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I wasn’t expecting Ink and The Record Machine’s Middle of the Map Fest last weekend to be as draining and taxing as it turned out to be this year. Perhaps I’m just getting older? Or perhaps music festivals and I don’t always cooperate with each other. Back in 2007,...
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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"Attention Deficit High Definition" (ADHD), the long-awaited beat album from Kansas City sound-shaper, Leonard DStroy, drops on Tuesday, December 27th. Elm & Oak decided it would be only right to throw out a leaked single from the project which sounds like a rather...
![FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH: Luke Rocha aka Topp Boom [Dec. 2011]](http://demencha.com/wp-content/themes/widezine/thumb.php?src=http://demencha.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/luke-rocha-EDIT-2-1024x488.gif&w=200&h=200&zc=1&q=80&bid=1)
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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KC-based beatmaker, Dan Matic, just dropped a new EP today titled Round Numbers, in affiliation with Outer Peoples and Footclan. One of the seven tracks on here actually features Reggie B and HeaVi (of the Solution) on instrumentation, marking at least the second time...
We first shed light on the Hip Hop Academy HERE, back in the summer of 2008 when we did a cover story on Jeremy, Bro Mo and Scoe for one of the first issues of Demencha. Jeremy McConnell and his ever-progressive posse are still cracking away at their effort to educate the...
"Slang Like This" by True Tiger featuring P Money. The homie Trevor Steeves put me up on this video on fb today. This video was just uploaded yesterday and has already has all kinds of comments from Americans bashing the UK Grime scene over in London, and Londoners...
Medusa has been referred to as the Godmother of LA's hip hop circuit, and apparently going on after her is not recommended (which is why she's headlining, we're guessing). The Magic Heart Genies will make an appearance (consisting of Myka 9, J The Sarge and DJ Drez), in...
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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