I have a love/hate relationship with the Czar Bar. I love it because they bring really good DJs in (recent out of town acts include Cosmo Baker, Treasure Fingers and Roy Davis Jr.). But I hate it because I can’t sell magazines in their bar. Not that any of you have to worry about the latter, so I suggest you guys get your asses in that bar on Friday and get riled up into a dancing, sweaty frenzy with probably my two favorite DJs in KC, save Just. As for me? I might just pick on the smokers outside (shh).
OH YEA, ONE HUGE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION: A lot of people have trouble finding a parking spot when going to the Czar Bar. Here’s a helpful hint. There’s a big parking lot right around the corner, across from Mercy Seat Tattooos. They’ll have a guy standing at the entrance to the parking lot taking people’s money to park. BUT – if you tell him you’re going to the Czar Bar, they’ll let you park there for free. Swear to God.
shout out to Lozano for putting us up on this on facebook!!
Stik Figa Accepts Pitch Music Award for Best Hip Hop/Rap Category With Ron Ron, Greg Enemy, etc. (August 2009)
VIDEO CREDIT: Johnny Quest
As you may know, we did a cover story on Ron Ron and Stik Figa for the latest issue of Demencha, which came out about a week ago. I was trolling on siccness.net and saw that Ron Ron had made a post a few hours ago announcing his new mixtape Skitzo-Frenic, with a hopeful release date for September 11th.
The video above, features Stik accepting his Pitch Music Award, with Ron Ron encouraging him to the point where Stik almost falls over, while Stik and his cohorts stood at the podium.
But back to the matter of Ron Ron’s new mixtape…Here’s some excerpts from the interview I did with him a few weeks ago for the magazine. In these excerpts, he talks about why all his album/mixtape titles have to center around the brain and intelligence, and talks about the aforementioned Skitzo-Frenic mixtape!!!! ENJOY!!!
“Music? It’s not easy to me like that. It’s like the Playoffs. I look at it like an event. It’s not something to just drag out. If it was an album, you wouldn’t want to rush it because for one you’ve got to buy all the beats, shit like that. You know, I do a lot of shit at home. A lot of the mixing, so there’s no reason why I have to take a prolonged period of time to do any project. I just choose to because sometimes you just got to let shit simmer in the streets. And two, you want to make quality shit. Just because the person likes hearing your voice doesn’t mean you should keep talking. Fuck around and say something stupid or burn yourself out. And I got this new shit coming – Skitzo-Frenic, that’s gonna be well worth the wait. People will see though. It’s probably my last mixtape…well, actually I got this one and another one. I think I’m gonna call it Street School. It’s gonna be more of a compilation thing I’m gonna put a lot of features on it. But it’s gonna be my last solo mixtape because I’ve got the 50’s compilation I’m gonna work on and we’re about to make another mixtape with Landmark (KC Landmarks). The Landmark thing is not gonna be just totally me, it’s gonna be my contribution to it and it’s gonna take some time because I’m gonna be working in my studio and we’re gonna be just coaching each other along. But the 50’s compilation is probably gonna take a while. It’s probably gonna take a lot of energy. And then the Street School, it’s probably gonna take a lot of energy because it’s not just me. If it was just me, I wouldn’t even be talking about it. I’d just be doing it. But you gotta get your schedule worked out with 15-30 people or something, you gotta give that time. You may have someone come in and do something or you might write for two hours and not accomplish shit or they come in and have to redo it. But I think I’m probably gonna give that project to Black Walt because I owe him a CD. We had an arrangement. And I’ll still try to contribute to it as much as I can so that it feels like a Ron Ron project, so it still feels like a 50’s project.”
Ron Ron went on to say, “That’s why I try to keep a word associated with “brain,” in all the projects like Mr. No It All, Frankeinstein and the Wiz Kids and with the Skitzo-Frenic mixtape. To be honest, some of the most brilliant people probably got some kind of clinical brain malfunction. I want being smart to be cool. Whatever that knowledge is that you’re carrying on and you’re passing on to another person…if it’s got some substance that’s really what I’m trying to put forward to contributing to it. Getting people to understand shit about this world. It’s easier to fight with your hands up and your guard up. It’s easier to throw a double-play if you know the rules of baseball. You need to know what you’re up against, otherwise you don’t have a fighting chance in hell.”
WORD.
CRAIG DIAMONDS AKA DJ ASSAULT – FREAKY WIT U
http://www.divshare.com/download/8289708-475
Steddy P’s new album is serious. And we’re not just saying that because he shouted out Demencha Magazine on the last song. We’ve been pumping his new record, Style Like Mind, since we got an exclusive zip file a few weeks ago, and I gotta say that it’s good enough to make all the fast-forward material on his last three records a blurry memory. His next show in KC will be on 9.11.09 at the Record Bar in Westport for his CD release party before he goes on tour. Steddy’s goal is to sell out the Record Bar, he says.
STEDDY P FEAT. DJ MAHF, APPROACH AND REACH – “FORMAT” (DIGITAL MAXI SINGLE ZIP FILE W/ ART, MAIN, ACAPPELLA & INSTRUMENTAL)
**direct link…that means right click and “save as,” fooleries!**
http://steddyp.com/Steddy%20P.%20Format%20Digital%2012%20Inch.zip
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