| UGHH News: August, 2004 |  |  | Found: 9
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| BCC And Justus League Go Hybrid | 8/24/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
Hip-hop has definitely been about interesting collabos lately, as genres and sub-genres have been cross-pollinated to form some interesting music. Back in the day (and even to this day) the Duck Down emcees stuck to the once soul-fluid, and now robotic sounds, of Da Beatminerz for all their sonic canvases. Well, after a trip to North Carolina, Sean Price, Buckshot, Dru Ha, and Smif N' Wessun have come back with some interesting news. According to www.duckdown.com, the emcees linked up with 9th Wonder and his crew of Justus League beatsmiths, a meeting in which they lent beats for both Ruck's and Smif N' Wessun's new albums. Also, the trip proved to be even more profitable for BCC representative Buckshot as he and 9th have decided to do an album together. Although the fine details are foggy, this project should prove to be an interesting pairing. | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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|  | By: Food Stamp
In an era when filling career gaps consists of dropping mixtapes, it has become very hard to decipher who's being lazy and who is grinding. Riding off the underground daps garnered from his solo debut, Look Mom… No Hands, Cannibal Ox front man Vast Aire is set to drop a new mix cd Way Of The Fist; Collabs & Classics Vol. 1 / Music from 1998-2004. The mix is an aggregate of old and rare collaborations, Vast at his best, and a total of five new joints. The cd will feature his departed partner Vordul, Mr. Lif, Akrobatik, El-P, Aesop Rock, Yeshua, MF DOOM, BMS, Diverse, RJD2 and plenty of reps from the Atoms Fam. Look for this cd to hit you this fall. | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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| Oh No Disrupting The Industry | 8/20/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
There is reason why the cats over at Stone's Throw are so clandestine and enigmatic…they're busy as hell! Granted Lib never leaves the bomb shelter, Wolf and Egon are up to their neck in business, but equally as busy is Madlib's younger brother Oh No. Clearly stepping out of the shadows of his older brother, Oh No is set to release beaucoup of music in the near future. First will be a mixtape Disrupt Chronicles V.2 that is mixed by DJ Double Dose and contains 25 recent (and many unreleased) Oh No productions (out this month). Next will be on October 5th when he drops his solo debut entitled The Disrupt. Although Oh No is a producer/emcee/deejay, the bulk of this 17-track album's production will be in the hands of his brother, Jay Dee, and Kankick. Some of his buddies will help him on the mic, a roster that includes Wildchild, MED, Declaime, Aloe Blacc, Roc C, Cornbread of Kaliwild, and Stacy Epps.
Following that Oh No will showcase his abilities as a producer when Kazi's solo album The Plague drops. Oh No will be producing the entire album except for one joint (handled by Kankick). The Kazi album will showcase many ST affiliates including Declaime, WildChild, Aloe Blacc, Spontaneous, Dr. OOP, Medaphoar, CornBread, and Infamous MC. | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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| Bad Times, Bad Man, Bad Boy | 8/20/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
30 years in jail is the sentence that former Bad Boy Ent. President Kirk Burrowes may be looking at for supposedly laundering drug money. This is the same man who sued P. Diddy back in ‘96 when he claims that by force was told to liquidate his stock in the company (a suit in which Burrowes racked in $25 million).
According to the New York Daily News, it is alleged that from the dates of April 2000 and August 2002 that he obtained and deposited $1 million in cocaine money. Officials stated that they have a recorded cell phone conversation between Burrowes and an unnamed New Jersey man about how the money was to be used. Currently he is out on $250,000 bond and running Plan B, a rap promotion company. | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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| Making It Harder To Shyne | 8/20/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
You would think that jail would stop a rapper from making, promoting, and selling an album. Such isn't the case with former Bad Boy rep Shyne who's been turning heads from Clinton Correctional Facility. On Monday Shyne had his phone privileges revoked, a medium he used to do interviews, for being suspected of breaking facility rules during some of the 100 phone calls he made. Authorities feel that he submitted fakes names of people that he called.
Although he is in jail that hasn't stopped Shyne from promoting his album and doing interviews, but the Clinton Correctional Facility has had enough. On Monday Shyne's phone privileges were revoked and he no longer is allowed to do in-person interviews because authorities believe he may have violated several prison rules during the 100 phone calls he has made. New York law states that inmates may not call people that are not on a media list. Also, he may be facing some other problems because of NY's Son of Sam law that prevents inmates from profiting from a crime committed. Godfather, Buried Alive could correspondingly get no love and get Shyne no money (think he's mad at Diddy?).
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| DJ JS-1 Steadily Jobbin' | 8/4/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
We speak all the time about emcees and producers that just seem to be everywhere, but what about the omnipresent and constantly on-the-grind deejay? DJ JS-1, who's produced and cut for/with quite an impressive roster, has, well, a whole lot of ish due out soon. The first will be an all turntablist album that will be out on Bomb Hip-Hop Records due in September called Audio Technician. Released off the same LP will be a 12" single called "Flying Guillotines" that features some of his best friends- Akrobatik, Breez Evaflowin, React, and C-Rayz Walz. Speaking of JS, Breez, and C-Rayz, they've formed a power-group consisting of themselves, Dub-L and Rahzel called Monsterz (which is also the title of the concept album), whose album is almost done and ready to drop early 2005.
JS-1 and Rahzel also have an album on the way called Man Vs. Machine, which is due this spring. The album will feature Aesop Rock, Masta Ace, J-Live, Tame One, Rakaa, High and Mighty and more (it will also include a 2-hour DVD). Rah and JS will also be doing a world tour this fall in Japan, France, Italy, UK, Holland, Australia, Singapore, Germany and in America. Lastly, JS-1 will also be dropping a new mixtape soon called Mash Potatoes and in his own words, "It's 74-minutes of insane blends, remixes, and mashes I did…no tape like it at all!" And you think you're busy.
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|  | By: Food Stamp
Kanye's whole religious rebirth has definitely not taken away from his spins and thus neither from his ends. Kanye has gone one step further just to remind himself how much he owes God by hiring a painter to recreate Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel in his Los Angeles home. The mural will be on the ceiling in his dining room and contain over 50 cherubs and saints.
Furthering his calls out to the man above is his remix of "Jesus Walks" where he enlists the newly rejuvenated Mase. Although Mase has left his preaching behind he's now gained a larger audience on this remix and may also be touring with West in the future. How does Kanye feel about collaborating with Mase? Good, since he's been noted as saying that Mase IS his favorite emcee.
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| Bart Simpson Collabs With 50 | 8/4/04 |
|  | By: Food Stamp
When you're commercial you are in the news a lot. Well, 50 keeps his face shinning lately with some unlikely collaborations and disses. On a Young Buck track "Bonafide Hustler" 50 deviates from the hustle and takes a second to bash Wyclef Jean?!? "That's that joint/ what's his name I don't remember/ that Haitian n*gga with the guitar that sing ‘Gone Til November'."
So, to solidify himself, he then goes in the studio with none other than Bart Simpson. According to Nancy Cartright (Bart's voice) 50 came in and laid down a verse for a fall episode. She called the rhyme both "brilliant" and "street" (insert internal laughter here). This is Bart's first time back in the booth since he recorded the blazing "Do The Bartman" back in hip-hop's golden era ('91). | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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|  | By: Food Stamp
After a performing hiatus, DMC of one of hip-hop's pioneering group Run-DMC, is coming back with his solo album and a movie deal. The film is about rap music before there was even such a thing. DMC told MTV.com that it takes place "before rappers even thought it [rap] would leave the corner." Albeit film is still in the scripting phase DMC's album is in the can. Checks, Thugs, and Rock n' Roll is a hybrid of rock and rap, a style that the group helped to make prominent and that has been raped by artists today. According to DMC himself he's rapping from where he is now because he's 40 and isn't trying to come juvenile with it. When asked how he felt about making an album without Jay and Reverend Run he anxiously said, "I'm scared to death without Run and Jay…I'm just gonna act like they're there." | | | | Subscribe RSS |
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