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 | July 27, 2011 at 12:27 pm | No comments
The "West Coast Queen", Marvaless, just dropped her own "Tupac Back" song. KC's own Gee Watts did something very similar a few weeks ago. My favorite line on this song from Marvaless is "Tupac's back, Tupac's back/ Go head and cop one of his albums if you feelin' this...
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By Chris Mills | June 20, 2011 at 12:02 pm | No comments
At 20 years old, it's refreshing to hear someone in Gee Watts' age bracket spitting with such vigor. After rummaging through his website quite a bit this morning (shout out to I-R Neko), listening and downloading, I'm pretty sure that if we were still in print I'd do a...
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By Chris Mills | May 12, 2011 at 12:45 pm | One comment
Club Mardi Gras. The Hurricane. Embassy. These are just a couple places where Slam Jamz signees, Heet Mob (a crew currently at least ten members deep), have hosted their training grounds of sorts for local mic fiends. A lot of local rap titans have earned their stripes at...
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By Chris Mills | March 14, 2011 at 3:23 pm | No comments
Club Mardi Gras. The Hurricane. Embassy. These are just a couple places where Slam Jamz signees, Heet Mob (a crew currently at least ten members deep), have hosted their training grounds of sorts for local mic fiends. A lot of local rap titans have earned their stripes...
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By Chris Mills | July 19, 2010 at 8:55 pm | One comment
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...
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By Chris Mills | January 11, 2010 at 10:41 pm | No comments
video shot by Ace Fadal for Crush Proof Studios (KCMO)
What do you get when you combine a live band with some of Kansas City's freestyle rap extraordinaires? Apparently, one of the most legendary improvised shows KC has ever seen. Don't listen to me though, I missed out...
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