What's upper?  The season finale of HBO's "Entourage" was off the hook. This is mos def, one of my favorite shows & I can't wait to catch next seasons episodes!...

Los Angeles has another new radio station, "Movin' 93.9!" And guess what? Radio pioneer & the guy who gave you "Disco Duck" back in the 70's, Rick Dees will be their new morning show host. The format is all uptempo pop & rhythmic dance music from the 80's, 90's & the latest cuts. Don't get me wrong, Hip-Hop is my first love but I do love some of that old school dance cuts I used to play on the radio & clubs back in my Seattle days! Maybe I'll come out of radio retirement for "Movin 93.9?!"...

After hearing Janet Jackson f/ Nelly "Call On Me" (Virgin) I was saying to myself, "Where's Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis at?" Well I just got a copy of Janet's "So Excited" joint & it is FIYA! I love how they took one of my all time classic fav joints, Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" & sample it in Janet's new cut. Peep it...

Kenn Starr "Starr Status" (HalfTooth) album is about to put Maryland & DC on the map. His latest joint "Against The Grain" produced by beatmaker extraordinaire, Illmind is climbing up quickly on our RAP ATTACK TOP 30 chart! According to Kenn Starr, "'Against The Grain' is a reintroduction of sorts. For those that don't know me, it's lettin' them vibe with my style a bit & lettin' them lnow that I've remained focused and haven't lost a step since the last time they heard me." To get laced with the "Starr Status" album, hit up Jessica Weber at SPECTRE Music online at: jessica@spectremusic.com or call (213) 368-1600; ext 17...

Look out for Doujah’s new single “Loose Cannons” (Trilogy). The track is produced by Kev Brown and features Sean Price and Baron from Red Clay. If you need it, go grab it at http://www.foundationmedia.com/current.html...

New Jersey's DJ Yoshi took the last 8 months to relax & recoup & now he's gettin' ready to make his comeback, back into the mixtape scene in about a month. So don't sleep on DJ Yoshi, he is BACK!...

Oxnard's Big Caz is makin' some underground buzz off the MP3 I blasted out to the RAP ATTACK panel last week. "I Am" features E-40, 2Pac & B.I.G. (Mo Thugs). If you'd like Big Caz & Bone from Bone-Thugs N Harmony to roll through your station, hit me up at: nastynes1@aol.com. Here are the following dates & cities he has locked down so far on the road:

 Sept 11 Minneapolis, MN First Ave.

 Sept 21 Spokane, WA Star Theater
Sept.22 Boise, ID IC Theater
Sept 23 Reno, NV Reno Events Center

Oct.1 Albuquerque, Sunshine Theater

The brand new Roots album "The Roots" (Def Jam) is gonna keep ish hot this summer of 2006! Here's what The Roots had to say about their album & their move to Def Jam::

The “Game Theory” is defined as "An agent or person who is faced with a set of moves he can play and will form a strategy, to best respond to his environment." Nobel Peace Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, developed this theory to calculate an actual formula to winning and losing. Amir "Questlove" Thompson and The Roots are poised to release their next album entitled The Game Theory demonstrating how they have always stood the test of time, musically cultivating every album to best respond to the current climate in  like a barometer foretelling of turbulent conditions. Questlove affirms, "For me, it’s important that the title of each Roots album embodies what we're going through at the time, what Hip-Hop is going through, and what the world is going through… As for The Game Theory, someone's gonna win and someone's gonna lose." The Roots don’t seem to be losers, and they certainly aren’t on a losing team. Aligned with Hova, the group retains their constant goals, as Questlove changes the production technique for their first Def Jam release. With Malik B back in the lineup and a point to prove, The Roots have the fertilizer to grow now more than ever.

AllHipHop.com: There’s an energy around this album, as if you’re finally getting your due respect in Hip-Hop, I don’t know if you agree or not. What makes this album different from the rest, I know a lot has occurred between now and The Tipping Point that might have developed the energy behind this album.

Questlove: I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that we actually have lasted for that long of period. But more than that, it’s kinda hard to tell with today’s marketplace, especially with the sound that we’re traditionally associated with.

There’s always a pressure to stay current in the marketplace, we were always in control of our artistic vision. The last album [The Tipping Point] we kind of let our fear get the best of us. Because we just didn’t have a feel for what Jimmy Iovine (at Geffen/Interscope) liked and didn’t like. The fact that (Jimmy) is the same guy that controls around 15 or 16 platinum acts, someone is going to get neglected if you don’t set a fire or raise a stinker. That was the first and last time we took the approach of doing a “please the president” album.

AllHipHop.com: I figured now with Jay-Z this would be the time you would do a “please the president” album.

Questlove: Yeah, but Jay already made it clear that he ain't havin' that. The first thing on his mind is that “I don’t want to be the big bad wolf that killed The Roots.”

AllHipHop.com: There are a lot of people both nervous and anxious at the same time about your move to Def Jam.

Questlove: Well I think a lot of people see the move to Def Jam as, “Oh man y’all ‘bout to cash in, y’all with Hov, it’s over!” Fans already throwing diamonds in the air, but it’s far from it. Number one, he’s not on the album, we didn’t want him on the album. I think its important that we coast that line and not get over excited like “Yay Hov, we’re finally gonna make it,” that’s when you start to fall off, when you start having these expectations and setting those marks for yourself that aren’t going to happen. I expect this album to follow the same trail, and the same potholes that we’ve encountered throughout our career. I’m still very much in the knowledge that we are a very hard group to swallow for mainstream America. Just because we’re on Def Jam, the world’s most popular Hip-Hop figure, doesn’t mean it’s going to be smooth sailing.

AllHipHop.com: Yeah, I viewed it as your greatest opportunity is also your greatest challenge. Your albums are usually a reflection of the times, are you going to do anything different this time around to fit into this marginalized Hip-Hop market? Are we going to see you sitting on 24’s or Hub snappin’?

Questlove: This is the thing; this is why I’m mad at snappin’ only because I view it more as a culture thing with snap music but that is one of my signature sounds. If anyone knows my production, they know that I’ve always used handclaps and snappin’. But no, there is no snappin’ on this record. The direction of an album just follows what album came before it and how many times we had to perform set songs on stage. We’re one of the rare acts in Hip-Hop that have to perform these songs 200 times the previous year. By that point you’re usually trying to get away from that previous sound as much as possible. I’m the type of producer that makes a laundry list of things we haven’t done yet. With this album and just personally, I think of what ways can I make the drums speak this time. The whole idea of me doing the minimum drum kit that I’m known for of just kick, snare, high hat - that’s over. This is the first time I’ve played with like a ten- 13-piece drum set, tom toms, other symbols. I wanted more rhythmic percussion sound with this album, it gave me different textures and colors to deal with. This is still a very dark album.

AllHipHop.com: I’ve always viewed the song “Water” off the Phrenology album as a turning point for the group. It showed a side of the group and Black Thought that was more personal and opening up emotionally on a record, something that was rarely seen before this record.

Questlove: I’m glad someone recognized that, and not just the chaotic noise. Well number one, Malik B. is back…

AllHipHop.com: Really?

Questlove: Yeah that’s the surprise.

AllHipHop.com: There are a lot of fans that are dying to hear Malik back on a Roots record.

Questlove: Malik is the heart of The Roots. The balance of Tariq [Black Thought] and Malik was definitely based on Tariq being the more virtuoso MC, the battle MC - his style is impeccable. Malik was the heart of the group. If you actually take time to listen to what Malik says, he’ll say some ill s**t about how f**ked up his life is.

AllHipHop.com: In my opinion, Black Thought should be on everyone’s Top 10 or Top 5 list.

Questlove: Believe it or not, I do random Google searches to see what people thought of the first single and their like “he’s lackluster, he doesn’t have charisma.” I don’t think charisma is a good judgment, a real MC chooses his words carefully. I’m saying for the record that this is definitely Tariq’s heaviest hitting record, as far as his lyrics are concerned. He made a complete growth and a lot of people mistaken that for "blahzayness." He’s not animated on this record, he’s very serious, he’s not minstrel, he’s not coonin’…

AllHipHop.com: You know the first time I’ve ever heard Eve or Beanie Sigel was actually on a Roots record. A lot of people still don’t realize that Scott Storch has been down with y’all since the beginning. Does it bother you that people that you have put on have gone on to reach greater levels of mainstream success than the group itself?

Questlove: I find it ironic, there’s an ongoing joke that the women that we are no longer with from the Do You Want More?!!!??! era have all performed some sort of hex on the group. They’re off somewhere in West Philly with dolls and pins in our hearts. Scott has a 12 million dollar yacht and my cable just got cut off. Nah, I mean it’s just the nature of what it is. It really depends on what you measure as success. I’ll be very honest with you, there are times when I’m like “Goddamn, what the hell did I do to deserve this? Why can’t I catch a break?!” But then again not many artist can say, “This is my ninth great record.” I don’t feel as though we’ve reached our peak yet, I still feel like there is still genuine interest in the group, that to me is much more important. I never thought back in 1992 that in 2009 I’d still be doing it and enjoying the perks of having a good job.

AllHipHop.com: Do you feel even amongst a marginalized market with all the leanin' and rockin' and snappin', that very quietly there is a resurgence going on with the Native Tongue movement?

Questlove: To be honest, no. I’m still close with Common, Kweli and Mos, but clearly a tsunami has occurred on our property. I understand cats gotta run for cover. Making sure your daughter has clothes for school and a secure home, that’s some real s**t so you gotta do what you gotta do. I actually do see the native tongue thing occurring, but I see it with it SaRa, who’s signed with Kanye and this other group J.Davey. Those two, I see as part of the next Native Tongue movement, not to say that we won’t still be a close knit crew, but the Native Tongues have kind of drifted apart. Mos is doing his thing with his movie career, Common is on the GOOD music side of things - we’ll still do s**t together. But the idea of jam sessions together, I see how the original Native Tongues just got older, but that was the time period.

If you would like to interview The Roots, please respond with a yes to: Defcollegeradio@umusic.com. Please include the following:

Day of Show:

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ABB's Defari is down to do drops for your radio show & mixtapes. Hit up Malachi with your current "DROP SCRIPTS" to the following email: abbmixshow@gmail.com...

Going Way Back - A Brief History of 206 Hip-Hop

By Daudi Abe

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=50162

For the most part, kids listen to the music their parents listen to up until about the age of 9 or 10. Until that point, you generally have no say as to what radio station you listen to in the car or what gets played around the house. So it was for me as a 9-year-old at the end of 1979, when my pops took me to Dirt Cheap Records, which used to be right behind Richlen's gas station on the corner of 23rd Avenue and Union Street. We walked in and he told me to go pick out a record. Not having any idea of what I wanted to get, I wandered around the store until I happened to see a 12-inch jacket with a swirling, multicolored logo that reminded me of candy. Firmly thinking about a box of grape Now and Laters, I chose this record as my first.

As we got to the cash register, the man behind the counter told me, "Yeah, good choice. This is a hot new record outta New York." The candy-like image on the jacket was the logo for a company called Sugar Hill Records, and the album was a 12-inch single by the Sugar Hill Gang entitled "Rapper's Delight," including a short and long version. When I got home and listened to it, I couldn't understand why nobody was singing. What kind of music was this? I thought I recognized the beat, but wondered Why are they just talking? A day and a half later, I knew all the words to a 15-minute song.

I was not the only one in town affected and moved by this new music called rap and by the culture of hiphop that was delivered in a variety of ways. While hiphop first arrived in Seattle on wax, it would also come on film in the movie WildStyle, over AM and FM radio, on dubbed cassettes made on the new boxes that had two tape decks, and in parties DJ'd and MC'd by local talent. After hearing rap music, it didn't take long for people to try it themselves. The development of hiphop in Seattle can be traced back to the early 1980s and a group called the Emerald Street Boys, who played parties and dances starting in 1981. They appeared at events such as the Black Community Festival as well as opening up for the Gap Band at the Seattle Center Arena in 1982 and 1983. The DJ for the Emerald Street Boys was 'Nasty' Nes Rodriguez (see photo above), a Filipino American who, as he explained it, "would take instrumentals from 12-inches while they rhymed over them." Nes was influenced by New York radio and would listen to tapes of shows on New York stations WBLS and WKTU. He looked up to Mr. Magic, host of the first rap radio show in the United States on WBLS, and imitated his style on the air and in the mix. Out of this, Nasty Nes would go on to host the West Coast's first all-rap radio show, FreshTracks, on Seattle station KKFX 1250 AM ("KFOX"). The Emerald Street Boys did the intro to the show.

Starting out as a Sunday-evening show consisting of a segment of fresh songs and a mastermix of scratching and cuts by Nes lasting generally 30 minutes, FreshTracks was wildly popular, and was a must-listen for kids like myself who were mesmerized by the beat and the rhyme. Nes's mastermixes would consist of everything from Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team to Run-D.M.C. to the spoof "Rap Master Ronnie," a song featuring a Ronald Reagan sound-alike. Nes cut and scratched his way through these records making sure that Seattle was up on the latest, hottest shit. "Because my show was getting huge ratings," explained Nes by e-mail (he now resides in LA), "my program director, Steve Mitchell, let me extend my FreshTracks show to Monday through Friday from 9:00 p.m. to midnight and call it NightBeat. That show featured the latest R&B Top-40 hits, plus I got to play two rap cuts an hour! My ratings were sky-high for an AM station, and I was the number-one-rated show at night, beating shows aired on the FM dial! Back then, hearing a mix on two turntables and scratching sounded so foreign to my audience, but they loved hearing me in the mix."

Around 1984 a series of high-profile jams began taking place at the Boys and Girls Club on 19th Avenue in the Central District. On weekends, Anthony "Sir Mix-A-Lot" Ray was throwing parties that attracted an audience of predominantly black teenagers in what was then the seat of the black community in the greater Seattle area. For a couple of bucks, party people packed the gym shoulder-to-shoulder and heard Mix-A-Lot play records by Jonzun Crew and Egyptian Lover. Nasty Nes recalled the scene: "I first met Mix-A-Lot at the Boys Club in the CD. I'll never forget that night. Everyone thought there was gonna be a fight 'cause I was, like, the only guy there who wasn't black in the building and they knew who I was. After seeing [Mix-A-Lot] cut, scratch, mix, and rhyme at this event, and how he had the crowd rockin', I invited him to come on my show and air his material."

As it turned out, this meeting would be a watershed moment in the evolution of early Seattle hiphop. Sir Mix-A-Lot began appearing on FreshTracks, and after Nasty Nes played songs like "7 Rainier," "Let's G," and "Square Dance Rap," with its Chipmunks/Papa Smurf-inspired digitally altered voice and square-dance calling, Mix-A-Lot became the most requested artist on KFOX.

While a couple local radio stations were spinning the hottest shit, "Shockmaster" Glen Boyd had been selling it as the manager of two influential record stores. Already a veteran of the still-infant local hiphop scene, Shockmaster was a contributing editor for The Rocket and hosted the show Rap Attack on Seattle FM station KCMU. Boyd, who still lives in Seattle, recounted to me the aftermath of the Nasty Nes/Sir Mix-A-Lot connection in an e-mail: "When Nasty Nes began playing Mix-A-Lot's records on FreshTracks, and I began writing about him in The Rocket, things snowballed quickly. "

Sir Mix-A-Lot's star would continue to rise and ultimately culminate with the release of the 1988 album Swass. For the Seattle community, still struggling to distinguish itself in the quickly expanding hiphop universe, Swass's "Posse on Broadway" was an identity track; it was the city's version of Boogie Down Production's "South Bronx." Today, for various reasons, Seattle's hiphop community regards Sir Mix-A-Lot with a sense of ambivalence. But no matter how anyone feels nowadays about Mix-A-Lot, his foundational contributions are undeniable. As Shockmaster Glen Boyd stated, "The importance of Nastymix [Nes and Mix-A-Lot's record label] and Sir Mix-A-Lot cannot be overestimated." Mix-A-Lot, along with the likes of Nasty Nes, Shockmaster, C-89, KFOX, The Rocket, Music Menu, Dirt Cheap Records, and thousands of local kids who lived, breathed, ate, and shitted hiphop, set the stage for Seattle's current active and diverse hiphop scene.

www.RapAttackLives.com has the SIDEKICK 3 - T Mobile hook up for NEW T-Mobile customers only: $199.00! Contact: ALEX at:                        vtxguy408@yahoo.com ...

It is finally here fam. www.MixRevolution.com! I invite you to log on now & join (it's FREE). Here's what MixRevolution.com is all about!

Brief Description…

    Mix Revolution.Com is a NEW ONLINE COMMUNITY STRICTLY FOR DJs!  This is the first of its kind attempting to bring together DJs of all genres from all over the world to one website… MixRevolution.Com.  

Features…

They offer many community based services such as ;

PERSONAL PROFILE SECTION (much like Myspace.Com)

-Can personalize it by uploading your own pictures

-Post your own bio

-Can send private messages to other members on the site

-Can tag someone else’s site

*Ability to upload own music/mixes (COMING SOON…)

INDUSTRY NEWS

-Latest industry news, events, and product reviews.

NEW MUSIC

-Exclusive audio

*Ability to download mp3s (COMING SOON…)

FEATURED DJS

-DJs making noise in their market

FEATURED ARTISTS

-Up and coming and established artists

MESSAGEBOARDS

MOST IMPORTANTLY, MIX REVOLUTION GIVES MEMBERS MORE OF A REASON TO GET INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY….

INCENTIVE BASED SURVEYS

- Take as many surveys to earn points towards redeeming for prizes such as an Xbox 360s, Limited Edition Ts, CDs, Vinyl, etc.

CHART SECTION

-Submit charts that record label reps have access to…

Why get involved…

    There is finally a site out there that puts aside musical tastes and focuses on bringing the DJ community closer together.  It’s about family, helping each other out, and supporting each other because of a common love…DJing.  If you are a DJ of legendary status, its time to give back to the community that supported you.  If you are a bedroom DJ, its time to interact with DJs you look up to.  DJs from legendary to bedrooms will all finally get a chance to interact with one another.  What’s not to love about the concept?! 

ATTN Labels & DJ's, it is very important that you email us your weekly priorities so we can post it on our site. I'll need your artist name, song title & record label PLUS the MP3 (clean).

Email that weekly on Mondays to: radiopriorities@mixrevolution.com

MixRevolution.com will have three TOP 30 Charts starting June 6, 2006:

Mixshow/Crossover

Underground/College Rap Radio

Mixshow/Underground

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

 Wonder Twinz (SIRIUS): "How does 500 MP3s per month sound??? Even better.... How about 500 MP3s with no downloading, no viruses, no problems... If you want 500 exclusive MP3s every month for ya radio show & mixtapes, then ya gotta join "The B-Side MP3 Pool"

What we do is we take all the MP3s and we burn them all down onto CDs for you. Each CD will have 125 tracks on it…. They will consist of dirty & clean versions of songs, as well as instrumentals and accapellas of many songs. That’s crazy right?

We now have 2 different levels of the MP3 Pool to choose from:
1st Level (250 MP3s per Month): You will receive 2 CDs per month. Each CD will have 125 tracks on them, totaling 250 MP3’s per month… You will receive 2 shipments a month (1 CD in each shipment)
The shipments will go out during the 2nd week and last week of each month
The total for this campaign is $30 per month, plus FREE shipping anywhere within the United States.
2nd Level (500 MP3s Per Month): You will receive 4 CDs per month. Each CD will have 125 tracks on them, totaling 500 MP3’s per month… You will receive 2 shipments a month (2 CDs in each shipment)
The shipments will go out during the 2nd week and last week of each month
The total for this campaign is $50 per month, plus FREE shipping anywhere within the United States.
Think about it…. We’re gonna be giving you between 250 – 500 brand new exclusive MP3s every month, for you to blast off on your mix CD or radio show.
Trust us, these CDs will be filled with a lot of really dope exclusive joints that are very hard to get. Plus, you don’t have to worry about downloading them , etc. They’ll all be on CD for you already. It doesn’t get much easier than that.  This offer is only for Rap Attack Reporting DJs... So holla at us today

For more info email The Wonder TwinZ at sonicatf@aol.com or call 1-800-994-8946... also check out www.b-siderecordpool.com"...

Bri-G (Mixtapes/RPM-NY): "Saw "Idlewild" the other day. Luckily there was a big ass fight in the middle of the theather cus otherwise I would've been really disgusted that I had to sit through that thing. Pretty much except for the chick who looks like a hotter version of Alicia Keys, that movie was awful. They also gotta get their facts straight, you can't have a movie about bootlegging take place in 1935 when prohibition was repealed in 1933. I hate when movie people overlook basic shit.

Taking to my boy DJ Prizmatik the other day I came up with a theory about record sales. Today, I pulled soundscan to check and see if my theory was correct...I was. In order to sell a lot of records you have to:

a) have built up a loyal fan base that will buy your records no matter what...look at Ice Cube's 400k in independent sales

b) have a big crossover hit that is getting regular rotation on Top 40 stations...the hood don't buy records.

c) if your breakthrough smash single is featuring a major artist, your follow up single has to be solo and close to as big as your original...show you can stand on your own 2 feet

Checking soundscan you can see this theory in action. I consider anything less than 500k not selling a lot of albums so if you look at the people who have recently sold well, Chammillionaire (1.1 mil), Three6 (almost 1 mil), Lil Wayne (1 mil), Paul Wall (800k), Dem Franchize Boyz (600k) all had huge crossover records, but had a large fan base who would buy any record they dropped regardless of the singles they dropped. The original fans are gonna push you over the top to gold or platinum status while middle America is buying your album cus they like that song/songs they hear from you on the radio and in the clubs.

Now, if you look at those who ain't sellin a damn thing, Rhymefest (32k)...yea, I said (32k), Cam'ron (250k), Mobb Deep (250k), Shawnna (120k), & Field Mob (150k). All of em were missing either A, B, or C, and Rhymfest had none of the above. Cam & Mobb don't have a crossover record, nobody heard about Shawnna before Gettin Some, and Field Mob's isn't exactly a common name in middle America so you need something besides a record with Ciara to really stand out.

It's a pretty easy formula, at the end of the day all you gotta do is make good records that appeal a broad range of people and you should at least go Gold. Too bad a lotta rappers don't realize it. As always, I give this information free of charge. Help me help Hip-Hop"...

Nick Huff (KPFA #2-CA): "Hard Knock Records is proud to announce that Ise Lyfe's album "SpreadtheWORD" was the #1 Hip Hop seller at all Rasputin's locations last week. That's right we said #1!!! Ise also has a couple great features out this week including SF Weekly and MP3.com:
Check Out Ise Lyfe's feature on MP3.com
http://www.mp3.com/features/stories/5975.html
Also out this week is SF Weekly Feature:
Regaining consciousness:
East Oakland rapper Ise Lyfe spreads the word, makes his mark
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=1433&catid=107&

volume_id=147&issue_id=246&volume_num=40&issue_num=47" ...
 

DJ LoKash (WNHU-CT): Another day, another cup of coffee... we are pushing ahead full steam towards the first day of classes which is exactly a week from today... I will be reverting back to my pre-summer show schedule for this next semester, but I have included a lot of tracks in the automated rotation aka DJ Dell... believe it or not it's been giving A LOT of spins to a lot of your tracks over the past couple of weeks and I'll be e-mailing you all the list shortly..

Many thanks to the Drama King Kay Slay for comin' by Monday's show and to Method Man for callin' in on Friday... Also shout to to Splif, Sean
Rock and Shinyo for stoppin' thru... There are many more big things planned as we head into this new semester so keep your ears open... If you're coming through CT definitely holla at the kid, I'm right smack in the middle of NYC and Boston and right off of the highway so there's no reason not to pay a visit...

I'm also going to be changing my cell phone number in the next few days, so get ready to update your phonebooks, sidekicks, blackberrys, outlook, and Access databases... My office number is 203.479.8803 in case you don't have that already... Is it me or do those beats by Primo make listening to Christina Aguilera tolerable?"...

Jason-D (RadioBoise.Org): "CMJ is coming up November 1st to the 4th in NY. Are you going? I got the confirmation from Kazzeo so we "Team Heineken" will be there. As far as music goes... not too many today are killin it like Termanology on the "Watch How It Go Down" joint. I thought rumors of a Nas / Premo record and Jay-Z coming out of retirement would light a flame under these rap cats but not seeing too many step up. I know I'm in the bleacher seats over here a few states away but I feel for you NY heads. Half of these rappers talkin about bringin NY back are the ones makin wack shit. Hard to solve a problem you don't know you have. I'm ready for the next Gang Starr. Funny thing is that I bet it will come from some random spot (Montana, South Dakota, Arizona, etc) since NY appears to be obsessed with the Dip Set and down south rappers. I listened to few concept albums on a recent flight - Ice Cube "Death Certificate" & Masta Ace "Slaughtahouse". It sure makes a lot of today's stuff seem really random. That's my two cents. I guess I'm just 48 away from really getting it.

DJ Kazzeo (KHDC-CA): "Label reps - If you have any artists available or interested in calling into my show on September 13, please contact me a.s.a.p. This will be my 13 year anniversary show (see photo above) and I want to make sure it's jam packed. So let's make it happen. Here's my contact info:
Primary email - kazzeo72@aol.com
Secondary email - djkazzeo2@yahoo.com
MP3 email - djkazzeo@gmail.com
 

DJ Raw-B (KUSF-SF): "Big thanks to the artists of the Guy On The Couch Tour for stopping by Beat Sauce this past Sunday. Cleveland transplant Paulie Rhyme and Buffalo's Grand Phee and Rhyson Hall laced us with a grip of music that I can personally vouch for. Be on the lookout for this tour. These cats are cool dudes and they got mic skills for days. For more info, peep their websites... http://www.deepthinka.com and http://www.myspace.com/paulierhyme

Edgie Kokoski (WUNH-NH): "So I’ve pretty much decided that baseball season is over. Because if the Red Sox play the next 38 games like they played the last 5, they will be lucky to have any fans left. I slaved away at work all last week eagerly awaiting the 5 game set that would give the BoSox the chance to topple the evil empire and regain control of the AL East. What I got instead was a shit show of epic proportions. Three days and three nights of torturous baseball that left me questioning my faith, like when the priests started tagging kids. Is it over for the Red Sox? I guess I’m not 100 % sure. But I know that come September 10^th, the good old N-F of L will be taking over my tube, not the Boston Bumblers…

To make my week even better, when I went to the bar Friday night, someone decided that my driver’s side rear view mirror would work a lot better if it was on the ground in 100 pieces. They were wrong.

To make my week even better than that, my boss fired my counterpart at work. So my job just doubled overnight. I guess this means I have to kiss twice the ass now too. And steal twice the office supplies.

 I find it just a little fucked up that this dirt bag pedophile who murdered Jon Benet Ramsey got to fly to the U.S. from Thailand business class and drink champagne and beer along the way. Personally, I would have hog tied him, locked him in the trunk of a KIA, and driven it across country stopping at every rest area to let the forest dwellers “have their way with him”.

All right, enough ranting from me. I’m in a rush anyhow. I have to run to the record spot and cop the new K-Fed single"...

Nate Abney (WKDU-PA): "Well another week comes and goes in Philly. The Roots and Common show was great Thursday, Pharcyde great
opening up act. I missed the Wu-Tang, Rakim show unfortunately. Not that I missed EPMD reuniting during Redman's set as well as Bootcamp and everybody else. Sunday I went to Unity Day on the Ben Franklin Parkway and saw people I haven't seen in like ten years. Steve Harvey was getting on some old dude in the crowd. He then gave this lady who was selling t-shirts 200$ and then proceeded to throw all the shirts into the crowd. The night ended with Kirk Franklin and everybody went home happy.
I'm gearing up for the Phils to let me down again and Penn State to beat Notre Dame Sep 9th"...

Jon? Doe (KCPR-CA): "Hello proactive promoters out there who still email dj's. Please note that effective 8-23-06, my tmccaule@calpoly.edu email address will no longer be valid. please update your records with my new email address. it is mrnobdody@jondoemusic.com

Garbs Infinite (WRUW-Cleveland): "The 1st Annual Ohio Hip Hop Awards is going down September 20th right here in Cleveland! Sponsorship packages are now available within a price range that the largest or smallest company can afford. You can vote & find out more information at www.216-411.com or you can reach us at OhioHipHopAwards@gmail.com  or reach me direct, at 216-965-5500. Hope to hear from many of you soon! Now to the Top30!"...

Here is our address for 2006 to send material for review, etc (vinyl & cd's)! Same address, just a new Ste. number:

 RapAttackLives.com

4750 Kester Avenue, Ste. 11

Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Attn: Nasty-Nes

SHOUT OUT TIZIME: Happy Birthday this week to Harris "Dirty Harry" Francis from Seattle's KUBE 93 celebrating this Wednesday, August 30th & to my dawg, DJ Splif from Def Jam celebrating this Thursday, August 31st...

COMING TO NY on NOVEMBER 3rd "The Rap Attack Family Reunion 2006 Showcase"...

Peace, Love & Hip-Hop Unity,
Nasty-Nes

http://www.myspace.com/nastynes  http://www.myspace.com/rapattacklives 

(Pinoy Pride4Life / John 3:16)