Shwayze‘s music video for “Get U Home” got my eyes popping out of my head thanks to some good looking sisters, sorority sisters that is. The music video features the Malibu based hip-hop act playing live with some fine ladies from the new movie Sorority Row (in theaters September 11). Check out the video and get ready for the release of their new album, Let It Beat, available on October 27th.
Category Archives: Hip Hop
Cypress Hill & The 2 Day Smoke Out (Festival)
I am beyond jealous of this line up…
I have not seen quite a line up like this in a long time.
Where do I start talking about this amazing festival?
Sublime? Seriously? I am so curious to see how this is going to pan out. Who is this 20 year old Rome who picked up the singing duties? Will it be just a glorified Long Beach Dub Allstars?
Why am I asking so many questions??? I am excited that is why.
Pennywise will be playing one of the days with their new singer who was just assigned as Jim Lindberg announced his departure of the band last month after being with the band for 19 years. Zoli Teglas from handcore punk band Ignite is taking over the duties temporarily. I am so curious to see how this goes.
Pennywise’s Fletcher Dragge had this to say about the replacement:
“As everybody knows, Jim has left the band and we’re looking for a new singer. For the time being our friend Zoli has agreed to fill in for Jim for a couple shows to avoid having to cancel them while we look for a permanent replacement.”
Acts like Cypress Hill, Deftones, Method Man & Red Man, Bad Brains, Afrika Bambaataa (wow, seriously…wow), Mix Master Mike, Goodie Mob (reunion performance), Hieroglyphics, and the Geto Boys (reunion performance) all in a span of two days all hosted by Cheech & Chong really makes me wish this was a touring festival.
Sadly though, it is in California and there is no way I am going to be at that show this year. I hope to read good things about it and I thank my pals over at Earshot Media for giving me the heads up.
R.I.P. DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) – 1974-2009
I got home around 2:30am this morning when I checked Twitter before shutting my eyes on an amazing day.
Sadly I read something I wish was not true. DJ AM was found dead in his NYC home.
Seriously? WTF.
Having personal battles in his life, it was stated that the popular DJ who has worked with a whole slew of folk including Crazy Town, Jay Z, and most recently Travis Barker ended his life by an apparent drug addiction.
Having narrowly escaped death not even a year ago from a fatal plane crash it appears as if he simply could not deal with life anymore and made a terrible decision to pull the plug on his life.
Travis Barker tweeted the following this afternoon:
Don’t know how i am gonna play 2night but i am for AM. My brother is gone.i love u and miss u, i’ll never forget all the good times we had. I’ll never forget everything we’ve been thru and every time i play the drums i’ll think of you. U were an amazing friend/DJ/human being. Rest In Peace my brother, this really fucks me up.
It’s just sad to see such talent just end it all. He made a powerful impact on so many other artists…
I appreciate all music out there so obviously I was familiar with some of his work but not all of it. I do know that he was too young to leave this world the way he did.
Perhaps the most stand out DJ AM material to me is that of the DJ AM and Travis Barker (TRV$/DJ-AM) mix tapes that are available on the internet. The TRV$/DJ-AM mixes are available for download free of charge. If you have not heard them before you should check out what the late DJ and drumming sensation Travis Barker created. The mixes incorporate live drumming by Travis Barker along side DJ AM spinning just about anything he could get his hands on.
RIP DJ…
Shwayze “Get U Home” Video / P.O.S. “Purexed” Video
It would appear that I am in a hip hop sort of mood tonight. That’s not such a bad thing you know…
Shwayze’s Cisco Adler has created his own music video for the hip-hop duo’s new single “Get U Home” off of their upcoming album Let It Beat. The video gives you a look into the fun and crazy lifestyle that the Malibu-based duo lives behind the scenes and on tour.
P.O.S. continues to drop cool videos, his latest is for “Purexed” and it debuted via MTV2‘s Unleashed and on MTVu earlier this week. I love this song and the idea of the video just makes it that much more appealing. Check it out here:
Eyedea & Abilities Drop New Video
Minnesota hip-hop duo Eyedea & Abilities just dropped a new video for the song “Junk”. The song was taken from their latest release By The Throat that was released in late July. I have always appreciated the duo as artists with their interesting beats and fast paced rhymes. Hearing this song today is making me think that they are taking a darker approach with the almost industrial sounding guitars. Still the song is interesting as the Matrix inspired video that accompanies it.