Monthly Archives: August 2008

Seven Minutes Of Potpourri

By Da Emazing One | August 27, 2008

That damn Bloodsucking Corporate Machine! Here I am hired to DJ at one of the biggest jams of my life, and it doesn’t feel right. I mean something is way off! I am playing all of the popular songs, but it smells too good in here! For some reason this crowd likes dancing to this [...]

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DMC World DJ Championship 2008: Supremacy Is Up For Grabs

By Q Ball | August 26, 2008

Mark your calendar on September 26 and 27, Friday and Saturday, for the 2008 DMC World DJ Championship finals in London, England at the Indig02. If you are in the United Kingdom, you already have heard the tickets are sold out by now, but I am sure you know a cousin of a friend’s [...]

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Rap To The Future

By Da Emazing One | August 25, 2008

Missing in Hip Hop music today, in my opinion, are two types of rhymes. Before I tell you what they are in a question, I want everyone to understand this is a simple message for up and coming MCs, rap artists, and rappers. If you know one please send him this message. If you are one, I want you to be honest with yourself meanwhile thinking about your future.

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General Admission

By Da Emazing One | August 15, 2008

I have been getting a distinct impression that most of us involved in the Hip Hop culture generally admit that the state of the rap world today is on a life support system. Rappers are claiming to have the new flava, but their cheerleading style leaves most of us with that sour, bitter taste in [...]

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How to Make The Rock The Bells Festival Better

By Q Ball | August 10, 2008

I attended the Rock the Bells festival which I give two thumbs way up. From my conversations with a few true school heads, we want to see Guerrilla Union up the ante. We want this to be a real Hip Hop festival. We want all of the elements to rock the show. I have my suggestions on how to make this work.

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Subject Matters

By Da Emazing One | August 6, 2008

Has anyone notice that it seems rappers of today have few subject matters to rap about? They either have what I call skirt chasing lyrics, political lyrics, or material lyrics. I can’t be the only one who wants to give their lyrics the benefit of the doubt, but I always end up tuning them out! [...]

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The Rock The Bells Festival Is All In The Family

By Q Ball | August 4, 2008

It was a family reunion on a long and hot summer day in downtown Miami, Florida. A typical family reunion where you find elders with the peppery white hair all the way down to the little ones entering pre-school. You had people giving hugs and pounds who haven’t seen each other in a very long [...]

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Today is Rock The Bells: Miami!

By Q Ball | August 2, 2008

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This article is going to be real short. We at Old School Scholar apologize for not updating articles as we have recently. There is no excuse, however we will fill you in that we have been gathering our resources and doing lots of planning for the coming months. Also, we have been making [...]

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