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D2MG Christmas Party Sat 20th Dec 2008!

December 11th 2008 12:54

Celebrate the holiday season with us as we bring back the block party and the soul train! D2MG has invited a range of dance schools around Sydney to be a part of our event, including DarrioStreet, Dancekool, Dance Central and Caramell, with DJ Libre on the decks along with many other special guest DJ, MCs and beatboxers to make up one big jam session. Help keep us alive with a $5 donation or more, and feel free to BYO. See you there!

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Posted By: Trina - Category: Music, Hip Hop, Funk, R&B/Soul, Mixtapes, Videos, DJ, MC, Hip Hop Dance, Graffiti, Bboy / Bgirl, History

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Pharoahe Monch interview

December 5th 2008 06:32

Cocaine Blunts also has an embedded track, "Ghost Weed Acapella", recorded live this year.

Here's the interview with Monch:

This image is from rap.about.com, the album cover from Desire, Monch's second album, one that was initially ignored but made everyone go 'woah'.

Who is this reincarnated Egyptian pharoah? Do we pay tribute? Or just heed the cries of gun control and open the gates to the Terrordome?

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Movie Preview - CENTRE STAGE: TURN IT UP

October 22nd 2008 03:37

Movie Preview - CENTRE STAGE: TURN IT UP

Return to the Centre Stage phenomenon with new passions and partners as Sony Pictures Releasing brings the amped-up, high-energy Centre Stage: Turn It Up to cinemas on October 30!

All self-taught dancer Kate Parker has ever wanted to do was perform with the American Academy of Ballet. But when she doesn’t make it after auditioning, she learns that it takes more than precision and perfection to succeed in the dance world. With a turn in a cutting-edge hip-hop club and the help of a good-looking former hockey player, she may just find the passion she needs to make her dreams come true. Peter Gallagher (TV’s “The O.C.”) and a cast of hot up-and-coming stars including newcomers Rachele Smith and Kenny Wormald rock to a new beat in this unmissable sensation!

Starring Rachele Brooke Smith, Kenny Wormald, Peter Gallagher, Ethan Stiefel and directed by Australian filmmaker, Steven Jacobson

Only at the Movies! October 30 For more infomation, visit the official website.

Preview the trailer:

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Kanye West's new album cover is a bizarre arrangement of nudes

October 21st 2008 06:03

Kanye West new album cover nude black afro lady

Kanye West seems to be working on a new album, one that involves organizing a large group of women to stand nude in a studio, looking grumpy, like the lady shown above.

The original of that photo shows her topless, with more naked ladies in the background.

Now, I've always been a proponent of looking at nude women, but this seems to be pushing it a little far. What is Kanye up to? Is he so worried that his tracks won't be able to hold our interest? Does he think the temptation of boobies and boom-boom is going to misdirect our critical views away from his rapidly cooling beats?

See all the naughty pictures at Kanye University!

Also included in the post is a direct link to his latest track, "Heartless".

I mean, first there was this "Flashing Lights" video, featuring knockout bikini model, Rita G, pulling Kanye out of the trunk of her car, after she does a little strip-strip.

...and now a battalion of naked women, standing there like they're waiting to be implanted with an alien host? Or are they replicants? In either case, my imagination is working far too hard.

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Method Man is making a comic book

October 1st 2008 04:28

It's all about M-E-T-H-O-D. Man! The popular Wu-Tang member, Method Man, has been a best selling artist, both with the Wu and solo, has starred on The Wire, and is now turning his sights on a comic book, featuring himself as the leading man.

And why not? Wu-Tang birthed a sense of cool that was the disfigured child of a union between Kung Fu and comic books. They like comic books, I like comic books. We should all publish comic books featuring ourselves as the star. Mine would feature me being held captive on a space ship, crewed by beautiful space babes.

But enough about me - what about Method Man?

From PreFix Mag:

"It’s called Method Man of course, named after me. Except for Method Man is in a gang of murderers who are descendants of the first murderer, Cain. My character doesn’t want anything to do with that lifestyle anymore nut that’s the only life he knows. So, in the outside world, he becomes a private investigator. He just takes the cases nobody else will because basically they don’t think the cases are real because they deal with paranormal and occult things."

Hell, that sounds great. Method's comic book is the first in a series of Wu-Tang comics, with upcoming books by GZA and Ghostface Killah. If they get decent writers and illustrators, these could be fantastic comic books, and I'll buy 'em all. I just wish ODB would rise from the grave to at least add some element of eccentric psychosis to the mix...

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Diddy is a Sex Olympian

August 26th 2008 01:56

P. Diddy accepting an award at the MTV music awards

With all the controversy over the Olympics, it's easy to lose sight of the important things, like the actual events.

And there's so many events now that it's hard to keep track of them, too. For example, the 25m women's pistol shooting. That's an event?

Well, WIMB is reporting that New York Magazine had the foresight to ask P. Diddy which Olympic sport he would be best at, and he said:

""Who could have sex the longest," he told us in a soft voice and with a straight face, while looking into our eyes. "

Ah, yes, the long-distance hump-a-thon. I've heard that Diddy had to eat 10 000 calories a day to stay in shape for that.

Diddy will also be competing in the men's 50 m Cristal popping, the speed trials of turning his Glock sideways and the ever-popularfield event, making young female fans swoon and disrobe with merely a glance.

"Just so you know, that's supposed to be funny," he added as an afterthought. "Even though I am serious.""

I'm hoping that Diddy will appear on my cereal boxes anytime, now. I also want Diddy brand sex gear, machined by Swiss engineers for reliability and long-duration use. I may not be an Olympic-quality sexer, but, dammit, I'm going to try and win my own bronze medal!

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Kanye West and Jay-Z do not like Oasis

August 13th 2008 03:02

We're getting this info from Stereogum, who reminds us that the UK papers are throwing frowny faces at HOVA:

"The Sun pointed out that Oasis are UK festival royalty and Jay-Z is a former New York drug dealer. Wha?"

Now Kanye West is getting into the act by announcing that a track from Blueprint 3 is going to have a little Oasis-burning.

It seems inevitable that hip hop is going to be featured at major festivals around the world... it's officially mainsteam music, there's nothing shocking about "Fuck da polica" and 2 Live Crew just seem funny now.

Them dudes from Oasis have managed to nicely display how out of touch they are with the current trend of music... by sticking their nose up in the air, they remind us of when they claimed that they were bigger than the Beatles, who claimed that they were bigger than Jesus, who claimed that he was bigger than Buddha.

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Nas plays Rush on Rock Band

August 8th 2008 08:39

Nas rocked out the East Coast with Illmatic, his seminal hip hop album that brought serious thinkers into the fold. Over time, sure, he lost a lot of appeal, but he's always been that guy. The guy that put out Illmatic.

When Nas goes on The Colbert Report, what do you think Colbert would ask him to do? Talk about hip hop? Perform a song? Introduce a cooking recipe book?

How about, play a little Rock Band.

And try to play a song by Canadian rockers, Rush?

Hell, I didn't expect that.

Should that post be on this site?

Ah, why not? Let's all revel in the intricate weirdness of the human taste for music. If you like Rush, Nas, rock out. Get freaky and rock the hell out.

How far can Nas take it? Do you think that, when he lived in the projects, he thought that, one day, he'd be playing video games on a show featuring a fake Republican on national television?

That last sentence shook me, too.

Can we get more rappers playing video games? And fewer gamers rapping?

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Oz Hip Hop 101: The Hoods, The Herd and Urthboy.

July 14th 2008 02:11

Hip-Hop is such an American thing that it’s sometimes easy to forget that it happens elsewhere in the world. In a country where people have accents as annoying as Australia (let’s face it...) it may be tempting just to assume that it’s not likely that you’ll come across it and leave it at that.
There is though, one group who popularised Oz Hip Hop, that a number of people may have heard of; The Hilltop Hoods. An example of their work here:

Before the Hoods became popular though, there was another band busy blazing a path in Oz Hip Hop. This was the Herd. A group of nine members, including four MC, three beatspersons, and an assortment of instrumentation including piano accordion, clarinet, guitar and bass. Their songs used the full potential of Rap/Hip-Hop as a tool for social commentary, including songs such as Burn Down the Parliament. Behind the backdrop of the Conservative Howard Government, the Herd blazed an angry left wing lyrical flow of dissent.

Some quotes from their songs.

Sons and daughters wrapped in stars and stripes to keep 'em warm

77% of Australians are Racist; and if you were here, I’d say it to your faces.

Captain Cook was the first queue jumper

Len Hall Gallipoli veteran gently passed away thinking we learned not a thing; Played the Commonwealth cannon-fodder, his ominous words, that if he had to do it again, he'd fight for the Turks.

The Sun Never Sets is a favorite album of mine, from this band. Not only do they have the willingness to speak out politically, they’re not bound by the traditional constrains of their Genre. On the opening Track they speed up the beat slowly, following a Mandarin introduction, soon followed by rap verses in Chzeck and Spanish. Jane Tyrrell, female vocalist is featured regularly, and often with a sound closer to pop or folk that hip hop. Quite frankly, they’re not a textbook hip-hop band.

Here’s one of their songs;

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The Herd – Long Lunch

Another of the members of the Herd, Urthboi has had some recent success with his own projects. Here is an example of his solo work.

Urthboy – We Get Around

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