Performance
3D Na’Tee | What We Do T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #010 (Video)
September 24, 2018
RAW! One of the best freestyling beats to rip over. When Na’Tee touched that Freeway beat with this rhyme though… What she do is RIGHT! It can’t get no righter #WordToChrisTuckerMF
And LOOK: He gave her the cosign to do this joint!!!
– @ojones1
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Chip – “Fire In The Booth†(4th Freestyle) [Video]
September 21, 2018
Been keeping an eye on the ‘Fire In The Booth’ freestyles since Drake blessed that. Looks like Charlie Sloth got more fire, more fire, mo’ fi-yaaah! Apparently, this is far from the first time that Chip has been there. Shows. This one’s pretty dope.
Chip’s 4th Fire in the Booth with Charlie Sloth on Radio 1 & 1Xtra.
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 1Xtra, BBC, BBC 1Xtra, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, Charlie Sloth, Chip, Chipmunk, Fire In The Booth, Jahmaal Fyffe, Radio 1 | No Comments »
Jay Electronica x Yasiin Bey – “Exhibit A” (Remix) [Live Performance] (Video)
September 20, 2018
If you are a true Hip-Hop head, to say Jay Electronica and Yasiin Bey performed together is enough. So that’s all we’re saying. In case you are not [yet] a head… go ask someone who is to join you as you watch this.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: All Grind Entertainment, Exhibit A, Exhibit A Remix, Jay Electronica, mos def, Sony Hall, Yasiin Bey | No Comments »
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Smif N Wessun (Video)
September 18, 2018
Not like they don’t belong on this forum. They do. Just did not expect to see them featured in their own Tiny Desk Concert. Very glad Smif-N-Wessun are though!
Brooklyn-bred Hip-Hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser. Their music, inspired by their gritty and pre-gentrified Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville neighborhoods, offers the vocabulary of veterans who survived the grimy streets. These original members of the Duck Down Records group Boot Camp Clik represent quintessential ’90s true-school Hip-Hop from the bedrock, when Timberland boots were standard issue. Backing Steele and Tek for the first time is D.C.’s own Black Alley band.
– Abby O’Neill, NPR Music
(That “One Time” they wrapped with sounds extra nice.)
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: ABBY O'NEILL, Boot Camp, Boot Camp Clik, Duck Down, Duck Down Records, General Steele, National Public Radio, NPR, NPR Music, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, Smif N Wessun, Steele, Tek, Tiny Desk, Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk Concert Series | No Comments »
The Hoodies – “They Say” + “4, 3, 2, 1” (Freestyle) [Video]
September 17, 2018
Hard to kill off two n!ggas that’ll kill for each other!
Brothers gonna work it out! Still Hoodie season! Early!! Young Poppa and E-Class smash another freestyle. Easy work. At least they make it look that way. These brothers doing their thing always brings a smile to my soul… the part that still holds a place for real Hip-Hop. One time for The Culture!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Videos | Tags: 4 3 2 1, 4321, Bars On I-95, E-Class, Freestyle, Hoodie Season, Shade 45, The Hoodies, THEY SAY, They Say Freestyle, Young Poppa | No Comments »
3D Na’Tee | Wild Thoughts T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #011 (Video)
September 17, 2018
When DJ Khaled hollers, “WE THE BEST!” I wonder if he hopes that someone the lyrical caliber of Na’Tee will come behind his trackwork and let off a couple of shots. Skills + Sexy. Na’Tee gone “work you out like a Bowflex” and you will LOVE her for it #MondayMorningExercise
– @ojones1
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Mac Miller (RIP) [Video]
September 14, 2018
One more time for Mac Miller man. RIP to the young emcee we will sorely miss. He did leave us with a dope Tiny Desk Concert. Small comfort, but good stuff nonetheless.
Aug. 6, 2018 | There was a shift in Mac Miller’s boisterous demeanor as he started the third of his three-song Tiny Desk set. It’s the first time he’s performed tracks from his new album, Swimming, in front of an audience. On “2009,” he rubbed his chin with clenched eyes, looking like a young man who’s beginning to crack the code. Backed by a piano loop and a string quartet, he reflected on his journey’s peaks and valleys…
– NPR Music
Got Thundercat in there, too. Nice!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Joe Cleveland, Justus West, Kendall Lewis, Klynik, Lelia Walker, Mac Miller, Melanie Hsu, National Public Radio, NPR, NPR Music, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, RIP Mac Miller, Robin Fay-Massie, Thundercat, Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk Concert Series, Tiny Desk Concerts, YaShauna Swan | No Comments »
Dublin | Freestyles On Flex (Video)
September 14, 2018
This cat Dublin spits hot FIYAAAH! Noticed that they did not number this ‘Freestyle On Flex‘ though. Wonder if that’s the way now. If it means more emcees featured, with more fire BARZ, I’m for it!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Dublin, Freestyles on Flex, Funk Flex, Funkmaster Flex, Hot 97 | No Comments »
Throwback: Mac Miller’s Freestyle For Tim Westwood (Video)
September 11, 2018
Off the top of the dome! Gonna miss you, Mac Miller. This was from 2013.
#RIPMACMILLER
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Throwback, Travel, Videos | Tags: DJ Clockwork, Mac Miller, Tim Westwood, Tim Westwood Freestyle, Tim Westwood TV | No Comments »
3D Na’Tee | Magnolia T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #012 (Video)
September 10, 2018
Na’Tee got bars on fire! Absolutely no doubt. But whyyyy did she mention that her cam was already set up in the living room then NOT tell us why? Sigh… now I wanna know… real bad. Maybe making another kind of exercise video…
(Like a fitness video, ya pervs LOL)
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 3D NaTee, 3DNaTee, Magnolia T.Mix, MME, Monday Morning Exercise, Natee, T-Mix | No Comments »
3D Na’Tee | Crew T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #013 (Video)
September 3, 2018
On deck in the deck for the T.Mix treatment this time: “Crew” by GoldLink. Click play and watch 3D Na’Tee play with it.
– @ojones1
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Machine Gun Kelly | Freestyles On Flex | Freestyle #107 (Video)
September 3, 2018
Daaaaaymm. MGK dropped some heavy names and took some SHOTS at folks in this freestyle. Then again, when not? Flex gave him a hot mic, and he is MACHINE GUN Kelly (not, like, make them feel good about themselves Kelly). Aggressive!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Freestyle #107, Freestyle107, Freestyles on Flex, Funk Flex, Funkmaster Flex, Hot 97, Machine Gun Kelly, MGK | No Comments »
Tobe Nwigwe On The ‘Sway In The Morning’ Friday Fire Cypher (Video)
August 28, 2018
Tobe From The Swat got the mic hot for the ‘Friday Fire Cypher’… Yep, that’s a roger on that #Yessir #TobeTheHyena
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Interview, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Friday Fire Cypher, Sway, Sway Calloway, Sway In The Morning, Sway In The Morning Show, Tobe Nwigwe | No Comments »
Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, And Sheek Louch Perform For A Raucous Miami Crowd (Video)
August 27, 2018
Who died and went to heaven. Us maybe. For an hour and change, right after you click play to watch this full concert recording of Ghostface Killah, Raekwon & Sheek Louch going in and going the f**k OFF!!!!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: Boom Bap Nation, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Sheek Louch | No Comments »
Young M.A | The L.A. Leakers | Freestyle #055 (Video)
August 27, 2018
Worked in some off-the-top rapping in this freestyle and still kept it trill. Young M.A showing The L.A. Leakers that she is still the truth!
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Freestyle, Freestyle #055, L.A. Leakers, LA Leakers, Power 106, Power 106 Los Angeles, The L.A. Leakers, The LA Leakers, Young M.A | No Comments »
3D Na’Tee | Rake It Up T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #014 (Video)
August 27, 2018
So Na’Tee shoots others’ music videos, not just her own. It’s a good look (for the bread and probably for the ‘Gram… you SEE her on the set?? WOW). Okay, back to this week’s flows. Did…did she just say she was about riding face ’round this place? #Yoooooo #PxssyForLunch
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 3D NaTee, 3DNaTee, MME, Monday Morning Exercise, Natee, Rake It Up T.Mix, T-Mix | No Comments »
That Time Nicki Minaj Stunned Stephen With ‘Hot’ Lyrics Alone (Video)
August 21, 2018
Whaaaaa? That might as well have been foreplay! Colbert got cold feet though. Ha!
She coming on his show flirty like that? Stephen might have a shot! Get that ‘magical glow’ from Barbie man… Make her your Queen Nicki, Colbert!
– @ojones1
3D Na’Tee | Renegade T.Mix | Monday Morning Exercise #015 (Video)
August 20, 2018
I know you know by now… Na’Tee ain’t just making words rhyme over someone’s beats. It’s about the BARZ! She’s reaching out to the viewers, making it worth your time to watch. Putting it all in this. She speaks on her father again on this episode, and the emotions gush forth again #Realness
– @ojones1
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Erykah Badu (Video)
August 17, 2018
Robert Glasper did mention Erykah Badu in that last scorcher interview he did. Fellow Texan. And she is well beyond worthy on ‘honorable mention.’ See her Tiny Desk Concert performance for a reminder if you need one; or even if you don’t!
Erykah Badu is an artist for the ages. To old-school jazz fans like myself, names like Nina Simone, Betty Carter and Shirley Horn come to mind as much as Billie Holiday because of Badu’s singular approach to a lyric. They all cut their own creative path and left behind a legacy that you can identify with just one note. Erykah Badu is on that same path, and one day her name will be mentioned along with the other Elders who share her spirit of musical adventure.
– Felix Contreras, NPR
Drake – “Fire In The Booth” (Freestyle) [Video]
August 14, 2018
Okay, I got NO skills on the mic for real… but I feel like Charlie Sloth could amp me up to at least ‘passable’ with his craziness. Now watch him hit the juice and turbo-charge Drizzy in the booth. Sparking him to deliver that FIRE into the mic!!
Drake’s first “Fire In The Booth” with Charlie Sloth on Radio 1 & 1Xtra.
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 1Xtra, BBC, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 1Xtra, Drake, Fire In The Booth, Radio 1 | No Comments »
