Blog
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A Group Effort :: A Look Back At The Posse Cut
There’s a lot of elements from early hip-hop that I miss dearly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited by rap’s current emerging class of MCs like Raury, Vic...
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RL Grime x Ryan Hemsworth :: Going Hard in Oslo!
Last weekend I was supposed to just chill. I was only going to check out the new store in town called Lokk Shop – a big congratulations to Moe,...
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From Hip-Hop to Comics :: The Art of Making "DMC"
The other night, I attended The Art of Making “DMC“ at the Hi-ARTS center in East Harlem, aka El Barrio (Spanish Harlem for you non-New Yorkers). Unfortunately, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels...
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WAY UP HERE :: Danny Brown Live at House Of Vans
Friday, my friend Neil Wright from PacSun invited me to shoot a Danny Brown performance at House of Vans. I’d honestly never heard Danny’s music and was curious to hear...
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"I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING" :: Vince Staples on his Hell Can Wait EP
Friday night, I took a trip down to the Red Bull headquarters in Santa Monica to catch up with Vince Staples and discuss details of his highly anticipated EP,...
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Keys N Krates :: Evolving The Art Of The Remix
It’s been said many different times, by many different people, in many different ways – we’re living in “remix culture.” That is to say, the globally flattening forces of...
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FROM JOKE TO DOPE :: THE LIL DICKY STORY
There’s a thin line between credible hip hop and humorous comedy. Trust me, I know first hand. It’s insanely difficult to maneuver. Although we grew up with rappers like...
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I KNOW, DIDN’T I :: INTERVIEW W/ NEW WEST COAST DUO SLIMKID3 & DJ NU-MARK
Within the music world, we, as fans, often contemplate grand pairings and supergroups that would have changed the world. When I think about this, it suddenly makes the existence of...
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Ms. Lauryn Hill :: Live in Oslo
When I was a kid, my cousins were my main source for anything cool. They would always stay up on new trends, with clothes and music. I remember The Fugees...
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DAY TWO AT SUNSET STRIP MUSIC FESTIVAL :: MURS316 STAGE
Being Sunset Strip Music Festival‘s seventh year, they conducted things a little differently this time around – introducing its first ever hip-hop installment. With a little help from Murs, they delivered...
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I saw Katy Perry & Lil Wayne vs Drake and all I got was this long think-piece
In 2001, when my parents divorced and decided to sell my childhood home as a split asset, it forced me to move the contents of a room that had basically...
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RIP SUMMER 2014
Summer doesn’t really ever end that easily ’round these parts. There’s probably a couple more dreadful heat waves in store. There’s probably a couple more ‘corporatesponsoredopenbarjerkoff’ events scheduled. There’s probably...
