Xola Malik aka Kid Sensation: The Son of Promise aka Nat King Kizzle
2008-03-06 07:46:00
When it comes to choosing a region to represent, I've always claimed the great Northwest. I might be on the outer edges of the region, but it has always felt "right". Since my own home town, the little "City of Trees" is kind of lacking in any kind of hip hop movement, we watch Portland and Seattle do their thing in the game (there is Salt Lake City to our south, but, really, c'mon now). Neither
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, Malik
like fluid...
2008-03-05 22:24:00
(Trav: You should all know by now that if I find a new artist I like, I tend to push their music on the blog pretty hard. There has been Storm Davis, Archetype, and The Smile Rays. The latest MC that I have been singing the gospel about has been Has-Lo. I've mentioned him often on WYDU since he sent me his EP right around Christmas. I pushed it on Eric at WTR and I still tell people to check it
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Branford Marsalis is...
2008-03-05 06:34:00
Branford Marsalis should be known to every Jazz lover, to those who watched him play the USA anthem at the NBA All-Star game in New Orleans, to the Premo fans or lets say Gangstarr fans, fans of the Jazzmatazz series or whoever saw Spike Lee’s Mo Betters Blues or Men in Black, and really who hasn’t seen the MIBs?
In 1992 he first collaborated with Gangstarr for the track Jazz Thing and later
Grab Bag
2008-03-04 22:21:00
What's good party people? Hope all is well out there in blog land. I forgot what working a full 40 hours was like. Shit is draining, then I have almost an hour commute each way, so needless to say, time has been hard to come by. I have a lot of things on the burner, but don't always have the energy or desire to finish them all up when I come home at night. I'm expecting to be used to this and be
The Funk Hunt
2008-03-12 12:05:00
The Funk Hunt is a 12 minute short film made by the French crew "Kourtrajmé" which is a collective of artists consisting of different actors, directors, dancers and musicians counting nearly 140 members including i.e actor Vincent Cassel(La Haine, Ocean's Thirteen..) or french rapper Oxmo Puccino.
The story focuses on the trials and tribulations of a funk record made in the '70s and how it
Talib Kweli - MCEO
2008-03-12 07:48:00
I'm about 20 hours late on this, but just in case you didn't see the five million sites that probably posted this yesterday when it dropped, here is the Mick Boogie/Talib Kweli
mixtape, MCEO. I have not listened to it yet (I was in an old school mood last night), but it contains original tracks from Kweli and his Blacksmith label.
Also, a little "Making Of...." video to go along with it
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WYDU Interview with One Be Lo
2008-03-11 08:00:00
THE ONE BE LO CONTEST:
The good people at Audible Treats have hooked us up with two AUTOGRAPHED copies of One Be Lo's "R.E.B.I.R.T.H" CD to give away to two lucky winners. To enter, it's quite simple.
Answer the following question:
What does acronym stand for in One Be Lo's new album "R.E.B.I.R.T.H"?
send the answer to:
WYDUBLOG@yahoo.com (DO NOT send it to the contact email, it WILL be
New Artist Spotlight (March 10th)
2008-03-11 00:18:00
Welcome to a new weekly feature here at WYDU. I often get some rather intriguing music from some up and comers and recently haven't felt like I've promoted it to the best of my abilities. Therefore, we'll have a weekly post highlighting a NEW artist (meaning hasn't gotten that "big break" as of yet). One of the aspects I enjoy the most about running this blog is hearing some quality music from an
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, March
Legendary Halftime Show on WNYU Radio Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary with Slew of Hip Hop's Finest
2008-03-12 21:04:00
Legendary Halftime
Show on WNYU Radio
Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
with Slew of Hip Hop
's Finest (Courtesy of Audible Treats)
03.12.2008
(March 12, 2008 -- Brooklyn, NY) Hosts of WNYU's Halftime Show, DJ's
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, Year Anniversary
Spins, Tracks, & Thoughts For The Week
2008-03-16 02:40:00
I told you it'd be hard to keep these little lists up and going on a regular basis, but here is another edition of spins, tracks and thoughts for the week. Doing a little backwards this weekend, with these going first and then the "Goodies From The Inbox" coming up later. Enjoy..
Top 10 Spins
for the Week of March 9th
10. Pillowtalk Politiks - Not Preaching
I featured Pillowtalk Politiks' EP
Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Three
2008-03-19 07:28:00
Seems that I skipped a song from yesterday. Nice catch goes to....no one. Good to know people are on the ball. So we'll start off with the track I missed yesterday and go one. Hopefully everyone is enjoying this shit as much as I did......
Link To all Joints In Part 3
Dark Sun Ridas – Time To Build (Ultra Marsalis Remix) (was included in the rar from Post2)
De La Soul – Ego Trippin’ Part III
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Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Two
2008-03-18 07:53:00
NCAA Time....
It's time for the big dance. You know what that means, brackets. Millions of dollars are lost each year in the U.S. from employees using company time to research and fill out brackets (unless they monitor your shit, then your just fucked). I've already started filling my brackets to numerous spots, with my buddies, my little family ruckus we have and also for one of the newer blogs
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, Part Two
Philaflava's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part One
2008-03-17 07:39:00
Some of you might remember back in August of last year, that I was part of a "committee" created to determine the "Philaflava's 100 Greatest
Obscure Tracks". A lot of cats wanted all the MP3's associated with the list whenI originally posted it up on WYDU. Unfortunately, that never really materialized, with some people being lazy (guilty as charged), others missing tracks (guilty as charged
Requests & Re-Ups...Part One
2008-03-21 07:21:00
This has been a crazy week and I'm seriously dragging some ass. Top that off with some computer issues and it's amazing I've gotten as much done this week as I have. We are taking a short break from the Philaflava posts, but expect them to return at full force this weekend or maybe even tomorrow. Then again, I'm going straight to the bar to watch Boise State more than likely get their asses
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Re:Run Thursday's
2008-03-21 00:37:00
Just a little re-run from last year's Spring Break season, I imagine we have enough new people to appreciate it, plus I'm too fuckin' tired to write too much....Expect the continuation of the Philaflava tracks tomorrow...hopefully - Trav
FROM MARCH OF 2007
By now I bet you are all wondering if I'm getting ready to go on an alcoholic binge of gigantic proportions. No, I'm not, but there are many
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Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Four
2008-03-22 22:59:00
Alright, back on the grind. Damn, here I am on a Saturday night workin' on the fuckin' site? Pathetic eh? I played basketball all afternoon, so my old, fat ass is tired as shit, so I'm chillin' have some rum & cokes and a few beers. Figured I'd better get some Philaflava joints up. Glad y'all enjoying the series.
Link for all 10 tracks
Erick Sermon - If You Don't Know Like I Know feat. Trigger
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Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Five
2008-03-25 08:14:00
Link To All Of Part 5
Joe Sinistr - Under The Sun
Kilo G. – Release Me feat. Pimp C.
Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo - 2 To The Head feat. Ice Cube, Scarface & Bushwick Bill
Kool G. Rap- Mister Mister
Kool Keith – Yo Black (Buckwild Remix)
Kurious – Mansion And A Yacht feat. Sadat X & Mike G
Leaders of The New School – Classic Material (Diamond D Remix)
LL Cool J - Crime Stories
Lord Finesse –
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eMC - The Show - OUT NOW!!!!
2008-03-25 04:46:00
Go out and hit the stores! Cop it! If there's someone who deserves to move units, then it's those 4 guys!
Check this nice article on hiphopdx, it gives some cool background information!
Hiphopdx article
Peace
Clap
New Music
2008-03-24 13:02:00
Whattup World?
Got some news that I wanted to share with y'all! Last weekend a homie from the states visited me. Asphate Woodhavet aka Skatterbrayne. We had a lot of fun, we went to a jazz, funk & soul party with live music and music from the turntables, went record shopping, went to the studio, to the beach, drank a lot of beer, chewed on some kind of roots, played NBA 2K8 and hung out with my
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, New Music
New Artist Spotlight: Amanda Diva
2008-03-23 23:25:00
We all bitch about how hip hop is slowly becoming a caricature of itself, which in some ways, it really is. But one area that hip hop is really lacking is the female MC's. In the golden age, you had MC Lyte, Monie Love, Queen Latifah, Roxanne Shante and a grip others. They could hold their own with the dudes. Then something happened. They figured out that sex sells and when I say "they" I mean
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, Spotlight
, Amanda
Re Run Thursday's: Things That Go Boom, The History Of Miami Bass
2008-03-27 07:55:00
Trav's Note - When you've been doing this for almost two and a half years, you build up quite the "portfolio" of posts. I realize that the visitor base has changed through out that time. I have some regular visitors at one time I see much on the site and I know there are some new heads just now checking out the site lately. I like to think I had some pretty good posts in those early days when we
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, History
, Miami
JVC Force Reunion on Heavy Rotation Magazine Radio
2008-03-27 00:30:00
I always felt that JVC Force
was one of the more slept on crews when it came to the late 80's grew during the golden age and I've never been sure why that is. They were just as talented as many of the more well known groups from that era. If you aren't familiar with JVC Force, they were a three man crew made up of AJ Rok, B-Luv and DJ Curt Cazal. They dropped two albums, both DOPE, "Doin' Damage
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, Rotation
, Magazine
, Radio
Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Six
2008-03-26 07:19:00
Good morning party people. Like the Biz sang, it's spring again....unless you live where I live and there are a chance of snow showers today. Go fuckin' figure. Regardless, we've made it through January and February, two months that I can't really stand. March isn't all that great either, but it's tolerable. April is the birth month of many friends and myself for that matter, but it is still kind
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Used CD Shopping Trip: March 29th and Amazon
2008-03-30 14:13:00
If you read this blog at all, you know one of my favorite things is to go shopping for used CD's. Nothing is more exciting (that is legal and involves keeping your clothes on) than finding that rare diamond in the ruff at some CD store or pawn shop. Denver was a great place for finding used CD's. I had five different stores that I would rotate weekly and I found some great deals for some CHEAP
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, March
, Amazon
DC Scorpio - Stone Cold Hustler Part II Video
2008-03-30 00:55:00
These days, it takes a lot to get me excited about something in hip hop. Don't get me wrong, I still love it, but most of the things I've been wanting, I've eventually ran into one way or another. One thing that has eluded me for the past four to five years has been a simple mp3 of a song. You'd think it'd be easy enough to find. Nope, no such luck. The mp3 I've been looking for is DC Scorpio's "
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, Stone Cold
Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Seven
2008-03-29 16:33:00
Link For All Tracks
Money Boss Players - What U Sayin
Nas - Street Dreams (K-Def Remix)
Naughty By Nature - It's On (Beatnuts Remix)
Nine - Me, Myself, and My Microphone
N-Tense – Raise The Levels of The Boom
Nubian Crackers – Do You Wanna Hear It? feat. The Artifacts
O.C. - Born To Live (DJ Eclipse Remix)
Omnisence - Touch Ya'll feat. Sadat X
ONYX - Purse Snatchaz Part 2 feat. Smoothe Da
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, Seven
New J-Zone
2008-03-28 00:40:00
Trav's Note - Happy Friday! Since I started with a "real" job again, Friday's mean so much more. I have to admit that I didn't finish the post last night, too busy watching the NCAA's, so your stuck with some advertising. I'm usually against digital downloads, but not if it's the only way I can get some new J-Zone material.....
From J-Zone.....
I bumped into Ice-T, Luke and the ghost of
Quick Apology.....
2008-04-01 22:14:00
I'm the first person to admit when he is in the wrong and I fucked up last week. There was a somewhat offensive remark in the Street Dreams K-Def remix write up directed toward people of a particular nation. Unfortunately the person who pointed it out didn't read the whole write up and see who wrote it and therefore pointed the finger at me. That particular write up was part of the original
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Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Eight
2008-04-01 08:04:00
April 1st, you know what that means. Being the practical joker that I am, I was going to start this Philaflava Obscure post off with "Ice Ice Baby", "U Can't Touch This", "Knockin' Boots" and other radio jams from yesteryear, but luckily for you all, I'm too lazy to do that. But be on the look out for the other jokesters out there. Apparently the blogosphere is full of them. The scary thing, the
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, Eight
Videos
2008-03-31 07:59:00
And just like that, it's Monday. Oh well. Not much to say and I didn't finish the post I was working on last night, so I'm going the cheap way out and tossing up a couple videos that I found on that site with the DC Scorpio video. Enjoy!
Kwame - Oneuvdabigboyz (just because I know some of you love his music sooooo much haha)
MC Trouble - Gotta Get A Grip (RIP Trouble)
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