. The Skullcandy's are great as well and most cost less than $50.
And yeah K, you are are a customer paying 2-300 plus for headphoves. Well, those customers are growing legion; everybody and their granny is losing their minds over them. What I will give is that they give great superb sound but for me now, I just don't see paying that much.
I sure don't hate Dre for co-launching a high standard product and getting mad money from sellling it and earning 9 figures in the sale of the company. Shoot, he could have done the real small-time customer thing and took a meager sponsorship fee for selling a product. This was probably the best collaborative business move since 50 Cent took stock in Vitamin Water and cashed out for hundreds of millions also. Absolutely no way to knock their hustle.
Take Bose for example. They have high end noise cancelling headphones for $300 to $350. Great audio too. But they're plain and offer no cool factor. I ain't a trendy young buck but I understand why they run to get Beats. This was likely the best move ever by a producer who still hasn't released a full album in a decade; this has made him relevant for the next decade and generation that wasn't even born when The Chronic came out (damn I'm old, ha).
I simply take not much pleasure in seeing stressed parents of every color & background sighing about buying what their teenage children & grandchildren will be tossing aside and gathering dust by summer 2013. There is no way these will still be so cool & hip by fall that the youth & trendy public will say my '12 Beats still sound good, forget the new 2013 ones. My old ones still work...
Initially I thought Dre & Jimmy Iovine (head of Dre's label Interscope) selling their part in the company was premature and that they got out too early before the big future cash rolled in. But who knows? As hype as Beats are now they could easily be completely played out in the next year or so.
(Always Into Something, 1991)...I gotta get paid; paid in a hurry see...
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Permalink Reply by Medhane (muh don eee) Olu on -
16 year old rapper from BROOKLYN
fuck with me
thanks
hip hop is not dead
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http://boingboing.net/tag/hip-hop-family-tree
^^^ this series is soooo dope! The artist went all out in his artistic interpretation of events in Hip Hop creation. It's ongoing and the last ones are up, dig it.
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