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- 11am
- 10.07.08
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WYDU Interviews Edgar Allen Floe
My homey Trav of WakeYourDaughterUp talks to EAF about his new album, The Streetwise LP; his new mixtape, The Road To Streetwise; The Undefined, the ups and downs of just being a recording artists. And the possibilities of more Justus League and Hall Of Justus collabs. Shouts to EAF and Trav!
Well, when we were all helping out with building the scene, the majority of the artists knew that we all had to link up one way or another. So, we would all get together and put together shows and events. But just like any other scene, you have your egos, jealousy, and envy. But for the most part, NC artists respect each other, and that definitely helped make NC a place to look out for. I think we need to keep that going though. If we did more collaborations, or pool money together for new projects, it would help everyone involved. Maybe we’ll see more of this within the scene eventually.
Peep the entire interview at WYDU.
What You Said- 3pm
- 08.25.08
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Stricklee Hip Hop Interviews J.Bully
Dame Hustle over at Stricklee Hip Hop had a chance to catch up with rising star, NC nativ, J.Bully.
4.HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT MIXTAPES.
JB: Mixtapes are dope when they have ill concepts or at the very least are put together and mixed and blended by a dj. I also prefer mixtapes with concepts or at least original material over those with the newest mp3s lined up with no artistic arrangement/scratching/mixing or those mixtapes where mediocre artist spit over industry beats when their original music sucks. Mixtape djs with hustle and skills will always put out dope music. These mp3
downloader/compilers need to step they game up. From the biz side? Big artists win and lose with mixtapes…and indie artists should concentrate on putting an album together instead of 40 mixtapes over other cat’s hits.5.DO YOU THINK,THE INTERNET IS DESTROYING HIP HOP,LIKE MANY PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT?
JB: I think the lack of fan support (buying good music and not buying wack music), the lack of artist development, majors pushing bullsh!t music, artists lack of respect for the genre, and wack programming are responsible for some of the problems in hip-hop. But hip-hop ain’t goin nowhere. These knuckleheads can’t destroy hip-hop. Its too powerful. – [ SOURCE ]
You can read the rest at Dame’s.
For the bonus, J. Bully also provided Dame with a few jams for the fans, including his single “North Cockitback”.
J. Bully - “Yes I’m Fresh”
J. Bully - “North Cockitback”
J. Bully - “You Got It”Previously: Video: J. Bully - “North Cockitback”
- 4pm
- 08.04.08
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Okayplayer Interviews Tanya Morgan
Tanya Morgan and Okayplayer catch up on how the tour with Hieroglyphics is going and the state of hip-hop.
Von Pea mentions that Phonte & Carlitta Durand is on the new Brooklynatti album that’s droppin’ in February
Von: I don’t mean it to be negative, but I feel like hip hop has a going out of business sale sign hanging on the wall. You know a lot of record stores are closing. You would go to Tower Records, and you remember the day that Hard Knock Life, Aquemini, and The Love Movement came out, and there were posters all over. It was a nice place to be. And now you go in there, and it’s people you’ve never heard of, and everything is in boxes, and they’re having a going out of business sale. And that shit that used to be a big poster of Mariah Carey is now just a big hole in the wall. That’s how I feel it is now. Not only is the curtain open, but the curtain behind that curtain is open. There ain’t no curtains on the wall anymore, it’s just like shit in boxes. The whole industry is in boxes.
Don: The allure and mystery is gone.
Von: And this is not just coming from us, who are considered to be some new-jacks. Anybody you talk to, the legends from the 80’s and 90’s…
Don: We’ve been having some real ass conversations about it. Talked to ?uest about it, talked to Black Thought about it…it comes up with everybody, especially when you’re dealing with somebody who has a career in the game and they’re talking to you as a new artist. They guide you and help you out. Everybody is saying it’s just a scary time to be in the business.
Von: Nobody knows what to do except to make some good music. On the one hand that’s how it should be, but on the other hand, you still got them bills to pay and shit. I think it’s a great time to do this as far as art goes, but a bad time to do it in terms of maintaining your life. – [ SOURCE ]
That state of hip-hop thing is something that we talk about a lot in all of our circles and it’s only because we actually care about our music. Maybe I’m wrong, but I hardly ever see or hear musicians in other genres openly talk about the state of their genre of music. Is it because they have no inner turmoil? Or maybe they don’t care?
- 12pm
- 07.02.08
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Stratos Blog Interviews Kam Moye
From Stratos Blog, Kam Moye aka Supastition drops a very introspective interview about his new music, the “Black Enough” video, getting rid of Fox News, superpowers, and Kam Moye as an alter ego per se to Supastition. Wait There's More
- 12pm
- 12.28.07
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Rapper Big Pooh x Fiasco Fam Radio = Tonight 10PM
KayCee of Femme Fiascos will be interviewing Big Pooh on Fiasco Fam Radio tomorrow Friday December 27th 2007 at 10pm.
To check out the interview click www.blogtalkradio.com/fiascofamradio to listen.
If you need your voice to be heard, 646.716.9415 is the number to call.
If you’d like to email your questions, send them to fiascofamradio@gmail.com. Thanx KayCee.
Y’all gonna be on myspace anyway so check it out!
- 1pm
- 06.21.07
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9th Wonder Inteview With Allhiphop
When asked who needs his skills right, 9th replies:
Umm, I’d have to say Lauryn Hill. We need Lauryn. Women need Lauryn. Umm, Heavy D. And yes, I said Heavy D. I really want old LL Cool J back…Yeah, he needs some guidance. — 9th Wonder
I think the R. Kelly album is an abomination of Black people. The zoo song- if that’s not the most ridiculous s**t. It really hurts me that Black people are going around playing that mess. Like one, you know the n***a is going around peeing on little girls, and past that, he is talking about monkeys and trees. If you support that you don’t even deserve to be Black no more… [ Source ]
He also talks about remaining lowkey and good music. Creating music with hardly, if any, cursing. And how he hopes that Lil’ Wayne releases a mixtape full of his rhymes over beats he has sent him. 9th cosigns Wayne as being the best rapper alive…right now.
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