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[23 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

The Durban International Graffiti Exhibition (DIGE) is an annual Hiphop event which began in 2003. The exhibition is centered on graffiti and features all the elements within the Hiphop Culture. Graffiti is done on canvases, mesonite boards and all that graff writers wish to experiment with. DIGE has an opening, a closing, graff battle, month-long exhibition, cd launches, BBoy/BGirl Workshops (Crazy Legs) and we hope to have a Hiphop Market on next year’s exhibition.

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[22 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Ladies First is an events company/DJ crew comprising of three female DJ’s namely C4, H-bomb and Brown Pride – individuals who share a common passion for all the elements of the Hip Hop culture and a vision to promote unity and consciousness through these elements. Contemporary Hip Hop culture, particularly it’s perceived attitude to and depiction of women is tragically, negative and exploitative. Ladies First aims to change this by organizing events every month, focusing on the positive aspects of Hip Hop culture.
Read on for more details…

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[21 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

On Saturday 28 October, Dynamite Breaks brings you The Halloween Breakbeat Ball: a night featuring eight cutting edge DJs from the ever expanding Cape Town electro and breakbeat scenes. Expect dancefloor-driven mayhem (120-135 BPM) charged with uplifting melodies and loaded with bass. The night will feature one of South Africa’s only true breakbeat bands, Black Jaguar, and other attractions include seriously sick decor, classic horror movie visuals, giveaways and many more sinister surprises. Let’s have a ball!

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[20 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

HOsted by BlaqPearl this Saturday 21st October 2006 at 10:00am. Open MIC Session with a compulsory workshop. Workshop starts at 10:00am and Open Mic starts at 14:00pm. Venue is Beacon Valley Community Centre, Mitchell’s Plain in Cape Town. Supported by the Dept of Arts & Culture and Dept of Social Development CT. For more info contact Blaq Pearl 0722325862 or Charmaine 0213761135.

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[20 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Monday October 30th at the Renaissance Cafe is yet another session of the Poetry Jams. The theme this month is The Poet, iPantsula and The Township. The Poet is influenced by his/her surroundings and no other place has influenced him/her like the iKasi.

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[19 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

The oldest Community Station in South Africa, Cape Town’s Bush Radio, features the two meanest Hip Hop shows in the area. Listen to Headwarmaz every Friday between 10 pm and 1 am. Debate around the art form, freestyling, interviews and banging Hip Hop – lot of it local! On Saturday afternoons, between 2 and 3 pm, Welfare State of Mind, an international Hip Hop show featuring music from New Zealand to South America and South Africa to Scandinavia. Listen to the shows on 89.5 in Cape Town and www.bushradio.co.za worldwide. Send your music, feedback or contact the producers through the MySpace sites www.myspace.com/headwarmaz and www.myspace.com/welfarestateofmind.

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[15 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Ghetto Radio will start in April 2007 in Nairobi. The radio station is a Dutch initiative for, by and with young African people. Radio is the medium of the ghettos and to inform the Western audience a documentary about rappers from the slums of the Kenyan capital is made. The title is Noise is my voice. Thursday the 14th of September will be the official start of Ghetto Radio and will be the presentation of the documentary in Amsterdam.

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[15 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Rapster Angel is standing on a piece of land in a slum in Nairobi. “Hip-hop in Kenya is so much like this piece of land,” she says in the documentary Noise is my voice. “Inside it is so much talent, so much potential, so much hope. The future of Africa is lying in the ghetto. What we, hip-hop-artists, are doing, we’re trying our best to dig in the ghetto and get the raw talent out, so that this place can look beautiful again”. This week she is together with some colleagues, in the Netherlands for the official launch of Ghetto Radio.

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[14 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

We have the newly remastered audio to “Survival Of The Fittest”, “Shook Ones Part II” and “Quiet Storm” (Remix). This is just a little taste of what the new CD and DVD have to offer.

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[14 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Check out video streams for “Dem Jeans”, The second single from Chingy’s new album Hoodstar

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[14 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Check out the hot new video by Cherish ‘Unappreciated’, the title track off their new album.

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[14 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Lil’ Boosie brings us the fist video from his debut album, Bad Azz. Check out the streams below.

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[14 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Dan The Automator Produced tracks include new music from Lupe Fiasco, Rhymefest and more…

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[11 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Today hip-hop is not what it is made out to be there is a lot more to it then just the flashy cars, money and fame. It all starts with the 5 elements of hip-hop being the dj- the drum maker of the scene, the mc- the story teller for the day, the graffiti artist- the scene setter, painting the scenery in the background for the event and setting a different mood on what’s around us and then there is the b-boy- the entertainer and tribal dancer, finally the fifth element “knowledge of self”- finding who you are in this arena and you purpose in life it’s self. Learn these basic principles on what this culture is really about and the movement that defies it self as an art form and not just another music genre.

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[11 Oct 2006 | No Comment | ]

Heads of State presents Friday the 13th at Lepht, 15 Buiten Street Cape Town on the 13th October 2006.
Doors open at 9:30pm and it will cost you R20 to get in.
Hosted by Ben Sharpa and will feature Abnormal Detail, Gini Grindith, Hymphatic Thabs, DJ Raiko, League of Shadows, Robo, DJ Big Dre and DJ First and Foremost.
View the entire flyer here.