By Chris Mills | January 12, 2012 at 2:04 pm | One comment
STLien, Tef Poe, rocked the shit out of the Riot Room in Westport a couple of months ago for Indyfest 2. His latest video, "Coming Outta Missouri", puts on for The MO as a whole, obviously from a St. Louis perspective but to an equally rocking effect. Nice beat selection...
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By Chris Mills | January 11, 2012 at 5:53 pm | No comments
Congratulations to Ubi and Godemis. ...
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By Chris Mills | January 9, 2012 at 3:08 pm | One comment
Though I loved Drake's latest album, Take Care, I thought Drake's verse on Rozay's recent "Stay Schemin" went a little too hard. Common does his best to expose Drake in this latest diss track that just came out today. The heads know that Common's never been one to cower in...
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By Chris Mills | January 8, 2012 at 10:32 pm | No comments
A feature on KCPT's "The Local Show" spotlighted Scoe, T-Blaze, Bro Mo, Leo Night Us and founder of the Hip Hop Academy, Jeremy McConnell, in an recent airing on your TV. If you missed it, check the video player above at the 8:47 mark. Also check the magazine player below...
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By Chris Mills | January 8, 2012 at 2:39 pm | No comments
KC guys, Hermon Mehari, Brad Williams and Ben Leifer do an instrumental acoustic take on Jay-Z & Kanye West's mega-hit in Paris, France...er, the "Paris of the Plains", perhaps. ...
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By Chris Mills | January 5, 2012 at 10:09 pm | No comments
Off his All Nighter mixtape comes another official video, this one for "Disguise" over Common's "Ghetto Dreams" beat. The last video I saw and heard from the same mixtape was really kind of an eye-opener to Irv's lyricism and delivery. To me, he's one of those artists that...
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By Chris Mills | January 3, 2012 at 2:04 pm | No comments
[pictured: Caspa]
Some of the first tunes I heard out of this dubstep phenomenon came from one original dubstep don, Caspa (London) and West Coast bass delegate, Matty G, back in the summer of 2007 where the Bassline Pressure night was going down at Jilly's on Broadway here...
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By Chris Mills | December 20, 2011 at 12:13 pm | One comment
Who knows where he did this at, but here's to Kutty Slitz in...
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By Chris Mills | December 19, 2011 at 4:33 pm | No comments
This latest track leaked from Mac Lethal's "Irish Goodbye" album out on NYE/December 31st instills his reputation as one of the most intense song writers out. Hot off the heels of his own viral "Nerdy White Kid Kills Look At Me Now" video (which now has about 13 million...
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By Chris Mills | December 14, 2011 at 11:04 pm | No comments
Artist, Luke Rocha (aka beat-maker, Topp Boom) is DIY to the teeth. Having started the blasphemously slept-on SymbolHeavy.com in 2005 to now working with a certain Brooklyn indie-rock icon, (who we cannot name), Luke is constantly learning in addition to holding a distinctly...
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