June 16, 2008 – 6:18 pm
THE RESULTS ARE IN! The first week proved to be a little bumpy, especially on the judges side, but we’ve finally decided on a winner. Before we announce the winner, let me just fill you in on some changes to the judges panel. As most of you know, Ivan (from Hip-Hop Is [...]
June 16, 2008 – 12:43 pm
DJ SoulClap hit me up over the weekend to let me know that his group, The Soul Occs, are putting the finishing touches on their new album. Apparently they have a few special guest appearance that they can’t announce yet, but they were able to leak us this new track that they did here [...]
June 16, 2008 – 8:23 am
Kev recently posted up anything you need to know about Element of the LA group Custom Made. A fairly popular group, Custom Made has been heavy on their Mixtape hustle and are expected to drop an album on Babygrande records soon enough. Element comes out on his own tip with Great Expectations (Part 5 of [...]
June 15, 2008 – 7:31 pm
Whoa, when I threw Outkast and Al Green out there last week to you all, I had no idea the heat that was gonna come back! 39 people remixed Outkast’s “Elevators (Me and You)” with some old school Al Green. Aside from the great production, a few other things surprised me… few of [...]
June 15, 2008 – 9:48 am
Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! I wanted to get Week 3 up before things get poppin’ today. I know a lot of you are wondering… “what about the winner for week 1?”. Well, we’re almost there. I just ask you guys to be patient. If you [...]
June 15, 2008 – 9:16 am
Here’s another set from Grits & Porgies, the same cat that brought us the Brand Nubian samples. Here’s what Codester has the say about the Beasite Boys‘ Licensed To Ill…
The Beastie Boys are known for their crate-digging and sample usage, and I’m sort of assuming I didn’t find every single sample they used [...]
June 14, 2008 – 10:56 am
Props go out to Andrew over at Musical Essence, who hooked up these samples to the classic Fugees album, The Score. I had honestly never thought of doing a sample set based on this album, but it’s surprisingly a very nice set.
The Score is produced by a variety of producers including each member of [...]
June 14, 2008 – 10:05 am
Yo, my man Tudakay was on 90.1FM in Long Island recently with DJ Cut Supreme, doing some promotion and what-not. They got on the subject of underground hip hop and the music industry. This video represents everything that I try to make this site out to be. Check it out… big ups [...]
June 13, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Brand new mixtapes jumping off this week from DJ Warrior & Felli Feli, DJ Whoo Kid, and Don Cannon & DJ Drama! Click covers to download…
June 13, 2008 – 9:55 am
Yeah I know this is a shameless plug, but it’s my web site dammit! I sat down a couple of months ago with emcee /journalist Cee-For for an interview; not on Cee, but on ME. I know, weird huh? Anyway, the article turned out great and was posted this morning on GrooveOn.com.au, [...]
June 13, 2008 – 8:52 am
Indie hip-hop icon C-Rayz Walz teams up with fresh-faced, yeshiva-trained wordsmith Kosha Dillz for twelve tracks that mix freestyle and written rhymes, classic and new-school beats, and the frantic, fast-paced energy of a single, manic 24-hour recording session to produce, yes, “Freestyle Vs. Written,” the first collaboration of its type. CMJ writes, “.. it’s both [...]
June 13, 2008 – 8:33 am
Yo, this videos is pretty hot. I love the realness behind it. Cats need to stop making the Bacardi and Crystal videos and go back to concepts. Props to Eljay Williams who directed this video from Kassius Kakes. First release off of the album Civil War.
Kassius Kakes’ MySpace Page
Eljay Williams’ MySpace [...]
June 13, 2008 – 8:23 am
I’m not really into the underground scene, but I’m glad my man Omer from the universoulproductions.com showed me this hungry young MC called Buff1. Buff is from Ann Arbor, Michigan and a part of the Athletic Mic League. Ten years after Athletic Mic League came together and making their [...]
June 12, 2008 – 2:26 pm
My man King E has been hard at work lately, remixing Joe Budden’s Mood Muzik 3 album. We haven’t heard anything from the King since he dropped his Heart Beats album back in February. This new joint should be tight! Here’s what King E has to say about this project…
A month or [...]
June 12, 2008 – 1:57 pm
One of our young producers on the site recently did a remix of Nas’ God’s Son. Tokyo Cigar has submitted remixes to us before through our remix contest and was even featured as one of my picks on our NY Edition Remixtape. Check the skillz here and let Tokyo know what you think!
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June 12, 2008 – 11:03 am
New, dope-ass video from Kaze, featuring Erv Ford and Wordsworth. Directed by Rick Foy & Wordsworth. Shouts out to J Master for the drop! This is that steez that hip hop needs!! Ha-ha!
Kaze’s MySpace Page
June 12, 2008 – 8:39 am
Yo, congrats goes out to our man MIDIMarc who recently came in first place at the Second Annual South Carolina Beat Street Beat Battle.
The show was crazy and producers from all over SC came through to hold it down! If you are in South Carolina and you missed this show you missed a classic! Fat [...]
June 11, 2008 – 4:33 pm
Hittin’ you again with another sample set from 1998, is Noreaga’s debut solo album N.O.R.E. This is a short set as a lot of the tracks on this album did not use samples. Production on this album was pretty good and stuck to the usually late-90s formula. But who could forget The [...]
June 11, 2008 – 8:31 am
Being new to the team allows me to review some albums and provide a helping hand to Kev, but moreover, it allows me to share my hip hop knowledge with all of you Nottinghammers. I will bring you a 5 set compilation of the Best of DJ Premier with explanations as [...]
