[[  November 16, 2009  ]]

What's Upper? 

I'm off to my hometown of Seattle to reunite with my original KCMU Rap Attack posse & with the original Mix-A-Lot posse as The Coolout Network films footage to their 2010's upcoming film featuring, "The History of Seattle Hip-Hop!" Should be lots of fun & I feel blessed...

RAP ATTACK will shut down for the Holiday season on December 9th (last day to report) & back on January 13, 2010 (1st day to report). Also debuting on Monday, January 18, 2010 our weekly Rap Attack Top 30 chart will now expand to a Top 40 chart. So our DJ's will now be able to chart & break 10 more Hip-Hop singles on their ALL NEW Rap Attack Top 40 chart!...
 

The Pride of the Philippines, Manny Pacquiao makes history!!! 7 World titles in 7 in 7 different weight divisions. The 1st time ever! Pacman scored a 12th round TKO over Cotto last Saturday night in Las Vegas...

In a surprising unanimous decision, three judges in Manchester, England gave Randy Couture a UFC 105 victory over Brandon Vera after a fight in which Vera did most of the effective stand up striking. Booooooooooooo...

John Allen Muhammad, the man known as the D.C. Sniper whose murderous shooting spree in the fall of 2002 left at least 10 dead, was executed at a Virginia state prison last Tuesday night...
 

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Peep out artist Arash in the ALL NEW, "Obama Does Thriller" video. Arash plays one of the zombies dancing with Pres Obama played by Alpha Cat. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgJ4Q70FBWU...

Rap Attack spoke with artist Soulstice & here's what's up straight from Soulstice's mouth, "Quick update to let you know that I'm going to be in a movie! Well, more accurately, my voice will be in a movie. Those of you in the film business know that the music in a movie is often one of the last things to be finalized. Many times they'll insert songs into the rough cut of a film as placeholders. These tend to be songs that would blow the music budget if they actually tried to license them for the film. OK, right to the punchline.

I have a song in an upcoming film "The Blind Side" with Sandra Bullock: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/

I was actually tapped to write a "thuggish" song for a scene in the movie where we get introduced to the hood that the main character is from. Or something like that, I haven't actually seen the movie at this point. So I hit my man Mighty Wyte for a beat and we turned a rough version of the song around in a day or two. The director really liked it and here we are. I love movies, so I'm very excited about this placement!

They asked for "street" on this one, so you'll get to hear me getting my 50 Cent on. The movie hits theaters on Nov. 20th. I'll hit you again closer to the date with the song, so you'll know what to listen for.
Peace!
SoulStice
www.thinkbeyondborders.com
www.youtube.com/chitownsoul
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A-Side Worldwide is proud to announce the official partnership of Crown Royale (Buff1 + DJ Rhettmatic) to the Bay Area's MYX Music Label. Look for the debut to be released early next year...

Roxanne Shante' is fighting breast cancer & all of us at RAP ATTACK wish her well & that she will fight that cancer & come out victorious. Roxanne Shante (Lolita Shante Gooden) is widely recognized as the first female Hip-Hop artist to break through the male dominated industry. At the age of 16, she became a household name with songs including "Roxanne's Revenge" an answer record responding to U.T.F.O.'s popular "Roxanne, Roxanne"...
 

Fans of Bruce Lee will be happy to know that the official Bruce Lee site is online at: www.BruceLee.com ...

MICHAEL JACKSON "This Is It" is Definitely Worth The Price of Admission by: Davey D

As was the case with his death, the haters coming from places like the NY Post or so-called music critic Chuck Arnold of People Magazine, simply could not wait to find an opportunity to spit their venom on Michael Jackson the King of Pop. Lucky for us all of us got to see the movie at the exact same time as his critics, thus the negativity they spit will be overshadowed because folks who sat along side them have a vastly different opinion of the movie ‘This Is It’ and have been able to express it. How does one go to a packed theater see, people clapping and dancing in the aisle and just feeling it and then go back and write some garbage about it was ghoulish??

The first thing I tell people is go see this movie is bring your kids. Michael is incredible . Yes, its rehearsal footage, but having covered concerts for the past 20 years from U2 to Public Enemy and everyone in between, I can honestly say what you see with Michael is better than 90% of the folks have graced the stage. If you’re an artist, I strongly urge you to go see this movie, bring pen and pad, check your ego at the door and take notes so you can learn the real meaning of the word ‘ENTERTAINMENT“.

If I’m to believe the stories about Michael Jackson being a drug addict, out of shape and out of wack, unless this movie has some new special effects I never seen, than MJ puts that to rest. I want whatever it is he’s has, because he comes with a skill set very few will ever reach-and again this is just rehearsal. You can tell he’s hasn’t brought the entire package not by a long shot. MJ is off the chain.

Several things stood out We know that his staff was working his young dancers day and night. They were doing everything from ballet to spending hours perfecting complicated and grueling routines. These men and women are half MJ’s age, but when they danced together, MJ who was supposedly on drugs was not only able to keep up, he surpassed them. Just to see how he did his routines is worth the 8 bucks. To see his incredible work ethic and desire for perfection is worth the 8 bucks. Just to see how he was dedicated to bringing entertainment to his fans is reason enough for anyone who is an artist from any genre or discipline to pay the price of admission. If you’re an artist this film is required viewing.

It’s ironic that I saw the BET Hip Hop Awards just before seeing this movie. I gotta tell ya its gonna be hard to go back and see Gucci man or Souljah Boy hit the stage after seeing MJ.. It’s not so much that he spent money on his stage sets, it’s the perfection he demanded of himself and the people around him. It’s the precision in his dance moves. It’s him knowing every note and lyric to his songs. It’s him unwilling to come up short in his executions. You really come to appreciate good artistry and might find yourself getting annoyed and upset the next time you see someone do a half baked bullshit show.

What also stood out was the staging and sets he was going to unveil in concert. Wow. The way he flips Smooth Criminal, Thriller and my favorite Earth Song are breath-taking. In fact the Earth Song scene is something that President Obama and his fellow politicians who are hedging on getting a comprehensive impactful Climate Change bill, should see. Michael hits a home run with that and actually speaks to the issue in the film. He talks about the direction we are headed where we may do irreversible damage.

The film has a lot of bright moments. As I was watching it, I couldn’t help think about how Michael had saved and eventually transformed the music industry. His creativity especially when it came to videos saved the music industry. After seeing this film, I think many will use his film as a template and follow suit. Yes, we’ve had movies of band concert footage and their backstage rehearsals, but they pale in comparison to Michael Jackson. He raised the bar on this one. if the movie does well, I’m willing to bet that we will see the music industry rush to do similar films with other performers…

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WHAT'S BLAZIN' WITH BLAZE WONG? by: BLAZE WONG:

Goooo Pacquiao!!!! The fight this past weekend has been much anticipated! The power of the net and streaming capabilities sure beat spending a few dollars heading into Manhattan to watch it! To see this guy come from nothing all the way to the fight witnessed over the weekend is phenomenal! I hope his story from humble beginnings inspires us all!

For this week's "Triple Freshness", I bring you nothing but lumpias all around:
1. Skyzoo "Popularity" (Jamla/Duck Down)
2. Timbaland f. SoShy and Nelly Furtado "Morning After Dark" (Interscope)
3. Pete Rock f. E'Villz "Rapper's Jail"

The above are available for download at www.1200squad.com and always remember, "The DJ is The Cornerstone of Hip-Hop"! Please feel free to hit me up with anything.

Blaze Wong

Cornerstone Promotion / National Manager of Urban Promotion

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

Vernassa Fields (Spyn Cycal): "Spyn Cycal will be merging with an organization that I founded called "A Penny For Your Thoughts: Military Mental Health Initiative... Everything will remain the same except the website.

Spyn Cycal Raydio will still be up, and play lists will still be coming in, but this time the music will be for a much greater purpose.
This is a project that I have been sitting on for about 4 years out of fear, but I finally got the courage to follow through with it.

I am planing big things for the music as it pertains to this project. Music has been my life since I was a child, and now I have a chance to utilize my passion for music in such a way as to provide our servicemen and women with what they need to continue to serve this country long after their military service is completed...
Below is a page with more info: http://spyncycal.com/apennyforyourthoughts/apennyforyourthoughts.html...

 

Nesto (WODU-VA): "What's up people? We are getting close to the most excellent holidays of the year, at least for me. I’m a big fan of Thanksgiving. There’s nothing like good food, family and friends, and time to relax and catch some sleep… oh yeah, and Turkey Day football. I will be watching the games on a new LCD TV this year. The old TV finally died, thanks to the movers dropping it when we moved last year, so I have to get a new one now. Any recommendations on what LCD TV to get?"...

DJ Chill Will (WCBN-MI): "What's Up Doe? I'm still buzzin from the Hip Hop show Monday night at the Blind Pig. Which feature Ghostface, Skyzoo, One Be Lo(Binary Star, One Man Army), and yours truly rockin the stage. It was also a historic night for Michigan Hip Hop cause I got to rock the tables during One Be Lo's set. Which is something no one ever thought would happen. But we killed it!!!! Then Skyzoo(with Torae and DJ Reg West) who's album is Fire!!! Put it down and if your on the West Coast check dude out cause he's spittin flames. Then Ghostface came and had the standing room only crowd rocking from beginning to end. With all the classics and joint from the new album. I hope all these young MC's in the house took notes on how to rock a crowd. For more information about me DJ Chill Will go to www.myspace.com/djchillwill734...
 

DJ Luicidal (KSJS-CA): "I had Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 stop by my show on Friday and caught his performance at the Voodoo Lounge in San Jose, it was a cool turnout, Chali came raw with the flow. Seems as if the weeks are flying by and the holidays are approaching. I'm looking out for good music trying to give a lot of talented artists some spins and rotation love. As always feel free to hit me up for inquiries, submissions, and tracking"...

Wonder Twinz (SIRIUS) - BLOG from The Middle East: "USO TOUR 2009 DAY THREE" :"The days just get better and better out here in the desert. I wonder if we’re the only group of guys out here that don’t want to leave just yet. We’re only a few days in and I’ve already lost track of what day it is. 

Today was a short day and I finally got some much-needed rest last night. Granted, I did stay up until 6am writing my blog and watching CNN, we didn’t have to check out of our hotel until 6pm, so I was good-to-go today. We all piled onto the bus and drove about an hour out into the desert to an airfield where we eventually boarded our luxury airliner, but first we stopped into the M.W.R. (Morale, Welfare & Recreation) building on base and looked around for a bit. The M.W.R. is a rec room where soldiers can go play pool, watch TV, play video games, buy bootleg DVDs, sneakers, snacks and listen to music through the jukebox. These soldiers need a place where they can unwind and relax. Needless to say, they were happy to see all of us and by the time that we left that MWR, they were playing HipHop Hooray and O.P.P. They were even selling Treach’s latest masterpiece “Art of War 3” on DVD. We all got a kick out of that. From sneakers to snickers they sell it all on these military bases. They even have local fast food chains from back home, like Subway, Baskin Robbins and even Starbucks. I bought my sister a collector’s mug and kept it movin’.

We headed outside to the trucks where they were handing out our stylish, yet not-so-comfortable bulletproof vests and helmets. I strapped my vest and helmet on and let me tell you, these things are H-E-A-V-Y and feel like they could stop a tank. Although I wont be testing that theory out. Treach, of course, takes this opportunity to whack the top of my helmet to make sure it works. And it does. There’s a certain camaraderie that builds between guys when you’re stuck with each other for a certain period of time. Put that same group together in the middle of the desert and you start to become like a family. As the youngest in the group, I‘ve become the little brother or nephew and Treach is that uncle that loves to poke fun at the youngsters. I’m cool with it, cause I get my fair share of jokes in there too. After the fun and games are over, which they never fully are, they escort us out onto the runway where a huge C-130 military plane is waiting for us. We board the aircraft up a giant ramp in the back of the plane. As the only passengers on this flight, we take our first class seats and strap on our seatbelts. The soldiers then load on two pallets full of gear behind us and the ramp rises up and closes us inside. We feel like kids playing with our giant army toys in the sandbox. We all start joking around and taking pictures, Skribble starts off the flight by asking what our in-flight movie is and the lack of flight attendants, windows or even normal seats pretty much answers that question. These military planes are bare metal top to bottom and we’re sitting on net seats. We get some brief safety instructions along with the location of our puke bags (just in case) and we’re off. Once they manage to get this humongous steel monster in the air, they invite us, one by one, to join the pilots in the cockpit for courtside seats of the flight. You can’t see much in the pitch-black cockpit except for the Christmas tree of lights, gauges and switches that just keep blinking and flashing and flashing and blinking. Once I’m up there, I realize that these guys are busting their asses up there to get us to our location safely, silently and undetected. There are 5 guys in the cockpit, each doing their own job. They hand me a helmet with night vision goggles and suddenly the whole world is visible in neon green. I’ve never felt so close to the real-deal and I have a feeling this ain’t even the realest part of the trip yet. It’s amazing to look out the front windshield of an airplane; its even more amazing when you need night vision goggles to do it. What a breath-taking moment that was. No autopilot on this bad boy. When I was a kid, my pops use to let me drive the car once in a while but I didn’t have the balls to ask these guys if I could give it a swing. I just took off my goggles, shook their hands, told them I’m proud of them and returned my ass to my seat where it belongs.

 About 30 minutes later, we’re told to strap in for landing. The exterior lights on the plane all go to black, the interior lights switch from white to green and suddenly it feels like the opening scene from “The Predator”. As a kid who played with army men when I was young, this is beyond surreal. I actually wanted to clip on to the cable along the ceiling and parachute out, but for some reason, they said no and Treach just whacked the side of my helmet… again. These military flights don’t exactly come down all slow and mellow like a regular flight, instead they just kinda drop out of the sky and land quick, real quick. Your stomach sits somewhere right around your throat and it stays there until you touch down, which believe it or not, was a softer landing than most of my flights into JFK. They unload the cargo and we step off, like a rugged platoon of DJs and MCs. Gangster!!

 We’re escorted onto the base and sign-in at the front desk. After meeting the Mayor of the base we head directly to the D-FAC (“Dining Facility” for those who missed yesterday’s acronym lesson). We eat our dinner, and are escorted to our trailers where we drop our bags and go to the M.W.R. to see the venue for tomorrow’s show. It’s salsa night at the M.W.R. and there’s a bunch of soldiers who are burnin’ up a Latin storm on the dance floor. Across the hall is a state-of-the-art weight room, full basketball court, pool tables, TV room, Internet stations and a ton of other recreational things for the troops to do in their off time.

After we managed to pry Scribble’s boy, Johnny Shine, out of the salsa room, we headed back to our C.H.U.’s (Containerized Housing Units) to get some sleep. I’m bunking with D-Square, who’s inside sleeping right now. Sitting outside my C.H.U. in the desert as I type this, it’s a clear night with more stars than I’ve ever seen. I can hear the military K-9’s barking and helicopters in the distance. Soldiers are walking past with their M-4 assault rifles ready to start their assignments for the day and I’m typing away in my socks, trying hard not to look like a tourist.

 All in all… today topped yesterday and yesterday topped the day before. Like I keep saying, I can’t wait to see what we’re gonna do tomorrow. I know we have two shows to do and I’m sure they are gonna show us some interesting stuff along the way.

For now, I’m gonna smoke my last cigarette and enjoy the peace and quiet of this moment. Tell my girl I love her, and tell my mom I’ll be home real soon. Wow… I feel like a soldier writing letters back home.

 Peace from the Middle East. (HA!… I’ve always wanted to be able to say that.)-Twin aka Vader / The Wonder TwinZ / Naughty By Nature"...

Kevin Sakoda (KSPC-CA): "Hope everyone's doing well. If you're not in the LA-area, you can catch the show live (via iTunes) every Saturday, 5-7PM (west-coast time): http://www.kspc.org/popup.html  You can also find archived playlists and download links 24/7: http://blogs.myspace.com/kevsakoda   Enjoy!

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SHOUT OUT TIZIME: Happy Birthday this week to DJ Addition (Mixtape-Boston & NH) celebrating this Wednesday, November 18th & to Ahsan The Golden Child (WRSU-NJ) celebrating this Sunday, November 18... Georgio, Kitty Wu, Mike Clark & Alonzo Ybarra!!!

PEACE, LOVE & HIP-HOP UNITY (God Bless & Isa Mahal),

Nasty-Nes

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