Flav the funky drummer

(Grand Good)

As part of Flav's birthday celebrations... Happy belated born day to a Hip Hop legend, a music icon and an integral member of the seminal group Public Enemy, who has never been afraid to be himself and rock his own style, from day one!

Blaow

(Black Thought, Q-Tip, Pharoahe Monch, Amanda Diva, 88 Keys, Dice Raw on the 18th December at BB Kings, Times Square, NYC. Filmed and produced by DeFame (the Wrong Crowd). Props to DJ Durag for posting.

If only all Open Mic sessions sounded as dope as this

Mellie Mel & GMC tearing it down (Video)

Recorded live by Grand Good at Jackie Robinson Park on the 8/8/07

What you get here: Originators Kool Herc X Mellie Mel, Mellie Mel x Grandmaster Caz routine, Mellie Mel x Grandmaster Caz x The Message = Timeless NYC live Hip Hop

KRS-One freestyle over Wu's C.R.E.A.M (video)

Courtesy of Grandgood, from a live performance they recorded at SOBs back in May.

KRS-One's Maximum Strength album, is out now. Go and get it.

Rare live boogie nugget

Shout to LA Boogie Funk ambassador Dam-Funk for the heads up on this Aurra clip of their 1981 classic Are You Single.

Loosies

You gotta love it when your iPod loses all it's juice and you're sitting on the bus listening to the engine, traffic, etc, buggin' out there's no music in at least one of your eardrums.

On another note, here's a couple of fresh songs, mixes and interviews I've come across which deserve wider attention (even if it is for the mere number of readers that check my blog.)



DJ Morse Code (pictured above) has put together a seamless Disco blend of "Shawty Get Loose". It's a god send for those of us that either (a) play clubs on the regular, (b) aren't really keeping up with all the more mainstream rap dropping these days. It's a very cool, booty shaking, groove filled, loose, piece of party perfection - a true disco rap weapon

Brisbane based DJ Dyce laced Discobelle with a wonderful Mixin' It Up. It is indeed one of those mixes that you get so lost in that you forget everything around you: the time of the day, if you've got a tea boiling, whether you left the iron on. Whatever you were intending to do gets ignored, moved to the back of the brain, when you become entranced in a Dope mix, such as this one.

Big shout out to El Callejero (alias of one of Sin City's dopest MC's), for posting a great interview with the legendary Ivan "Doc" Rodriguez. Thanks for sharing this insightful conversation with one of the greatest behind the music figures in rap, mate. Here's the link

Here's some well shot and compiled footage of rising Melbourne (VIC) based rap group Low Budget performing their track "State to State" at "Revolver". Shout out to Swipe for the heads up and to Joske and Pluto, for putting it together.

Black Moon - Who Got Da Props live

Footage above courtesy of the folks at Grand Good, recorded live at Sputnik on the 21st December 2007.

"Who Got Da Props" originally appeared on the classic 1994
Black Moon LP "Enta Da Stage".

Pete Rock - For Pete's Sake & One In A Million

The dedicated folk at Grandgood continue to document (record) all the classic live New York based Hip Hop live shows, you may have missed. Here's some footage of Pete Rock's performance on the 28th February at New York's Highline Ballroom.

Video: KRS-ONE live from Toronto, Canada

The God - Blastmaster KRS-ONE

Here's a classic Def Poetry live performance of "2nd Quarter" from Doug E Fresh and KRS you may have missed.

Rakim backed by Rhythm Roots All Stars (live)

Image courtesy of The Michigan Daily Online.

Here's a rundown of some of the tracks you're gonna hear in this incredible, so damn funky live medley (recorded in Austin, Texas at - 'Don't Sweat The Technique', 'Follow The Leader', 'Juice (Know The Ledge)', 'I Ain't No Joke', 'I Know You've Got Soul'.

The R shouts out B-Boys, asks the crowd who remembers 'The Wop'?

You need to hear this .

Rhythm Roots All Stars My Space.
Rakim My Space.