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NUMBER
ONE!!! Congratulations to
Skull who's debut single, "Boom Di Boom
di" goes NUMBER ONE this week
at both the RAP ATTACK
& RAP
NETWORK TOP 30 chart.
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REPPIN' THA W!
(l-r)
Nasty-Nes & Sacramento's own, DJ SN1. |
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SPRINT RADIO ROCKS!
It's
RAP ATTACK's DJ PrizMatik reppin'
on tha 1s & 2s. |
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[[ February 5, 2007 ]] |
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What's upper?
A wet
and wild night of Super Bowl firsts brought
Dungy, Manning and the
Indianapolis Colts to the top of the
NFL with a 29-17 victory over the
Chicago Bears last Sunday night. And
Prince turned it out & rocked the house during
halftime with one of the best halftime shows ever for a
Superbowl event. Congrats to the Colts...
Attention Record Label heads. This DJ NO LONGER
reports to RAP ATTACK. Please remove him
from your RAP ATTACK list:
MIXX
96.1 - Brian Rush aka DJ Flex
7414 Cornelia Avenue
Cincinnati,
Ohio
45216
Email:
rush12auto@hotmail.com
513. 266-1139
Congrats
to SKULL & his debut single, "Boom Di Boom di" (YG
Entertainment) on going NUMBER ONE this week
at both the RAPATTACKLIVES.COM & RAP
NETWORK TOP 30 Chart. His blazin hot video is
dropping later this month and look for his upcoming
single, a colaboration with Skull & Mighty Mystic.
Stay tuned! Already creating quite a buzz in the
industry,this provocative up-tempo track is featured on
the Bronx's DJ Technics' influential "Da
West Indeez" Reggae mixtape.Notables such as DJ
Bobcat have had nothing but praise for "Boom Di Boom
di." He says, "Skull is incredible, he defines what
Hip-Hop culture is all about." Multiplatinum recording
artist, Mariah Carey adds, "The song is really
hot." Skull is currently writing with DJ Bobcat, Mike
Cip and collaborating with Mighty Mystic In
addition, he has recently been approached to perform at
the "World Peace One" concert, a charitable event
on August 11, 2007, which will be broadcast from 12
countries to a projected 2.7 billion people worldwide.
You can peep out Skull's MySpace profile at:
http://www.myspace.com/skullriddim. Sprint
and Cingular customers can download his
animated ringtone by texting: SKULL to 368747...
Nas
is no doubt the ish right now. His latest, "Where Are
They Now?" (Def Jam) features the following dope
remixes:
80'S REMIX:
MC SHAN, RAHEEM (FURIOUS FIVE), DOCTOR ICE (UTFO),
KANGOL (UTFO), KOOL MOE DEE, SHA ROCK (FUNKY FOUR + 1),
TITO (FEARLESS FOUR) ,GRANDMASTER CAZ (COLD CRUSH
BROTHERS),
LINQUE (ISIS OF X CLAN), DANA DANE, PEBBLEE POO, JUST
ICE, AND SCRATCHES DONE BY MIX MASTER ICE (UTFO)!
90'S REMIX:
REDHEAD KINGPIN, ROB BASE, THE ORIGINAL SPINDERELLA
(SALT N PEPA), FATHER MC, MONIE LOVE, MIKE G (JUNGLE
BROS), EST ( 3X DOPE), POSITIVE K, DAS EFX, DO IT ALL
(LORDS OF THE UNDERGROUND), CHIP FU (FU-SCHNICKENS),
DRES (BLACK SHEEP) AND SCRATCHES BY MIX MASTER ICE (UTFO)!
WEST COAST REMIX:
(PRODUCED
AND ARRANGED BY DJ BOBCAT!)
BREEZE, KAM, KING TEE, CANDYMAN, THREAT, ICE T, SIR
MIX-A-LOT,
CONSCIOUS DAUGHTERS!
"15 Years On Death Row" (Koch) is one of
the hottest new compilations just released. It's Death
Row Records definitive collection featuring; 2 cd's, 1
dvd, 33 classic tracks, 24 music videos & classics from
2 Pac, Dr. Dre, Lady Of Rage &
Snoop Doggy Dogg to name a few. This is a must have
to your Hip-Hop collection. Hit up Sean from Koch
Records to get laced online at:
sean.rockcliffe@kochent.com..
Black History Month: BLACK people in the
PHILIPPINES:
by By Runoko Rashidi - courtesy of
playahata.com
Although
the great majority of the people of the
Philippines
are Tagalog, the country is not ethnically
homogeneous. In spite of their small numbers the
original inhabitants of the Philippines are the Agta
(diminutive Africoids), who still live there in some
numbers and are commonly and pejoratively called
Pygmies, Negritos and Aeta, and a
variety of other names based upon their specific locale.
In regards to phenotype, broadly speaking, the Agta can
be described as physically small and unusually short in
stature,dark-skinned, spiral-haired and broad-nosed.
They are an extremely ancient people and, I believe,
close
representatives of the world’s earliest modern humans.
Very similar groups of Black people in Asia reside in
relative small numbers in the Andaman Islands in the Bay
of Bengal in the Indian Ocean north of the Indonesian
island of Sumatra, and in northern Malaysia and southern
Thailand in Southeast Asia. In Thailand they are
commonly called
Sakai.
In Malaysia they have been called Orang Asli
(Original Man). Pejoratively they are known as Semang,
with the connotation of savage. It is very unfortunate
that the contributions of these small Black people to
monumental high-cultures characterized by urbanization,
metallurgy, agricultural science and scripts remain
essentially unexamined.
The presence of diminutive Africoids (whom
Chinese historians called “Black Dwarfs”) in early
southern China during the period of the Three Kingdoms
(ca. 250 C.E.) is recorded in the book of the Official
of the Liang Dynasty (502-556 C.E.). In Taiwan there are
recollections of a group of people now said to be
extinct called “Little Black Man.”
“They were described as short, dark-skinned people with
short curly hair….These people, presumably Negritos,
disappeared about 100 years ago. Their existence was
mentioned in many Chinese documents of the Ching Dynasty
concerning Taiwan.”
The Agta men amassed quite a reputation as warriors,and
although the accuracy of the report is somewhat
questionable, it is said that the Agta were “such
enemies to the Spaniards, that if they happen to kill
one, they invite all their kindred, and rejoice for
three days, drinking out of the skull, clear’d for that
purpose; by which means, they afterwards get wives the
easier, as being more courageous.”
Dr. Pedro A. Gagelonia, a Filipino scholar,
citing the commentaries of the European colonizers of
the Philippines regarding the Agta, wrote that:
“They were the aborigines of the Philippines, and for a
long time had been master of Luzon. At a time not very
far distant, when the Spaniards conquered the country,
the Aetas levied a kind of blackmail from the Tagalog
villages situated on the banks of the lake of Bay
(Laguna de Bay). At a fixed period they quitted their
forests, entered the village, and forced the inhabitants
to give them a certain quantity of rice and maize….After
the conquest of the Philippines by the Spaniards, the
latter took upon themselves the defense of the Tagalogs,
and the Aetas, terrified by their firearms, remained in
the forests, and did not
reappear among the Indians.”
THE ERUPTIONS OF
MT.
PINATUBO
The violent volcanic eruptions of Mt. Pinutabo in June
1991 were particularly devastating for the
Agta.Alternately ignored and discriminated against, many
Agta lived on the slopes of the long-dormant volcano
that is regarded as the center of their cosmology.
Forced down the mountain slopes by the eruptions,
numbers of Agta, who have historically relied on the
herbal medicines now buried under tons of mud and ash,
have perished from dreadful epidemics of measles,
diarrhea and pneumonia.
Our
dawg, Splif exits Def Jam. Splif will now
be concentrating his time with "got music?" & Memphis
Bleek who's gettin' ready to hit the road tour. If
you want to hit up Splif, please hit him up online at:
collegepromo@gmail.com or call: (917)
774-5532...
Seattle's, Mr. Supreme is finally back on the
radio again at X104.5FM. Supreme is gonna be
working on a mix cd for the NBA All Star weekend
in Vegas. He will also be dj'ing their official party
with DJ Whoo Kid. Supreme will be doing a
promotional Mix CD and 10K copies will be distributed
for FREE. Supreme is requesting drops from you & artists
on a MP3 file emailed to:
djsupreme@comcast.net. Here is the drop info:
"World
Class" DJ MR. Supreme - "FUCK ME I'M FAMOUS" NBA ALL
STAR WEEKEND JUMP OFF - the best from thest or Seatown
finest. They can do an alternate "clean" drop for the
radio saying X104.5 FM Seattle with DJ Mr. Supreme etc.
etc."...
Just
peeped out, Pinoy's Finest own, Mike Swift
and his dvd, "Get Jay-Z For Me!" This emcee truly
is workin' hard for his money. Straight outta the
Philippines & Brooklyn, NY this dvd shows Mike Swift &
his posse doin' what they do best in the Hip-Hop genre
as emcees! The dvd also offers 20K to anyone who can get
Mike Swift in the office one on one with Jay-Z! Mike
Swift does have skills & his time is gonna happen in the
U.S.! Stay tuned for more on the Pinoy's Finest!...
Today
the name Cung Le is one of the most famous names
in the Martial Arts Fight World as "... pound for pound
one of the most exciting fighters of all times (Dave
Carter, Inside Kung Fu)." Cung Le is
not only a three-time world champion who is in his
prime, he is also a dedicated father and role model to
millions. Cung Le has made a tremendous impact on
martial arts and continues to expand his arsenal of
tools with the addition of Jujitsu training. His
popularity as a fighter has brought San Shou Kung Fu
to the forefront of the fight world and is
catapulting Le into the main stream.
Imperia Entertainment, Inc.(Pink
Sheets:IPEI) President President James Hergott
announced that the he has cast undefeated MMA
fighter and three time world Kickboxing Champion Cung Le
in the role of villain, "Ricardo" in the world's
first MMA feature film, "Never Submit." "We are pleased
to have a star of Cung's caliber on the team. Cung has
won all of his MMA fights by KO or TKO in the first
round and is an exciting fighter and talented actor."
said Hergott . "I am very excited to be on board," aid
Cung Le"...
WANT
TO BE ON THE FOLLOWING CD ????
KEEPITCLASSIC.COM
-
UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP COMPILATION VOL. 8 "Spring 2007"
CO-HOSTED BY THE RAWKUS RECORDS ALL-STARS....THE
PROCUSSIONS, THE KIDZ IN THE HALL &
PANACEA
We
are now accepting submissions for Volume 8 of the
Mixtape.com/Keepitclassic.com Underground Hip-Hop
compilation CD Deadline is March 1st or Until CD is
filled.
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
*45
Second snippet or one verse of the song to be streamed
on Keepitclassic.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 Keepitclassic.com, and at various
hip-hop events.
*Each
artist on the CD will get 100 personal copies to give
out themselves. (Freestyle submissions only get 50
copies of the CD)
This
CD will be serviced digitally to all the
RapAttackLives.com reporters/DJ's who rep College Rap
Radio, Internet & Satellite Hip-Hop shows & exclusive
MixTape DJs
Once
we review and accept the track the artist submitted for
the CD. The artist must give us $200 which goes towards
the cost of pressing, promoting, & shipping the CD's.
This is a non-profit CD and none of the funds recieved
from the artists goes into our own pockets. Also, this
CD is not a Mixtape. It is a compilation Album and You
get everything listed above for your $200 donation
towards the CDs production.
If $200 is a little too high for you at the moment, we
are offering Freestyle spots on the CD for $100.
Freestyles must be under 2 minutes. We will not accept
any freestyle that clocks over 2 minutes. Freestyles
must be recorded professionally and you may use any beat
you like, but we recommend something that you produced
yourself. If you can, Mention Keepitclassic.com in the
freestyle you submit to us. And if we do not pick your
freestyle, do not take it personally, it only means that
it didn't fit our CD's format.
I recommend that artists go to Keepitclassic.com and
listen to snippets of the songs we have on our volume 7
CD, So they know the type of flavor we look for on our
CDs.
Email tracks to
info@keepitclassic.com
We have to approve your track before we accept your
payment.
Payments and tracks are due by March 1st 2007
Payments are accepted through paypal.com or money
order...
Already creating quite a buzz in the industry, the
single itself is Top 5 on the RapAttackLives.com
Top 30 chart as well as Top 10 on the RapNetwork
Top 30 chart. The provocative up-tempo track is
featured on the
Bronx's
DJ Technics’ influential "Da West Indeez"
Reggae mixtape (see this week' "Tales From The
Tapedeck" review).
Notables such as DJ Bobcat have had nothing but
praise for "Boom Di, Boom di." He says, "Skull is
incredible, he defines what Hip-Hop
culture is all about." Multiplatinum recording artist,
Mariah Carey adds, "The song is really hot." The
ringtone will be followed up by a full-length animated
video to be exploited in the mobile space. Skull is
currently writing with DJ Bobcat, Mike Cip and
collaborating with Mighty Mystic In addition, he has
recently been approached to perform at the World Peace
One concert, a charitable event on
August 11, 2007,
which will be broadcast from 12 countries to a projected
2.7 billion people worldwide.
You
can peep out Skull's MySpace profile at:
http://www.myspace.com/skullriddim...
Rap
Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:
John
"DJ DePen" McCarthy (WUSR-PA): "My
name is Dj DePen, and I’m a DJ and the Urban Director
at WUSR Scranton, the college radio station for the
University of Scranton. I’ve had a passion for
Underground Hip Hop for just under a decade. This is
only my first year as the Urban Director, and I’m
putting
the “dire” back in the title because we are in dire need
of more music. The station used spin monthly promo’s
from any flavor of the month mainstream artist. I helped
initiate a station-wide policy to eliminate a wide
majority of top 40 mainstream artists. But since I
dropped the guillotine on years of tracks, I’m in a need
of music.
Artists underground and independent that support a
positive movement for Hip-Hop I want to play; I need to
play. WUSR Scranton holds the main listening audience
for the
Scranton
area, and I would love nothing more but to give the
airwaves to the new artists.
My mailing address is:
WUSR 99.5 FM (Dj DePen)
c/o The
University
Of Scranton
800
Linden
St
Scranton,
PA 18510
I
encourage radio friendly music. If not, please indicate
what is dirty so I might clean albums up accordingly.
Also, if you want to send MP3’s my way, please e-mail
them to me at:
mccarthyj3@scranton.edu
To
contact me, you may e-mail me at the address at:
mccarthyj3@scranton.edu
You
can Instant Message me on AIM at “DePen The Adept” or
befriend me
www.myspace.com/depen
My office hours are from 12:45-2:45 pm (EST) where you
may reach me at (570) 941-7648 ex. 6 & simply leave me
a voicemail.
My
radio show broadcasts every Monday night, from
6-8pm
(EST) on the frequency 99.5 FM and it also streams live
through Real Player and Windows Media at:
www.wusrfm.com...
Dex
Digital
(KUCR-CA):
"Just wanted to update you with my correct address to
service vinyl & cd's to:
KUCR Radio attn: Dex Digital
691 W
Linden
Dr
Riverside,
CA 92507
Damian
"Mr
Groove" Rodriguez (KGNU-CO): "I’m so
sick of the snow in Colorado, one of the worst winters
ever. Its like they got us on national tv like a 3rd
world country. Next thing you know, we’ll be behind a
clear plexiglass as the tourists come by. Anyway, woes
of technology jacked me w/ my serato laptop taking a
dive. Not in the greatest of moods being without it for
3 weeks or so.
Ghetto highlight of the week #1:
Its always fun when I can get a photo to back up my
stories, cuz they’re all true. At a Mexican
bar/restaurant having a bite & they got a lil nastolgic
feel w/ nice old framed photos of famous people on the
walls. They also had a plaque telling people not to
steal them. Must have been a problem in the past. It
reads “if you like your pictures, PLEASE DON’T STEAL
THEM ask us & we will get copies for you.
Moral: You’re a ghetto bar owner when you put up
signs for people not to steal your stuff. Isn’t that a
given? Lemme put this sign on my car. Even better, put a
rolled joint next to it & say “please don’t steal this
joint, ask us to get one for you”. Anyway, I found it
funny"...
Solo
(WECI-IN):
" I am getting lost on what Hip-Hop music is now,
reality shows with wanna be's. The vaporating of vinyl.
getting wax now is like finding the original 680el. The
station is now finally online streaming, but to the
campus only for security reasons. After we pass an
inspection by the board... we will only then see if
Hip-Hop will be aired. Most people in this world think
of it as devil music or something. pass the haterade
around.haha....www.weciradio.org...
Anilast
aka
Stuart de la Rosa (KSMT-CO): "What’s good
homie? Hope all is well with you and the infamous crew
that you run with. For me I am always causing some type
of rawkus, take for example this week my job asked if I
would do them the pleasure of DJing the Father
Daughter/Dance this Friday. Two Hours of playing Kids
Bop Music for $250.00 didn’t sound two bad of a gig
since I only get $20.00 for a 2 hour radio show ($17
after taxes) and only $125.00 at clu($75 after I drink
some Cran and Gooses). Plus they feed me and hopefully
there will be some hot ladies dancing around to the
theme song of Shrek that I programmed into my Roland 404
(too bad I don’t have it on wax to cut it up)!! What
else could I ask for; soon I am going to be hustling
birthday parties and barmitzfas to make my dough happen.
Keeping it gangsta!! As always you know that I am down
for interviews and station drops to help keep my show
grimy and nasty along with all the good music that I
spin.
Hit
me off when you have some time and let a brother know. I
just wanted to let you know that I haven’t received
anything from anyone yet. I just got some random
packages one from Jamaica, Queens and another parcel
with Moe and Tre feat one of the young
bloodz in it. I just haven’t seen the artist that you
have on your emails. One random thing is when I was
digging in the crates for last week show I found an old
school mud kids album so I rocked it nicely on the show.
I hope I am not being impatient I just wanted to see
what the deally was. holla back when you can. Much love
and respect………..D.I.T.C for Life………&………Disney for
Life"...
Edgie
Kokoski
(WUNH-NH):
"Not that I have any room left in my apartment for more
of it, but 2007 might be the year that vinyl 12 inches
finally disappear from radio. I’m finding more and more
that I’m receiving servicing via MP3. Although I find
the format to be quick and convenient, I still pine for
those brown square boxes that used to arrive on my desk
in a seemingly inexhaustible flow. It’s pretty obvious
what artists/labels have to gain from MP3 servicing –
reduction of their budget. But I’m not sure they realize
the trade off. My station may be an anomaly, but at WUNH
we have built a breath taking musical library. Over the
past 30 years, we have collected the finest vinyl and
cds to have at our disposal. I can’t tell you how many
daytime and drive time spins I’ve garnered for hip hop
records by having a hard copy 12” or cd with full
artwork to leave in the stacks within our building.
Something about a generic CD-R full of MP3s just isn’t
eye-catching to the other DJs. I miss the Dirty,
Instrumental, and Acapella that I used to get. I miss
the b-side that is better that the a-side that I used to
get. I miss the production credits, and I miss knowing
who does that guest shot verse. It’s tough to talk about
the artist on the air when all you have to go on is
“YoungJackOff-CheckHowIBeatIt-Clean.mp3”. We don’t use
Serato, or any other MP3 based software for airplay. We
might be behind the times, but I’d rather be writing the
play list rather than having “Win amp” write it for me…
I’m
not sure if it was recorded specifically for the
commercial or not, but can you argue that the Juelz
Santana song in that basketball ad is the best thing
out of the Diplomats camp in a long time? (Author’s
note: Yes, I have “We Fly High” in my party crate too. A
hot hook does not constitute a well rounded recording).
Mind
blowing fact of the week: Reading XXL I
learned that Ghostface Killah has a 19 year old
son named “Sun God”. Wonder how he came up with
that name? And 19 years old? I don’t know how old
Ghostface really is, but if this kid’s really 19, I’m
betting that GFK must have been laying pipe when he was
12. God bless him!\ Okay, enough with the
mourning for Barbaro. I’m admittedly not an
animal lover, but it seems like people are grieving for
him more than Gerry Ford. He was a horse who
lived a very pampered and above average life. I’m pretty
sure he was satisfied. I don’t need him on every
newscast 24 hours a day. Let’s just turn him over to the
Elmer’s glue people and be done with
it"...
Dundee
(KBLA-CA):
"Please let the labels know that we are a cd only
station"...
Here
is our address for 2007 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: R.I.P.
this
week to: Shawn "Mic Lord"
Austin,
a personality on Hip-Hop station 103 Jamz, died
from unknown causes, according to local reports. Austin
was widely known as one-half of the Boodah Brothers,
a humorous on-air team at the Virginia radio station and
to Billy Henderson, a member of the smooth R&B
vocal group the Spinners, died last Friday of
complications from diabetes at a health care facility in
Daytona Beach, Florida. He was 67. Henderson was aboard
for the Spinners' '70s hit-making streak that began with
1972's "I'll Be Around" and continued through "Could It
Be I'm Falling in Love," "Then Came You" with Dionne
Warwick, "Mighty Love" and "The Rubberband Man"...
PEACE, LOVE & HIP-HOP UNITY (God Bless & Isa Mahal),
Nasty-Nes
http://www.myspace.com/nastynes
http://www.myspace.com/rapattacklives
(Pinoy
Pride4Life
/ John 3:16) |
