Monday, 10 January 2011
MENTALIST - MAKE YOU PROUD 2011
Free download album from Mentalist. This is quality. If this was on i-tunes i'd buy it. As its free, hit him up on twitter, and big him up yourselves HERE
DOWNLOAD HERE
DOWNLOAD HERE
FUNKMASTER FLEX - HOT 97 - 1996
Here's some more classic Flex from the MK archives, taking it back to 96. Flex is going IN.. Shout out to OBFZL for kindly uploading this for me. If you want any more tapes from back in the day leave a comment, and i'll see what i can do!
DOWNLOAD HERE
DOWNLOAD HERE
Wholetrain - The Movie Screening - Jan 18th 2011
This is gonna be worth checking out if you re in the London area!
BOBBY ROBINSON - ENJOY RECORDS RIP
BOBBY ROBINSON, whose tiny record shop on Harlem's 125th St. spawned No. 1 national hits and made him an uptown patriarch for six decades, died yesterday.
He was 93 and had been ill for several years - though he regularly went to work at his shop until it was forced to close in January 2008.
Impeccably dressed, well-spoken and ambitious to make his mark in the entertainment business, Robinson opened Bobby's Happy House in 1946.
His shop was the first black-owned business on 125th St., and within five years he used it to launch a series of record labels.
Sometimes working with his brother Danny, who also had an office on 125th St., Robinson recorded hundreds of artists from Gladys Knight and the Pips to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
Knight's first hit, "Every Beat of My Heart," was released on Robinson's Fury label.
Robinson, a South Carolina native, had a No. 1 national hit in 1959 with Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" - and said years later that a hit of that magnitude crippled his business because he had to press so many copies he couldn't promote any other artists.
But his Red Robin, Whirlin' Disc, Fire, Fury and Enjoy labels became legendary in the rhythm and blues world, and his releases by artists like the Channels, Teenchords and Scarlets helped define the sound of the New York streets through the 1950s.
Robinson ultimately recorded a wide range of artists that included the great bluesman Elmore James, whom Robinson inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In the late 1970s, Robinson became one of the first label owners to record rap music, cutting artists like Flash, Doug E. Fresh and Spoonie Gee.
Robinson eventually had to move the shop around the corner in the late 1990s, and he closed for good on Jan. 21, 2008, when his new landlord decided to raze the building for a development.
"I've seen 125th St. at its best and worst," Robinson said in late 2007. "And I'll tell you, there's no more exciting place in the world."
Hip Hop fans will remember him best for his ENJOY record label, which was one of the early record labels back in the early 80's, giving us hits from The Treachours Three, Master Don Comitee, Spoonie G, Funky 4 to name but a few... RIP
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
NEW* Westwood - Giggs backstage *EXCLUSIVE* part 3
Giggs hangin' backstage at Tinchy Stryder live show ft. Skepta, Devlin, Eric Turner, Tinchy Stryder, Fuda Guy, Dirty Danger, Ghetts, Princess Nyah, JME, Jodie Connor, Darwood, Mr Hudson, N-Dubz & Griminal.
Video: Dee Vasquez Discussion On “Femcee’s” (Part 1)
Dee Vasquez talks to Lady Luck, Rah Digga, BDot, Karen Civil & Nina B about the word “Femcee” in hip-hop and how sexuality affects female MC’s in today’s world.
Shout to ESKAY
Dee Vasquez Sits Down With Karen Civil, B.Dot, Lady Luck, Nina B and Rah Digga (Part 1) from itsthebino on Vimeo.
Shout to ESKAY
Dee Vasquez Sits Down With Karen Civil, B.Dot, Lady Luck, Nina B and Rah Digga (Part 1) from itsthebino on Vimeo.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
MADVILLAIN - AVALANCHE / VICTORY LAP
TWO NEW MADVILLAIN TRACKS, LEAKED FROM STONES THROW PODCAST #64. STONES THROW'S PODCAST IS AS FREE AS FRESH AIR. DOWNLOAD THE WHOLE THING RIGHT HERE: http://sthrow.com/podcast
I need this in my life right about now...
I need this in my life right about now...
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