DJ Hero is here! Is it good for the culture??

Yo i got a chance to play the demo through a good friend of mine about a week ago and I must say I was impressed. I remember back in the summer when I heard about it on the internet. I was kinda skeptical because how do you successfully DJ on a game AND not make it EXTRA corny?? They even got my the legendary Grandmaster Flash down on the game and everything. I will say I wasn't too crazy about the song selections but they informed me that you'll be able to download other songs from from popular artist and DJs. So, that I cant wait to experience. They did a decent job and it looks like it may be the new hit "it" thing for the xmas holiday. Real DJs shouldn't be worried..WE know who you are and just continue to represent in the block parties-clubs..real recognize Skill. Aight! Gotta get back to the store and play this thing soon ..oh and watch out for that damn crossfader....ugh!

Obama's secret HipHop mental soundtrack right now

If Obama is really into Hip Hop as he says, this song has gotta be playing in his subconsciousness in dealing with his people on Capitol Hill...I KNOW it is in mine!

-K:EZ

Do the Humpty on a hump day!

Yo, as silly as it looks now it was just as silly in the 90's. But if you got stress listen-look at the video from the Oakland group Digital Underground. It's guaranteed to work some of that mid-week stress off. Oh-Oh do it baybay!!

-Keasy

JAPAN: Zeebra

Zeebra began his hip hop career in 1993, joining the rap group King Giddra. While with his group King Giddra, he played an important role in the development of the Japanese hip hop scene. In the mid 90s, King Giddra was an underground rap group that was addressing social issues of the time. King Giddra’s 1995 album “The Power from the Sky” discussed contemporary issues, particularly the economic recession and the inability of many Japanese college graduates to find employment. Zeebra addressed this issue of working towards a good education and being unable to find employment(sounds familiar!) in his song “Bullet of Truth”. Through their music, Zeebra and King Giddra “challenged youth not only to recognize the difficulties faced by Japanese society but also to speak up about them.” In 1999 he released the single “Mr. Dynamite”, which became the first hip-hop single to make it into the top 50 on the Japanese Oricon pop charts. [1] Through his early and newer work, Zeebra became one of the most popular and influential, yet controversial, Japanese hip hop artists.
So Zeebra let us holla at you!!! Oh and enjoy this slick video! Hip Hop wont STOP!!
-Keasy

I See(hear) Hip-Hop!...Tide

Yes my peoples just hitting you with a little update and commercial I just peeped. This time it happens to be our clothes cleaning, friendly product TIDE/Proctor & Gamble using a popular 90's Hip Hop song to highlight their new detergent. Now, I can't say I'm mad at them because it was probably someone behind the scenes that pushed for them to use that song. I just hope Butterfly-Ladybug-Doodlebug got some of that paper! I can't front though. I use Tide to keep my clothes "so fresh and so clean-clean(sorry couldn't help it) Anyway, ya'll should know the song in this piece, if you don't, get familiar quickly, you wont regret it....O and TTL is still in effect yo we just on serious grind mode, aight (2 fingers)
-KEASY

QTIP and How ATCQ came to be!

All i got to say is that Q-Tip, Phife, Ali Shaheed, and Jarobi make up the legendary group, A Tribe Called Quest. Q-Tip explains how the group met and formed their collective. Str8 no chaser from the talented MC, producer, DJ, actor. Cop seat, shut ya yap and just listen and ya def will learn sumthin- Keasy

http://www1.loud.com/audio-video/q-tip-talks-about-how-a-tribe-called-quest-started/

Lyrics to go- "Black Thought/Malik B"- 100% Dundee"

One of the most slept on lyricist in the MC realm is Black Thought of The Roots, hands down! And despite his absence with the group for a number of years, Malik B on a bad day is still a threat. These two keep their tongue blades sharp by going back and forth on this song 100% Dundee off of the Things Fall Apart album. Even though this is my favorite group of all time, their flows speak for themselves, pure rawness. -K-Easy

[Black Thought]
Yo! On these seventy-three keys, of ivory and ebony
I swear solemnly that I'll forever rock steadily
People wanna know where Malik? He right next to me
The weaponry, the secret recipe
Hard to peep this, deep shit, shows I eat with
Contaminated thoughts I walk the street with
I bayonnet cassettes and chop beats with
this olympic lyricism you can't, compete with
Globe travellin, throwin your verse like a javelin
Things Fall Apart and MC's unravellin
Backstage whisperin to management like
"change the order, it's no way that we can rock after them"
My man sport the 'fro like _What's Happenin?_
From the latest hi-atus, The Roots back again
Your crew practicin to catch this natural blend
They packages read "care when handlin"
It's all soft shit, batteries not included with
Matter of fact, your whole front's a re-enactment
I blow your ba-tty ass into fragments, P-5-D
The new testament, mic specialist, what?

Yeah
Check it out, yo (3X)
Yo yo, Black Thought, I represent the Fifth Dynasty
Lyrical click, 100% Dundee

[Malik B]
Malik B, I represent the P-5-D
Guerilla click, 100% Dundee

The Milli-illitant-tant, 'pon cock, ready to rock
Power out, in the clout, it seems out, all through your block
Posse don't play the cut, but what, you get sheist
Got the personality named trife, ready to heist
Smashin 'graphs, snatch the ice, crush your mental device
Thought twice, shoulda thought once, got played for the dunce
Dialogues I moderate, cool out, we outta state
Just blendin in the great, give me room to ventilate
Most niggaz is fraudulent, the rap seargeant
Bargin, through your regiment, call your president
Hittin all targets cuz it's a cause that's lost
Between the killers when they probably Teddy Ruxpin talk
Droppin tears of steel, two drops up in the bucket
Facin three ? and a cop so yo fuck it
If I get abducted, trapped up in the belly
Wacked up my celly, get known like Dawn Stanley
You know the deally on the daily in the ?
If I sense you got a bend to your kite, then send it up
We press up on your corner with windows they're tinted up
Lay our props face down on the ground and get it up, what?
Face on the ground and get it up

(Repeat chorus)

[Black Thought]
Check it out
While you pose for pictures, I'm the invisible enigma
Down low, scope you off the roof like the fiddler
Cage you up in the vocal booth, you're held prisoner
Watch, while I'm bangin out this hot shit from Sigma
Illa-del-P-A, live without a DJ
And it's been that way, since Sergio Vallente
Yo, The Roots holdin it down, is all you can say
Plus the Black Thought em-cey, professional-lay
Push pen to paper like Chinua Achebe
Thumpin, what was your assumption
I lace your function, make it a Black Thought production
Word up I'm on somethin, stellar hold off course
I'm gone bluntin, travel light and broadcast
via satellite, Illa-Fifth Dynamite
Lyrically calculus in this arithametic hip-hop metropolis
But loyal fiends coppin this hot shit
Yaknahmsayin? Hot shit, word up
Illa-Fifth hot shit y'all

(repeat chorus)