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Posts Tagged ‘Hip Hop Music’

Da Sound Of Concrete

By Da Emazing One • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Wheels of Steel

To all Hip Hop DJs, what is your definition of a hardcore Hip Hop beat? Which rap song that’s out right now demonstrates your meaning of a hardcore beat? In my opinion the term hardcore beat has, for some reason, been generalized very loosely. I believe nobody popular today knows what a true hardcore beat sounds like.



Seven Minutes Of Potpourri

By Da Emazing One • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: Wheels of Steel

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 [...]



Rap To The Future

By Da Emazing One • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Mic Check

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 [...]



General Admission

By Da Emazing One • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Mic Check

I have been getting a distinct impression that most of us involved in 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 our [...]



How to Make The Rock The Bells Festival Better

By Q Ball • Aug 10th, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

To Whom it May Concern at Guerilla Union:
I attended the Rock the Bells festival in Miami on August 2, 2008. I give the event two thumbs way up for its performance line ups, the surprise special guests, the quality of sound and lighting, the great work the roadies conducted between sets, and the participating [...]



The Rock The Bells Festival Is All In The Family

By Q Ball • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

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 [...]



Slow Your Role

By Da Emazing One • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

I have been noticing a disturbing trend with rappers making the move from the stage to the big screen. Since there are people who are deaf to hearing what is true school Hip Hop music, it can also be said about those same people being blind to what is truly happening with rappers going Hollywood.



The Best Way An Unknown MC Must Self-Promote: Part 1

By Da Emazing One • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Mic Check

You know, most up and coming rappers today believe getting their rhyme skills any type of attention is to enter a local MC battle, exhibit their presence online (i.e. YouTube or MySpace), or get on multiple mix tapes and hope a talent scout would discover them. These are all well proven buzz tactics that can get you noticed, but there is one problem to these forms of promotion. It ain’t live! It’s Memorex!



Da Black Gold Agreement

By Da Emazing One • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Mic Check

As I was checking out the latest current events on our website, I came across an interesting article that was recently posted yesterday by Thug Life Army.com. By now, almost every Hip Hopper out there has heard the recent criticism of the new school kid, Soulja Boy, by the old school veteran, Ice T. Me, myself and I have no words for this matter, however a brother by the name of N.Y. Oil had plenty of great words to say on Hip Hop Music as a whole.



The RIAA are Culture Rapists: Save the Mixtape!

By Q Ball • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Feature Articles

Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up and watch a snake swallow its own tail! It is the dumbest thing you will ever see! Watch this serpent eat itself at its very own existence while it publicly rationalizes its witch-hunt against piracy! Don’t you dare laugh at its foolishness. It does not care about innocent people or respect culture. One day, if you are ever caught blasting your car sound system at a red light, you too will be crucified as a pirate!