Performance
Remembering Biggie Through The Samples Used In His Music (Video)
May 31, 2016
An audiovisual showcase of source samples used in Notorious B.I.G.’s works. Teach DJ. TEACH! Turntable lecture in session, folks. Pay attention!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Lecture, Performance, Producers, Videos | 
Tags: Biggie, Classic Samples, Life After Death, Notorious B.I.G., Power 106, Power 106 LA, Samples, VinRican, Wax Only, WaxOnly | 
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Fan Video Of A Jay Electronica x MF Doom Collaboration (Video)
May 30, 2016
On Facebook: MF Doom shared Sick Rick’s video.
Take this in… immediately! Copies are showing up and coming down across the web. Also, take this for what it is. A rare collabo ‘performance’ by Doom and Jay Elect. Though it hints at the release of a collaborative track… Meh, maybe. It’d be nice.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: Collaboration, doom, Jay Electronica, MF Doom, Sick Rick, SXSW | No Comments »
Drake Was Hilarious On ‘Saturday Night Live’ (Video)
May 23, 2016
You can hizzy hate on Drizzy Drake all you want, but you gotta admit that dude delivers awesome TV. The webs were abuzz after his recent Saturday Night Live appearance – where he did double-duty as the host and musical guest. Get a sample of the hilarity above, and check out the entire episode after the jump.
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Television, Videos | Tags: Drake, Saturday Night Live, SNL | 1 Comment »
Maxwell – “Lake By the Ocean” (Live) [Video]
May 17, 2016
Neo-soul artist Maxwell, back after a loooong break, is doing the damn thang; especially here performing live on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Performs the lead single from his forthcoming album “blackSUMMERS’night” (due out July 1, 2016) entitled “Lake By The Ocean.”
Posted in Alternative, Music, Performance, Soul, Videos | Tags: Lake By the Ocean, Maxwell, Stephen Colbert, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | 1 Comment »
Scholarly Rhymes: Black Thought Going Hard On Harvard Yard (Video)
May 3, 2016
Yo, this is more than a suntan. It’s living color!
– Black Thought
The Roots emcee doing the lyrical d-a-m-a-g-e! Welcome to the Harvard i-lab. This is The Other Side Speaker Series featuring Black Thought the Super Lyricist with more and more BARS… steel BARS… hitting ’em in dead their eggheads!!
Public Enemy – “Bring The Noise” (Live) [Video]
April 30, 2016
Okay, one time for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Famers, the Hip-Hop’s Freedom Or Death Proclaimers, the… Public Enemy No. 1! Shout to the homie DJ Lord doing it out there as PE performs “Bring The Noise.” Yeeeeeaaauuh Boooyyyeeeee!
Watch as Public Enemy brought the noise to SXSW 2016.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: Bring The Noise, Galaxy Life, Public Enemy, South By Southwest, SXSW | No Comments »
The Hamiltones – “Respeck” (Video)
April 28, 2016
Anthony Hamilton’s homies bring some soul to the Baby put-some-Respeck-on-it situation. They took some lines from the Cash Money mogul’s quick and heated rant on the Power 105 morning show days ago; and went ham with it! Soul… ham… check out this ‘soul food’ right here… with “Respeck.”
Posted in Comedy, Performance, Soul, Videos | Tags: Baby, Breakfast Club, Hamiltones, Power 105, Power 105.1, put some respeck on it, Respeck, respect, The Breakfast Club, The Hamiltones | No Comments »
Lyric Jones On The ‘Sway In The Morning’ Friday Fire Cypher (Video)
April 20, 2016
Got to be the first time, in at least a long time, that every comment on a YouTube page was praise for the home slice Lyric Jones. All deserved, because she did rep the ATL well in her latest Sway In The Morning clip. Check out the chitter and the chatter. Warning: Dope freestyle above!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Interview, Performance, Radio, Series, Videos | Tags: Friday Fire Cypher, Lyric Jones, Sway, Sway Calloway, Sway In The Morning, Sway In The Morning Show | No Comments »
LL Cool J – “The Pharmacy” With Dr. Dre (Video)
March 18, 2016
Anybody who was not hollering by the time Uncle L wrapped that clip above with, “And you know I can’t live without my [Beats 1] RADIO,” go sit in the corner! Wait, come back. Just play it again, and act like you are supposed to act when you get LL going back to Cali to do do work with the West Coast’s most prolific producer: Act like you are losing your damned mind… Sick in the head. See a snip of LL Cool J’s visit with the Dr. Dre above.
The FULL show audio is below.
Posted in Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: Beats 1, Beats 1 Radio, dr. dre, LL Cool J, The Pharmacy | No Comments »
Run The Jewels In Concert At Boiler Room London (Video)
March 9, 2016
Confession and evidence of Hip-Hop arson captured right here in 360° video. Killer Mike told the crowd that he and his partner El-P came to burn the UK Boiler Room set to the muthaph#kin’ ground! An hour strong of Run The Jewels on stage getting it in. You know, we’ve seen so much of Mike giving political commentary and stumping for Bernie Sanders for U.S. President, we might have forgotten about his emceeing…
Nah, that wasn’t ever gonna happen. Ha!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: 360, 360 degree, 360 degrees, Boiler Room, Boiler Room London, El-P, Killer Mike, Live Set, London, Run The Jewels | No Comments »
Comedy: Adam West Performs Kanye’s “Bound 2” As A Spoken Word Piece (Video)
March 4, 2016
Word has it Adam West is dropping a spoken word homage to Kanye West, entitled “West On West.” See him deliver Kanye’s hit “Bound 2” above. The one true Batman, Adam West, has no fear. And apparently, NO CHILL! BAHAAAAA!
PREVIOUS: KANYE WEST – BOUND 2
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: Adam West, Batman, Bound 2, Hollywood Babble-On, Kanye West, Kevin Smith, Ralph Garman, Spoken Word | No Comments »
Karriem Riggins & J Rocc Doing Dilla Recreations: “Lightworks†/ “E=MC²†(Video)
March 2, 2016
In The basement Dungeon at Stones Throw Records, Karriem Riggins and J Rocc get down on some improvisational performing of their spins on the late great J Dilla’s “Lightworks” and “E=MC².” Oh…It’s a 360-Degree video if you got that kind of tech. Click play either way, and here we go!
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Producers, Series, Videos | Tags: 360, 360 degrees, Dungeon Sessions, J Rocc, Karriem Riggins, STONES THROW, Stones Throw Records, The Dungeon | No Comments »
Real Time With Bill Maher: New Rule – Crass Warfare (Video)
February 29, 2016
Okaaaay, apparently Donald Trump has already engaged discourse with leaders beyond the U.S. border. Judging by Mexican President Vicente Fox’s reaction (a.k.a. the F-bomb heard around the world), Trump’s big ideas may not be ‘well-received.’ Truth is, The Donald has pushed political discourse stateside and worldwide too far. And as ‘President Maher‘ might proclaim, that sh!t needs to stop! But there’s no ‘New Rule’ against laughing at a little satire before it does.
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher takes viewers to a not-too-distant future where the crass language of the campaign trail makes its way into the Oval Office.
Think about it though. Those included clips are of candidate Trump speaking in public; cussing out loud at crowds. Just saying, maybe think about that on the way to the ballot box.
Posted in Comedy, Opinion, Performance, Politics, Series, Speech, Television, Videos | Tags: Bill Maher, campaign, crass language, Crass Warfare, cussing, Donald Trump, foul language, HBO, New Rule, political discourse, Real Time With Bill Maher, swearing, Vicente Fox | No Comments »
Kendrick Lamar – “The Blacker The Berry” / “Alright” (Live At The Grammys) [Video]
February 16, 2016
Now, it’d be enough for a West Coast emcee to someday rock the Staples Center. If you are a fan of K-Dot’s, it would be enough to see him rock anywhere; a dream for that place to be the Center. But imagine THE performance of THE Grammys that got the whole web world wide JUMPING… Better watch this now. Embeds of Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker The Berry” & “Alright” Grammy night set are getting snatched down left and right.
Posted in EVENTS, Hip-Hop, Performance, Television, Videos | Tags: Alright, Grammys, Kendrick Lamar, The Blacker The Berry | 1 Comment »
TheBeeShine | Cypher Series Vol. 12 With DJ Slipwax feat. ESH x Rite Hook x EMS x Blak Madeen x Jahpan x Oak Lonetree (Video)
February 6, 2016
Shout to the Bronx-born bro Revelation hailing from New Bedford (MA, USA) for always hipping me to the movements of his crew EMS. He’s got some EMS bredren in here turning them coals (fire)! Check ’em out – M-Dot & Mayhem – and more of New England’s best (ESH, Rite Hook, Blak Madeen, Jahpan, Oak Lonetree) with DJ Slipwax. Nice rhyme skills and cuts above. Watch your head!
(The track was produced by The Arcitype.)
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: 12, Al-J, Blak Madeen, DJ Slipwax, EMS, Ep. 12, Episode 12, ESH, Jahpan, M-DOT, Mayhem, Oak Lonetree, Rite Hook, THE ARCITYPE, The Dunnas, The Monolith, TheBeeShine Cypher, Vol. 12, Yusuf Abdul-Mateen | No Comments »
KOTD | Cypher Series Vol. 1 With JD Era x Sese x Young Stitch x Raz Fresco x Roshin (Video)
January 28, 2016
Wow. They doing it in Canada y’all.
Hype talk-off before the set off by Bishop Brigante. DJ Docta on the tables, a banging azz beat by Superville and a gang of dope emcees make for a dope azz cypher. I prefer ‘cipher’ (like rhyme ‘circle’) as the term for this, but since the art went big time stage and screen worldwide… *sigh* …guess everything needs ‘marketing’ and such. And sure, this is about business (KOTD pushing pay-per-view events) but the rhymes and delivery though. We’re getting some Hip-Hop essence here!
Watch JD Era, Sese, Young Stitch, Raz Fresco and Roshin go in above! You can follow them and their moves on Twitter, too (got ’em all linked; click the handles). Displaying what’s hot in Hip-Hop up top. It’s a coooold winter in Canada, son. Just saying.
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Performance, Series, Videos | Tags: Bishop Brigante, Cipher, CYPHER, DJ Docta, JD ERA, King Of The Dot, KOTD, Raz Fresco, Roshin, Sese, Superville, Vol. 1, VOLUME 1, Young Stitch | No Comments »
Al Elliott Shares His Story: Reasons For Rap
January 24, 2016
Really proud to say I know Al Elliott, and that I fondly remember his days with Chip Records, and another thing… well, I’ll save that for after the jump.
But peep this perspective he gives on Hip-Hop and his reasons for rapping, then and now. Wow. I’ve used the music for therapy. So have you, I’ll bet. But for speech therapy… not to mention for teaching and bonding with his son. Check out the audio stream above in which Al gives a talk for Arc Stories.
Al Elliott tells of overcoming his childhood stuttering through discovering rap music. The theme for the night was “Out with the Old: Stories About Change.”
– Arc Stories (arcstories.com)
Love Hip-Hop maaaan! And I will always have love for Brother Elliott (hit the jump).
– @ojones1
Posted in Hip-Hop, Human Interest, Performance, Series, Speech, Throwback, Videos, Vintage | Tags: Al Elliot, Arc Stories, Better Than I Can Tell You, Birmingham, Live From, Reasons For Rap, Thed Weller | No Comments »
Kanye West Rocks The DNC Fundraiser With A Near Hour-Long Performance (Video)
January 23, 2016
Rich folks, dry wine, drier chicken, even drier conversation. That’s all you envision going on at a high-brow fundraiser. Admit it.
Well, if you said, “No,” you must have already seen Yeezus West have no mercy on stage at this concert gig he did at The Warfield for the Democratic National Convention’s fundraiser. The cause: The Democratic Hope Fund. But why an hour? Just cause he has the time and the talent to deliver that long and the show stay strong.
Respect.
Posted in EVENTS, Hip-Hop, Performance, Videos | Tags: Democratic Hope Fund, Democratic National Convention, DNC, Fundraiser, Kanye West, The Democratic Hope Fund | No Comments »
James Corden Welcomes Stevie Wonder To ‘Carpool Karaoke’ (Video)
January 22, 2016
James Corden and music icon Stevie Wonder carpooling through Los Angeles, singing to some Stevie tunes booming from the system, nothing too special. WHAT? This is awesome! And James said he ought to start a group called The Wondercats. Baaahahaaa!
But beyond the funny…watch what happens when James asks Stevie to call and sing to his wife. Dude. Who doesn’t love Stevie Wonder?
Posted in Celebrity, Comedy, Performance, R&B, Series, Soul, Television, Videos | Tags: Car Karaoke, James Corden, Stevie Wonder, The Late Late Show, The Late Late Show With James Corden | No Comments »
9th Wonder’s ‘Rhythm Roulette’ Beat Was So Dope Rapsody Had To Have It…NOW! (Video)
January 5, 2016
Rhythm Roulette with a new episode featuring the North Carolina super-producer 9th Wonder. Blindfolded crate-digging at The Record Krate in Raleigh, the back to his studio to watch a master craftsman at work – using Charly McClain, Jermaine Jackson, and The Temprees.
Then… Rapsody stepped to the mic to record to the resulting track! Tested and blessed it. Yes she did! Check it out.
Posted in Celebrity, Hip-Hop, Performance, Producers, Series, Videos | Tags: 9th Wonder, Rapsody, Rhythm Roulette | 1 Comment »
