Here’s a story about record store owner Jeff Bubeck, an everyday cratedigger who bought a record collection out a storage unit. Assuming he’d find 99% junk and 1% salvageable junk, the last thing he thought was that he would find the record collection of the most influential hip-hop producers in the last 20 years. Producer Pat Mesiti-Miller talks to Jeff Bubeck and Jay Dilla’s mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey. Brought to you by San Francisco’s Snap Judgment, an NPR radio …
Month: July 2013
Cinematographer Colin M. Day has been consistently putting out ill video spots on various artists around the world. Based in San Francisco, he’s always shooting something and has been doing his thing for minute. One of his latest installments is about Mexico City artist Saner. Saner was admittedly not great at graffiti, but his masked characters could cast mystic spells on the most zealous deniers of empowerment. In the video he takes you on a tour of Mexico City while …
Chester Watson hails from St. Louis. He’s an MC, producer, playwright and co-founder of Nu Age Syndicate. Young blood is 16 years old and he already has what sounds like a dope self-realized style, strictly unadulterated. The visual is for the title track off his latest and third mixtape, Phantom. Free download here. …
“Skyscrapper” is off U-God’s new solo record, The Keynote Speaker. Notice the ill patterns in his flow and how his syllables are catching the kick drum. He recently dropped the album under Rza’s label Soul Temple Records. Check the visual below for U-God’s “Skyscrapper.” …
Former 90’s member of the crew Natural Elements, Ka is a b-boy, hooded stalker on the street writing rhymes like a reporter telling stories, only subtle. His voice is a stand up bass that whispers ill plots laced with internal rhymes and at first glance, over looked punch lines. Ka creeps on beats like stick up kids in the night, “as free as it seems/ but this shit is a hood prison/ so we sold that poison like Bivins,” he spits on …
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