On Saturday August 2nd, CD Wherehouse and 206 Productions invite you to a “Hip Hop Hooray” warm up session in-store. Blaq 3000 performs from 3pm to 4pm, opening for Ready D who conducts a scratch workshop with performances by Max Normal and Tumi and the Volume two on two with a four deck explosion thereafter. This showcase gig is a promotion for these artists who will be performing later at the BAT Centre for “Hip Hop Hooray”. Tickets are available at the BAT Centre.

Recently I hooked up with the Mad Krew who come from that North West city Seattle. They had produced a fat video called “Enter The Madness” which showcased inner city graffiti, bboying, deejaying and emceeing. Immediatley I was interested in what these cats were up to. They also released a few albums and even got their own TV show. Peep it!

We recently hooked up with Marchant, who if you can remember was a member of the Western Cape old skool hip hop group Jam B (together with FAT MC) and Dirty Thoughts (together with another old skool producer Caramel). We spoke to him about his extremely successful career as a Salsa dancer and find out that he still loves hip hop and gatsby’s. Peep it!

Word is bond like a mutha! Yes it is I the dirty Rwandan Butcher SpaceVein bringing you an exclusive interview with the money making, sh*t talking, obnoxious, b**ch slapping Old Maid Billionaire himself….J-ZONE..coming to you live from his Pimp Palace in Jamaica Queens.

Basically an attempt to bring together PE’s desperate hip hop community. Featuring locals J-Bux, Nexus, Element Official and DJ Stylez. Venue is Times Cafe in Parliament Street, Central (opposite Angelo’s). 8th August 2003 Friday Night. Starts at 8pm. It may just be the beginning of the pending PE hip hop revolution!  Download The Flyer Here.

Hip Hop Block Party (Open Mic, Bboy Circle, Freestyle Battle, Drink Specials) Featuring DJ Bionic, Cashless Society, DJ Zeek Delaroq, 2 10 Kamen, Numberous, Mylowe, Pseudologistics – Live at the YMCA Hall in Pietermaritzburg. R20 get’s you in. 8 August 2003 – Starts 9pm.

Jeru the Damaja’s tour commences in support of his upcoming single release “War” and forthcoming full length CD “Divine Design” on Ashenafi Records. Jeru the Damaja (born Jeru Davis) aka D. Original Dirty Rotten Scoundrel hails from Brooklyn, NY where he was born and raised. Jeru spent his early years in East New York, Brooklyn being introduced to hip hop music in the local parks “before it was popular” as he says. After completion of high school Jeru knew exactly what he wanted to do, be an MC. Influenced at the time by soon to be legends like Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, KRS One and Kool G Rap Jeru set out on his quest while he worked part time jobs in Manhattan.

Everywhere you look in this day in age, you will get a DVD with your favourite rapper/DJ or musician. So it is no surprise that with the advent of DVD’s being released weekly in the US by your favourite rappers that DJ Quik releases his own, Visualism.

Introducing Big Ice & Oral Bee, one of the tightest mob producers.  They’ve recently released the hot Da Playboy Foundation Compilation which featured a host of underground bangers. They’ve produced for Bullet, Mac Dre, Kid Frost, N2Deep, Jay Tee, Assassin plus many more. And they from Norway. Peep the interview we did with them recently.

I recently spoke to J-Locc who released the B.A.R.T. to the 91Siccness Double Album which featured artists like Spice 1, Mac & AK plus many others. 44 Tracks makes this one hell of a banging album. J-Locc tells us how the album was put together and about the future products we can expect from Tact Out Muzic. Peep It.

They recently just finished their double CD entitled “The Projekt”.  Salute To The Dead is the banging single that you need to look out for.  We recently interviewed them so learn more about these Tanzanian emcees based in Johannesburg.

You haven’t heard this album yet?  Then best you check it out.  Recently he released the brilliant “Squares” album and is getting set to drop us “Talkin’ Honkey Blues”.  My main man Rush recently got in touch with him to find out more about who this Buck 65 man is. Peep it.

There’s been a lot of confusion regarding this tight concept in cutting edge radio, so let’s try put the record straight once n for all.

On Monday, a rare shipment of african dope vinyl releases lands in south africa. Stocks are limited.

Due to an unforeseen illness, Jamaican poet Jean Binta Breeze will not perform at Urban Voices 2003. In her place, Urban Voices will introduce Jo’burg, Durban and Cape Town to rising poet, Staceyann Chin. This provocative writer and performer appears in South Africa fresh from her debut on Broadway as a featured poet in the Tony-award nominated theatre production, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.