Esteemed hip-hop producer 9th Wonder takes Jay-Z’s 2007 album American Gangster and applies his unique touch — remixing in a bunch of musical inspiration from artists of the 1970s. As 9th Wonder produced tracks off the original album, it’s fitting that he gives it a new spin, adding in a list of great artists including [...]
2
Jan
American Gangster re-spun with classic artists from the 1970s
26
Oct
Gianni Lee & Mike Blud assemble 9 tracks of KL samples
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to Kendrick Lamar’s debut good kid, m.A.A.d city, we cannot recommend the album any more highly. The Compton kid is a true lyricist and storyteller the likes we haven’t seen since maybe early Outkast. For many hip-hop fans, it will most likely be considered the album of [...]
12
Oct
The most cogent 4-minute argument you'll need to hear this week
I get in discussions all the time with my friends — both liberal and conservative — about the positives and negatives of Mr. Barack Obama. Most see him as just a slightly less evil version of Mitt Romney; they point out all the things he failed to accomplish, and list a litany of alleged shortcomings. [...]
4
May
Win 1 of 2 pairs of tickets for this Saturday night's show
We enjoy our Soul Clap here, and we think you should too. That’s why we’re gonna give away 2 pairs of tickets to the EFUNK Show in Los Angeles we posted about a couple days ago. All you gotta do is go to our Facebook page, Like Us, and enter in the Soul Clap post your [...]
2
May
Elyte & Cnyce bring their R&B-infused house to City of Angels
We’re big fans of the Soul Clap boys, so much so that we had them give us their definitive tour of their Beantown home in our Coordinates: Boston series (check it out, its hilarious). Well the duo of Elyte (Eli Goldstein) and Cnyce (Charles Levine) are celebrating the release of their debut album EFUNK (out [...]
21
Dec
Peter Jackson's next foray into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien
My god can you stand it?! I’m in full nerd-out glory mode here, as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has to be one of the more anticipated movies of the decade. This first trailer doesn’t show much of the action, but it sets the mood for what we can expect with Peter Jackson’s next foray [...]
1
Dec
Das Racist crew member drops more cerebral potty rhymes
One of the spaced out long-time affiliate of the Das Racist crew, Russian-born emcee Lakutis, dropped his debut mixtape I’m In The Forest today (on Greedhead/Mishka). If you dig the highly articulate, highly leftfield, slightly disturbed rap antics of the Das Racist trio (peep their “Michael Jackson” video) than Lakutis will be sure to tickle [...]
14
Sep
Indie hip hop music video 4-pack to get Wednesday cooking
UPDATE: Seeing as Asher Roth’s brand new video for “Last Man Standing” — the first video from his upcoming album — dropped today as well, and it totally fits the theme, we’re gonna add it on to our Wednesday video 4-Pack. Today’s music video 3-pack 4-pack throws together 3 indie hip-hop acts all in different [...]
