Finally it’s official “official”, on April 15, 2014 Pharoahe Monch is dropping P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), a follow up to his acclaimed 2011 album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades). It was suppose to drop in late 2012 as an EP, but the tracklisting says otherwise. It’s seventeen shots to the dome. Monch is the truth. This man been talking about global warming since the early 90’s (“Releasing Hypnotical Gases”). As one half of the pioneering Queens duo Organized Konfusion, his playful cadences and innovative …
Author: Tracy Jones
Os Gêmeos (pronounced OSE ZHEM-e-os) meaning “The Twins” in Portuguese, are Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, identical twins hailing from São Paulo, Brazil. OG have been doing graffiti and catching fame for a minute. Known for their yellow characters and Brazilian folkloric paintings, OG has painted everywhere. They’re from the 80’s when hip-hop was in its infancy, yet still managing to spread around the globe, “We knew hip hop culture in 1985. We live in a district where hip-hop culture was very strong in its …
Red Bull has become a savior for unknown creatives around the world. They’ve helped a lot of artists develop their craft and get their work exposed to a much wider audience. Unlike their music events, their switching things up with The Red Bull House of Art, a three month intensive program. The first one was established in Brazil in ’10 and the second was in ’12 in Detroit. It’s pretty dope. It doesn’t exclude any medium. The three month cycles …
Here’s some flicks of just some of what we missed from Pow! Wow! Hawai’i. During the week long event there was a plethora of ill pictures, articles, and on goings bouncing out of those islands. Below I compiled a collection of flicks and articles that are worth peeping. Check Hi-Fructose’s PWH recaps parts 1 and 2 along with fresh photos from different perspectives of finished murals. So far it’s looking like they went h.a.m. on Hawaii. Illustrator, puppeter and art director Wayne White made these big headed sculpture masks here. …
Patrick Denard Douthit aka 9th Wonder keeps it 100. The Grammy award winning producer co-founded the hip-hop trio Little Brother in 1998, including MC’s Phonte and Big Pooh. Although their debut album The Listening (2003) is a classic, 9th kept getting crazy placement on other important albums: Jay Z’s Black Album (2003), Destiny Child’s Destiny Fulfilled (2004), Mary J. Blige’s The Breakthrough (2005), and Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah 1 (2008) and 2 (2010), not to mention the slew of critically acclaimed (personal …