By Chris Mills | March 12, 2012 at 11:40 am | No comments
[pictured: Reach]
The American Jazz Museum, in conjunction with KC-rooted jazz band, Diverse, and local MCs, Les Izmore and Reach are putting on the next jazzed up hip hop event at The Blue Room. This time around, it sounds as though the band will be performing the original...
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By Chris Mills | February 13, 2012 at 1:31 am | One comment
I haven't watched the Grammys in at least a few years, so here it goes.
1. After Jay-Z and Kanye won best hip hop something, neither of them were in the house to accept their award. Do hip hop artists still boycott the Grammy's in 2012? After presenting the award, Marc...
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By Chris Mills | December 2, 2011 at 5:14 pm | One comment
Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch The Throne tour hit Kansas City Tuesday night at the Sprint Center downtown, much to the apparent, hinted dismay of this STL Today writer who didn’t exactly diss us, but left plenty of room for the imagination of his readers down I-70. While...
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By Chris Mills | November 22, 2011 at 3:14 pm | One comment
The hip hop world's two-headed giant, Jay-Z and Kanye, are stopping through the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City, MO on November 29th. With countless hits under their respective belts, Jigga and Kanye are reported to be incorporating a healthy mix of older material in...
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By Chris Mills | November 13, 2011 at 5:41 pm | One comment
Electric City and Guerilla Movement are presenting an afterparty for the Jay-Z & Kanye concert (Sprint Center) here in a little over two weeks. The afterparty is going down at Czar, and you can RSVP HERE. Chicago guy, GLC delivered a spotlight verse on one of Kanye's best...
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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 24, 2011 at 3:53 pm | No comments
West Coast hip hop legend, MURS, is on tour now promoting his new record Love and Rockets Vol. 1: The Transformation, which dropped a couple of weeks ago and is entirely produced by Ski Beatz (of Jay-Z, Camp-Lo and Mos Def fame). His closest gig to KC is landing in...
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By Chris Mills | September 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm | No comments
"This is from an open mic night at Club Mardi Gras, Kansas City, MO in January 2000. Grant Rice and Mac Lethal are there to battle each other on the mic. Tech blesses the crowd with a few bars of rawness at the end," reads the youtube description uploaded by scottykcmo.
I...
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By Chris Mills | August 10, 2011 at 1:39 pm | No comments
I wrote on facebook a while back that if I were an XXL or Complex, a Frank Ocean cover story would be my number one priority. Looks like another publication beat us to it (joking). Scoring the latest cover of The Fader Magazine is Frank Ocean, a singer repping the Odd...
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By Chris Mills | January 5, 2010 at 11:42 pm | No comments
The Barbaric Merits homies consist of two KC locals, DJ Mythik and Dublow 7. While holding down the predominant DJ roles in the local hip hop crew, Soul Providers, they've hit us with a brand new mix for the two-zero-one-zero. Featured on this mix are tracks from the likes...
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