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Tag Archives: furious five

Old School Scholar Mega Mix One Audio Track Outline

By Q Ball | October 9, 2009

Thanks to the tons of email requests and comments we have been receiving, I called up the megamix creator, GrandSinister Ice, to send us a track outline. In a few days he obliged with a list of 13 segments consisting of 47 tracks layered in Old School Scholar Mega Mix One. This is one hell of a menu!

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The Memoirs of Grandmaster Flash

By Q Ball | June 22, 2008

There are many books and interviews on Hip Hop but none shine in comparison to works that document history and biography. Especially when it comes from the mouths of Brothers and Sisters like Grandmaster Flash. If you are a DJ or Hip Hop enthusiast you have no excuse not to own a copy of The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash.

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The Best of Style Wars

By Q Ball | April 15, 2008

I found these You Tube videos posted by the ID of Pinten and Dannylee78 titled Best of Style Wars and Style Wars Interview. Style Wars is a prolific documentary, by Tony Silver (whom recently passed) and Henry Chalfant, of not only Graffiti artists but Old School Hip Hop’s roots.

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What Hip Hop Means to Me

By Q Ball | March 24, 2008

I love Hip Hop. I love everything about what makes it so profound in my life and how I am always a part of it. It is a culture born from above average people whom ingeniously created to make a better aesthetic life out of limited resources. It is revolutionary. It never asked for permission to be seen or heard while inspiring the uninspired, and it neither apologized for its liberty being felt.

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Q Ball, The 800lb Gorilla

When Q Ball, The 800lb Gorilla, fell in love with Hip Hop, it was during a period after He finally came to grips that Bruce Lee is not coming back, Richard Pryor was everywhere, The Star Wars Saga was revolutionizing cinema, Reaganomics was in the works, and a steady stream of New York City transplants [...]