By Chris Mills | March 8, 2011 at 10:08 pm | No comments
At 21, and like so many artists that this blog has covered over the years, Ghost (whose real name is Steffan), doesn’t have press photos just quite yet. That’s why we had to jack this shot from his facebook page.
Words by Chris Mills
To take the word “ghost”...
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By Chris Mills | November 29, 2010 at 6:56 pm | No comments
Nezbeat reps the Garden
Archetype producer, Nezbeat (Lawrence, KS), is gearing up to release a project he started with Kansas City rap artist, Joe Good, several years ago under the duo alias Good Hair. Since then, Joe Good has retired from rap altogether, but Nez is still...
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By Chris Mills | October 16, 2010 at 10:53 am | No comments
It looks like this http://trakcbangadjs.wordpress.com/ blog just launched in July, but it's something that was pretty much brought to my awareness by DJ Shad (who's having his wedding in STL today, congrats!). I'm not entirely sure what they're about, but I'm guessing...
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By Chris Mills | May 11, 2010 at 12:57 pm | No comments
The Moveltraxx posse releases have been snowballing from the time we first heard about them on myspace about three years ago or so. Each of their releases vastly supersedes the previous. This time around, they've released an EP titled Whooz Da Baddest?! by The Cheerz. ...
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By Chris Mills | May 5, 2010 at 3:54 am | No comments
Kutty Slitz & Leonard Dstroy
The LennySlitz Project
Chris Mills
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 19, 2010 at 10:15 pm | No comments
Kansas City's own youngblood production prodigy, DR+, just put out a new EP - ONETRILLIONYEARSPASSED. Well, kinda new. He says that two of these seven tracks have never been "properly" released, and I must say TRILLION YEARS PASSED IS THE BEST COMPOSITION ON THIS WHOLE...
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By Chris Mills | March 26, 2010 at 8:54 pm | No comments
Just checked this out on the Pitch's blog today. This video was shot and edited by Ron Ron himself at Studio B. No concrete word yet on what album this track will be placed on. Those who downloaded Ron Ron's first album, Ironic (2005), from the post we made a couple of...
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By Chris Mills | March 9, 2010 at 10:45 pm | No comments
The lil homie DR+, one of Kansas City's rising glitch/hip hop producers, hit us up with a brand new zip file, about six tracks deep, all remixes of other artists including local - Greg Enemy. Most, or maybe half of the tracks in this zip file, I've heard already. So...
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By Chris Mills | January 1, 2010 at 9:28 pm | 4 comments
Stik Figa & DJ Shad - Still Aint Easy Bein’ Skinny
Brainiak Muzik, 2010
Review by Chris Mills
Demencha Magazine/Demencha.com
“Slaps.” “Knocks.” “Bangs.” “Bumps.” Whatever term you want to use would appropriately fit in filling the question,...
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By Chris Mills | September 23, 2009 at 4:50 am | One comment
While rummaging through one of DJ Shad's music hard drives a couple of months ago, I came across a song by Stik Figa (Topeka, KS) called "Part of Town." The beat sounded familiar and I remembered it was from one of Miles Bonny's old beat discs he was handing out at the...
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