By Chris Mills | May 19, 2010 at 6:10 pm | No comments
The Progress EP (front cover)
The Progress EP (back cover)
You already know how LA native, verBS, killed it at the Jackpot in Lawrence, KS a couple of weeks ago when him and MURS came through on tour. But this CD I picked up off him (in exchange for a Demencha mag) at...
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By Chris Mills | May 15, 2010 at 8:36 pm | No comments
Growing up, a lot of my friends came from broken homes but I was lucky enough to have both parents around. But this song really punches me in the gut. I just rediscovered it off of EL-P's Fantastic Damage album today while looking for vinyls to rip-and-blog. I was never...
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By Chris Mills | May 12, 2010 at 8:43 pm | One comment
I honestly can't make it through more than 30 seconds of this video (I've tried twice). But the song itself is a big time jammy jam. Grum also did pretty jamming remix of Armand Van Helden's "You Don't Know Me" a couple of years ago that I'm sure is pretty easy to...
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By Chris Mills | May 5, 2010 at 3:54 am | No comments
Kutty Slitz & Leonard Dstroy
The LennySlitz Project
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Demencha.com
Local battle rap titan, Sephiroth (aka Kartoon), once told us that there was a time when Kutty Slitz (formerly known as General Ali) would enter a room and other MCs would walk the other way. ...
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By Chris Mills | April 14, 2010 at 11:15 pm | No comments
In anticipation for Approach's Aloe Park album release party this Friday at the Record Bar in Westport, he's released a digi-single from the new album - "Watermark," featuring Reggie B. Reggie kills this hook as usual, and shows that he can certainly spice up songs that...
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By Chris Mills | March 9, 2010 at 11:28 pm | No comments
I downloaded this somewhere about a month ago thinking, "Hmm, new Kool Keith..." However, I was not prepared for what I was getting myself into as I loaded it into Windows Media Player. Autotune is alive!!!!!!!
Kool Keith - Two...
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By Chris Mills | December 8, 2008 at 12:21 am | 4 comments
I first heard DJ Hylanda spin this track a couple of weeks ago at Club 4400 for Heet Mob's open mic night. The Popper has been one of my favorite Kansas City rappers from the day I bought Mixtape Murder Vol. 1, and since then I've been trying to track down as much of his...
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