6 year old Bgirl Terra from the British crew “Soul Mavericks” killed her competition in the under 12 yr old “baby battles” in Paris a couple of weeks ago. Murder on the dance floor!!
Posts Tagged ‘hip hop’
EPMD – Unsung (Full Documentary)
3 March 2013
here is a 36 minute documentary of one of my all-time favorite rap groups ever! (yeah, I said rap groups, and not rap duos, because DJ Scratch was a big part of it).
Brentwood, Long Island, You Gots To Chill, So Whatcha Sayin, the recording process, the dope samples they used before everyone else, The Hit Squad, the breakup (which is still one of the most devestating moments of my hiphop life), the reunion… strictly underground funk, keep the Crossover!
Young Guru – Pop Tech 2012
16 January 2013Hip Hop, Piracy, intellectual property…yeah ok… and yet, I learn a few things every time this man speaks
article 20 Minutes
28 November 2012
«J’avais besoin d’un nouveau challenge.» Après plus de 18 ans passés à Couleur 3 dont 13 à l’animation de l’émission hip-hop «Downtown Boogie», Baby Blu a décidé de se lancer dans un nouveau projet: monter sa propre webradio.
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1994 – 2012: DTB – My last radio show
2 November 2012
Alors que le 31 Octobre certains fêtaient Halloween, une page se tournait sur les ondes de Couleur3 et plus spécifiquement dans l’émission Downtown Boogie puisqu’après plus de 18 ans de fidèles et loyaux services, Baby Blu aka Chuckie Fresh tirait sa référence. L’occasion donc de revenir durant une heure sur quelques-uns des souvenirs d’une figure incontournable du Hiphop suisse, de l’histoire du Hiphop en Suisse tout en ne négligeant pas de discuter (et débattre) des nouveautés, une émission très « talk-show à l’américaine » donc… avec bien entendu ses vieux dossiers et ses anecdotes d’interviews…
L’émission “When They Remenisce Over Blu”, était certainement, la plus difficile de ma vie… pleine d’émotions!
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Cher auditeur,
J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir exprimer mon amour pour le HipHop pendant plus de 18 ans sur les ondes de C3.
Il y a eu des moments magiques. J’ai grandi avec la chaîne, J’ai appris des choses. J’ai vu beaucoup de gens.
J’ai pu interviewer mes idoles, partager mes connaissances, donner mes avis les plus sincères et même donner envie aux jeunes auditeurs de vouloir rapper. J’ai profité de ma position pour donner des coups de pouces aux talents locaux et j’ai pu participer au développement de la scène locale en général. Bref, j’ai donné toute mon énergie. J’en suis fier.
C’est avec un pincement au cœur que je tape ces quelques mots, sachant que je ne pourrai plus continuer cette aventure pour les raisons que certains entre vous connaissez déjà.
Il est donc temps pour moi d’écrire un nouveau chapitre de ma vie. Des nouveaux projets se mettent en place.
Merci d’avoir supporté ma voix chiante pendant toutes ces années…
1994-2012: one hell of a ride! Thank you all for the good times.
Peace
Baby Blu
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
14 September 2012
“Hip Hop didn’t invent anything. Hip Hop reinvented everything”
Finally!! I’ve been patiently waiting… go through here for this Documentary produced by Ice-T
The Pharcyde look back 20 years of “Passing Me By”
31 July 2012
This is for all my trapped in the 90′s ninjas…
In early 1992, the international rap profile of Los Angeles was N.W.A’s appetite for destruction, Ice-T’s new-jack hustles, and Cypress Hill’s hands on the pump. Lucky locals knew of the poetic bop-hop of Freestyle Fellowship, but to everyone else it seemed as if gangsta rappers had muscled any sensitive types out of the scene, painting South L.A. as an asphalted wasteland where those who didn’t check themselves were destined to wreck themselves. Though they hailed more or less from infamous Inglewood, the Pharcyde didn’t fit in at all. With helium-high voices, humorous lyrics, and a love for loose-groove jazz, they were a bizarro A Tribe Called Quest who’d grown up with endless summers and Cali chronic.
“Passin’ Me By” was a revelation. While mainstream rap was inundated with gruesome fantasy, here was something deliciously relatable: Four ’round-the-way dudes poignantly rhyming about unrequited crushes. Romye “Bootie Brown” Robinson was hot for teacher. Trevant “SlimKid3″ Hardson wrote about his first girlfriend. The object of Imani Wilcox’s eye was already taken. And Derrick “Fatlip” Stewart, who also sang the achingly brutal chorus, rapped about being invisible. The beat, built around the smooth sway of Quincy Jones’ “Summer in the City,” was instantly familiar and impossible to forget, a gritty loop cooked up by in-group producer John “J-Swift” Martinez. But it was the MCs’ gift for storytelling that got the most attention.
full article with video here
Documentary: Once Upon A Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco & Punk (2007)
16 May 2012
BBC Four documentary about a New York City vastly different from the one today. Beginning in the late ’60s, this 60-minute film focuses on the three musical genres that greatly impacted music as a whole: punk rock, disco and hip-hop. From Warhol’s Factory to CBGB, from disco haven The Gallery to Studio 54, and from park jams in the South Bronx to worldwide domination, the doc traces the humble origins and interconnecting elements of the musical styles that were born out of necessity and contains interviews with various key players in the development of the art forms. Musicians like Richard Hell of Television, Chris Stein of Blondie, David Johansen and Syl Sylvain of the New York Dolls, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, Tommy Ramone of the Ramones, and John Cale of Velvet Underground discuss the punk scene while Nile Rodgers and David Mancuso take on disco’s popularity and how it went from a subculture to a phenomenon. The last part is dedicated to hip-hop, featuring commentary from Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Fab 5 Freddy, who explains how Blondie came to record their smash hit, “Rapture.” Check out the doc after the break…
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Silverblack – The Graffiti iphone game
10 February 2012
You like spray paint, trains, walls, billboards, graffiti and ditching cops? Check out the new iphone app / platform game from my man Serval. it’s free!!
Sit on this
29 January 2012
SWAG! Best bar stools ever…
