Jon Connor demolishes his.
29.5.14
Eastsidaz Visit Snoop's GGN
The Eastsidaz join Nemo on this weeks GGN and its all love when family is together. They discuss upcoming projects together and reminisce on the good ols days when they made music at the Dogg House.
Logic "Toca Tuesdays" Freestyle
Last week, Logic dropped by the Toca Tuesdays studio to kick it with DJ Tony Touch. While on the show, Logic spit a quick freestyle.
Clever - On My Level Prod. JFXsosa
The 22 years old emcee from New Orleans brings the bounce back with this one. It's Gotta Be Something Clever currently in the works.
John Doe - Masterpiece Prod. CASSiC
From the depths of Central Florida, John Doe comes with a self explanatory record. With a Music Soulchild sample to compliment the melodic instrumentation, he kicks some knowledge to the audience.
Jeph Anthony - 93' Mixtape
Jeph Anthony, releases a new mixtape entitled “Anthony ’93.” This project features 11 tracks with production from Al Dali, CEO Beatz, Noel Figuero, and Yacht Club’s in house producer Flâneur. With only one feature being Rico Rich, Jeph showcases unique flows, diverse content, and hard hitting lyrics track after track. Enjoy and be sure look out for more from Jeph Anthony as well as 97 Yacht Club.
Jae-R Benjamin - Earth EP
Jae-R Benjamin delivers his 5 track EP titled, Earth. The Atlanta talent provides us with a great sample of his artistry building upon organic sounds and showing off his straightforward flow. This is a solid offering similar to the sounds of TDE's Isaiah Rashad, tune in.
Reggie Gold - "WYM" Music Video
Reggie Gold of Young Gods of America creative agency releases a new video.
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Rodney Cole - STiXX & STONE$ EP
2TightKrewe.'s Rodney CoLe releases his highly anticipated EP STiXX & STONE$. The NWLA lyricist opens up and expresses some of his deepest thoughts while illustrating a vivid picture of wat it feels nd sounds like to be on the verge drowning in your own enviornment. Download and stream below.
Bass6 - Lucid Dreams Mix Vol 2
Toronto DJ / producer duo, The Bass6, return with the second instalment of their weekly mix series, Lucid Dreams. Volume 2 features the likes of Party Next Door, Skeme, Mac Miller, Flex The Antihero, Rashid St. James and more. Checkout Pt. 1 here.
Dillan Ponders - XXX (Remix) Ft. Ziba
Buzzing Toronto emcee DillanPonders recruits UK songstress Ziba & producer Stephen Bonas for the official remix to his single, XXX. DillanPonders highly anticipated sophomore LP, The Boy Who Lived, is slated to be released August 13th via SmashMouth Music Group.
28.5.14
Casso - F.A.K.E. Mixtape
Go Thraxx: LoThraxx Opens Up For Migos
In this segment of #GoThraxx, Torpedo Lo and the gang keeps the camera's rolling as they head to sound check for the Migos concert. Not to mention the wand blunt they tag team in the hotel before the turn up. Peep all this and more shenanigans above.
Hip Hop: The Double Sided Genre
Hip Hop isn’t just a mere genre of music, nor is it strictly limited to the derogatory things the media mainly focuses on. Hip Hop is an entire culture that is looked upon under the wrong light in most cases. It ranges from the way one dresses to how we express ourselves and much more. The media seldom chooses to shine the spotlight in the positive affects of the Hip Hop culture to the world.
Many people in this day in time don’t realize how much more there is to this thing we call “hip hop”. It was built upon four major components: Emceeing, DJ’ing, Art/Graffiti, and B-Boying. Eventually, it grew out to other elements such as beat boxing, fashion, and slang. Most of all, hip hop eventually grew into a culture. The movement started in The Bronx & Harlem, predominantly by African Americans, around the 1970′s. When it began, it was originally based off DJ’s who made up rhythmic beats by “scratching” a record on one turn table while looping the break of various other records on another. These beats were eventually fused with rhythmic chants knows as “rapping”. Nobody knew these chants would evolve into life changing lyrics for many of people to come. As a cultural movement, hip hop seems to always take the blame for both positive and negative influences on the lives of young people, mainly African Americans and Latinos. This is only because the relevancy of the culture side began to fade and the business side made its appearance more known. Used as one of the biggest promotional tools for the media, they choose to focus on sex, violence, and harsh language, consequently tainting the while genre. Thank God for such great positive figures such as Sean Carter, Russel Simmons, & Jeff Johnson who utilized hip hop as a gateway to accomplishing many other great accolades. Nonetheless, the negative and positive affects of hip hop are very apparent amongst society.
In my opinion, hip hop is double sided. It has been a vocal diary and release for many of young people, allowing them to speak their mind about the troubles of reality they may face on a everyday basis. Everyone also agrees that having a way to release such stress is very beneficial to ones development. Them being able to tell their story to thousands of others who can relate has been saving lives for years and continues to do so in present day. In the same breath, a good amount of lyrics contain dark subjects such as killing, drug abuse, & other violent behavior without any kind of positive reinforcement. These same lyrics travel to the mind of the insecure and lead them to believe that this way of living is correct. Again, this relates back to hip hop becoming more of a business rather than staying a culture. Whatever sells the most is what the media chooses to get behind and push out. They pick what artists they want polluting the brains of individuals in society, and push them forward. This is the main reason why artist who actually deliver a message rarely ever make it to the mainstream light.
Despite all the criticism hip hop receives, this genre has done many great things in American history. In all things change occurs, and hip hop is no exception. From someone who knows the culture and has a true love for it, I can honestly say that we are in a good state right now with artists such as Big K.R.I.T., Joey Badass, Kendrick Lamar, and many others making some noise with their own positive movements. We as African Americans should take more pride in something so great that we created, but the nonchalant attitude towards it is also understandable. All I ask is that you search for real hip hop, & listen to it. You are not supposed to judge a book by its cover, so don’t judge a whole culture and genre of music off of the negative music your heat pushed from the mainstream media. Love Hip Hop.
21.5.14
Logic Visits Real Late With Peter Rosenburg
Llogic joins Peter Rosenburg at the round table for this session of Real Late.
Logic Enters The 5 Fingers of Death
Def Jam's latest problem, Logic, stopped by Sway in the Morning and blew us all away with his 5 Fingers of Death freestyle. 5 minutes of bar after bar.
Flex The Antihero - The Becoming
DJ Booth enlists Flex The Antihero for the 20th instalment of the recently re-launched 'Freestyle Series'. Entitled, The Becoming, Flex calls upon fellow T-Dot native TallBoy for the synth driven production. Flex's debut LP SALEM is available for free download via FlexTheAntihero.BandCamp.com.
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