Toilet Room is a parody of the global underground music event and online show, Boiler Room. According to their facebook page, Toilet is based in Sydney, Australia. Going along with the location theme that Boiler uses, a warehouse, hall, basement, art studio, or some other clandestine location, Toilet, is as the name suggests, shot in a restroom. Imitating the cramp, claustrophobic setting of many Boiler events, Toilet has the DJ set up by a sink, and the DJ surrounded by party goers dancing …
Month: January 2014
This is our first exclusive mixtape by Dope On Wax. Homie dug out some rare treats for this one. Dope is a vinyl-only sorta dude, pardon the crackling and hissing, strictly dirty digital. The repeat value is priceless. Thanks Dope! Tracklist:M.F. Grimm – Bloody Love LetterKool G. Rap and Nas – Fast Life (Vinyl Reanimators Remix) Laster – Off Balance (Feat. Ed O.G.) Alps Cru – Just Can’t Explain Smif N Wesson – Crystal Stair (Feat Talib Kweli) The B.U.M.S. …
Okayplayer just posted, “Rottweiler Choir” a poem by the great poet Saul Williams, written for Amiri Baraka’s funeral. Williams performed it at the funeral in honor of a soldier that remains unbreakable, not passed, but transformed…in a perpetual state of forever. Read below. This NGH died for something.i I don’t go for old age. I don’t go for disease. I say murder. Which poets die of natural causes? Which poems kill? I saw the rifles pointed. Jesse Jackson with that blood on …
Shawn Huckins‘ acrylic paintings illustrate the past and present status of the American technological revolution in shorthand; intricately replicated 18th century portraits superimposed with an abbreviated text message. The result spawns a Pandora’s box of philosophical questions and meanings that have neither easy answers nor simple explanations. The paintings are humorous antidotes doused in a seriousness that speaks to the deterioration of human interaction and community. Would Ulysses S. Grant update his Facebook status after gauging a Confederate soldier’s eye …
Phife Dawg of the legendary Hip-Hop group A Tribe Called Quest just released a new single called “#DearDilla.” A tribute to the legendary Detroit Hip-Hop producer J Dilla, who passed on 8 years ago, February 7th, 2006. Dilla and Phife shared a kindred spirit, in their musicianship, and dealings with health issues. Dilla suffered from a rare blood disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic pura, and Phife is diabetic (he calls himself the “the funky diabetic” in ATCQ’s “Oh My God”). Phife reminisced about interactions …
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