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Humour / Jokes / Headz up
« on: April 18, 2007, 10:54:27 AM »
New place to pa** time: Funny or Die site.
Peep: http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925
Will Ferrell's a genius. The little kid though LMAO!!!
Peep: http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925
Will Ferrell's a genius. The little kid though LMAO!!!
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Hot Traxxx / Zim stand up
« on: April 12, 2007, 03:49:55 PM »
These vaphana Major Playaz have always killed me from day one.
As far as hip hop outfits from Africa talking that floss game is concerned, nothing comes close to how these dudes have done it from day one.
Welcome to the Major Playaz appreciation thread :wink:
I'd sign these vapfanas anyday should that day mean I'm able.
As far as hip hop outfits from Africa talking that floss game is concerned, nothing comes close to how these dudes have done it from day one.
Welcome to the Major Playaz appreciation thread :wink:
I'd sign these vapfanas anyday should that day mean I'm able.
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Media / PR(ing) like no man's business.
« on: April 10, 2007, 01:35:48 PM »
http://www.ban50cent.com
^^^
Following on from the recent Tony Yayo jumping a kid publicity nightmare..., It's a pity this person, with all he has done in the past and then buying this website and making it do what it do, that dude isn't included in Management Curricula under Publicity 101.
^^^
Following on from the recent Tony Yayo jumping a kid publicity nightmare..., It's a pity this person, with all he has done in the past and then buying this website and making it do what it do, that dude isn't included in Management Curricula under Publicity 101.
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Hot Traxxx / DJ Jimmy Jatt ft 2Face, Mode 9 -Stylee.
« on: April 10, 2007, 01:04:58 PM »
Do we have headz in Nigeria on AG? Need to know what kind of impact this track has on the ground right now.
Personally I think it's a banging beat, heavyweights on that track and has to be Lagos Nigeria's best anthem to date. Am I wrong? Has there/is there anything hotter?
P.S...after hearing a few completely different tracks I'm finally convinced Mode 9 is one of the sickest on the continent. One of the sickest. Dude is ridiculous? Anyone know what's up?
Personally I think it's a banging beat, heavyweights on that track and has to be Lagos Nigeria's best anthem to date. Am I wrong? Has there/is there anything hotter?
P.S...after hearing a few completely different tracks I'm finally convinced Mode 9 is one of the sickest on the continent. One of the sickest. Dude is ridiculous? Anyone know what's up?
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Hot Traxxx / Koldproduk
« on: April 10, 2007, 12:59:37 PM »
I have'nt seen anyone discussing these cats around here. They got a high quality video on rotation, and the track is aight. Cats talk about national radio hating on "non-commercial" hip hop but this one is playlisted on 5fm.
Anybody know the story about these dudes?
Anybody know the story about these dudes?
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General Discussion / Just a ...
« on: April 05, 2007, 11:31:58 AM »
...quote I just heard over my shoulder:
Men make counterfeit money, but in most cases money makes counterfiet men.
:? Could be what went wrong with rap music? :?
Men make counterfeit money, but in most cases money makes counterfiet men.
:? Could be what went wrong with rap music? :?
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Media / The Radio Game
« on: March 06, 2007, 04:18:36 PM »
credit to playfuls.com
The FCC has managed to force four of the biggest radio companies in the US to renounce or limit the practice called "payola", which consists of accepting money, airline tickets, clothing and other gifts from major labels to play repeatedly certain songs by their artists, thus overlooking songs by independent music labels.
Payola was made illegal following a series of scandals in the late 1950s. Radio stations have to announce publicly any such arrangement. In 2005, music producer Sony BMG agreed to pay $10 million and Warner Music Group agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations of offering payola to radio stations.
The four owners of radio stations are reportedly CBS Radio, Citadel Broadcasting, Clear Channel Communications and Entercom Communications. The Chicago Tribune reported their deal with the FCC includes 8,400 half-hour airtime segments to be allocated for local and lesser-known artists.
Peter Gordon, president of Thirsty Ear Recordings, who led the negotiations on behalf of the American a**ociation of Independent Music, told the Chicago Tribune: "There are plenty of empty gestures out there. This one has the reality of a number attached to it, which makes it all the more serious of a commitment and an extraordinary one."
"We're moving forward on a good-faith basis," he said to the Hollywood Reporter. "If there are flagrant abuses, there are always points of enforcement, but we're trying to work this out amongst ourselves and take it away from Big Brother."
The free airtime would be granted to companies not owned or controlled by the big four of the recording industry, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Group.
The radio companies also have to pay $12.5 million to settle payola complaints by the American a**ociation of Independent Music (A2IM). The FCC consent decree also calls for a payola hotline, which employees can call to report such cases.
A common form of payola is known as "pay for play," and consists of payments by the artist through his label in order to ensure his/her songs receive airtime. There were also situations when lavish prizes meant for listeners winded up going to station employees.
"This is the largest collective fine in the history of American broadcasting," said Jonathan S. Adelstein, one of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission, as quoted by WP. "It wipes payola off the radio dial."
Adelstein said Entercom Communications will pay $4 million in fines, followed by Clear Channel Communications ($3.5 million), CBS Radio ($3 million) and Citadel Broadcasting ($2 million).
"I think it's a real breakthrough in the battle to wipe payola off the airwaves," he said. "If you take payola out of radio then music gets heard on the basis of merit, not on the basis of who's got wads of cash backing the artist. That's likely to make radio fresher and restore its vitality."
Things may just change in the next 2 yrs. Radio wise.
The FCC has managed to force four of the biggest radio companies in the US to renounce or limit the practice called "payola", which consists of accepting money, airline tickets, clothing and other gifts from major labels to play repeatedly certain songs by their artists, thus overlooking songs by independent music labels.
Payola was made illegal following a series of scandals in the late 1950s. Radio stations have to announce publicly any such arrangement. In 2005, music producer Sony BMG agreed to pay $10 million and Warner Music Group agreed to pay $5 million to settle allegations of offering payola to radio stations.
The four owners of radio stations are reportedly CBS Radio, Citadel Broadcasting, Clear Channel Communications and Entercom Communications. The Chicago Tribune reported their deal with the FCC includes 8,400 half-hour airtime segments to be allocated for local and lesser-known artists.
Peter Gordon, president of Thirsty Ear Recordings, who led the negotiations on behalf of the American a**ociation of Independent Music, told the Chicago Tribune: "There are plenty of empty gestures out there. This one has the reality of a number attached to it, which makes it all the more serious of a commitment and an extraordinary one."
"We're moving forward on a good-faith basis," he said to the Hollywood Reporter. "If there are flagrant abuses, there are always points of enforcement, but we're trying to work this out amongst ourselves and take it away from Big Brother."
The free airtime would be granted to companies not owned or controlled by the big four of the recording industry, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and EMI Group.
The radio companies also have to pay $12.5 million to settle payola complaints by the American a**ociation of Independent Music (A2IM). The FCC consent decree also calls for a payola hotline, which employees can call to report such cases.
A common form of payola is known as "pay for play," and consists of payments by the artist through his label in order to ensure his/her songs receive airtime. There were also situations when lavish prizes meant for listeners winded up going to station employees.
"This is the largest collective fine in the history of American broadcasting," said Jonathan S. Adelstein, one of the five members of the Federal Communications Commission, as quoted by WP. "It wipes payola off the radio dial."
Adelstein said Entercom Communications will pay $4 million in fines, followed by Clear Channel Communications ($3.5 million), CBS Radio ($3 million) and Citadel Broadcasting ($2 million).
"I think it's a real breakthrough in the battle to wipe payola off the airwaves," he said. "If you take payola out of radio then music gets heard on the basis of merit, not on the basis of who's got wads of cash backing the artist. That's likely to make radio fresher and restore its vitality."
Things may just change in the next 2 yrs. Radio wise.
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General Discussion / Flags- Do you understand what they mean?
« on: March 05, 2007, 11:12:38 AM »
What's your opinion on this here:
It's something that gets under my skin.... Flags.
People, here included, talk about "fitteds" (sp) as being hip hop. And when they talk about this, they mean specifically the NY or LA caps. i don't think people understand the whole thing that goes behind this. When Jay rocks it, when other NY artists rock it.
As an artist, points fall off immediately the moment you're rockin a flag that's not representative of your region, IMHO. I can't stand and never will understand the pride/seriousness/guts that an African artist has rockin an NY top, or Cap or L.A./ ATL yet you have nothing that says where you're from when shooting a video for your track, or doing a photo shoot for a mag spread.
These things are hiphop, but just like you can't be talking about growing up in BK when you're from DRC, you can't be rocking NY caps when you not from There. EVen R&B artists get this...Usher rocks ATL....Akon rocks Senegal Jackets..if it does'nt say so on his back, the colours are Senegalese colours. That's the shit. And it looks dope.
Just thought I'd share that since this weekend someone [who's not a hip hop head] pointed this out as one of the silly things African rappers do that makes her not take them seriously and write them off as "fake"/"copy cats"/"a substitute for the real thing".
Akon is a prime example of a dude doin it right. And Ready D too with his CAPE FLATZ fitteds.
Rocking NY caps when you're not from NY as an official visual for your image is not hip hop.....cool when you're just chillin round the way, but as a public image display/representation as a head making moves....it's not hip hop. It's dumb.
It's something that gets under my skin.... Flags.
People, here included, talk about "fitteds" (sp) as being hip hop. And when they talk about this, they mean specifically the NY or LA caps. i don't think people understand the whole thing that goes behind this. When Jay rocks it, when other NY artists rock it.
As an artist, points fall off immediately the moment you're rockin a flag that's not representative of your region, IMHO. I can't stand and never will understand the pride/seriousness/guts that an African artist has rockin an NY top, or Cap or L.A./ ATL yet you have nothing that says where you're from when shooting a video for your track, or doing a photo shoot for a mag spread.
These things are hiphop, but just like you can't be talking about growing up in BK when you're from DRC, you can't be rocking NY caps when you not from There. EVen R&B artists get this...Usher rocks ATL....Akon rocks Senegal Jackets..if it does'nt say so on his back, the colours are Senegalese colours. That's the shit. And it looks dope.
Just thought I'd share that since this weekend someone [who's not a hip hop head] pointed this out as one of the silly things African rappers do that makes her not take them seriously and write them off as "fake"/"copy cats"/"a substitute for the real thing".
Akon is a prime example of a dude doin it right. And Ready D too with his CAPE FLATZ fitteds.
Rocking NY caps when you're not from NY as an official visual for your image is not hip hop.....cool when you're just chillin round the way, but as a public image display/representation as a head making moves....it's not hip hop. It's dumb.
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Geek Section / Who got..
« on: February 15, 2007, 03:37:40 PM »
Who has gone and purchased them satellite radio thingy's from that company SPACE something.
If sos, the hip hop channels they have, is it any of that SIRIUS radio/SHADE 45 stuff, CLinton Sparks type shows or is it just on some DSTV DMX audio channel tip?
If sos, the hip hop channels they have, is it any of that SIRIUS radio/SHADE 45 stuff, CLinton Sparks type shows or is it just on some DSTV DMX audio channel tip?
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Hot Traxxx / Yay or Nay to MASE
« on: February 15, 2007, 10:30:28 AM »
LINK REMOVED/audio/mase-immortal_dissin_dipset-mp3.html
^^^On the bandwagon...but does it do damage?
^^^On the bandwagon...but does it do damage?
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General Discussion / Gateway shout outs instead of Hateway shouts for once.
« on: February 12, 2007, 10:23:18 AM »
There's a discussion happening elsewhere on the net and something very important stuck out when a certain artist said this: (regarding why Hip Hop in Africa is in troubled, compared to other genres like House music/Kwaito music that are continuosly growing). Do you agree?
1. For those of us that are On-air Personalities/ Journalists/ Radio Programmers on this here Gateway, as pa**ionate as you are about Hip hop, do you show this same above mentioned (going out of your way) effort, or not?
2.For those that are artists putting out material independently or "with a label", are there Djs/On Air personalities/Radio Programmers/Journalists you can shout out for "going that extra mile to expose your work"? ..Just so we can see who's decribed in the above quote and who does'nt fall into that category of ..."you come to me not me come to you".
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As I more recently fall in category 2, I'll start off the dome...
Milk & Rush...the absent AG HNIC"s"
Sensai Tate in the Tate and So Hiphocalypse Days & Journo hat days
Bad Boy T in his Harambe days
Lee in her Haramabe Days with Bad Boy
DJ Bionic in his days doin Eclipse Records
The Mbus he actually looks for cats
Mr. September on Good Hope FM
Rob One on his journalistic days
Eitan Prince certified best fair hip hop journalist
Ready D certified GURU in the game yet most humble
Beatbangaz ask the CAPE FLATZ
Faculty of Hip Hop Djs and On air hosts with their Ghetto Bottlegs
Dj Kenzhero it's all about the music
Fungz the apparent controversial Editor
Honourable mention: the many campus newspaper/ national magazine journalists that expose hip hop activity around them and have yet to further their careers in journalism and hopefully carry on flying that hip hop flag!
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I’ve actually seen a radio dj going to an artist's place to pick up music because that’s how they support each other. Today if any hip hop dj does that for any hip hop artist not out of kissing a** but out of being pa**ionate about the genre I’ll be damned.
1. For those of us that are On-air Personalities/ Journalists/ Radio Programmers on this here Gateway, as pa**ionate as you are about Hip hop, do you show this same above mentioned (going out of your way) effort, or not?
2.For those that are artists putting out material independently or "with a label", are there Djs/On Air personalities/Radio Programmers/Journalists you can shout out for "going that extra mile to expose your work"? ..Just so we can see who's decribed in the above quote and who does'nt fall into that category of ..."you come to me not me come to you".
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As I more recently fall in category 2, I'll start off the dome...
Milk & Rush...the absent AG HNIC"s"
Sensai Tate in the Tate and So Hiphocalypse Days & Journo hat days
Bad Boy T in his Harambe days
Lee in her Haramabe Days with Bad Boy
DJ Bionic in his days doin Eclipse Records
The Mbus he actually looks for cats
Mr. September on Good Hope FM
Rob One on his journalistic days
Eitan Prince certified best fair hip hop journalist
Ready D certified GURU in the game yet most humble
Beatbangaz ask the CAPE FLATZ
Faculty of Hip Hop Djs and On air hosts with their Ghetto Bottlegs
Dj Kenzhero it's all about the music
Fungz the apparent controversial Editor
Honourable mention: the many campus newspaper/ national magazine journalists that expose hip hop activity around them and have yet to further their careers in journalism and hopefully carry on flying that hip hop flag!
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General Discussion / New Entertainment?
« on: February 08, 2007, 03:49:21 PM »
brICK...with comments like the ones below...I might just have new entertaining reasons to keep loggin onto A.G. ....or is it entertainment?
8O Now I don't want to get involved with E-thuggin/ E-beefing or nothing similar...but people claiming they're compared to Jay alot... 8O ..Jay-Z? That's straight up blasphemy. Is it not?
However, will these new 'contributions' stand the test of time and steal the limelight from monologues by briCK as THE 'BEST' THING on AG? Hmmm.
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Bondizzo wrote:
compare you to the hottest is NY , I think your being too cocky, and wheres your track record ? How come I still haven't heard of you ?
Cash wrote:
act like u know nigga!!!!!!! hahaha! that statement wasnt cocky! i get compared to the likes of Jay a lot! like i said- it aint my fault!!!!
8O Now I don't want to get involved with E-thuggin/ E-beefing or nothing similar...but people claiming they're compared to Jay alot... 8O ..Jay-Z? That's straight up blasphemy. Is it not?
However, will these new 'contributions' stand the test of time and steal the limelight from monologues by briCK as THE 'BEST' THING on AG? Hmmm.
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Geek Section / Gaming culture
« on: February 01, 2007, 03:38:11 PM »
Yahoo is advertising Pac Man to me and that made me remenisce (sp)
To my S.A. headz; where I'm from we used to have Arcades. I'm talking about making a day of leavin home and hitting the arcade with as much doe as you can hustle up to go spend jaming against/with your homies, or "taking on" "challenges" tryna knock your name off the top 10/20. When the coin exchange guy knew your face and girls would make a day of dressing up, and looking good to go "hang"/"pa** by" (for like the whole day) there coz that's where us guys were...And we paid it no mind...except for the coloured dudes that had the occasional fly honey on the side while he shoots away at the screen.
This was what i'd call a "gaming culture", before the next stage where we started coping Nintendos (which I could'tn get my hands on but had Golden China 8bit-what!)..and the long days from 8am to 5pm (when parents leave and return) of trunign the crib into the neighbourhood "arcade".
Back to the arcade: Pac-Man, helicopter ishts, street fighter, one game I can't remember the name where you where like a "cursor" shape floating around blasting shapes....Then came the Chinese owned arcades with fatsre,better, doper games....
Did anyone livin in S.A. have this kind of thing going...Or did it all start with "t.v. games at home?
To my S.A. headz; where I'm from we used to have Arcades. I'm talking about making a day of leavin home and hitting the arcade with as much doe as you can hustle up to go spend jaming against/with your homies, or "taking on" "challenges" tryna knock your name off the top 10/20. When the coin exchange guy knew your face and girls would make a day of dressing up, and looking good to go "hang"/"pa** by" (for like the whole day) there coz that's where us guys were...And we paid it no mind...except for the coloured dudes that had the occasional fly honey on the side while he shoots away at the screen.
This was what i'd call a "gaming culture", before the next stage where we started coping Nintendos (which I could'tn get my hands on but had Golden China 8bit-what!)..and the long days from 8am to 5pm (when parents leave and return) of trunign the crib into the neighbourhood "arcade".
Back to the arcade: Pac-Man, helicopter ishts, street fighter, one game I can't remember the name where you where like a "cursor" shape floating around blasting shapes....Then came the Chinese owned arcades with fatsre,better, doper games....
Did anyone livin in S.A. have this kind of thing going...Or did it all start with "t.v. games at home?