Video wrap from Week 1 of Project Generation D @ Greene County High School. Features student interviews about what they have learned and what they think of the program.
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Purely a “foreign exchange” connection, California emcee Dumbfoundead hooked up with London producer Beatnik8 for this YouTube only collaboration. Excellent video right here and the track turned out tight! Let’s hope they release the song for full download soon.
Taken from the interviews for the book “How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC,” Big Daddy Kane explains that a real freestyle is a rhyme that is written down but is free of style. This is interesting, as a lot of people complain about how emcees freestyle today with their verses already written. Personally, I’ve always considered a freestyle to be something spit off the top of your head. What’s your take?
HiPNOTT Records recording artist Nobody Famous recently launched his music program for the kids: Project Generation D [read more here]. Seeing stuff like this is really inspiring. If done properly, music can be an extremely positive influence on our younger generation. Check this 15 year old 9th grader spit a freestyle above. Not bad!
Get an inside look at Cymarshall Law in this new video interview put together by Efficacy. All interviews should be done this well… props to Cy and props to Fiona Bloom!
JNOTA of Redefinition Records just put together a new clip promoting Damu’s upcoming project:
“Here’s a quick clip I put together to a Damu promo verse last night using miscellaneous footage that we have in the vault. There’s a whole lot of random stuff in here from various times and locations. The bulk of what you see here was shot by Damu’s younger brother while How It Should Sound was being recorded / finalized. You could expect some more footage of Damu behind the MPC in the coming weeks.
In any case, hold up on the rapidshare, megaupload, zshare, mediafire, usernet, blog / blogspot searches. Damu The Fudgemunk’s How It Should Sound Volume 1 & 2 will soon be available for purchase and download. Next week we’ll post a very brief and free EP version. Also just to be clear, How It Should Sound is an instrumental album and the audio from this video is not on the LP … its just a promo.”
I’ve been meaning to do these reminder posts the past couple of weeks since the new radio show premiered, but it always seemed like our site was having problems on Wednesday nights. Well, not tonight. So if you don’t know about the new radio show that’s being sponsored by us here at KevinNottingham.com, as well as HiPNOTT Records, now you know. Tonight’s show starts at 10pm Eastern Time (7pm Pacific). You can catch last week’s show over there to the right. Hit the jump for the goods on tonight’s show!
Diamond Music Group (DMG) & the renown New York street wear brand Dave’s Quality Meat (DQM) are pleased to announce the “Cellular Phone” Remix Contest. “Cellular Phone” is Kosha Dillz debut single from his LP, Beverly Dillz which was released this past November. The video for “Cellular Phone” is currently being featured on ‘MTV On Demand’, which you can view here. The prize package for the winning remix includes a digital distribution imprint courtesy of DMG in addition to some dope gear, courtesy of the good peole at DQM. The deadline for this contest is next Friday, March 26th.D ownload the files & instructions after the cut…GOOD LUCK!!
NCAA March Madness kicks off tomorrow and we’re inviting you to join us in our Bracket Challenge group on ESPN.com. Hit the jump for the group which is named “Twitter Challenge” with a password of “fatjoeisfat” to join. Sign up quickly because once the games start tomorrow, registration closes. Good luck & enjoy the games!
Just got wind of this via Twitter! 9th Wonder’s “Sampling Soul” class at Duke University is being streamed live at 6pm tonight (approx. 1/2 hour from now). Check it out above… tonight’s topic is Illmatic, Nas’ classic debut album. Don’t miss out… class is in session!
Edit: just updated the video above with the recorded class. Check it out if you missed it!
Last Thursday night, they had one hell of a cypher on Squeeze Radio for their 7th anniversary show. The show included some crazy guest performances from Pharaoh Monch, General Steele, Rockness Monster, El Da Sensa, Jean Grae, Tiye Phoenix and more! Check the clip above of John Robinson and Cymarshall Law doing their thing. Head over to Squeeze Radio to catch the full recording.
Check out this K-Beta and Diamond District collaboration produced by Kev Brown and with scratches by DMV’s DJ Alizay. This banger can only be found on K-Beta’s debut album Inglorious Beta, which drops on April 1 exclusively on DJBooth.net.
2DopeBoyz.com & Director Court Dunn present the third installment of “VERSES”, an acapella music video series where your favorite MCs drop a verse from their favorite MCs.
