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Homegrown Hip-Hop Festival (Madison, WI) 2008-11-05 11:35:00 Starting tomorrow and lasting throughout the weekend, the University of Wisconsin - Madison
is hosting the second annual Homegrown Hip-Hop Festival
. If you read this blog and are going to be around campus this weekend, I suggest you hit it up. Here's the lineup:Thursday, November 6Student Union - Great Hall, 7PM - MidnightDoomtree (Headliner)I Self DevineBig Quarters Muja Messiah Chosen Few Defc Read more:Hop Festival
Mikkey Halsted: "Betta Than This" 2008-11-04 18:32:00 Chicago's Mikkey Halsted drops off a track that continues with today's election theme. The time is starting to near. Keep your fingers crossed people. And if you haven't heard Mikkey's Uncrowned King mixtape, check that out, via FakeShoreDrive.Mikkey Halsted: Betta
Than This
The Time Has Come To... 2008-11-04 00:01:00 So go and make it happen. There really is no excuse to not vote. You probably already know who I support, so I'm not going to preach anything for you. Just give that last reminder about how important being able to voice your opinion really is. Use that voice. Take advantage of that opportunity. Because without it, we're just pawns of the machine that is American politics. Go cast a vote, an
Peace Out 2008-10-31 19:31:00 It's Halloween weekend in Madison, which means you likely won't hear from me until Sunday or Monday. But what better way to kick off the weekend than an Atmosphere, Abstract Rude, and Blueprint concert? That's where I'm headed right now. I'll catch you all when the weekend is over. Happy Halloween! Read more:Peace
J.Loonz: Saint Paul Homage Freestyle 2008-10-31 11:38:00 Along with the previous video, J.Loonz also sent me a second video, where he gets all somber and serious over a contemplative beat, freestyling about the great city of Saint
Paul. What up! Read more:Freestyle
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Interview w/ Slug 2008-10-30 19:35:00 Being able to work on this website is something I don't take for granted. I've been doing this for about six and a half months now, and I'm constantly trying to keep progressing. It's really gratifying whenever I see this site get noticed, so if you're a reader, much love to you. And, subsequently, the more the site gets noticed, the more unique opportunities I have to try out new things.Howeve
Murs: "Back Again" / "3:16" (Video) 2008-10-30 14:52:00 More video of Murs' tour keeps popping up. Check this out, and then check my own post about the Murs/Kidz In The Hall show in Madison, if you haven't done so yet. WWW.SP1200.NET Read more:Again
Murs, Slug, & Verbs Freestyle (Live Video) 2008-10-29 00:34:00 The Murs campaign tour stopped in Columbus, OH, and coincided with Slug and Atmosphere's 'Paint The Nation' tour. Naturally, they went off on a little freestyle session during Murs' set. Accompaniment provided by Verbs
and another random dude. And if you haven't done so yet, remember to check out my last post with footage of the Murs/Kidz In The Hall tour in Madison, WI. Read more:Freestyle
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Black Milk: Tronic (Album Review) 2008-10-28 09:21:00 I reviewed Black
Milk's latest album, Tronic, for The Badger Herald, and the article was published today. If you're interested in learning more about the album, hit the link below to jump to the review. As mentioned before, I can't cross-publish these sorts of things.Black Milk
: Tronic Album
Review Read more:Album Review
Toki Wright: "State Of Emergency" 2008-10-28 09:13:00 Toki Wright
just leaked a lead single to his 2009 album, A Different Mirror. This ones got some strong political themes. Only one more week people! The songs is edited, though. Sorry about that. I know how much you all love swear words.Toki Wright: "State
Of Emergency
"
Slug on "The Daily Fix" (Video) 2008-10-27 21:23:00 Spotted this at MinneapolisFuckingRocks. On a similar note, I did an interview with Slug a while back for the newspaper I write for here at school. That will be published on Thursday, so expect to see a link for that soon. Read more:Daily
Mac Lethal: "Calm Down Baby" (Video) 2008-10-24 18:52:00 Mac Lethal
performs this a lot at his shows. Now the track has a video. He's such a badass, rapping about how much he hates Fergie. No, but seriously. This is pretty ill.
Heiruspecs: "Let It Fly" 2008-10-23 18:45:00 Damn. Speaking of Heiruspecs, they also recently premiered their newest single to their upcoming, self-titled album. Good to see the boys back in action. And check their album release party if you're going to be in Minneapolis. The poster above describes it.Heiruspecs: "Let It Fly"
Jake One: "The Truth ft. Freeway & Brother Ali" (Video) 2008-11-24 11:19:00 Rik Cordero directed the video for one of 2008's song of the year candidates. This video is censored, I'll try to replace it with an unedited version when that drops. Nice to see some Minneapolis visuals in Ali's sections: The Premium Grain Belt sign, First Avenue, the Minneapolis Skyline. Rik Cordero definitely does a good job capturing the essence for this track. Read more:Brother
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Brother Ali: Interview w/ M.anifest & "Good Lord" (Video) 2008-11-23 11:30:00 The homie M.anifest recently posted this up at his blog site, The Birds & The Beats. It's a little video that M.anifest shot after a Brother
Ali performance in what presumably is a high school gymnasium. Shout out to Rhymesayers! Still performing those really local shows, haha. But the interview is simply copmrised of Ali & BK-One chopping it up, and Ali giving his cosign to M.anifest's lyrica Read more:Brother Ali
Muja Messiah: "Tha Madness" (Video) 2008-11-23 11:01:00 The video for Muja Messiah
's "Tha Madness
" was shot and posted at Vimeo about four months ago, but then got inexplicably taken down. Finally, it has surfaced again on YouTube. Shout out to Six-Ton Productions for this ill video. Twin Cities hip-hop is going places! This cut is one of my favorites off of Thee Adventures of a B-Boy/D-Boy, which has recently been re-released to national distribu
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