By Chris Mills | September 29, 2008 at 3:25 pm | No comments
J Fortune at Serial Funkadelic (Riot Room - Westport KCMO - 9-27-08) (two)
J Fortune at Serial Funkadelic at the Riot Room in Westport KCMO (9-27-08)
Mr. Solve and cQuence of the Disorder Crew at Serial Funkadelic at the Riot Room in Westport KCMO...
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By Chris Mills | September 24, 2008 at 5:50 pm | 3 comments
I don't know what it is about Chicago hip hop and DJ artists, whether they just like me a lot or they're just on their myspace grind like none other, but we got yet another friend request on the Demencha myspace page from another juke/ghetto house artist from Chicago who...
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By Chris Mills | September 21, 2008 at 1:58 am | No comments
...present: NME of Lotus Camp on 96.5 The Buzz (Liquid Buzz w/ DJ C-Vaughn) tonight!!! NME's mix should air between 12 am and 1 am. Tune in!
As a bonus...
DOWLOAD NME'S MIX FOR 96.5 THE BUZZ THAT YOU HEARD TONIGHT AT THIS...
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By Chris Mills | September 16, 2008 at 10:00 pm | No comments
Heet Mob member, Mic Brass, hosts the first Mic Check Mondays in two months since Embassy (now known as Club Forty-four Hundred) began remodeling
We gathered a few pictures of the brand new, renamed nightclub at 3945 Main - the Embassy Bistro (now known as Club Forty-Four...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2008 at 9:46 pm | 2 comments
In professional football, no one was better at juking out defenders than Barry Sanders. Whereas the phrase “poetry in motion” is thrown around all-too-loosely with today’s sports analysts when describing how an athlete moves, Sanders was one of the most exciting...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2008 at 9:13 pm | 2 comments
Several famous hip hop artists got their start by being the hype man for other acts before their own solo careers took off. Tupac was the hype man for Digital Underground back in the day, before selling millions of records as a solo rapper. Even Flava Flav, hype man for...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2008 at 4:46 am | 3 comments
The Hip Hop Academy Ringleaders: Jeremy McConnell, Brother of Moses, MC Scoe (L-R) in front of the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO
About this time last year, I had the pleasure of dropping in on a summer program for Kansas City youths at Paseo Middle School in...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2008 at 12:40 am | No comments
Mr. Collete goes on in this piece to detail the turbulent transformation of South Kansas City, also known as "Southtown" to it's residents. But to start off, we added some pictures of some of the area's beautiful parks. I personally don't think there is an area in KC with nicer...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2008 at 12:19 am | No comments
I found myself at a small place called YJ's Coffeeshop just off Broadway and 17th during the summer of 2000. My friend Katie's older brother, Josh Powers, was dj-ing old school funk, hip hop, and a smattering of trip hop. We frequented the spot most Wednesday nights and the...
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By Chris Mills | September 11, 2008 at 11:39 pm | 6 comments
We got a friend request at the Demencha myspace page a couple of days ago from someone out of Paris, a DJ named Big Dope P. He produces club, ghetto-tech and juke with what I'm guessing is some kind of French house flair in addition to copy and pasted vocal snippets, and...
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