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A NASTY FLASHBACK
(l-r): DJ
Kazzeo (KHDC-CA), Nasty-Nes &
DJ 3rd Rail (WNUR-Chicago) |
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[[ February 25, 2008 ]] |
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What's
Upper?
Thanks to BLAHZAY & GUSMO for taking time
out with us on last Thursdays' RAP ATTACK
CONFERENCE CALL & for sharing his experience
from his days in the 90's to now. For drops & interviews
hit up Gusmo at:
gusmo481@aol.com. Thank you to MIGHTY
MYSTIC as well who's new joint "Revolution" will be
serviced to our panel this week!...
As an
extension of
RapAttackLives.com I want to introduce to
you:
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RTBO is a site devoted to the real Hip-Hop heads
into the Underground and Independent Hip-Hop releases
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use this site to get the music you want & to be the
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TVT
Records
has
filed for Chapter 11 giving their artists and staff the
green light to pursue other endeavors. As staff members
sent out final emails yesterday - with more expected to
come, artists such as Yo Gotti, Teedra Moses,
Lil' Jon, Pitbull and more are reportedly
now free agents. Jon, who is readying his release "Crunk
Rock", is especially sure to ignite a bidding war for
his next label home.
Rappers & Hip Hop Songs Targeting Presidential Elections
By Davey D
With
Obamania sweeping the country, people are buzzing about
"Yes We Can," the song and video by Black Eyed
Peas front man will.i.am.
It cleverly pieces together excerpts from Barack Obama's
speeches, with artists and celebrities such as John
Legend, Common, Kate Walsh, Nicole
Scherzinger, Herbie Hancock, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar and Scarlett Johansson repeating
the senator's words and phrases. The main hook is the
Obama catch phrase "Yes We Can."
Will.i.am said he was inspired to do the project by the
speech Obama made just after losing the
New
Hampshire
primary. I was present for that incredible oration,
which made the crowd feel as if he actually had won. The
will.i.am song is now displayed on the Obama campaign
Web site.
"Yes We Can" has prompted a lot of comments about a
rapper finally making a song for a presidential
candidate. But while "Yes We Can" is nice, it was by no
means the first.
During the current contest, Common, among others,
has expressed his support for Obama in song lyrics, most
notabaly in his hit song 'The People'.
In the Bay Area, D'Labrie, of the national
grass-roots Hip Hop Congress, and Kev Choice, the
Oakland-based keyboard phenom and rapper, have recorded
political songs. D'Labrie's is a remake of Mims'
smash hit, "This Is Why I'm Hot," from last
summer. D'Labrie replaced the title phrase with "Vote
for Barack." On Super Tuesday, CNN played it in the
background while going over the voting stats.
Kev Choice reworked the Sam Cooke classic "A
Change Is Gonna Come," skillfully weaving in
excerpts from Obama speeches with his own raps and a
sampled chorus.
In earlier campaigns, numerous rappers got involved. In
2004, for example, Rappin' 4Tay teamed with
Ohio
candidate Dennis Kucinich, using excerpts from a
Kucinich speech to record "Weapons of Mass
Distraction."
In addition to Ak-9ine, Slam Bush featured artists like
Verbal Tech 'Dear Mr President', Wyclef
Jean 'If I Were President', Azeem 'George
Bush is a Gangsta', J Boogie, Zion I & Deuce
Eclipse 'You're a Murdera', Jadakiss w/
2Pac 'Why' rmx, The Perceptionists 'Memorial
Day', Vanessa German 'Thank You'
Saigon 'Shok TV', Channel Live 'Dear Mr
President' Immortal Technique 'Cause of
Death' and Wordsworth 'Slam Bush'
which also had an accompanying video, just to name a
few.
In the summer of 1992,
Paris
unveiled his infamous "Bush Killa," premiering
the song before an audience of 22,000 at the KMEL Summer
Jam. The Bay Area artist had hoped to put out a recorded
version in time to influence that year's election and
derail George H.W. Bush. But because of pressure
exerted on his record label, the disc wasn't released
until after the November election. Paris later received
a visit from the Secret Service who had some questions
about the content of the song. Paris went on record to
note that 'Bush Killer' which opens up depicting him
assassinating Bush was only a 'revenge fantasy'.
Paris'
attempt to aggressively use his fan base to influence an
election was on many levels in the same vein as a
campaign his then label mates and fellow Bay Area
rappers Digital Underground had been involved in
two years prior.
After two people got stabbed at an under staffed KRS-One
concert, the Berkeley City council put a moratorium on
rap shows which was soon followed up by the city of
Oakland. DU members along with other local rap artists
came out to a contentious city council meeting. Group
members promised that if the moratorium was not lifted
that they would go back and record song advocating for
fans to vote people out of office.
"We have over a million people doing the Humpty Dance,
don't make us come out and record a song and get a
million people to vote you out of office", were the
parting words announced by group member and road manager
Sleuth Pro toward the end of that contentious
city council meeting. The rap ban was lifted with city
council members stating that they would've done so
without the political threat put forth by the group.
At a February 1995 press conference in Southern
California with Snoop Dogg, MC Hammer and
others, Tupac Shakur promised to unite fellow
artists and their fans and create a voting bloc that
would upset every national election until politicians
became more accountable to the community. Sadly, he was
killed a few months later.
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back in 1984, when the Rev. Jesse Jackson became
the second African-American to make a serious bid for
the presidency, (Shirley Chisolm was the first) he
bolstered his credentials by privately visiting Syria to
help secure the release of a hostage, Navy Lt. Robert
O. Goodman. Against all odds, Jackson succeeded, and
even President Reagan was forced to acknowledge his
achievement. Mele Mel, lead rapper of
Grandmaster Flash, immortalized what Jackson had
done in the song "Jesse."
It wasn't until much later, however, during an interview
with Jackson, that I learned the former candidate didn't
even hear Mele Mel's song until years after it was
recorded, so it never played an official role in his
campaign. Today, it seems hard to believe that the man
at the pinnacle of the civil rights movement didn't
cross paths with the band at the top of the hip-hop
world.
As was mentioned earlier, over the years there have been
a number of Hip Hop artists who have done songs aimed at
the president during election time. In 04 we saw artists
like Eminem ('Mosh') , Channel Live ('Mr
President'), and famed San Jose producer Fredwreck
who gathered together top recording artists like;
Mobb Deep, KRS-One, Cypress Hill,
tha Dogg Pound and Westside Connection among
others to do a sstinging song called 'Dear Mr
President'. The jury is still out as to what sort of
impact these songs have had or can have.
Interestingly, Obama has not only embraced some of the
songs written about him but has reached out to certain
groups, notably the Roots. Questlove will soon do
fund-raising events for Obama.
By contrast, the Hip-Hop supporters of Hillary Clinton,
who include Timbaland, 50 Cent and Lupe
Fiasco, have yet to create songs for her campaign.
The
Yay Area's got some HEAT about to drop to our RAP
ATTACK DJ's by the name of J. Banks with
"Touch It" (Blacnote Records). Meantime you can
peep him out at:
www.myspace.com/jabankston...
Comin'
outta Queens, NY is One Pham about to drop two
jewels on our RAP ATTACK panel with "Hustlin'" &
"Cash Cow" (FaSho Records). "Hustlin'" is already
blowin' up with some serious downloads at
DigiWaxx.com. Shipping this week...
Cassidy
aka
Young Church has a new song on DJ Jam's
mixtape "DJ JAM presents THE HOT SPOT Vol. 3" "Party
On" - MISTAH F.A.B. feat.
SNOOP
DOGG
&
YOUNG
CHURCH.
This joint just came out & the DVD mixtape drops in
March. Stay tuned...
WANT TO BE ON THE FOLLOWING CD ???? KEEPITCLASSIC.COM -
UNDERGROUND HIP-HOP COMPILATION
VOL. 12 "SPRING 2008"
We are now accepting submissions for Volume 12 of the
Mixtape.com/Keepitclassic.com Underground Hip-Hop
compilation CD Deadline is February 29th 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
*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)
*45 second snippet of your song will stream on
Keepitclassic.com
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 120 Second spots on the CD for $100.
Email tracks to
info@keepitclassic.com
We have to approve your track before we accept your
payment.
Payments and tracks are due by February 29th 2008
Payments are accepted through paypal.com or money order.
THE CD WILL FEATURE ON KEEPITCLASSIC.COM MID-MARCH
THROUGH MAY
THE CD WILL ALSO BE GIVEN AWAY WITH ALL ORDERS PLACED ON
KEEPITCLASSIC.COM
Here is the tracklist for the current CD, Volume 11
KEEPITCLASSIC.COM
UNDERGROUND HIP HOP COMPILATION VOL. 11
WINTER 2008 : CO-HOSTED BY EL DA SENSEI & EMC'S
WORDSWORTH, PUNCHLINE & STRICKLIN
1. El Da Sensei Intro
2. Get It In - El Da Sensei
3. Keep It Classic - The DeadBeats Writers Lab
4. El Da Sensei Drop
5. Live N Effect - Blak Philly
6. Hurting - Problemaddicts feat. Masta Ace
7. El Da Sensei Drop
8. Staring @ the Sun - Ichiban
9. Punchline Intro
10. Git Some -
EMC
feat. Sean Price
11. Finger Cramps - Dawhud
12. Punchline Drop
13. Voices - ManeLine
14. Who's Next?! - Basement Addicts (Dawhud, Ak-rite,
Fash 1 & Just Be)
15. Punchline Drop
16. Robbing The Industry - Blak Philly
17. Road To The Top - L.O.R.D. feat. Karla Amador
18. Wordsworth Drop
19. Pushover - ManeLine feat. Deca
20.
Nine Eleven
- Internal Affairs feat Khalid
Nile
(L.V.B.)
21. Wordsworth Drop
22. Power and Pride - A.V.I.U.S. of 3 Tha Hardway
23. Live From The Kingdom - Mr. FP
24. Stricklin Drop
25. Fadeaways - Irregular feat. Ekspan
26. Out My Mind - Blak Philly
27. Stricklin Drop
Audrey Guenver
is
back at Warner Bros Records in their Urban
Promotions Dept.(see photo above). DJ's make sure
you hit her up & give her a warm welcome back at:
818.953.3324 office
626.731.4786 cell
AIM:
LuvmuffinL
TMAIL:
amguenver@tmail.com
www.myspace.com/imflossin...
Log
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"FAVORITES" & Flashback with me with music I grew up to
& played on the Seattle radio airwaves when it was brand
new! It's a visual musical journey BACK, wayyyy back,
BACK into time with: The Spinners, Run
DMC,
The Jackson 5, The Treacherous 3, Eric B. & Rakim,
Millie "YeS" Vanillie, Stylistics, Blondie, BDP, U.T.F.O.,
Shalimar, Rick James, Musical Youth, Debarge, New Kids
On The Block, New Edition, Del The Funky Homosapien,
Jimi Hendryx, JJ Fad, Flavor Flav, Nu Shooz, Queen
Latifah, Soul Sonic Force, Lisa Lisa & The Cult Jam, The
Cover Girls, The Jacksons, Paul Hardcastle, Nice &
Smooth, The Dazz Band, K-9 Posse, Hall & Oates, Midnight
Star, Rocky, Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, Angela Mao Ying aka
Lady Kung-Fu, Muhammad Ali
to
name a few
AND
Flashback 20 plus years with yours truly by going down
Hip-Hop history lane with me & Sir Mix-A-Lot
(Posse On Broadway, Beepers videos & more), Nastymix
Records (Kid Sensation, High Performance
videos & more), My 1978 Buick Regal Lowrider
days!!! and video footage from my cameos in "House Party
4," "Kung Pow! Enter The Fist" and more! Log on
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ENJOY at:
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BLUE
SCHOLARS TOUR DATES WITH HIEROGLYPHICS!!!!
FEB.26.2008
Blue Scholars
Sandbar Vail
2161 North Frontge Road
Vail, CO 0
9:00 PM :: 21+ :: $18/20
with: Hieroglyphics
FEB.27.2008
Blue Scholars
Sherpa and Yeti's
320 South Main Street
Breckenridge, CO 80424
9:00 PM :: 21+ :: $18/20
with: Hieroglyphics
FEB.28.2008
Blue Scholars
Aggie Theatre
204 South College Ave.
Ft. Collins, CO 80524
8:00 PM :: All :: $15
with: Hieroglyphics,
MARCH.1.2008
Blue Scholars
Middlebury College
McCullough Student Center Social Space
Middlebury, VT 5753
All Ages :: $5
MARCH.8.2008
Blue Scholars
Oberlin College
Dionysus Night Club
Oberlin, OH 0
18+ :: $5
APRIL.5.2008
Blue Scholars
Grinnell College
Gardner Lounge
Director of the Forum
Grinnell, IA 50112
8:00 PM :: All Ages
Rap
Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:
Jason-D (RadioBoise.org):
"Big ups to Nasty Nes for the B-Day
shout in last week's edition of Rap Attack Lives.
Last Thursday I celebrated one more year on the planet
and quickly approach my 19th year on college / community
radio. Thanks to everyone who supports me with new music
every week. Rest In Peace Big L!"...
Nesto
(WODU-VA): "Is
it just me, or is there less and less stuff be serviced
lately? I got a piece of wax in the mail last week and
it was the first time in about a solid month. All
servicing now comes in the form of MP3s. I have gotten
some CDs too, but that "old trusty vinyl" is almost gone
from servicing. That's a shame too. I can see the
business side of it for labels, both major and indie,
but that's a form of media that has been around longer
then anyone of use has been around and to see it go out
like that kind of hurts. It's like I read this past
week, it's been knocked down to a collectors item, and
not really a working media form anymore. But we as DJs
really can't dwell on that too hard right, we have to
stay up on technology right? Big up to 3rd Rail
for staying true to the vinyl"...
Edgie Kokoski (WUNH-NH): "I
don't know if you've had a chance to watch the trailer
for Indiana Jones 4, but I assure you that it is
the most excited I've been about a film since "The
Departed". Harry Ford doesn't appear to have aged
a day, although in the trailer he is hauling around an
urn labeled "Sean Connery".
Speaking of anticipated, I've got about (5) leaked
tracks from the new AZ album, and they have got
me super-hyped for the album. I'm already getting ready
to consider contemplating pondering a decision to
predict this as one of the best underground albums of
2008.
I read today that Smirnoff is putting together a
compilation CD that mixes [get it, clever play on words
;)] older artists with today's hottest producers. So
far, KRS-ONE,
Common and Q-Tip are set to collaborate
with DJ Premier, Just Blaze and Cool &
Dre to remix some of the emcee's classic cuts.
Here's an idea way out of left field: how about they
just make a new record? Why do I want to hear a song
that has already been deemed "classic" redone? How about
just hearing a new KRS verse over a new Primo beat?
That's what we really need right now. Lesson for today:
sometimes the simplest solution is the most obvious.
Remixing classic records is as unnecessary as voting for
Ron Paul. He's got it locked up with his 4%"...
Savvy (KSJS-San Jose): "Peace
to MC Lyte for calling in and giving an awesome
interview. She's a legend and inspiration on so many
levels and it was a true honor to have her be a part of
the show. We touched on the involvement of women in
Hip-Hop, the direction of where Hip-Hop music going
today, and also the different organizations she is
involved with ( Make sure to check out Hip Hop
Sisters on Myspace). Most importantly, her
new project "Beautiful" with Almost September #1
on my charts. MC Lyte briefly mentioned a new album to
soon be released, "Back to Lyte."
Chicago's 3rd Rail (WNUR), AJ Woodson
(TheBestJams.com), Chill Will (WCBN-MI)
& DJ Frresh (KPSU-Portland) all have
shared the experience of interviewing this legendary
icon on their show. So keep your eyes for the LYTE and
ears open yall'! Peace"...
Here
is our address for 2008 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
nastynes1@aol.com
Attn
MySpace heads! If you haven't joined our
exclusive RAP ATTACK page on MySpace, log
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SHOUT
OUT TIZIME: Happy
Birthday this week to Rick Betemit from Atlantic
Records celebrating this Wednesday, February 27th...
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) |
