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Joell Ortiz - Block Royal (New Video) 

New Joell Ortiz Video - Block Royal

Added by: EmSeeD, 21/Feb/09 | Comments: 0

New Album from N.A.S.A - The Spirit of Apollo 

Released 17 Feb

The album feature's guest appearances by the likes of Krs-One, Chuck D, RZA, Ghostface Killa, Scarface, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Kool Keith & Kanye West.

click the link bellow for a review

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/4290/nasa-thespiritofapollo-2009

Track Listing

1. Intro
2. The People Tree (feat. David Byrne, Chali 2na, Gift Of Gab & Z-Trip)
3. Money (feat. David Byrne, Chuck D, Ras Congo, Seu Jorge, & Z-Trip)
4. N.A.S.A. Music (feat. Method Man, E-40, & DJ Swamp)
5. Way Down (feat. RZA, Barbie Hatch, & John Frusciante)
6. Hip Hop (feat. KRS-One, Fatlip, & Slim Kid Tre)
7. Four Rooms, Earth View
8. Strange Enough (feat. Karen O, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, & Fatlip)
9. Spacious Thoughts (feat. Tom Waits & Kool Keith)
10. Gifted (feat. Kanye West, Santogold & Lykke Li)
11. A Volta (feat. Sizzla, Amanda Blank, & Lovefoxxx)
12. There’s A Party (feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na)
13. Whachadoin? (feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santogold, & Nick Zinner)
14. O Pato (feat. Kool Kojak & DJ Babão)
15. Samba Soul (feat. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien & DJ Qbert)
16. The Mayor (feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM)
17. N.A.S.A. Anthem

Check out their new video for their single Hip Hop featuring Krs-one, Slimkid Tre and Fatlip

Added by: EmSeeD, 20/Feb/09 | Comments: 0

New Guru Album Scheduled For Release In March '09 


The iconic MC, Jazzmatazz creationist and Gang Starr co-founder Guru has announced the release of his brilliant new solo release, Guru 8.0 Lost and Found. Guru has once again teamed up with NYC’s brightest producer Solar to create his second solo album and what will be their fourth release on their label 7 Grand, which they co-founded in 2004.

According to both Guru and Solar, it is to serve as an upgrade to contemporary Hip-Hop. “It’s necessary to get upgrades to keep real hip hop alive”, explained the legendary MC. “The concept of real hip hop had gotten lost, but now it’s found again on this record. 8.0 represents that next level growth”.

Guru 8.0 finds both MC and producer expanding stylistically, with songs like the Southern-inspired "Fast Lane", or “Divine Rule”, which revisits hip hop’s early days and finds Guru rhyming over a disco-inspired beat. Staying true to form, the duo offer tracks like “Best of My Years”, which allows listeners to travel with Guru through his years of experience.

“This is the next evolution of intelligent hip hop; hip hop on the next level", said Solar. He added that the album is a sign of Guru’s continued ability to command the hip hop arena.

The album also showcases the talents of 7 Grand artists K Born, Highpower, Doo Wop, and the debut of Solar as an artist in what he calls a natural evolvement of who he is. There is also a key guest vocal performance from UK soul star Omar, who skilfully flows over a superb Solar track complimenting Guru’s urgent rhyme delivery.

While Guru has continued to number his album in succession with his critically acclaimed Jazzamatazz series, he cautions fans to remember that this is a distinctively different project. “This is not hip hop jazz”, Guru stated. “This is straight hip hop. So lyrically you’re going to have that straight hip hop element”.

Guru 8.0 Lost and Found is a major compliment to Guru’s legendary musical legacy and shows that his love for the artform and culture called hip hop is still thriving more than ever.

Guru 8.0 Lost and Found will be released in March 2009.

Added by: Boner-Jamz-11, 16/Feb/09 | Comments: 3

New Video Black Milk Feat. Royce Da 5'9" - Losing Out 

Black Milk Feat. Royce Da 5'9" - Losing Out.

From Black Milk's new album "Tronic"

Added by: EmSeeD, 13/Feb/09 | Comments: 0

Nas Plans New Album with Damian Marley 

Nas has announced that he is currently in the studio with Damian Marley working on a new album. Nas told MTV “Right now, I’ll tell you first, I’m working on an album with Damian Marley, and we tryin’ to build some schools in Africa with this one, and trying to build empowerment,” he revealed. “We’re tryin’ to show love and stuff with this album. So, the record’s … all about really the ‘hood and Africa also as well. That’s coming out real soon.”

Nas says the new album should come out this spring but there is no official release date.

Added by: EmSeeD, 10/Feb/09 | Comments: 1

Hip-Hop Pioneer Posters Open Eyes Around NYC!! 

Whenever Victor Arzu approaches the corner of East 169th Street and Franklin Avenue in his grandmother’s neighborhood, Morrisania, in the South Bronx, he usually takes a moment to check out some posters on a wall depicting the hip-hop artist Grandmaster Flash.

Right underneath the image, in stencil-like lettering, the poster tells him: “Grandmaster Flash played the records they clapped for/ back when the dancefloor was packed at the Black Door.”

“I was like, wow, I didn’t know he was from around here,” said Mr. Arzu, who, at 19, is too young to remember the days in the ’70s when that artist first started entertaining crowds at a small club on Boston Road, just a block away, called the Black Door.

The poster did not exactly announce where the Black Door had been, but Mr. Arzu gathered it must have been nearby. Mr. Arzu, who lives in the Forest Houses, a public housing project in the Bronx, had seen similar posters of the hip-hop artist Fat Joe in his own neighborhood, where he knew that artist had grown up. He figured the posters in his grandmother’s neighborhood were doing the same thing, commemorating a local legend.

Mr. Arzu had no idea who had put the posters up, but he was glad they did. “It goes to show that when hip-hop started, that a lot of greats came from here in the Bronx,” he said. “It makes me proud.”

The origin of the posters, which were posted last November in 10 historical hip-hop sites around the city, is not exactly what you would call street. Claudia Burnett and Masha Ioveva, two multimedia artists at R/GA, a digital advertising agency near Times Square, were inspired by a request from the Bronx Council on the Arts (which ultimately had no hand in their project) to generate a digital experience for the borough that would celebrate its culture. They decided to create posters that would showcase the hip-hop history of the Bronx, and that would also invite passers-by to add their own rhymes by text message to Bronxrhymes.org, creating a virtual space for rhyming battles.

The two women, using funding they received from a digital arts organization, hired a designer to work up the posters, and asked a work colleague, an informal hip-hop obsessive named Steve Caputo, to work up the rhymes. The two women had approached a few hip-hop artists, and one did deliver a few. “But Steve’s were better,” said Ms. Burnett.

The humor in their devotion to the project wasn’t lost on Ms. Burnett. “There we were one Saturday morning, three white girls, two of whom are Bulgarian” — Ms. Ioveva, who is Bulgarian, brought a friend — “out there wheat-pasting posters, driving around in some Mazda rental car,” she recalled.

The making of history is one thing; the memorializing of it is another, and the people responsible for each contribution often have little to do with each other, except, ideally, a mutual appreciation.

But it can be a tricky, redundant business, bringing history to the people who lived it. A sign in Morrisania pointing out that Grandmaster Flash used to live there must feel, to a lot of its 40-something residents, a little bit like a sign on Pennsylvania Avenue pointing out that President Reagan used to work nearby. Did Hakim Milton, a 44-year-old man walking down Boston Road, know that Grandmaster Flash used to play at the Black Door down the street? “Yeah, and he lived right down there,” he said, pointing to an apartment building a block or two away. “And I used to see him play in the park.”

Near the Franklin Avenue Armory shelter, some Bronx Rhymes posters, now tattered, commemorate the time that the rap artist KRS-One spent living at the shelter. A man sitting in an S.U.V. down the street on Saturday afternoon — “Call me Mr. Smith,” he requested — was asked if he had known that KRS-One used to stay there. “Yes, I did,” he said.

How did he come to learn this bit of hip-hop trivia? “I used to see him walking in and out of it,” he said. “I live right down the street.” As much as he admired KRS-One’s work, he wouldn’t say if the posters had moved him one way or the other. “Doesn’t change my life one bit,” he said. “He got out, God bless him. I’m still here.”

The Web site hasn’t exactly taken off the way that Ms. Burnett and Ms. Ioveva imagined it might. So far, they’re not sure that even one passer-by has been inspired by one of their posters to text-message a rhyme. But because of some percolating buzz in the blogosphere about their project, people interested in the subject have sent in a few rhymes. Ms. Burnett and Ms. Ioveva expect the interest will only continue to grow, long after the last of the posters has been torn down or beaten down by weather.

The project may have its physical grounding in the Bronx, where the history is familiar to a lot of the locals, but the hope is that the information it disseminates will go mainstream, much like hip-hop itself, informing, however subtly, the way that people think about the Bronx, about art, and the recent past. “Keeping it real, homeless was his deal,” reads one rhyme posted on the site, about KRS-One. Another reads, “This site is wack, gotta get back, to what is real, ya know the deal?”

Call it historical discourse, hip-hop style.

Added by: Menace, 01/Feb/09 | Comments: 0

New 357-The Start Of Another Day 

Added by: Chinita, 18/Jan/09 | Comments: 1

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