Hit upon a new beat (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
LOS ANGELES – With his spiky mohawk, cluttered canvas of tattooed skin and punk-rock pedigree stretching back to childhood, Travis Barker isn’t exactly pleading to be taken seriously as a hip-hop head. Photo caption: Travis Barker, now busy remixing the work of rap and R&B luminaries, is half of TRV$DJAM. Photo by Los Angeles Times
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Nas blends new tunes, mastered skill at The Rave (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
There’s no arguing that Nas’ rap career of almost a decade and a half — an eternity in hip-hop — has seen equal amounts of success, strife and setbacks.
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Atl Blog: I-20 Teams Up With Ludacris and Street Symphony For New Song, Rock City On BET's Rap City Tonight, And ... (SOHH.com)
Well known Atlanta artist I-20 is back on the scene with some new music. He and Ludacris have teamed up on a new song. And you know I got it for you below to check out.
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Making the leap from rock to hip-hop (Honolulu Advertiser)
With his spiky mohawk, cluttered canvas of tattooed skin and punk-rock pedigree stretching back to childhood, Travis Barker isn't exactly pleading to be taken seriously as a hip-hop head. A former drummer for the multiplatinum-selling power pop trio Blink-182 who also has done turns behind the kit for rock outfits including the Aquabats, +44 and Box Car Racer, he boasts impeccable Warped Tour ...
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Calendar Girls picks and clicks for Sept. 6–12: Hip hop art, veggie Jews, string theory & laughs (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)
(PLAY) They're being called the "Divas of Domesticity." Three PTA-parents-turned-girl-group prove dishes can't diminish a desire for artistic creativity.
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Rock The Bells: Here comes hip-hop's hottest happening (Seattle Times)
Hip-hop festival Rock The Bells is one of the highest-grossing live events in North America, ranking with Coachella, Lollapalooza and Radiohead, according to concert industry magazine Pollstar. Nas, Mos Def, Method Man, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul and The Pharcyde will be performing at the Gorge Sept. 6, 2008.
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Imagination Movers bring preschool rap, rock to Disney (Johnson City Press)
NEW ORLEANS — They are the Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers of preschool, rapping and rocking in matching blue jumpsuits to such songs as “First Day of School” and “I Want My Mommy.”
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The Playlist: Something like a phenomenon (University of Connecticut Daily Campus)
It's something we've seen plenty of times before in hip-hop: a song so bad, yet so addicting, that it takes the airwaves by storm. After digging around a bit, here are the best of the worst. 9. "Back That Azz Up" Juvenile: Of the 16 lines that make up the first verse of Juvenile's crown jewel, 14 of them end with the word "yeah.
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New York: In the hood (The New Zealand Herald)
Bling and booze; profanity and promiscuity; guns and grog. Hip-hop has suffered a bad rap at the hands of modern artists, but the old-timers are still around and they're keen to challenge the stereotypes. There's no better place to do so than in New York, where the genre was born.
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DALLAS POTTER HOUSE MINISTER RELEASES NEW CD ON MALACO RECORDS: Rapper Dooney Da Priest takes his ‘Pull Your Pants ... (Eurweb)
Dallas rapper Dooney Da Priest pulled his pants up, buckled his belt and penned a song that is the anthem of his “Pull Your Pants Up!” movement.
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