This is going to be the 3rd group of Hip-Hoppers that I know of going to Uganda in the past 3 years in a cultural exchange.
The first group was Crazy Legs, (Los Angelino) Ervin Arana & Ynot from the Rock Steady Crew. They met with Abramz from Breakdance Project Uganda and did a week's worth [...]

 
Strictly Cassette is a new website/blog that's been collected, compiled and presented as a cassette archive. 
Seeing it all come together and on display is pretty mindblowing. Some of these I had when I was younger, so there's the nostalgia factor, but then a lot of them I had never seen or even thought that they [...]

L-Fudge – Liquid – What If – Show Me Your Gratitude 12"
Great moments in Hip-Hop 12"s – L-Fudge, Mike Zoot, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Skam & Kweli – "What If". Produced by DJ Spinna.
This was a classic Rawkus posse cut. Spinna had released his Heavy Beats LP, Skam (Skam2) dropped a 12" w/ Eminem (he also did [...]

I saw this on @eyeonesh (EYE ONE) Facebook page last night, where he mentioned he had done some work on the film. I checked it out this morning and it looks like it’s going to be an incredible piece of work.
Based on the life of TEMPT ONE, from a being a prolific writer and considered [...]

 
Beat Swap Meet #16 was it? I lost count awhile ago. During the lead-in and the weekend I was regretting a little bit staying at home, because LA had, in succession, Erykah Badu on Thurs, Spinna and J Rocc All 90s Party on Fri and then Madlib’s Medicine Show on Sat. I didn’t go to [...]

Slang Yourself is an excellent short film by the homie @waltergross, a staple of the DIY LA beat scene. I'd heard his beats for a while, and some Youtube vids for them, but had no idea he had skills like this behind the cam. Definitely a cool look into the process, from starting the beat to [...]

           
And listen to those breaks gettin slapped by the Djs.

The Freestyle Sessions 14th Year jam was a perfect ending to the last (kind of, I’m done anyway) weekend of summer. At the the end of BBoy Week, after a week of different battles and jams all week long in Los [...]

I went and checked out the LA-area stops of Cut Chemist's ”Tunnel Vision” tour this week. For shows on a  Tuesday and Wednesday night, the turnouts were nice and the performances were on point. 
Cut, Mr. Lif, Paton Locke, Edan, Myka9, Hymnal, Deantoni Parks, Blackbird, Chali Tuna all came and repped. It was cool, and Cut made the point a [...]

This is an album that remakes and was inspired by the Polish Jazz drummer Czeslaw Bartkowski. Each track was chopped, rearranged and freaked by Mensa-El (Analog Burners)
Free Bandcamp download link: http://analogburners.bandcamp.com/
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A NOTE FROM MICK BOOGIE
A Tribe Called Quest is one of my favorite groups of all time… in any genre of music. After seeing Michael Rapaport's amazing documentary on the group, I felt inspired to put together a mix and this is the end result. This is NOT a greatest hits mix. This mix is [...]