A short Saturday Matinée featuring J Dilla, Common and Frank-N-Dank. Something a little shorter for your Saturday Matinée but by no means poor. Filmed a few years before his unfortunate death, this five and a half minute piece of footage shows J Dilla in his basement studio, working with rapper Common and hip hop duo …
We are graced by some hip hop legends, courtesy of Dee Barnes and Pump It Up on today’s Throwback Thursday.
Beatmaker Exile releases a free mixtape featuring rare Blu & Aloe Blacc tracks. I do love a good free mixtape (as long as it’s actually good). Rest assured, when I heard Exile had released one, I was on it immediately. Cassette is a collection of unreleased tracks taken straight from his four-track recorder. Amongst the songs, you …
Arguably our biggest interview yet, we spoke to Fresh Kils about his hip hop origins. Just yesterday, I was watching a video over at Dubspot with Fresh Kils talking about his MPC 1000 and how he uses it. Even today, we told you about MC FÜBB’s latest EP with Kils on the beats. Well, now …
Canada’s MC FÜBB waxes lyrical on his new EP, “the poet”. Hip hop in Canada goes way past Drake; you have acts like K’naan and Kardinal Offishall (on a mainstream tip), Fresh Kils, k-os, MC Bones of Organized Rhyme and Shad on a slightly more underground vibe, even two-thirds of Main Source. We can now add MC FÜBB …
Greek producer mononome finds The Secret Melody in his second EP. Ever since I got my own MPC, I’ve been scouring YouTube and the internet for tips and videos of people using them, to get a feel for it all. I’ve even started searching for “MPC albums”, releases made using the Akai drum machine. One …
DMX + Rudolph = One of the funniest hip hop videos of the year. DMX doesn’t know anything about Google. That’s pretty messed up in itself but this is just pure hilarity. While he was in the Power 105.1 studio in New York, he decided to give his own cover of “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”. …
In this instalment of “How Did I Miss That?”, we look at the videos for Dilla’s Donuts. Last week, we told you about the re-release of Donuts as a 45 box set. The wait for that isn’t too long (it comes out in January) but if a month is too long for the “new” audio, …
Something nasty this way comes, from Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson.
Watch the supervillain DOOM give a lecture for the RBMA in Madrid back in 2011.