The local hip-hop community celebrates a big milestone Saturday, when the Grassroots! concert series celebrates its 10-year anniversary at the Dragon’s Den. Lyrikill, Chels, Thaione Davis, Marcel P. Black will perform with resident DJ Def D and founding host Truth Universal. Grassroots! has been crucial to the underground hip-hop scene in New Orleans. It began [...]
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YouTube du Jour: Big Freedia on Jimmy Kimmel Live
January 26, 2012 – 12:40 pm
Last night Big Freedia brought bounce to national television with a performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live late-night talk show. Freedia performed two recent songs, “Excuse” (above) and “Na Who Mad” (below). You can watch the full episode on JimmyKimmelLive.com. Tomorrow night Big Freedia performs at our Best of the Beat Awards at Generations Hall. [...]
Big Freedia Explains Bounce to Pitchfork
January 18, 2012 – 3:16 pm
Indie rock website Pitchfork recently posted video with Big Freedia onstage and backstage, where she explains bounce. She’ll be onstage Friday, January 27 at the Best of the Beat Awards to show how it’s done. // // ]]>
Inside DJ Poppa’s Party House
January 13, 2012 – 4:58 pm
“You’re about to enter an urban environment,” says Jack Spratt. “All sorts of felonious mishaps may occur.” With that, he flicks a helmet visor down and stalks off into the alley. The lanky host of Poppa’s Party House—the Sunday night bounce party at House of Blues—sports a helmet decorated with stickers of hundred dollar bills, [...]
YouTube du Jour: Wu-Tang Clan Ticket Giveaway
January 10, 2012 – 8:02 pm
In 1992, the Wu-Tang Clan hit the scene with their debut single “Protect Ya Neck”. The following year the Staten Island collective released their first album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), and the rest is history. The song featured original members RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, and the late Ol’ [...]
No Limit Forever: Dawn of the Don II?
January 1, 2012 – 12:11 am
Recall New Orleans, 1998, around midnight. Your sweaty back cools against the passenger seat of a silver Maxima buzzing along I-10 under a lavender sky. From the carpet of shingles and treetops below the elevated highway, the billboard rises, white with blue block letters. “Thou Shall Not Kill.” A half-mile later, another billboard, a man [...]
YouTube du Jour: 2-Cent’s Odd Christmas
December 29, 2011 – 4:29 pm
For the last few years, local video production team 2-Cent, led by director Brandan “bmike” Odums, has released an annual Christmas-themed video spoofing popular rap and pop stars. This year’s video skewers everything from Beyonce’s “Party” to Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now”. The parodies are spot-on; if you’re not familiar with the originals, check [...]
YouTube du Jour: Stalley
December 20, 2011 – 12:03 am
Tonight, rapper Stalley performs at the Howlin Wolf. Although he hails from Cleveland, he worked with local director Brandan Odums/Bmike (nominated for a Best of the Beat Award for Best Music Video) for a tour through New Orleans in this video for his song “Babblin’”. Produced for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the video [...]
YouTube du Jour: Fiend/International Jones
December 2, 2011 – 10:15 am
In the new December issue, Drew Hinshaw looks at the 2011 output from the JETS crew—the New Orleans smoke-centric rappers who were almost absurdly productive this year. Curren$y has the highest profile among them, but the rest of the bunch—Fiend, Trademark, Young Roddy, Corner Boy P, Street Wiz—will play a late night show at House [...]
Elespee and Prospek, Quantumetaphysicadillac Music (Guerilla Publishing Company)
December 1, 2011 – 12:51 am
Like OutKast’s flagship Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik and Isaac Hayes’ soul odyssey “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic” before it, Elespee and Prospek’s Quantumetaphysicadillac Music pushes musical boundaries and puts the urban landscape in perspective. “Morality’s a luxury / Survival is a must,” Elespee raps over a woozy, nostalgic jazz-funk groove in the opening verse of “Milk & Honey,” a song that sizes [...]
