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Posts Tagged ‘turntablist’

DMC World DJ Championship 2008: Supremacy Is Up For Grabs

By Q Ball • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Wheels of Steel

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 [...]



Write 4 Gold: The World’s Largest Graff Battle!

By Q Ball • Jul 23rd, 2008 • Category: The Blackbook

We have quite a few prestigious competitions, battles and tournaments worldwide for Hip Hop. For B-Boys we have the grandest tournament, Battle of the Year. For DJ turntablism there is the hard earned DMC World DJ Championships, and for MCs there were many that have come and gone like the historic New Music Seminar. Today, we now have the million dollar prize up for grabs at the brand new World Series of Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia, September 27, 2008.



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!