By Chris Mills | January 31, 2012 at 11:57 pm | No comments
As usual, the VS battle on Saturday night prompted a lot of "ooohs" and "aaahs". DRplus2, Barbaric Merits, Info Gates and Ghost competed in a beat battle royal with Ghost playing drums over his own pre-recorded tracks. Barbaric Merits left with the prize, while former Demencha...
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By Chris Mills | January 25, 2012 at 5:53 pm | No comments
Since the Pitch went ahead and dropped a previous VS battle line from Abnorm directed at Dutch Newman, I'll go ahead and drop my favorite battle line aimed at Dutchie. Though I can't remember if it was a VS or Sudden Death battle (it was the one at Czar Bar a year or two ago),...
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By Chris Mills | November 15, 2011 at 2:22 pm | No comments
With this being the second official release from Newman and Quest (CLICK HERE for the duo's debut from last year), the KC-based MC and the Lawrence-based DJ/producer have come together once again to release Skinny Jeans For Fat People today. Our favorite cut off their new...
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By Chris Mills | November 8, 2011 at 5:23 pm | No comments
Mac Lethal once wrote something on facebook (or twitter, can't remember) that went something to the effect of, "Stop acting like you're too cool for hip hop!" With the lack of local hip hop shows within...um, a bit too long, perhaps it's commonly assumed that there isn't any...
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By Chris Mills | November 7, 2011 at 4:45 pm | No comments
Off the We Run KC & Demencha Magazine presented, "The City's Mine" mixtape by North Sider, Gee Watts, comes the latest video from that project. Video credits to Underground Appeal. A few of the featured acts on "The City's Mine" include Cash Image, Irv Da Phenom, Shotty...
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By Chris Mills | October 28, 2011 at 12:36 pm | No comments
After seeing some spins on Shade 45 recently, it figures that now would be a good time for the young Joey Cool to drop a new release. With features from C3, Gee Watts, Rashiyd Ashon, Landes, Bizzy and others, The Unexpected EP is another ripple in this movement of fresh rap...
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By Chris Mills | October 24, 2011 at 2:40 pm | No comments
This is the latest video from young 12th Street spitter, Gee Watts. The single (D/L HERE) is coming out on the forthcoming We Run KC and Demencha-presented mixtape by Watts himself, titled "The City's Mine", which is slated for release on November 14th. Features from the...
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By Chris Mills | October 2, 2011 at 4:33 pm | No comments
Malcom Gladwell’s best-selling 2000 book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, crept into our membrane while listening to Kansas City-based, Greg Enemy’s awaited hip hop record Xtra Small, released just last week. Gladwell’s book converged on...
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By Chris Mills | September 1, 2011 at 11:07 am | No comments
Cas Metah from Ohio and Motion Plus from Illinois are part of the Scribbling Idiots crew, a group formed a while after Cas made some contacts at Scribble Jam in 2002. The two of them are headlining the Idiomatic Tour, which is stopping by the Riot Room in Kansas City, MO on...
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By Chris Mills | July 23, 2011 at 1:41 pm | No comments
One of many quotes that stuck with me from KC-Portland DJ transplant, Ben Tactic, went something like this: "Hip hop artists doing house music usually turns out better than the vice versa." In related news, local man of many hats, Kemet Coleman aka thePhantom*, has a new...
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