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The party of the year has came and went.
It was another action packed night of visual art, hip-hop, drum and bass and funk that left you feeling like a sardine. (joke)
It was packed though.
Cheers to DJ EWUN and DJ Banshee for putting together another successful evening for Rochester.
As DJ Banshee puts [...]
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I only wish I had brought a photographer to TILT last Friday.
The RAVE :CULTURE party was off the hook.
I made it down later in the evening and didn’t get a chance to catch every act, but every act I heard on the patio was on fire. The beats were nuts and the crowd [...]
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Tha Coach has been on the promo move, like he said recently in an ACT:LIVE interview.
“Eye contact in interviews means a lot…”, he stresses on his track “Resume” from the CD “The Demonstration”.
I hope I provided that well enough for him in our interview.
Tha Coach has been a solid part of the Rochester [...]
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Bread needs butter.
Day needs night.
Build needs Destroy.
“Gettin’ love everywhere that we go”… – “Do it Big” ft. Jah Breez
“Soul of the City”, the latest CD from Destroy the GM, is the counterpart sampler to Tha Coach’s “The Demonstration” disc released on Go Gettaz Union/God Money Music.
It features eleven fiery tracks, including appearances by [...]
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Months in the making and moments in the taking, the Reece Q CD release party went off without a hitch.
This is a little piece to give a shout out to everyone involved with the success of the ACT:LIVE event vol. 1.
The show, which will be known [...]
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This past Saturday, I wish I saw more of the hip-hop community down at Dub Land Underground for the Saturday Night Fever Show featuring Emilio Rojas, Hassaan Mackey, FINALE and JAI. Even Nikal Fieldz made an appearance.
Our man Emilio (Don’t call him RAKS), is making moves in the big leagues with [...]
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“Life’s as good as you want it to be/I ain’t no thug, I’m a man of the streets”
- Prozack Turner (Man of the Streets, The Secret Knock)
“I hate your record/You’re a fraud and you’re faker than a no blood for oil bumper sticker on a Navigator/I love music, I hate the music business/It’s [...]
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Last month DJ/Producer Tim Tones and MC RICRUDE unleashed the fury of the Soul Slingers Mix to the Rochester hip-hop community and let it tear up the yard.
This CD is 25 tracks of the most intelligent, well put-together, street beating, wax-cutting, blunt laced tracks I have yet to ever hear out of the [...]
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Sunday, August 3rd, Robert and Allie presented their latest drawings and paintings to Rochester at the Bug Jar. I was given a heads up by my friends .chickenbone. and Banshee about the event, too bad I couldn’t find out about it in the paper. (wink wink, media)
I thought I would [...]
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It was a sad morning for me downtown, today. I’m going to miss this plaza.
I don’t really know where to begin with this, but I love that mall and all of downtown. I have spent most of my life in this city and that place holds so many memories.
As a child, [...]
