Hip-hop lyricists Ghostface Killah, Rakim and Brother Ali will team up for the first Hip Hop Live tour, with all three performing in front of a 10-piece backing band.
The three MCs will each perform separate sets during the outing, which kicks off Oct. 29 in West Hollywood, CA, with all three backed by The Rhythm Roots Allstars, a Los Angeles-based funk/worldbeat outfit that specializes in providing musical backdrops for rap vocal acts. The 19-city tour–which is sponsored by Flow TV and Dodge–runs through late November. (more…)
Columbian hip-hop documentary “Frekuensia Kolombiana” will be a part of this year’s International Latino Film Festival in San Francisco Bay Area. The documentary will be screened on Saturday, November 17th at 8:00 pm at the MACLA CASTELLANO PLAYHOUSE.
“Frekuensia Kolombiana” explores the traditional forms Colombian music and its relation to Hip Hop. By way of interviews, events, situations and landscapes, the documentary uncovers a youth that constructs from exclusion a movement of hope and truth. As we witness their efforts to self-produce, organize and multiply knowledge, we realize their necessity to perpetuate, communicate, give and exist. (more…)
Ahh, the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show. Overall great, but the many comments about Lupe Fiasco’s slip up while performing on the show is becoming ridiculous. For those who do not know, yes, Lupe forgot a piece of the lyrics to Electric Relaxation, a classic A Tribe Called Quest (ATCQ) track from the early 90’s. Yes, he took defense to many comments, yes, there has been a bunch of he-say-she-say, and yes fans and various hip-hop websites have been trying to execute him since. (more…)
In preparation of Little Brother’s third album release “Get Back” on 10.23.2007, DJ Dub and Little Brother are dropping a new mixtape of remixes, classics and new joints titled “Good Clothes.” To celebrate this release, clothing manufacturer Stall & Dean is giving away free “good clothes” to one lucky person. To enter, please visit www.djdub.com, and be sure to preview the fall line-up at www.stallanddean.com.
You can download the mixtape for FREE here:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/phkokq
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On Saturday, October 20 the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is coming back to Miami with the timely message of financial literacy, bringing the Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment “Get Your Money Right” International Tour to the Sunshine State.
With the recent housing market crash affecting the economy, jobs, student loans and consumer confidence, young people need some sound financial advice on how to best manage their money and navigate through this volatile economic environment. (more…)
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Review Date: October 18, 2007
Website: Kats Website
Label: Shit-Storm Records
Kats “Almost Fameless” Album Review
I was given this album by the editor and told to review it. He saw Kats perform live at some show in NYC, and said, word for word, that “he put on a great show.” He said Kats was a good live performer whose entertaining style of comical hip-hop had him cracking up for the majority of the performance. That’s our editor for you: He always hits local shows to unwind, drinks a couple beers and puffs on some of that wacky tabacky – then ends up thinking every performer he sees is amazing. This is your brain on drugs, I guess. (more…)
Saratoga Springs, NY – One of rap’s most influential voices of political consciousness is bringing his message to Skidmore College on Tuesday. Chuck D, leader and co-founder of the legendary rap group Public Enemy, will be the keynote speaker for Skidmore’s first Hip Hop Culture Week, sponsored by the Hip Hop Alliance.
“Rap, Race and Reality” is part of a week of hip-hop related events, including a screening of the documentary “HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which explores issues of sexism, violence and homophobia in hip-hop culture, on Monday; a screening of the movie “Hustle and Flow” on Thursday; and dance and rap performances Friday. All events are free and open to the public. (more…)
Sheboygan, WI – C.J. Dimoff really enjoys listening to his Figureheads hip-hop CD. So when he found out they were performing at James Madison Elementary School on Wednesday, where C.J.’s a fifth-grader, he was really excited.
“They tell kids, if you hear other people like talking mean to other kids, go up there and stand up for them and say ‘Knock that off. It’s not right to treat other kids that way,’” said C.J., 10. “If you treat (people) that way, then they will do the same to you.”
Five years ago, Figureheads — Jeremy Bryan, 29, and Greg Marshall, 27, both of Milwaukee — took their hip-hop music from the underground scene in Milwaukee to classrooms in Wisconsin and several cities across the country. (more…)
Cincinnati, OH – Newport Middle School on Monday will become one of only 90 schools in the U.S. and Canada to host a science-oriented hip-hop show sponsored by NASA and Honeywell.
The 45-minute-long “FMA Live!” concert is a combination of scientific presentations, stunts, lasers and explosions, backed up pounding bass and hip-hop beats. It features actors and is designed to disavow kids of that age-old assumption that science, by its nature, just can’t be fun. (more…)
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