By Chris Mills | December 31, 2011 at 9:09 pm | No comments
10. Young Fate - "All Gass" [prod. Mr. Fresh]
Ladies and gentlemen, hit play and start your engines. This video player popped up in February and sees Fate spitting game over a real heat-rock from Mr. Fresh. While Young Fate verses are on my brain, his 16 on Ron Ron’s...
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By Chris Mills | November 9, 2011 at 6:34 pm | No comments
If you're looking for a hip hop fix tonight, we suggest you head over to the Riot Room in Westport for a few of Kansas City's more potent lyricists. Godemis (of Ces Cru) will be doing solo stuff, as well as infO and Stitch. But expect all of these acts to have guest...
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By Chris Mills | October 8, 2011 at 12:30 pm | No comments
Info Gates and Shadow, two of KC's rawer lyricists, are joining forces for the "Battle For Scraps" duo mixtape. The release party is tonight at Czar, just a $5 cover. Guests include Godemis of Ces Cru (who's going to do a solo set), Soul Servers, Stitch and Barbaric...
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By Chris Mills | September 23, 2011 at 1:38 pm | One comment
We probably should've held off from using the word "rager" to best describe any event in KC this summer...until now. This is reported to be Mac Lethal's only show in Kansas City for all of 2011 and it's going down tomorrow night at Riot Room in Westport KCMO. Rising KC...
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By Chris Mills | July 31, 2011 at 1:19 pm | 2 comments
pictured: Kutty Slitz (photo credit: Miles Bonny, 2009)
Ben Swiller just uploaded the video he shot from the cipher I mentioned HERE which went down on Friday night outside record bar. Make sure you turn up the volume and blow up it up full...
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By Chris Mills | July 30, 2011 at 1:32 pm | One comment
Kutty Slitz swung through the Record Bar late last night to the delight of friends, fans and Cru after taking what was surely an unpleasant, extended vacation. It was rather moving. Kutty's charm amongst his peers has not seemed to dissipate whatsoever. I'd forgotten how...
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By Chris Mills | June 2, 2011 at 8:24 am | No comments
Those Ces Cru cats are back with another video off their latest album, The Playground, this time for "Guntitled" featuring a verse from Mac Lethal. This one looked like it was a lot of fun to be a part of. Be on the lookout for a yet-to-be-conducted interview here on...
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By Chris Mills | May 27, 2011 at 2:14 pm | 2 comments
After embarrassing a few MCs nearly twice his age at rap battles around the city over the years, the young KC-based Abnorm seems to be on a distinguished road. I can't help but shake the similarity between this new record from him (available at a Bandcamp link below) and...
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By Chris Mills | May 25, 2011 at 12:46 pm | 5 comments
pictured: Tech N9ne & Godemis of Ces Cru
Buzzworthy hearsay has been telling us for quite a while that Ces Cru is about thiiiiiis close to getting on with Strange Music, Tech N9ne's home base. Based on this lengthy interview that Tech recently did, he made no bones...
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By Chris Mills | March 14, 2011 at 1:20 pm | No comments
The full version of this video is set to hit your youtube favorites on April 14. I just listened to an online phone interview that Ubi and Godemis did with one of the guys over at the Strange Music on ustream. Sounds like the degrees of separation between Ces and Strange...
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