Beatnotik was born to an Italian graphic designer based in Barcelona. Inspired by the great passion for hip hop and beats from the world of skateboarding and a lot of good vibes that gives people. Beatnotik new fresh brand from world wide based in barcelona "The hypnotic feelin of the beat rushing through your veins, hypnotic suggestions delivered by sounds that create a universe feeling. WE SUPPORT UNDERGROUND ARTISTS buy on: BCOMESOME1 follow us on www.beatnotik.blogspot.com www.beatnotik.com
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Beatnotik was born to an Italian graphic designer based in Barcelona. Inspired by the great passion for hip hop and beats from the world of skateboarding and a lot of good vibes that gives people. Beatnotik new fresh brand from world wide based in barcelona "The hypnotic feelin of the beat rushing through your veins, hypnotic suggestions delivered by sounds that create a universe feeling. WE SUPPORT UNDERGROUND ARTISTS buy on: BCOMESOME1 follow us on www.beatnotik.blogspot.com www.beatnotik.com
Ahead or the June 14th release of underground supergroup Random Axe (comprised of Sean Price, Black Milk and Guilty Simpson) epic self titled debut album, the good folk at complex have unveiled the entire album for for your listening pleasure. Riding over a sonic soundscape created entirely by Black Milk, the trio are joined by Danny Brown, Rock, Trick Trick and Roc Marciano who all bring additional heat to the already blazing project. Listen to the full album below.
Two years after the release of their 2007 album, Smif-n-Wessun: The Album, Smif N Wessun announced that their fifth record would be produced entirely by none other than Pete Rock. The news wasn't that much of a shock aside from the fact that the duo hadn't necessarily worked with Rock before. But considering they all hail from a similar locale, New York City, and tend to focus on the grittier side of hip-hop, a collaboration amongst them seemed inevitable. Along with featuring production solely from Rock, Monumental boasts numerous guests from the Boot Camp Clik, which includes, among others, Buckshot and Sean Price.
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history, and regarded as iconic pioneers of hip hop. The band’s sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group’s innovative musical stylings never seems to diminish. A hard-core fan himself, Rapaport sets out on tour with A Tribe Called Quest in 2008, when they reunited to perform sold-out concerts across the country, almost ten years after the release of their last album, The Love Movement. As he travels with the band members (Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White), Rapaport captures the story of how tenuous their relationship has become; how their personal differences and unresolved conflicts continue to be a threat to their creative cohesion. When mounting tensions erupt backstage during a show in San Francisco, we get a behind-the-scenes look at their journey and contributions as a band and what currently is at stake for these long-time friends and collaborators. Rarely heard stories from New York’s legendary DJ Red Alert, Native Tongues members like Monie Love, the Jungle Brothers, Busta Rhymes, and De La Soul bring an intimacy to the days when young artists discovered the freedom of artistic expression, while rejecting the confines of gangster rap and negative stereotypes. Chronicles of songs like “Scenario” and “Check the Rhime” paint a vivid picture of growing up in Queens, and how the band’s unique approach to hip hop helped transform and influence the genre for years to come. A New York native, Rapaport’s lifelong love for hip hop helps achieve intimate, all-access interviews and cinéma vérité-style filmmaking, fostering a conversation for A Tribe Called Quest to determine if there is a possibility to mend the wounds from over the years. In addition to chronicling the past, present and uncertain future of the band, the film includes interviews from the Beastie Boys, Kanye West, Pharrell, Mos Def, Santigold, Monie Love, Pete Rock, Large Professor, De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers and Common, all of whom attribute some combination of love, respect, and inspiration drawn from the legacy of A Tribe Called Quest.
Cast: Q-Tip - Phife Dawg - Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Jarobi White Music Supervisor: Peanut Butter Wolf Original Music: Madlib
Ego WarSubway Magazine Show what’s happened in the underground of the biggest cities in the world, exact documents with hi-quality pictures about graffiti in the subway environment. Inside there are exclusive pictures of pieces, yards, spots, actions and moments lived by the best graffiti writers right now in the movement. We are searching new adventures all over the world. Egowar includes picture that has a lot of details in every subway system so as the graffiti movement. It shows nice graffiti styles on trains, rare action shots and really famous spots that only the most EGOWRITERS knows. Every issue has one big city report documenting with the cover and about 20 pages of coverage of that specific city. The rest of the pages are others smaller worldwide city reports. So the whole magazine is divided in section mentioned in the index. Here some cities already documented: Buenos Aires, Chicago, New York, Athens, Amsterdam, Milan, Naples, Rome, Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Bucharest, New Castle, London and much more.
This magazine can make travelling your mind in the strangest places....
Campeonato en las tres gradas del Macba organizado por Free Skate Shop y la colaboración de Emerica & Altamont. Grabado por Eduardo Muñoz. Editado por Txomin Pardiñas.
One of the most important progenitors of rap music, Gil Scott-Heron's aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry inspired a legion of intelligent rappers while his engaging songwriting skills placed him square in the R&B charts later in his career, backed by increasingly contemporary production courtesy of Malcolm Cecil and Nile Rodgers (of Chic). Born in Chicago but transplanted to Tennessee for his early years, Scott-Heron spent most of his high-school years in the Bronx, where he learned firsthand many of the experiences which later made up his songwriting material. He had begun writing before reaching his teenage years, however, and completed his first volume of poetry at the age of 13. Though he attended college in Pennsylvania, he dropped out after one year to concentrate on his writing career and earned plaudits for his novel, The Vulture. Encouraged at the end of the '60s to begin recording by legendary jazz producer Bob Thiele — who had worked with every major jazz great, from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane — Scott-Heron released his 1970 debut, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, inspired by a volume of poetry of the same name. With Thiele's Flying Dutchman Records until the mid-'70s, he signed to Arista soon after and found success on the R&B charts. Though his jazz-based work of the early '70s was tempered by a slicker disco-inspired production, Scott-Heron's message was as clear as ever on the Top 30 single "Johannesburg" and the number 15 hit "Angel Dust." Silent for almost a decade, after the release of his 1984 single "Re-Ron," the proto-rapper returned to recording in the mid-'90s with a message for the gangsta rappers who had come in his wake; Scott-Heron's 1994 album Spirits began with "Message to the Messengers," pointed squarely at the rappers whose influence — positive or negative — meant much to the children of the 1990s.
In a touching bit of irony which he himself was quick to joke about, Gil Scott-Heron was born on April Fool's Day 1949 in Chicago, the son of a Jamaican professional soccer player (who spent time playing for Glasgow Celtic) and a college-graduate mother who worked as a librarian. His parents divorced early in his life, and Scott-Heron was sent to live with his grandmother in Lincoln, TN. Learning musical and literary instruction from her, Scott-Heron also learned about prejudice firsthand, as he was one of three children picked to integrate an elementary school in nearby Jackson. The abuse proved to much to bear, however, and the eighth-grader was sent to New York to live with his mother, first in the Bronx and later in the Hispanic neighborhood of Chelsea.
Though Scott-Heron's experiences in Tennessee must have been difficult, they proved to be the seed of his writing career, as his first volume of poetry was written around that time. His education in the New York City school system also proved beneficial, introducing the youth to the work of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes as well as LeRoi Jones. After publishing a novel called The Vulture in 1968, Scott-Heron applied to Pennsylvania's Lincoln University. Though he spent less than one year there, it was enough time to meet Brian Jackson, a similarly minded musician who would later become a crucial collaborator and integral part of Scott-Heron's band. Given a bit of exposure — mostly in magazines like Essence, which called The Vulture "a strong start for a writer with important things to say" — Scott-Heron met up with Bob Thiele and was encouraged to begin a music career, reading selections from his book of poetry Small Talk at 125th & Lennox while Thiele recorded a collective of jazz and funk musicians, including bassist Ron Carter, drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Hubert Laws on flute and alto saxophone, and percussionists Eddie Knowles and Charlie Saunders; Scott-Heron also recruited Jackson to play on the record as pianist. Most important on the album was "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," an aggressive polemic against the major media and white America's ignorance of increasingly deteriorating conditions in the inner cities. Scott-Heron's second LP, 1971's Pieces of a Man, expanded his range, featuring songs such as the title track and "Lady Day and John Coltrane" which offered a more straight-ahead approach to song structure (if not content).
The following year's Free Will was his last for Flying Dutchman, however; after a dispute with the label, Scott-Heron recorded Winter in America for Strata East, then moved to Arista Records in 1975. As the first artist signed to Clive Davis' new label, much was riding on Scott-Heron to deliver first-rate material with a chance at the charts. Thanks to Arista's more focused push on the charts, Scott-Heron's "Johannesburg" reached number 29 on the R&B charts in 1975. Important to Scott-Heron's success on his first two albums for Arista (First Minute of a New Day and From South Africa to South Carolina) was the influence of keyboardist and collaborator Brian Jackson, co-billed on both LPs and the de facto leader of Scott-Heron's Midnight Band.
Jackson left by 1978, though, leaving the musical direction of Scott-Heron's career in the capable hands of producer Malcolm Cecil, a veteran producer who had midwifed the funkier direction of the Isley Brothers and Stevie Wonder earlier in the decade. The first single recorded with Cecil, "The Bottle," became Scott-Heron's biggest hit yet, peaking at number 15 on the R&B charts, though he still made no waves on pop charts. Producer Nile Rodgers of Chic also helped on production during the 1980s, when Scott-Heron's political attack grew even more fervent with a new target, President Ronald Reagan. (Several singles, including the R&B hits "B Movie" and "Re-Ron," were specifically directed at the President's conservative policies.) By 1985, however, Scott-Heron was dropped by Arista, just after the release of The Best of Gil Scott-Heron. Though he continued to tour around the world, Scott-Heron chose to discontinue recording. He did return, however, in 1993 with a contract for TVT Records and the album Spirits.
"Godfather of Rap" Gil Scott-Heron, who in 1970 mixed poetry and music for his militant song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," died Friday May 27th, 2011 in the afternoon in a New York hospital. Gil Scott-Heron was known to be HIV positive and had struggled with drug addiction throughout a large part of his life.
