New young blood on the block Blaison Maven is a rapper out of Crenshaw, Los Angeles. He’s been crafting and cutting his teeth for a minute, since his 2012 mixtape The Stratosphere. He got a ways to go before his lines start getting more multi dimensional, but homie is off to a steady pace. He’s toured with Asap Rocky and MMG’s Stalley. The track below “Live From Crenshaw” is produced by Special Deliv & Soraya La Pread. Those thumping drums are ill. Maven surfs …
Month: April 2014
If you didn’t catch the first episode of The Boondocks, season four, “Pretty Boy Flizzy” it’s posted below. Spoiler alerts abound, go head, watch it here if you want to avoid getting your anticipation tampered with…. It’s only the first episode of the season, but it’s awkward and probably shouldn’t be airing given the show’s creator Aaron McGruder had nothing to do with it. Fingers crossed that his new live action show Black Jesus was worth crucifying such a beloved animation. According to Allhiphop.com, actor …
There is more sad music news today. DJ E-Z Rock of the Harlem NYC, Hip-Hop duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, has reportedly passed away today Sunday April 27, 2014. The news broke out on social media via Rob Base’s status update on his Facebook page [HipHopDX News] and twitter posting. R.I.P Skip (DJ E-Z Rock) my friend. My brother. http://t.co/SDYn1QasCF — Rob Base (@Robbasemusic) April 28, 2014 A spokesperson for Rob Base confirmed the death of DJ E-Z …
Sad news. Chicago and the world has lost yet another talented DJ/Producer (on the heels of the recent passing of the Godfather of House music, Frankie Knuckles). Chicago Juke/Footwork DJ/Producer DJ Rashad passed away in Chicago, yesterday Saturday afternoon on April 26, 2014 of a suspected drug overdose according to the Chicago Tribune. Rashad was found unresponsive in his apartment on Chicago’s West Side by a friend Saturday afternoon and was pronounced dead by Cook County medical examiner’s office at 1:50pm, he was …
The artist that prophetically once said, “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes” left proof that he already knew what was up almost 30 years after his death. At a 1985 tech conference showcasing and promoting multimedia potential, Andy Warhol made images on a Amiga 1000 computer. It was the latest and greatest from PC company Commodore International. The pixelated drawings included Warhol’s iconic Campbell soup can, an interpretation of Sandro Botticelli’s “Birth Of Venus (notice the third eye),” and a portrait of Debbie Harry …
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