Between the clips of Quik rapping alongside Loyal Divide and Danny Brown littering Joker's bass with foul-mouthed ease, you've already seen we've posted a few slices of Pitchfork's Selector series. [...]
Photo by Philip Cosores One of our favorite festivals from last year is returning this year on April 7th to Southern California's NOS Event Center: Paid Dues. Presented by Murs and Gorilla Union, this celebration of underground hip hop already has a couple of stellar headliners in Wu-Tang Clan and Odd Future, and is now rounding out its lineup. Announced today, the festival will also feature BPM favorite Kendrick Lamar, DJ Quik, Living Legends, Dipset (Cam'ron + Jim Jones + Juelz Santana + Freeky Zekey), Hieroglyphics, Psycho Realm and Dilated Peoples. Notably, [...]
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1 Shabazz Palaces - Black Up 2 Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 3 M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 4 The Roots - Undun 5 [...]
It's been a long year. Scratch that, it's been a veeerrrry long year. From social revolutions to the end of our occupation of Iraq, from the death of celebrities and dictators to a man who sneezes bullets and the mystery of planking, the world experienced a slew of emotions and all sorts of cultural and political upheaval in 2011. And that's not even counting the plethora of music news that had the blogosphere abuzz this year . So, as the question begs, what comes next? Well, 2012. If you were to believe certain [...]
The Top on this list was rotated a lot before I reached a definite conclusion. There are even some which I had to leave out cause I doubt that anyone wanted to read about 20 albums. So yeah here are my favorite albums this year. 2011 Top Ten Albums of the Year: [...]
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special shoutout to Greg for making the BOOMBOX flyers! CLICK PICTURE TO VIEW FLYER Congratulations, DJs Inka One , Ben Diggin' , and DJ Analog for their five years of giving Los Angeles another place where they can enjoy some awesome hiphop music, as well as the special guests they bring every month! This is a moment in time where most event organizers and promoters dont make it this far doing the same thing! I wouldn't have met many of my favorite [...]
See Also: The 50 Greatest Producers of All-Time #50-1 10. Prince Paul Prince Paul didn't just expand the definition of what hip-hop could and should sound like – he took the Hip-Hop dictionary tore it up and then recorded a skit about it. Whether playing as part of a live band (Stetsasonic), sampling hippie-rock and french-language instructional records (De La Soul), accidentally inventing Horrorcore (The Gravediggaz) or recording a collection [...]
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Quik's dedication to Heavy D. [See post to listen to audio] DOWNLOAD : DJ Quik - Heavy Mr. Big Stuff
David Blake dropping the most elegiac tribute to Heavy D yet. The fact that Quik cooked this up in a night or two would be mind blowing if it was anyone but Quik. In his 41st year, his chop game stays soulful and vicious. Between Quik and Ish from Shabazz Palaces, he has shredded all lingering axioms about rap strictly being a young man's game. In one minute of rapping, Quik highlights everything that made Waterbed Kev so unique and delivers his words with the requisite mournful fury this sort of thing requires. R.I.P. once more to the overweight lover. [...]
After Busta took the cover-all approach in honoring the late Heavy D, The Quiksta narrows in more specifically to game us young bloods on the reasons Waterbed Hev's legacy will [...]
<!-- <!-- <!-- DJ Quik releases his very own tribute to the late Heavy D. TMZ also has pictures of Heavy D's last recording session. Check them out here . Previously: Busta Rhymes – You Aint Gotta Wait Till Im Gone
In just the three days since Heavy D's sudden tragic passing earlier this week, numerous tributes to the ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media /dj-quik/heavy-mr-big-stuff-he avy-d-tribute/58531/
Dr. Dre might be too busy getting inspired by David Guetta and recording with Kendrick Lamar ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/ video-snoop-dogg-dj-quik-worki ng-on-dres-detox/57833/
<!-- <!-- <!-- Here is footage of Snoop Dogg, DJ Quik, DJ Battlecat, DOC and 1500 or Nothin in the studio working on Dr. Dre's "Detox". Read more for part 2 of the footage.
<!-- <!-- <!-- Terrace Martin decides to release an unreleased video from "Locke High" as he gears up to release the sequel tomorrow on iTunes. Directed by Matt Alonzo. Previously: Terrace Martin – Locke High 2 Intro (Video)
Our good friend & comrade DJ R-Cade of BevMo recently hand crafted this mix old, new & future soulful sounds of everything we love. I have bumped this mix out like no other since he shot us the final. This is the first of many more to come. Hit the jump for the track list. & Jedi respecognition to R-Cade & the entire BevMo posse extraordinaire! BLIND I [...]
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