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Who Flipped It Better?: J Dilla: The Look of Love

by Morgan February 10, 2012 Debates

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Yo KN readers! In honor of February being the late great J Dilla month, today’s installment of Who Flipped It Better will examine one of my favorite Jay Dee produced tracks from his expansive catalogue from Slum Village’s classic Fan-Tas-Tic Vol.1. “The Look Of Love” samples Barney Kessel’s great jazz guitar cut of the same [...]

Celebrating Dilla Six Years Later

by Arasia Magnetic February 10, 2012 Editorials

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQIyuH1r4r0

“I’m so excited about his life. It’s such a celebration. How can you cry when you live to brighten the world with what he gave? I think his gift was something to brighten the world. So I’m just so super excited,” Ma Dukes Six years ago today, I remember exactly where I was and what [...]

Forgotten Classics: The Nonce – World Ultimate

by Jeff Leon February 9, 2012 Editorials

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In the early 1990’s, Los Angeles’ rap scene was blowing up, bringing to the national stage the brash, violent, and powerful music known as gangsta rap, and earning the left coast the distinction as the wildest cats around. But Cali was more than guns, women, and chaos. Taking a more subtle approach was a new [...]

Celebrating Big Pun 12 Years Later

by Arasia Magnetic February 7, 2012 Anniversaries

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“Dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middleman who didn’t do diddily” I remember the first time I heard Big Pun spit. It was 1997 and I was entering my senior year in high school. My boyfriend, homegirl and I were on our way to school [...]

The Magnetic Mindset: The Dreamers

by Arasia Magnetic February 6, 2012 Editorials

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It started with a dream and became a reality… Five years ago, Kevin had a dream. As a DJ and avid lover of music, he set out to create a destination for those that shared his tastes in music. In addition, he also wanted a place where he could rant (how many of you remember [...]

Ten Canadian Emcees To Watch For In 2012

by Jeff Leon February 6, 2012 Lists

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Hailing from Toronto, I try to keep up with rap released north of the border. While Canada’s had a Hip Hop scene since the early 80’s, it wasn’t until the late 90’s that we really started making noise. And within the past few years, we’ve seen the scene grow and artists and producers become recognized [...]

Vision Behind The Spittin: Phonte

by KN Staff February 2, 2012 Vision Behind The Spittin’

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The latest edition of our Vision Behind The Spittin’ series is special not only because we have Phonte sharing his visions with us, but also because it’s our first audio entry. Unlike our past versions, you’ll get to hear direclty from the Little Brother and Foreign Exchange emcee as he breaks down some of the best tracks in his [...]

Lyric Jones: Jones St. [Artwork + Tracklist]

by Kevin January 31, 2012 Coming Soon

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KevinNottingham.com got the jump on the artwork and tracklisting for the upcoming debut album, Jones St, from Lyric Jones. The Atlanta emcee has been hot on our radar since we caught wind of her last year. We were even fortunate enough to have her perform on our A3C Underground Express stage back in October. This [...]

R.I.P. Clare Fischer

by Duane Powell January 29, 2012 Rest In Peace

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The music industry lost another major player this weekend. Grammy award winning musician, producer, and legendary composer Clare Fischer died at the age of 83 on Friday from a heart attack. No musician has maintained a career in music as diverse as Fischer. He touched almost every genre of popular music in his fifty-year span. From his [...]

Ski Beatz Celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night

by Jeremiah January 28, 2012 Anniversaries

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As hard as it may be to believe, Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night turns 15 years old today. I remember listening to this album for the first time like it was yesterday. And being able to take a trip down memory lane with the albums producer, the one and only Ski Beatz, truly made this [...]

KN Certified: Boog Brown Rap Up

by Kevin January 27, 2012 KN Certified

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This past week, Boog Brown has been the center of our attention, as she was named KN Certified for the month of January. Special thanks goes out to Boog and Mello Music Group for helping make this week a success and thanks to the whole KN staff for their contributions this week. The Boog Brown [...]

What’s On Boog Brown’s iPod?

by Kevin January 27, 2012 KN Certified

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To finish up this week’s KN Certified with Boog Brown, Boog came through to share what she’s currently listening to. You’ll find a really nice blend of tracks from her Mello Music Group label mates to some more eclectic tracks from Radiohead and Tricky. The playlist is real nice and will definitely be transferred to my [...]

Forgotten Classic: Arts The Beatdoctor – Transitions

by Jeff Leon January 26, 2012 Forgotten Classics

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I’m always on the search for Hip Hop from different locales and one scene I keep coming back to is from the Netherlands. Yup, Holland has a dedicated Hip Hop scene, which features artists rhyming both in Dutch and in English, along with some very musical producers, the most notable one on this side of [...]

Visions Behind The Spittin: Boog Brown

by KN Staff January 25, 2012 Vision Behind The Spittin’

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There is nothing like listening to or reading about what went into the making of an artists’ musical catalog. From single songs to full albums, that inside view into the creative process, the meaning behind certain lyrics, studio session stories, and overall perspective is always interesting and nothing shy of fascinating. And our column Visions [...]

Playdough: Road Doggin [Exclusive]

by Justin January 24, 2012 Exclusive

We here at KN.com are proud to bring you some exclusive footage of Playdough’s most recent tour in a video dubbed Road Doggin. The short film highlights the Deepspace5 member’s tour adventures from shows, backstage hilarity, freestyling in vans and more. Don’t forget to cop Playdough’s new album Hotdoggin, which is available now on iTunes.

KN Certified: Boog Brown

by Arasia Magnetic January 23, 2012 Editorials

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The first time I met Boog Brown was last year in Atlanta at A3C. She had been on my radar for a while, but after hearing Brown Study, she put a chokehold on my attention, Buff Bagwell style. I immersed myself in the album from the stellar production, to the amazing stories that Boog told. [...]

R.I.P. Etta James (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012)

by Kevin January 22, 2012 Rest In Peace

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Legendary Rhythm & Blues singer Etta James passed away the other day just shy of her 74th birthday of complications from leukemia. Probably best know for her hit song “At Last”, Etta James’ music has been heavily sampled in hip hop by artists such as Kanye West, Nas, and most recently Flo’Rida. The music of Etta [...]

Who Spit It Better: T.W.D.Y. vs. Twista

by Morgan January 20, 2012 Debates

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Legendary vocalist Bill Wither’s uplifting song, “Lovely Day” plays the foundation for the tracks in today’s feature of Who Spit It Better. We’ll look at the rhymes of T.W.D.Y., a bay area group consisting of Ant Banks, Rappin 4-Tay, and Captain Save-Em, on their Ant Banks produced track, “Players Holiday,” featuring Mac Mall, Too Short, [...]

KN Goes on Strike to STOP SOPA

by Kevin January 17, 2012 KN Site Happenings

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Tomorrow, January 18th from 8am to 8pm Eastern Standard Time, KevinNottingham.com will strike in the form of a blackout in protest of SOPA & PIPA, two U.S. bills racing through Congress that threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression. The only other time that KN has ever willing-fully halted operations was in 2010 when we formed a 24 hour moment of silence [...]

Who Flipped It Better?: 9th Wonder vs. Slimkat78

by Morgan January 16, 2012 Debates

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Happy New Year to our readers and welcome to this year’s first installment of KN’s, Who Flipped It Better. Beginning with the sample of choice for the entry, “Let Me Ride,” we’re looking at an impeccably soulful song courtesy of 1970’s Chi-Sound Records band, Windy City. This song was flipped to create the two instrumentals [...]

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