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LIVE FROM DA "206"
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A NASTY 1979
FLASHBACK
Before Nasty-Nes
played Hip-Hop, Nes was in the mix spinning
Jazz on Bellevue's KBCS radio! |
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[[ June 23, 2008 ]] |
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What's
Upper? The Boston Celtics captured their first
N.B.A. championship in 22 years by beating the
Los Angeles Lakers.
Boston
131, Los Angeles 92...
Yes,
yes y'all,
America's
Best Dance Crew premiered last week on MTV & I'm so
hyped. This years crews to battle it out is gonna make
the competition tight with the following crews:
A.S.I.I.D.,
Boogie Bots,
Fanny Pak
Phresh Select,
SassX7,
SoReal Cru,
Super Cr3w,
Supreme Soul,
Dance Force and
Distorted X...
Saint
(see
photo above) and Canadian producer Muneshine
are gearing up for a Residents album. You might
remember not too long ago they teamed up for the
Jay-Z acapella project "American Gangster Resident
remixes.". It features Ed OG, Rob Swift,
Dr. Butcher, Cadence, Ohmega Watts and
others. Hit up Saint cause he is down for drops,
freestyles and NY radio show appearances. Hit him up at:
mistalooky@aol.com. You can also peep him out on
MySpace at:
www.myspace.com/saintbe...
Super-producer KWAME has produced hit records for
the likes of Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera,
Will Smith, Talib Kweli, & Lloyd Banks
(just to name a few). Now, Kwame would like to
introduce the World to his debut artist BEYOND BELIEF.
Beyond Belief is a 20-year old emcee hailing from
Rockaway,
New
York.
His first single "Don't Touch" has been added to regular
rotation on MusicChoice as well as on Reno's
Wild 102.9. In addition, it is receiving spins on
California's
Hot 94.1 and Charlotte's 96.1 The Beat.
The accompanying music video for the single has been
added to Music Choice On Demand & HBO's the
Zone, and is taking the internet by storm with over
117,000 views on MySpace & over 56,000 views on
YouTube. Beyond Belief's credits include
guest appearances on remixes for both Jesse McCartney
('Make Up') & Jordin Sparks ('One Step at a
Time'). He is also the co-writer/performer of the
Seattle Supersonics 2004-2005 playoff season theme
song.
With
production from Kwame, Beyond Belief has a unique sound
that distinguishes him from the pack. The only way to
fully understand is to listen. Check
http://beyondbelief.vox.com for music, videos,
photos, and more!...
Ice-T
Releases Special Edition Digital Album
Hip-Hop veteran Ice-T has released a special
edition of his eighth studio album Gangsta Rap.
The Gangsta Rap Special Edition is available on
digital download now, and features two
previously-unreleased tracks, as well as an alternative
silhouette version of the album's original controversial
cover. Last Tuesday (June 17), Gangsta Rap Special
Edition was made available exclusively to Sprint
PCS
customers, through the wireless company's "New Track
Tuesdays."
Released through PayUp Records, the digital label
owned and operated by Ice-T's long-time manager
Mickey Bentson, and Final Level Records, the
new album will be distributed through INGrooves.
"Like [Ice-T] says, 'Hip-Hop is really on the ER table,
and it needs resuscitation, it needs help'," Bentson
told AllHipHop.com. "We gave Melee
[Records] a little over a year to work it, and we felt
the time was right to give the album a second push.
"Since a lot of people are claiming to do hardcore, 'gangsta
rap,' it's time to see what an O.G. does and how it's
done," Bentson said. "Really envision the records,
listen to the records, and you can actually feel the
records when he's finished. He's always been able to get
you to visually see what he's doing, maybe that's why
he's on TV today."
Originally released on Melee Records in October 2006,
Gangsta Rap made a few headlines due to it's cover:
a nude rendering of Ice T and his wife
CoCo.
The distribution arrangement for the special edition
means the new album is available through all online
retailers, including iTunes, Rhapsody and
Amazon.com. INGrooves also handles distribution
for the likes of Too $hort, The Cool Kids,
Ky-Mani Marley and even Dolly Parton...
GRANDMASTER FLASH WRITES TELL-ALL:
*Grandmaster
Flash details his life story - from his violent
family life to his drug addiction to creating turntable
techniques that have come to define Hip-Hop - in a new
autobiography titled " The Adventures of Grandmaster
Flash: My Life, My Beats."
"This whole book was scary for me," Flash tells the
New York Daily News. "We as human beings, we
don't willingly display our skeletons, our pains, our
hurts - not the deep, deep, deep ones."
The Broadway Books effort, which hit stores this
week, also includes the volatile relationship Flash had
with Sylvia Robinson, who signed his group
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to their
first record deal with her label Sugar Hill Records.
"She did do some things that in today's world would
probably get her head chopped off," says Flash, whose
real name is Joseph Saddler, "but she did rule
with an iron fist and we were under fear with her -
although we did make some great records"...
A
Chicago jury has acquitted R. Kelly on all counts
at his child pornography trial. The verdict came six
years after the R&B superstar was first charged with
videotaping himself having sex with a young girl.
Prosecutors had said she was as young as 13 at the time.
Kelly had faced a maximum 15 years in prison. Both Kelly
and the now 23-year-old alleged victim had denied they
were the ones appearing on the tape, which was played
for the jury at the beginning and end of the trial...
DJ
Muggs & Planet
Asia
just
formed a new group called Pain Language. The
debut single, "9MM" debuts in stores this September 2nd.
Here's the link to download the single:
http://caliuntouchables.com...
Urban
Music
Alliance
is the only digital distributor catering to the needs of
the Urban market:
More
and more, it has become clear that Urban Artists are
being treated unfairly by record labels and management
alike, there is little opportunity for them to be
exposed in the US and Global markets, and that limited
exposure generally rewards the record Labels and
Management to a far greater extent than the artists who
do the hard work. Urban Music Alliance is
addressing that disparity, giving Artists an opportunity
to sell their product Internationally at Royalty Rates
generally reserved for Record Companies, and with
complete transparency.
Urban
Music Alliance is a digital media distribution company
that provides various distribution and marketing
services for its Artists/Labels. Our network of digital
retail partners includes all the major distributors such
as iTunes, Amazon, eMusic,
Rhapsody, Napster, Sprint, Verizon
and T Mobile, as well as dozens of newly
emerging outlets. We distribute to retailers around the
world and are tapped into the most efficient delivery
and content management systems in the business. Our
Console allows our clients complete access to view the
status of their sales and releases. Clients can view
where their releases have been delivered, where they are
in the distribution process and most importantly, see a
very detailed sales history. Urban Music Alliance is the
only digital distributor catering to the needs of the
Urban market. For more info email:
morgan@urbanmusicalliance.com...
Island Def Jam Music Group
(IDJ) has announced that Shakir Stewart
will effectively fill the vacancy left by rapper/mogul
Jay-Z, who announced his resignation as President
of Def Jam in December of 2007. Stewart, who was
senior VP of A&R, was named Executive
Vice President of Def Jam Recordings Antonio
"L.A."
Reid announced today. Stewart will report
directly to Reid and Steve Bartels, Chief
Operating Officer of IDJ and will be responsible for
all day-to-day matters regarding Def
Jam.
His responsibilities include signing new talent,
overseeing producers and guiding the creative vision of
the legendary label...
Major
League
featuring. Streets Buchanon, "Fly With The Time"
(EP/NewRealm Records) has just dropped their
debut video. Hi-Top Studio presents the first of
many music videos for the Ft Lauderdale based Hip-Hop
group Major League. "Fly With The Time" features Streets
Buchanon of Fly Paper and charted in the top 5 of
the national college radio charts such as Rap Attack
and Rap Network. The video was
Directed and Shot by Haviken Hayes, Produced and
Edited by cMs Productions, Make-Up by Arielle,
Wardrobe Provided by Hi-Top Studio, Equipment Provided
by Keynote Entertainment. Special thanks to all
the emcees, females, kids, friends, and family that came
out to support and take part in this video on the
hottest day of the year. Peep the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kwtun703YU...
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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
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ENJOY at:
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Rap
Attack takes a "WHAT'S UPPER" look this week with:
Bri-G
(Mixtapes-RPM
Promotions-NY):
"I was going start off with a tangent about the need
drill for oil offshore as well as in ANWR to help in
alleviating the insane cost of gasoline for future
generations and how Obama needs to start showing
me some real substance for his plans for this country
instead of just cute little slogans or I might end up
voting for the old white guy who’s stances I’m fully
aware of, but I stopped myself.
I’m
in a much better mood this week. Can’t be happier for
KG and the Celts for the absolute dismantling
of the Lakers. As I’ve perused the sports
blogosphere this week, it’s amazing to me that people
missed out on this simple fact: Ray Allen,
seemingly dead for the first three playoff series,
resurrected in the NBA finals. This is the same
Ray Allen, who played a character by the name of
Jesus in He Got Game. Coincidence? I think not.
Doing
the gig tonight that I got screwed out of last week and
I’ll spinning be with my friend/landlord/fellow
UNbassador DJ Raize as well. So all’s well that ends
well I guess.
I
also got my second mixshow back yesterday that I never
actually lost to begin with, just a little
miscommunication on my end. So now I’m doing one hour at
KBDS Bakersfield, CA and two hours at WRVZ
Charleston, WV. KBDS is playlisted, WRVZ is not. So I
figure I can do one, two hour set and send both to WRVZ.
With my second hour giving me the ability to help break
new records. I feel much better about this.
As I
type this, 50 Cent is hosting the Throwback at
Noon on Hot 97 and is rapping over classic R&B
joints and killing it. Seriously, 50 is going in heavy
on this thing.
Only
two really annoying things going on this week. One is
the Yanks seven game winning streak. I pray the
Joba falls down a flight of stairs this weekend
and Posada catches a nasty VD that keeps him
sidelined for several weeks. I don’t waste my time
worrying about A-Rod. He chokes when the
pressure’s on. The other is that I’ve seen too
many emails this week with dudes hating on people and
then finishing off the email by saying “no disrespect”.
If you just spent 30 words of an email basically
shitting on somebody, it doesn’t make everything all
good when you finish by saying “no disrespect”. I’ve
shit on a lot of things/people/issues in this little
email and I’ve never followed I up by saying “no
disrespect”. If you shit somebody, stand by your
statement. Don’t try to sugarcoat some hate. In the
words of Dave Chapelle, if you got hate in your
heart then let it out. With that said, I’d like finish
this off with a recent quote from Ice-T that I
firmly stand by. “Fuck you Soldier Boy, Eat a
dick"...
Nesto
(WODU-Norfolk):
"Man it feels really good right now. The Champs are back
in the building. The Celtics have won the NBA
Championship for 2008, and with convincing fashion.
I would have loved to have been in Boston last night or
today to celebrate that victory. The city was be
electric right now.
On another note I missed out on a lot of money this year
with sports. I predicted the meltdown of the Patriots
with 4 games left in the season, and I predicted the
Celtics taking it in 6, and I also predicted the
Giants winning the Super Bowl, but since I'm
not a betting man I didn't put up any money. But I
wonder how much I could have actually won..... DAMN"...
Raw-B
(KUSF-SF):
"What up! Big thanks to the Bash Bros. for
dropping by BeatSauce this past Sunday. They played us
some exclusive tracks off their soon to be released new
album. Get more info at
http://thebashbros.com...
DJ
Sage (CFRO-Vancouver
BC, Canada): "Last night on the show we were joined by
Rocca From Brooklyn is who definitely on his
grind as well as working at compiling tracks for his
debut album. Rocca hooked us up with an exclusive cut
last night, "Jayniya", this track coupled with a URP
favourite "Step Into My World" makes us excited for
his release and glad that we are one of the first to
support this artist on his rise to the top:(http://www.myspace.com/royalstatizmusicgroup)...
Edgie
Kokoski
(WUNH-NH):
"I got a copy of "Tha Carter III" by Lil Wayne
in the mail this past week and frankly I don't see
what all the fuss is about. It's no secret that I've
never been a huge Lil Wayne fan, but I have been
checking for some of the mixtape stuff that he's
dropped. Unfortunately, I think that it's another case
of mixtape onslaughts watering down what might of been a
respectable album. But maybe some good will come out of
"The Carter III". For instance, maybe some rapper will
be inspired by "A Milli" and use the instrumental to
record their own verses. And then maybe they'll email it
all over the internet. Nah...you're right. That would
never happen. Enough of my tall tales.
I find it laughable that Nas' new album is now
"untitled". Kind of a cop out if you ask me. Nas comes
out with a controversial title and then pretends like
there was too much pressure to go through with it. The
genius is that he still gets the "rebel cred" without
having to weather boycotts and decreased album sales. As
punishment, I think that Nas should be forced to title
his new album "Nas Has The Smallest Penis In The World".
I think that would make him weigh the pros and cons of
provocative album titling in the future.
If you heard the Shade 45 interview with LL
Cool J, you probably laughed as hard as I did. But
not because of the Eminem prank call. The
funniest part was when LL thanked his three generations
of fans. He claims that due to his longevity, he gained
fans in three distinct waves from singles like "I'm
Bad", "Doin' It", and "Headsprung". I hate to burst LL's
bubble, but I'm fairly certain that the fan base changed
like this:
"I'm Bad" - A lot of fans
"Doin' It" - Significantly less fans
"Headsprung" - Zero fans
I feel confident that SoundScan would back me on
this inference. For the last 10 years LL has been like
the new American Gladiators show. Something that
used to be cool"...
AJ
Rok
Woodson (TheBestJams.com): "Sup everyone?
I just wanted to share my new contact info with all of
you:
My new cell 678-548-9904 (u can delete all other numbers
you may have for me). You can also reach me on my
Helio at
ajwoodson@myhelio.com
Please holla back with you current contact info as well.
I lost alot of data when I dropped my phone in a really
big cup of soda so now I have to recover all my contact
info.
Have A Blessed Day
AJ 'AJ
ROK'
Woodson
678-548-9904
PRAISE IS WHAT I DO!!!!"...
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
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SHOUT
OUT TIZIME:
Happy Birthday this week to my fellow
HITS Magazine
homie,
Gary Jackson celebrating today, Monday June 23rd
& to Gusmo celebrating this Saturday, June
28th... (R.I.P.) to George Carlin, the
comedian who passed away at age 71...
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) |
