What's upper? My latest & favorite new reality TV show this week goes out to VH-1's "Hogan Knows Best!" Not that I'm a big Hulk Hogan fan but watching the Hulk & his family Brooke, Nick & Linda do their daily thing is kinda fun to watch! Peep out one of wrestling’s all time legend every Sunday night on VH-1...  My lady & I peeped out on dvd the motion picture, "Million Dollar Baby." Whether you're a boxing fan or not, this is a great movie. You might want to have a box of tissues next to your popcorn ready!...

I have to stress again to my RAP ATTACK reporters/DJs that sending FEEDBACK is one of the TOP requirements as a RAP ATTACK reporter. Not just to me but to the other hard workin' indy's out there who just want to know what you honestly feel is up with their record. YOU CAN MAKE & BREAK NEW HIP-HOP. That's why sending feedback & listening to all the new ish that comes thru is very important. If you really are in this game for the LOVE of Hip-Hop & the love of being a DJ, then you will send feedback. This goes for every RAP ATTACK reporter. There's now a small handful of DJ's hangin' by on a thin string & are close to getting dropped. It's on you fam...

Def Jam's Splif has new contact info:

 Cell - 917 774 5532

AIM - IDJ Splif

Big ups to Ne-Yo & Juelz Santana for taking time out to say what up to my Rap Attack Conference Call DJ's last Thursday. Ne-Yo's latest joint "Stay"  features Peedi Crack & some of you may know of Ne-Yo for writing Mario's big hit single for 2005! A huge bidding war came to an end last week when I Can Make You Famous alumni Tru-Life signed to Roc La Familia/Def Jam. Signed personally by Jay-Z and Co-CEO of Roc La Familia, OG Juan, the deal was negotiated and completed in only a few hours. The Roc scooped up Tru-Life in the midst of 7 figure offers from Sony, SRC/Universal and Snoop Dogg. The Lower East Side MC is currently tearing up NYC radio with the 9th Wonder produced anthem "The New New York" and is in the lab working on his solo mixtape, Better Late Than Never, with Green Lantern and Kay Slay. Tru-Life is also working with Sickamore for the second installment of the I Can Make You Famous mixtape series.

To all of our European peeps, Doujah Raze is about to embark on his latest European adventure. Check the dates below to see if he is in a city near you:
July 27 - Aalen - venue TBA
July 28 - Rheinfelden - Kaff Cafe
July 29 - Durmersheim - Bistro V8
July 30 - Winterthur (Near Zürich) - Albani Music Club
July 31 - Crailsheim - Stadthalle
August 1 - Karlsruhe - Bistro V8 (with Jedi Mind Tricks/Outerspace)
August 2 - Amsterdam - The Winston
August 3 - Stuttgart - TENTATIVE
August 4 - Munich - Backstage (with Bootcamp Click)
Doujah will also be performing at the Hip Hop Kemp Festival in the Czech Republic on August 20. Eastern Europe get ready!!!...
 

ATTENTION all DJ's: Please submit DROPS! Project: the next Kar-Lethal mixtape is underway! Title: "The Streets Need This"
Please mention the following info in your drop:
* your name!
* your CITY!
* all your info (station, DJ affiliation...)
* "THE STREETS NEED THIS"
* KAR-LETHAL BRIGANTE'
(A.K.A.) "THE SON OF A BOSS"
* Suspens Recording
e-mail your drop to: miimii@suspensrecording.com...
 

Victoria Hart Glavin will be presenting a class titled "Women in Hip-Hop" to young women students at the Willie Mae Rock Camp, August 8-11. Victoria Hart Glavin will present a unique class as a guest instructor at the Willie Mae Camp Rock camp for girls. From August 8-11, Ms. Glavin's students will explore the history of female artists in the hip-hop music scene. Some artists that will be highlighted include Roxanne Shante, Da Brat, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Remy Ma, Missy Elliot and Salt 'N Pepa. Students will learn about the lives of these influential women as well as explore their music. "Every talented female that we're going to learn about has a unique story of struggle and success," states  Ms. Glavin. The class is designed to empower young women by exploring some positive female role models and including fun activities such as creating and sharing raps. The Willie Mae Rock Camp is being held at The Society for Ethical Culture in Manhattan with a student showcase on Saturday, August 13th at 6pm. Willie Mae Rock Camp for girls is a non-profit educational arts program for girls ages 8 to 18. The Rock Camp is being held at the Society for Ethical Culture at Central Park West and W. 64th Street in Manhattan from August 8th. Log onto: http://www.williemaerockcamp.org/ for more information about the camp. Victoria Hart Glavin is a freelance writer for Hip-Hop publications since 1982. She has written articles and reviews for numerous publications including op, Showcase, Tchad, The Connex List and Xpoz magazines. Visit www.victoriahartglavin.com  for news and information about Ms. Glavin.
 

Renegade Foxxx is about to drop his new remix of "Royal Rumble 2K5" featuring Pitbull & Bone Crusher. The video will be shot in Miami this August 28. Originally from Alabama & now a resident of New Jersey, Renegade Foxxx is ready to get his hustle on as his debut album "Renegade Takin' Over" drops in a couple months!...

ATTENTION all DJs and producers: Scion’s Free Up Your Mix DJ Contest is back, and they’re looking for the hottest DJs & producers in the country....

Categories have expanded!!!! Send us your best entries from the following categories:
Hip Hop (Live): just like last year folks. Live on two turntables and a mixer.
Hip Hop (Multi-tracked/street style): You can use computers and recording equipment to make edits to your mix.
Mash-Up (Live or Multi-tracked): Mix different genres together. Do it live or use your computer and its programs.
Reggae/Dancehall (Live or Multi-Tracked): All reggae. Roots Rock, Dancehall, or both.
Rock/Hip-Hop (Live or Multi-Tracked): Rock and Hip Hop blended together. Make it happen!
Rare Groove (Live or Multi-Tracked): Ain’t it funky. Get to diggin’ and break out those old 45 inches.
Best 2 x 4 Mix/Group Performance (Live or Multi-Tracked): Where the crews at? Let’s see what you can do when you’re all on the decks.
Best Produced Remix (Live or Multi-Tracked): True heads know what the classic Hip Hop joints are. Pick your favorite and send us your own version of it.

Grand prize winner gets $2,000, the opportunity to mix a Scion CD
sampler (distribution of 500,000 copies), and spin at Scion events
nationwide.

Semifinalists will get a variety of recording and DJ equipment from our
proud supporters at Rane/Serato Scratch Live, Pioneer, Mackie/Tapco,
and others!

Don’t sleep. All entries must be postmarked by October 1, 2005.Visit http://www.scion.com/mix  to download the entry form and read more about the prizes, judging, rules & regulations. Big Up to last year’s grand prize winners the Oakland Faders for killing it with their 30-minute live Hip-Hop mixtape. Peep their game on Scion CD Sampler Vol. 13 on the streets soon!
 

Universal Zulu Nation is coming to Los Angeles! It's their "WHAT AND WHO IS ZULU NATION?" seminar covering the past, present, and future. . .
Everything you ever wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask with special guests:. .
DJ Mark Luv - Zulu King Los Angeles
DJ Rhettmatic - Beat Junkies
Easy Roc - Rock Steady Crew
Feline Felicia - Zulu Queen Los Angeles
Joel - Zulu King Puerto Rico
This Saturday, August 6, 2005 from 4:00-6:00pm at STACKS VINYL located at: 18000 Gridley Rd. Suite B in Cerritos, CA 90701. For more info call: 562-809-8560. And following the panel at ZEN SUSHI will be west coasts' legendary old schoolers' the EGYPTIAN LOVER and ARABIAN PRINCE...

YO, SAVE THE DATE NOW! The Urban Network & Out of the Ashes Inc. presents "The Northwest Music Explosion" at the Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center - 17620 Pacific Highway South -Seattle, Washington - 98188. This event is coming up on a Wednesday September 28th thru Saturday October 1st, 2005. Come out and take part in this tremendous Networking and Marketing Opportunity!

• Learn at the Radio, Retail, Marketing and Distribution seminars
• Showcases for Urban and Gospel Artist/Labels
• Meet top Music Industry Professionals
• Promote your music, products and services to the Urban Community

Sponsorship Opportunities Available!
For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities, please contact Bill Daniels at (619)-255-6597 or bdaniels@urbannetwork.com.

For more information regarding “The NorthWest Music Explosion”, please contact Arthur Mitchell at (619) 723-9358 or businessdevelopment@urbannetwork.com. RAPATTACKLIVES.COM will be one of the sponsors so I will be in the "206" for this & I hope to see you there...

Attention all Hip-Hop & Neo-Soul Artists. MixTape.com will be accepting submissions for Volume 2 of the Mixtape.com "Underground Hip-Hop" compilation CD in August 2005. They will have room for 20 tracks. The cost per track to be placed on the CD is $199. This includes The Following

*Song Placed on CD

*Song Title, Artist Name, Production Credit, Record Label Name, & Website, placed on the back cover of the CD

*30 Second snippet of the song to be streamed on Mixtape.com

*Street Promotion of the CD & Online Promotion of the CD

*3,000 CDs will be pressed and will be given out with all orders placed on Mixtape.com

*Each artist on the CD will get 75 personal copies to give out themselves.

This CD will be serviced to all the RapAttackLives.com reporters/DJ's who rep College Rap Radio, Internet & Satellite Hip-Hop shows & exclusive MixTape DJs

You can see who was on volume 1 and even order yourself a FREE copy at the following link. http://mixtape.com/freestuff.htm Volume 2 is due out September 2005...

Yay area's own B-Legit is making his strongest comeback this year with his new sdingle "Guess Who's Back" featuring E-40 (SMC Recordings/Universal). Stay tuned... Scott Storch does it again with some of his tightest production work with the debut release by artist Luc Duc "PG 21" (Frederick Ent.). This joint will be shipping to our RAP ATTACK DJ's panel next week... If Mike Jones is your type of steez than you're gonna be feeling the debut new joint by artist, Slick 23 reppin' Indiana with "We Can Handle That" (Mancini Wear Records). Peep their website out at: www.marcomanciwear.com... Jackson, MS. own, Goodfellaz "Holla Ooh" (Rich Boy Ent.) is about to make some noise with their debut single. Lookout for them at a city near you now!... To Commemorate the upcoming 41st Anniversary of the late Eazy-E's birthday on September 7th, Capitol/Priority Records are releasing "Eternal E: Gangsta Memorial Edition cd/dvd" featuring a grip of Eazy-E's classics & a bonus track by his son, Lil' E with "A Lil' Easier Said." Make sure you peep out track #8 "Radio" where I'm featured on the very end of the record! Don't sleep on this aiight. I'm tellin' you now, this is the ultimate Eazy-E compilation featuring; ""Boyz N The Hood," "8 Ball," "Eazy Duz It," "Radio," "Only If You Want It," "We Want Eazy" & "Straight Outta Compton" to name a few! For Radio Giveaways & Promotions contact Geo Bivins at (323) 871-5033 or online at: geo.bivins@capitolrecords.com. Tell him Nes on track #8 sent ya!...

Payola-The Dirty Industry Practice-That's Ruining Hip Hop

by Davey D
“Payola is as old as radio. The legalities have also changed most
recently allowing legal loopholes. Legal loopholes created payola the
creation of corporate America to cash in legally.

For decades decision makers were individuals in each marketplace. Payola comes in the way of cash, trips, appliances, drugs, sex and anything of value for today's marketplace.

Payola is as American as prostitution. Radio programmers and Dj's hands
are shaped like cups. Everyone expects something since it is not coming
in your paycheck.

GM's don't ask questions while there PD's make the annual trip to
Brazil. Payola's the lapdance that everyone wants at work or in the
comfort at home.”
-Paul Porter-IndustryEars-

Shady Industry Practices to Disguise Payola
What you read above is what longtime radio programmer and industry insider Paul Porter who used to work for Emmis and has programmed for BET and Radio One has to say about the dirty illegal practice we call payola that goes on in the industry. For many, payola has completely ruined the music biz and in particular Hip Hop.

Before anyone can seriously talk about how to tone down the amount of sex, violence and misogyny heard on the public airwaves or how get more conscious music on rotation on your favorite radio station, you have to first deal with payola. This is the seedy practice employed by most major record labels and commercial radio station that determine what gets on the air and what doesn’t. It’s amazing how time after time, I’ll go to conferences and community settings where passionate individuals will tell the audience in order to change the music they hear they have to call the station and request a new song or write the program director or something along those lines. Unfortunately, such erroneous advice is indication that they don’t fully understand the business and they are ignoring the big white elephant in the living room-Payola

Back in the days payola used to be done via the envelop full of money that was slipped under the table in the dark of night to a shiesty program director or deejay. That’s what led to some love shown for particular artists. As the government began to crack down, the methodology behind the practice became slicker.

So now payola shows up in the form of concerts like Summer Jam, Winter Ball, Halloween Boo Bash etc where your favorite artists shows up and perform for free or very little money in exchange for prime time airplay, new radio station street team vans and jackets, commercials buys and ‘free trips to Hawaii or Cancun for an album release party. The other favorite ploy is the record label shopping spree where cats get hit off with lots of free gear and elaborate shopping trips via the label’s credit card. We also can’t forget the strippers and friendly girls who show up at your hotel room during industry conventions. All this is done under the guise of entertainment but with the main goal of securing airplay

The other practice is for program directors and other shady individuals to use independent promoters who act as go betweens for the artist and radio stations. These indie promoters over the years have literally carved up the country amongst themselves. If you look at a map of the indie territories it would remind you of an old colonization map. In fact things are set in such a way that nothing goes down on the major airwaves unless these powerful indie promoters approve. Now, over the past year several radio conglomerates have publicly stated that they are severing all ties from indie promoters to avoid the appearance of any wrongdoings but that hasn’t stopped the practice of payola.

KRS-One, Funkmaster Flex and 40Gs
What radio has done is find new ways to do their dirt. For example, nowadays you have situations where individuals at the stations have set up ‘fake’ consulting or record promotional companies or even record pools that can help the big record companies get commercial airplay. Some of these companies are actually owned by the program directors or key jocks at the station who will get a hefty fee and then kick it back to their bosses. This was a practice that KRS-One went on record to complain about with Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex.

A few years ago KRS took a job at Warner Brothers where he became a label executive. He told Lee Bailey’s EUR Report that he had given one of Funkmaster Flex’s companies 40 thousand dollars with the understanding that he would play some of the artist on the label. This of course never happened. If memory serves me correctly think KRS noted that he only got one spin. Two or three years ago, Nas shed a bit more insight to this practice by Flex when he alluded to it during his infamous outburst on rival station Power 105 after Hot 97 denied him permission to do a performance dissing Jay-Z at their annual Summer Jam concert. Soon afterwards an open letter began circulating around the industry accusing Flex’s company Franchise Marketing and his Big Dawg Record Pool of being shields for ongoing payola practices.

While folks may be tempted to immediately zoom onto Flex and get mad at him, we can not simply make him the fall guy. We can not overlook the fact that he could not operate such any of his companies which clearly blurred the lines and created conflict of interest scenarios without the support or ‘blind eye turned’ by Hot 97’s [Emmis Broadcasting] executives such as then program directors Tracey Chlorety and Steve Smith who proceeded her and is now an executive at Clear Channel. At the time there were a couple of publications that were supposed to look into KRS’s assertions and the payola accusations including The Source Magazine, but those stories were mysteriously killed while the pay for play allegations still exist.

Around the time Flex was catching heat, another shady payola practice came to light. We’ll call it the ‘Let me do a remix for your artist’ ploy. Here a popular mixshow deejay will offer to do a remix of a particular artist or song. A large amount of money is paid for that deejay’s production services which soon lead to increased airplay. Here’s the catch- rarely do you hear the remix being played. The way people have covered their asses is to release a limited edition of these various ‘regional’ remixes from around the country or these remixes might show up on limited edition remix records that are available only to commercial Djs.

Radio Station Programmers Owning Record Labels
Where this really came to light was the scenario involving the Assistant Program Director of LA’s number one music station Power 106 named Damon ‘Damizza’ Young. He took things a step further by starting his own record label Baby Ree which featured his artist/producer Shady Sheist. Shiest who relatively unknown at the time was able to get lots of love in the form of guest appearances from A-List artists who many industry insiders suspect was done in return for airplay on the giant Emmis Broadcast station.

In addition to all this, there were lots of stories floating around the industry alleging that Damizza abused his position by insisting on being allowed to rap or produce tracks for many of the artists the station played. Eventually this story was broke by LA Times writer Chuck Phillips who did a comparison with the amount of airplay Shady Shiest was receiving at Power 106 and the number of units he actually sold. Shiest who did not sell well, left a lot of folks including Phillips , asking hard questions as to why he was getting so much love. How was Shady Sheist able to get primetime airplay while other more qualified artists were left outside with little or no access. Eventually it was revealed that Emmis Broadcasting which owns Power 106 was also financially connected to the record label.

Executives at Emmis tried to flip the script by saying that the FCC said it was ok for them to do what they were doing as long as Damizza wasn’t in the room making decisions about Shady Shiest being played. Of course, people who have been in the industry for a while knew better and clearly understood this was a case of the company protecting its point person who collected monies under the guise of production in exchange for airplay. In any case Damizza is no longer at Power 106, but this does not mean there aren’t other hustles going on of a similar nature going on at other stations.

With the latest crack downs earlier this week on payola lead by NY attorney general Elliott Spitzer, a lot of industry folks are likely to lay low and find other ways in which to get pay for play. Look for a lot of movement in the areas of satellite and Internet radio as major stations will began to make major investments in those entities and try and sow things up. In those arenas payola is not illegal.

The other thing to watch for is to see if the FCC which is now officially calling for an payola investigations or attorney generals like Spitzer will start going after folks on tax evasion charges. After all, while its one thing to do pay for play, it’s another thing to receive gifts above 400 dollars and not declare it in tax returns. The word sponsorship is often tossed around as a way to cover one’s butt on that tip, but not everyone has their paper work in order…Look for the industry to start lobbying lawmakers really hard to get them to turn the other way.


Why You keep Hearing the Same 10 Songs
While that goes on, we need to keep in mind a couple of things. First, the reason why you keep hearing the same 10 songs is because the airtime has been bought and paid for. If you look at a clock and note that radio rotation is based upon a 60 minute clock then you can understand what this means. Every minute on a clock is expensive real estate in which nothing can be wasted.

That means these stations are either running commercial spots or they are playing songs which ultimately will lead to a money making end.

This means what you hear on the air is either in support of a particular marketing campaign sparked off by a major record company, or it’s being done to return one of the aforementioned ‘sponsorship/payola’ practices which are referred to as favors. Generally speaking the commodity used to determine to value of the favor are the number of spins on the airwaves. So let’s use the following scenario to make this more understandable. Let’s say you have a record label called Label X. A rep from that label will come to a commercial station to communicate the specifics behind their upcoming artist campaign. On the label’s roster they may have 10 acts but for the spring quarter the label’s priority is the new album by their start artist Rapper X.

The station sits back and tells the label. Hey we need a new van for our street team and we have our upcoming Summer Explosion concert. Can you help us out? The label will offer to purchase a new van, get it wrapped with the station’s logo. They will put the record company’s logo on the side of the van.

Next Label X will offer up their star artist to appear exclusively in the market for the station’s Summer Explosion concert. This means no other station and promoter can do a concert with that artists no matter what. It doesn’t matter if they offer the artist a ton of money or even had a prior commitment. The label and the station will shut things down to ensure that the only way a person in that market can see or hear from the star artist is to listen to that one commercial station.

Even if the artist chooses to do otherwise he will either be in violation of his contract or find that his project and the marketing campaign behind it is no longer a priority. In some extreme cases the artist might find himself under physical threat.

So in exchange for all this, the station promises Label X 100 spins a week. This translates to roughly every hour and half that artist’s record will be played. Now on average you can only play maybe 10-12 records an hour. If they don’t have a lot of commercials on a particular station you might be bale to get away with 13. In other words a station is giving up 48- 52 minutes of music an hour.

Now let’s go back to the promise made by the station to the label. A 100 spins a week means a crucial piece of audio real estate has been purchased. Similar scenarios with other labels repeat themselves over the week. One Label agrees to provide the station with 20 thousand dollars of X-Mas Wish money. Another label offers to fly a listener to the Grammys. Another Label offers to redecorate your house and have a private concert with a particular artist. When all is said and done, the label has agreed to 7 or 8 favors in exchange for 100 spins a week. This translates to us the listener hearing those same 10 songs over and over again with very little room for variety.

This means that we no longer have a public affairs show on the air or at 5:30 am on a Sunday morning. It means there is little room for local or independent artists. When you look at the clock and do the math, it’s literally impossible for a station to stray beyond the boundaries of their promises. To do so could cost big time money or favors. The Label and artist are also bound. This means unless that station is involved your favorite artiste is not going to show up at your community event or do a benefit concert for your school or in some cases even do an interview. If you wanna hear or see that artist, the big corporate radio giant that cut the deal with the record label is the only place to get your supply.

How Payola Devaules Artists and Hip Hop
Hopefully this gives you a general understanding of how things work. The other thing to keep in mind is that as this pay for play scenario becomes more pervasive to the point that there is no wiggle room to nurture and grow records, it ultimately devalues the artists work.

By that I mean, lets say I show up at a party with Hallie Berry who I paid a million dollars to hang out with me for the evening. Can you ever really take me seriously if I said I was a brother who had a good rap and lots of charm to win over the ladies once you know I pay for their company?

In other words is a particular artist song really good or am I just liking it because I keep hearing what is essentially a 4 minute commercial that has been brought and paid for by the label. I have artist who sometimes come up to me explaining how dope their new song is and then they will try to back it up by saying, their record is so dope that the station is playing it. Knowing that some sort of economic favor went into the airing of that song,one can no longer believe the hype. Is the record good? Or was the money to get the record on the airwaves good?

There used to be time that if a record was dope and a station in Chicago or Detroit or NY rocked it, it would mean something to folks in other markets and the record would get added on with a DJ announcing this is the bomb in Detroit or Chi-Town and he’s now bringing it to Houston or Atlanta. Them days are over. The only thing that will determine airplay is the money or expensive favors. The listeners are only privy to a one sided conversation that has been predetermined by the label and the station.

Until we deal with that aspect, very little will change. In fact it will only get worse…The biggest irony to all this was pointed out by long time music advocate and activist Lee Ballinger of Rock and Rap Confidential. He shrewdly noted that the music industry has been going after the general public by taking people to court for downloading music. The words immoral and stealing have been used to describe illegal downloaders. How ironic that those who have been entrusted with a public license to run our airwaves have been extremely dishonest when it comes to this payola situation. And many of the labels which have raised a stink about downloading are immoral and have violated the law themselves. The reason why folks are losing money is not because of illegal downloading. Its because it costs too damn much to illegally pay a station to pay a crappy record. Nuff said, we out for now...

 

Here is our new address for 2005 to send material for review, etc (vinyl & cd's)! Same address, just a new Ste. number:

 RapAttackLives.com

 Avenue, Ste. 11

Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Attn: Nasty-Nes

Rap Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:

DJ Addition (Mixtape-Boston & NH): "D.O.R. 's LONG ANTICIPATED NEW ALBUM SIGNATURE OF THE ILL HAS GOT IT'S STREET DATE! AUG 30 2005 ALBUM IN STORES ! SINGLE GOES TO RADIO FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST. A.D.O.R. CONTINUES TO SHOW WHY HE IS ONE OF THE MOST GIFTED ARTIST IN HIP HOP ! NEW HISTORY WILL BE MADE FROM THE HEAT OF SIGNATURE OF THE ILL PRODUCED BY DIAMOND D, A.D.O.R., SIR JASE, SUPA WILL & T-LOVE. THE STREET'S NEED IT !! BACK ONE AGAIN A.D.O.R. SIGNATURE OF THE ILL...
 

Bri-G (Mixtape-NY): "The Power Summit has come together with Sony Acid Pro to create The $25,000.00 Producer Battle Only accepting 50 DJs to enter with the Final 2 elected to showcase their talent at THE POWER SUMMIT. All contestants will Remix a Nas acapella using Sony Acid Pro for a chance to win $25,000.00. HOLLA AT CHA BOY, Brian Gaffey aka DJ Bri G  at: Brian.Gaffey@therpmgroup.com; wk (212) 375-6211; cell (203) 886-9555 or 2way:    bgaffey187@tmail.com

Carlos Palacios (WVFS-FL): " Just giving everyone a heads up to my new mailing address. Please send everything from this point to my new mailing address.
3170 Allison Marie Ct
Tallahassee FL 32304
WVFS Tallahassee
The Underground Railroad
89.7FM
 

Stereotype (WHUS-CT): " It's been a good week here in CT. My show was a bit of a disappointment, but the rest of the week made up for it. I was supposed to have Dooley O and Poison Pen come up to the station, but shit didn't work out and neither one of them could make it. I did get to see Dooley this week regardless. He put on an graff art show/sale in New Haven. He shot me doubles of his new single, "Soaps" B/W "What You Know about Hip Hop." Dooley's new album, "I Gotcha" is going to be dropping soon on Lewis Recordings. I'm not sure if it's going to get any radio promotion, but it should. One a side note, look out for the next issue of WaxPoetics. There's going to be a story in there about Dooley O, beat digging, and the Skull Snaps. Last Sunday I went down to NYC and caught Pete Rock DJing at Table 50. The shit was bananas (wow I can't even use that expression anymore without thinking about Gwen Sefani). Jazzy Jay, Large Pro, Marley Marl and Crazy Legs were all in the house. Pete Rock killed it (as if I even need to say that). Just yesterday I saw Crazy Legs again, this time at the Rock Steady anniversary. Props to the Problems Krew (repping CT), Props to the Zulu Floor Brats (for winning the Saturday crew battle) and Props to K-Mel for taking home the Spy Award...
 

DJ Chela (WXDU-NC): "Check my profile just put up on www.FTBRecords.com under "DJs & Producers." Big shouts to NC's own Little Brother, who is shooting the video for their first single on Atlantic, "Lovin It," in Brooklyn. I wasn't able to make it to the shoot and I won't be at Rocksteady this year... it's the first time in a few years I haven't gone...

 
Dan Shores aka DS (WHRW-NY): "OUTT IN THE STRRRRRRREEET THEY CALL IT MURRRRRRDERRRRRRRRRR yeah , I'm talking about the sun . 102 temps upstate . whoooooooooo weeeee !!!!!! Like Dirtsman once chatted = Hot Dis YEAR! It's been quite a while since I gave you all a bit of news and what has been going on with me. So here goes. pay attention . AS THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS TO COVER AS THE KIDS BEEN GRINDIN OVERTIME .Make note of the 5th year anniversary of Live and Direct radio show. READ ON :  

The show will be commemorated by Two CD's (one hosted by Masta Ace, the other hosted by De La Soul) a radio show with tons of giveaways, and a party /show featuring some of the areas finest dj's and emcees and also giveaways . this will all occur in late august : dates TBA .ANY LABELS OR TASTEMAKERS WILLING TO SUPPLY ANY GIVEAWAYS (TSHIRTS,CDS MAGAZINES ,ETC.)  THIS (above) IS A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY AS THERE WILL BE HEAVY PROMOTION FOR ALL THREE (CDS,RADIOSHOW,AND SHOW/PARTY)...

Dave Burgess (WSKB-MA): " I'm about to make a huge move in picking up the serato. ive been internin at Jamn 94.5 in Medford, Mass and all the dj's there are using it. seems so much easier for dj'ing at the clubs..BUT the moral issue of not digging as much might kill me. i know it will save some money in the long run, but I feel like i can't leave behind getting my fingers dirty on those saturday afternoon crate diggin sessions. is it worth the 499??...
 

Solo (WECI-IN): "Too dayum hot out, house is like 90 is easy. The punk ass govt had san andreas pulled from the shelves everywhere. but we still have a punkass president, screwing us over everyday. So whats the diff. I'm done bitch'n now. Anyway does anyone know how too, put downloads on to a ps2. is this black market or what? I downloaded the General Lee for VIce City and I cant figure out how too put it on my memory card or whatever. Is DMX back or what? I feel he could have come stronger with "INdustry"...

Earthquake (Live365.com): "Had a chance to check out the Live and Direct tour Monday night in Seattle with Hiero, Nonphixion, OC and Boom Bap Project. It was a great show. You better not miss this tour when they roll through your town. Shout out to ID, Domino and Karim. Boom Bap is on the entire tour showing the rest of the country what we do up in the Northwest...

Edgie Kokoski (WUNH-NH): " Let the war begin! I just got done listening to Nas’ new cut “MC Burial”, where he disses 50 Cent and Mobb Deep. Although as I'm betting man I would put my money on Nas, I have to say that I am still listening to “The Massacre” while my copy of “Streets Disciple” sees less daylight than the South Pole. Beef brought back the Nas we all knew and loved on “Stillmatic”, so hopefully this will have a similar effect. I hope the same holds true for Mobb Deep, whose last album was like a suicide victim in the bathtub: two good cuts. I don’t know about you, but I am pretty sick of hearing about how car companies are going to give me the same price on the car as they give their employees. If I were working for a car company, I would be pretty pissed if the public got the same discount that I did as an employee. Personally, I would rather get the employee discount on gasoline instead. The media once again reminded me of how NASA is the biggest domestic waste of money in our Government today. Two and a half years have passed and they are still having problems putting a space shuttle in the sky. I can’t wait until this $200 million dollar mission comes back with rock samples or pictures of stars. If the Government wants interesting rock that makes them see stars, they can go to any street corner in urban America and get that for substantially less money. And put rims on the next man’s automobile at the same time!...

Javier "Caliente" Evelyn (WZND-IL): " Hope y'all weekend been kind to ya, mines wouldn't on nothing. But I did catch that "Hustle and Flow" joint, I recommend that y'all peep that one. For a minute I forgot Terrence Howard was 37 years old trying to step in the rap game. (aaaaaaaahhhhh!! lol) Peace fam!...

DJ Radd 1 (WDBM-MI): " Please make note that I have 2 NEW EMAIL ADRESSES:

djradd1@comcast.net

tatnallc@comcast.net 

PLEASE UPDATE YOUR ADRESS BOOKS, AND DISCONTINUE USE OF HYPERLINK

djradd1@sbcglobal.net !!!!!!

 Yo Nes, you are absolutely right!!! I'm going to make a new commitment to reviewing records and sending feedback. Even though it is very difficult (based on the sheer volume of material that I receive), I realize that it is a necessary & vital part of the industry. Believe me, you have my support. I will do my very best to dilligently give you the feedback that you need, and I will also encourage my pool DJ's and listeners of my mixshow to the same!!!! Keep doing what you do fam...thanks!!!...

Semp Rok (www.the305.com/bboy): " Whats up fam. I hope Phi has been treating you well. I've been around just here trying to make more action happen for our community. So here's the deal. I'm looking for key people in different cities to be involved in fan teams. I've been setting up an infrastructure where I won't be dependant solely on the individuals working these projects. Each of the projects I’ll be distributing will have national press, plus we’ll are working on the national commercials for these projects on local cable stations across the US. Honestly I’m just tired of whack music and I’ve been working on an effective method to get some dope hip-hop out on a national level. If you feel what I’m talking about and want to know more about joining, just reply and I’ll break you off with the info. Here's my info:

Semp Rok c/o Public Wizard, Inc.

930 Washington Avenue, Suite 206

Miami Beach, FL 33139
305.673.6739

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