If you haven’t heard Thundercat’s 2013 opus album Apocalypse, press play, it’s an “unskippable” listen. Virtuoso bassist and singer songwriter Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat just relaesed a double video for “Evangelion” and “We’ll Die” off Apocalypse. The video was directed by legendary photographer B+. He also shot the album cover art and has apparently been hanging out with the Brainfeeder crew in the studio while they crank out ill crafted gems one after another. The video shows a daper dressed Thundercat walking around …
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In the short documentary, “Words By Rakim,” filmmaker Matt Bieler crafts a motion picture ode to the God, one of the most, if not the most influential MC to ever bless the mic, rapper and producer Rakim. When you think about internal rhymes, double and triple time flow patterns, not to mention ill concepts and vivid story telling, you’re thinking about Rakim. The film shows the A and B side of a man, his personal life, and his artistic output. …
As mentioned in a TMG post last month, A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg made a tribute single to the late producer and rapper J Dilla. Here we have Phife Dawg’s recently released music video for “Dear Dilla.” The music video was directed by Konee Rok, and the beat was done by DJ Rasta Root. The music video for “Dear Dilla” premiered on February sixth in Atlanta, and February seventh (Dilla Day) in Detroit. Enjoy, J Dilla forever! Phife …
Here is the online stream of Finding The Funk, a documentary on funk music that aired recently on Vh1 as part of it’s Rock Doc series. The film is by Nelson George (Author, journalist, film maker, music and cultural critic) with narrations from The Root’s Questlove, featuring D’Angelo, George Clinton, Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, Nile Rodgers, professor Michael Eric Dyson, and many more. This funk edutainment project was a 6-7 year labor of love, so enjoy and soak up the music knowledge below. …
I got my Solillaquists of Sound package weeks ago, but procrastinated on posting about it. I was too busy enjoying its contents to take a picture of it. In September they started a Kickstarter and raised $16,127. Their goal was $12,000. The campaign was to fund their double album, The 4th Wall. It was their final installment to “The Listener’s Trilogy.” $60 got me three albums (five considering the double), a mini comic, and a guide to “Decoding The Listener’s Trilogy.” If you missed it, you missed …
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