One of the reason for this blog is sourcing all kinds of social/conscious/goodness from any corner of the planet, this can be old or new and will warrant a presentation on this channel. The Niyat a hip hop collective, fall into this mould and on research discovering bits of information here and there, hip hop veterans! [...]
March 2, 2010
Ain’t done a supposed one can DJ [in dreams] In the Mix for a long time, well amendment in order. Just could not curtail all this good and fresh music down the way in a few quality releases, from brothers in Ian Kamau (poet & music artist) – “September Nine Vol.3 – Love & Other Struggles” [...]
February 27, 2010
The sister’s installment beckons and from across the Atlantic by way of Brooklyn, New York is femcee Bless Roxwell. A lady’s music is all inspiring, self and women empowerment and we like positive and social commentary down this diary channel. Here is a sister femcee to look out and considering what she stand for especially from [...]
February 18, 2010
Hip hop is international a standard fare of free expression in a constructive manner be it musically Jay Electronica [on tour in the UK] comes to mind. Internationally known and locally accepted is Chinese hip hop pioneer and graffiti artist MC Yan, a multi-lingual emcee/revolutionist who, word plays his social/political commentary lyrics in the local dialect [...]
February 17, 2010
The Far East we go, Nippon [Japan "Land of the Rising Sun"] being precise, with some contemporary smooth sounds by Laidbook. Japanese musicians make soulful jazzy/hip hop like whoa! for instance that DJ Mitsu on the Promise In Love joint, simply classy. Laidbook are a quartet of artists with Mabanua playing drums, Shingo Suzuki on bass, Yukihiro [...]
February 16, 2010
Senegal with AURA commenced it and now to the rainbow nation, South Africa. Tumi and the Volume, a South African hip hop & music collective [4 in a band] are an organic live band lacing poetic and socio-political lyrics. Nailed these brothers down sometime ago virtually mind, as future and feature post artists for the blog [...]
February 10, 2010
Rest In Peace James Yancey aka J. Dilla prior to Slum Village and beyond, the music lives on in many a people and one the best musicians to ever to it. Picture by Westwardo and a favourite track “Nothing Like This“.. Have a butcher’s.. J Dilla – “Nothing Like This” from the album “Chrome Children”
February 7, 2010
This is from a brother emcee, activist and entrepreneur [LYRICS Inc. (Leading Young Rappers in Career Success)] Jasiri X whom we featured at the tail end of 2009. Jasiri X performs in this statement video and track named ‘Ballers & Rappers‘ featuring the President of the United States of America Barrack Obama, now that is one [...]
February 6, 2010
As mentioned earlier this month here is the follow up article of independent hip hop duo Guardian of the Ancient Wisdom [Gotaw] who recently released a rendition for free entitled ‘Psychoanalysis (the Stan Gooch edition)‘ of which needed some audio surgery for a couple, not bad from London based artists a brother & sister DanDNA [...]
February 3, 2010
A brother emcee/activist Lowkey on a laid back re-imagining of the classic love song by British singer/songwriter Paul Weller “You Do Something To Me” from his album release of 1999 “Stanley Road“. On this track entitled “Something Wonderful” off the forthcoming Soundtrack To The Struggle album, Lowkey pays tribute to the women of the world with reflective and thoughtful lyrics on [...]
February 1, 2010
Fresh month in, fresh day, we here still and grateful let’s go. On the UK music front, with this independent hip hop duo Guardian of the Ancient Wisdom [GOTAW - DanDNA & Blahvatski], that name only makes one stand attention and lets hear what their minds, thought provokes, a brit conscious.. Enough said for now on Guardian of the [...]
January 30, 2010
This Electronic Press Kit [EPK] of UK poet/emcee TY, he talks about the pending 4th album “Special Kind Of Fool” obviously [laughing out loud], again a brother speaks on his trials & tribulations in the past, being signed from Big Dada to another quality music stable BBE Music rethinking music, what we can expect [...]
January 25, 2010
Yes I know… late on this, a brother Jay Electronica, first heard of the emcee and producer on the Gilles Peterson show two years ago and the aftermath, mind shut.. on Jay for awhile… Huh? Recently, slicing and dicing the putmeonit blog, saw the snippet video for Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit A” prior, I was murking [London [...]
January 22, 2010
A brother Oddisee is at it again with freshness and quality in his seasonal installments of free EP’s,”Odd Summer” and “Odd Autumn” come to mind. And obviously many like someone here ahem! where biting nails in frustration, well not literally [calm down dear, laughing out loud] for the winter episode and here we are with Oddisee’s [...]
January 20, 2010
Courtesy DJ Gone got this quality simplistic thought provoking laid back jam and video by UK emcee Ramson Badbonez on the ascendancy and garnering acclaim. A brother Ramson Badbonez waxing lyrical social commentary is a tell tale of the “Hood” and if one pays attention to the words, poignant lines on a beat infectious! Its amazing how [...]
March 4, 2010