Articles Archive for February 2004
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The 18-year-old from Giyani in Limpopo, South Africa is the new kid on the Hip Hop block, but his music is fast gaining popularity because he’s true to his roots and sings …
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20 year old Apollo Diablo having recently released his album in South Africa announces this month that it will be available in Botswana too. You might have heard him on YFM and Metro. The name of the 18 track album is “Meaning Of Life”. Read the entire story here: http://www.mmegi.bw/2004/February/Monday16/10584761671312.html
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Hailing from the Rocky Mountains they did not go over the mountain with their delivery they went straight through it and unleashed a release on Basementalism Records titled “As Iron Sharpens Iron”. Check the album cover a mic covered with some fertile ground – what could that mean? I digged around the ground and caused somewhat of a earthquake but what the heck Cali is known for is it’s quakes and this group is one of them that’s making the Richter scale go haywire. Check the interview I did with them.
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(New York) Over the past few years, music industry moguls such as Sean “P-Piddy” Combs and Jay-Z have strutted through music videos wearing remakes of football and basketball jerseys worn by famous sports icons of the past. Husband and wife team, Rodney and Knia Bonds have discovered a way to honor the legends of Hiphop with the debut of their brand new streetwear clothing line RTB Apparel and its’ inaugural product titled Rap Throwbacks. RTB Apparel has set out to prove that throwback jerseys are not just for athletes. Rodney explains, “We had to build a brand from the Rap Throwbacks line. RTB Apparel came out of that. The product basically represents fashion & Hiphop.”
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During the month of December I received a cd in the mail from this interesting Canadian crew going by the name of Rhythmicru. This 7 man Toronto based hip hop collective released their banger the Open Canvas EP and I immediately got in touch with them to talk more about the album and their role in Canada’s hip hop scene. We also spoke about their innovative Open Canvass public project. Check it out.
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With more than 7 years experience of ripping shows, the Ambassadoz (M.O.A & Akan) get set to release their album Travelwyze. On their albums you will find them rapping in English, French, Twi, Patois, Fanti and Creole. This Ghanaian hiphop group based in Philadelphia, PA USA talked to us about their album and their backgrounds.
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I’m Skebza, member of Hipnotica (a 4 man Lesotho hip hop group) and I would like to mention that we also have hip hop heads here. Hipnotica recently released a 12 track Ep that I’ll soon send to AG. I believe in the unity of crews to elevate African hip hop and hopefully with the assistance of such people like you all nations will receive the recognition they deserve in hip hop. With many unsigned Lesotho and Freestate (OFS – SA) rappers bringing out CD’s I believe that something should be done to help these artists progress in hiphop. frozenslosh@yahoo.com
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Visit Breakdown for interviews with Cashless Society, Hamma, Disturbance Recordings-Estonia, Kalahari Surfers, Decibel, Broken Kultcha. They also sell Knowledge Magazine, a UK based Hip Hop/Dnb/Breaks mag which comes with a free cd.
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Today, Hip-Hop culture dictates trends in everything from fashion and advertising to literature, film and theatre. In the 70s, gifted youth with a lot of imagination forged a new style of music from spare parts. Emceeing was a product of pure streetwise ingenuity, extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling life as they experienced it. Some emcees spread positive messages and lessons from their hearts while others rhyme about money, sex and drugs, incorporating the good and bad times that surround their existence.
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DJ Graffiti’s Bling Free Volume 3 is subtitled, “It’s Official”, because it is much more than your average mixtape – it is actually a licensed commercial release with international distribution! The impressive collection of new and exclusive songs on Volume 3 is a class-act compilation project – a virtual “who’s who” of Independent Hip Hop!