By Chris Mills | February 6, 2012 at 6:49 pm | No comments
Grammy-noted jazz composer and producer Roy Hargrove swung through the Foundation on Friday night, which turned out to be a pretty wild night in Kansas City with a lot of events going down. I first went to see Matty G at the Midland Theater downtown, and his minimal,...
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By Chris Mills | January 8, 2012 at 2:39 pm | No comments
KC guys, Hermon Mehari, Brad Williams and Ben Leifer do an instrumental acoustic take on Jay-Z & Kanye West's mega-hit in Paris, France...er, the "Paris of the Plains", perhaps. ...
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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 28, 2011 at 4:31 pm | No comments
Thank you to all who came out and made it a fun...
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By Chris Mills | October 31, 2011 at 11:40 am | No comments
This latest teaser from Izmore & DWill, and hopefully the last one before their Heartfelt Anarchy album comes out, is a wrap up of a few previously-released tracks they've leaked over the past several months, but including some new jawns that we haven't heard yet. True...
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By Chris Mills | October 30, 2011 at 6:01 pm | No comments
N O C O V E R!
N O C O V E R!!
N O C O V E R!!!
Come on down to the Riot Room in Westport KCMO for a Demencha-presented event, Black Friday at the Riot Room on November 25th. Twerk off that turkey with performances by:
Now Now Sleepyhead
Les Izmore &...
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By Chris Mills | October 12, 2011 at 3:04 pm | No comments
Sent to us yesterday comes Les & DWill's latest leak, this one from the upcoming "Granny Smith Theorem" (not to be confused with the duo's upcoming album, "Heartfelt Anarchy"). "Eyes In The Sky" sees Les getting his RBG on with audio at the end taken from one of Cornel...
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By Chris Mills | September 12, 2011 at 10:14 pm | No comments
pictured: Les Izmore
I'm not exactly sure how Les and DWill came up with the idea for this one, but let's just say it borrows from some old school. Regardless, this song stays in my morning routine (wake up, piss, smoke a cigarette...and play this track). Download the...
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By Chris Mills | August 13, 2011 at 12:01 pm | No comments
Reggie B - "The Celeste"
Cop the album that this song came out on, Reggie B's The Traveler, RIGHT HERE.
Be on the lookout for Izmore & D/Will's upcoming album, Heartfelt Anarchy. We're pretty sure 2dopeboyz got their mits on this mp3 before most other blogs, which...
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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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