Red Bull Music Academy’s ever reaching wing span into dope music has yet to show it’s limits. To start the year off right, their releasing, What Difference Does It Make? a music documentary featuring nothing but ill contemporary artists. The documentary was shot using predominantly hand held cameras. Directed by Ralf Schmerberg, the film seeks to explore music and the parallels of life. After the trailer, watch the extensive interviews of El-P and Doom below. Trailer El-P interview Doom interview …
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It was a busy 2013 for Orlando, Florida’s music collective Solillaquists of Sound. First, they toured France, came home, raised $16,393 through their kickstarter campaign with a goal of $12,500, and then they released, The 4th Wall, a double album box set. Talk about “Everyday I’m hustling,” just in the second week of the new year: Swamburger, the MC of the group, had a solo art show at downtown Orlando’s Peacock Room, B-Side Artists Apparel is putting out a collaborative series …
Fellow Native Tongue and all out fresh producer Prince Paul just dropped a gem from his 2005 XM Radio show. It was called Prince Paul’s World Famous Illout Show and it was unjustly short lived. In this episode, Paul kicks it with his friends, cracks jokes, plays a lot of classic material and runs down his incredible career of making dope music. Upon posting it he wrote, “This is The brief run of Prince Paul’s world famous Illout show that appeared on …
Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys just scored No No: A Documentary, a documentary about Doc Ellis, a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher that supposedly threw a no-hitter in 1970…while on acid. The trailer is cool, but it’s too long as if to tell his whole story, giving lesser reason to watch the entire film. Except, the devil’s in the details. Ad-Rock is steady expanding into film. According to The Wrap, he might be in director Noah Baumbach’s next flick …
What kind of music does a kid make from Chicago, born in 1993, and the first CD purchased for him was Kanye West’s The College Dropout (2004)? That kid would be Chance The Rapper, a 20 year old psychonaut navigating life in the inner-city of Chicago, self reflecting, making observations of his inner and outer environments. His style of rapping is a mixture of spoken word, stream of consciousness, soulful singing, jazzy scatting, choppy, and tongue twisting rap cadences. With the release of two official mixtapes 10 …
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