By Chris Mills | April 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm | No comments
I haven't seen Spin play out in KC for sometime, probably not since the Rusko show at Mosaic last summer (YIKES), but I'm sure he's still one of the nicer DJs around town. As a matter of fact, before today I hadn't heard any new tracks from Spinstyles since this one we...
Posted in: Downloads
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 | 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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By Chris Mills | February 7, 2011 at 1:30 am | No comments
...And boy, do they look fucked up... Apparently this old news finally manifested itself into this picture featuring Tech N9ne and Lil Wayne that Tech posted on his twitter yesterday. Tech would write with the twitpic, "AW SHIT! indie meets major and make...
Posted in: Op-Eds/Misc.
By Chris Mills | January 6, 2011 at 11:21 am | No comments
The homie Chris Jondo (check his youtube channel at youtube.com/jondorecords) shot this video and sliced it up into two different clips on youtube. Jondo, if you're reading this, you need to get the video up from the Floozies NYE show ASAP!! The Floozies, a two-man...
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By Chris Mills | December 23, 2010 at 5:05 pm | No comments
XXL Magazine presents Bad Season, Tech N9ne's latest mixtape, featuring the KC-based, Nesto The Owner, Ces Cru, Kutt Calhoun, Krizz Kaliko and Irv Da Phenom among others. It's somewhat rare that I post Tech N9ne related news, but when this mixtape has already generated a...
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By Chris Mills | November 21, 2010 at 5:57 pm | No comments
This is a bit old in the blog world, and I'm not the biggest fan of Irv's music, straight up, but how could I not post...
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By Chris Mills | October 20, 2010 at 1:31 pm | No comments
Local multiple-hat-wearer, Kemet Coleman aka The Phantom, posed a question recently about what DJs he should shop his tracks to, in a sense, seeing as how he's lately becoming more active in house music. Phantom's always had a very strong electronic/dance influence in his...
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By Chris Mills | September 26, 2010 at 5:50 pm | No comments
From Darwinism to future collaborations, it sounds like underground rap legend, Tech N9ne, had a real solid conversation with Weezy at Rikers...
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By Chris Mills | September 25, 2010 at 2:54 pm | No comments
Better late than never on getting this flyer up here, I suppose. Flavor Pak helped lay down a foundation over a decade ago for what many of us now take for granted - a local hip hop scene. I'm not sure in what capacity they're "back," but I have the utmost respect for...
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