Tag Archive for the term: hiphop

Hope to make you smile… the world is crazy, but the people in it are relentlessy surprising and fall-in-loveable, here’s more proof in the form of a hip hop medley:

I don’t know the story of this first video’s production, whether it’s official or not, but I hope so, it’s beautiful and will burn itself deep in your brain and become brighter over time, I swear and declare it. It’s “Luv (sic) pt. 2″ by Japanese indie hiphop new art stars of my heart, Nujabes:

And [...]

K’naan, the Somalian rapper that Canada likes to claim as our own, takes consciousness hiphop to higher levels by connecting the studios and streets of New York and Toronto to the effect the music has in hearts and minds in countries like Somalia where hope can be harder to come by.
K’Naan “Strugglin” (mp3) [...]

Egadz is Dead, so Clear the Battlefields with this last set of haunting, catchy tracks and make room for San Francisco indie instrumental indie creator Erik Nava to move on.
I do have to say that I have grown as an artist, and now I’m re creating myself in another project. Thanks for all of [...]

Big horns, sweet vocals and a kindly, Seattle-mello hip hop flow make this D.Black track one that climbs in close to your heart, helps you “grow strong in the chest place” and keeps chins up for whatever it is tomorrow brings.
we all have a way out the hood, it’s just misunderstood
(…)
a life being useless? [...]

Webisodes 1 and 2 in this running series of interviews with Q-tip about his long awaited experimental, alter ego hip hop album Kamaal the Abstract are posted to Indyish here, and the conversation continues below, with insights about how one gets great, and all the work it takes.

Q-Tip – “A Million Times” from By [...]

From Mercury award winner Speech Debelle to Kazakhstan, Tupak lives!
One of Debelle’s idols as a teen was the rapper Tupac Shakur. “Someone once said about him — and I’d like to think I have that — that he had strength within his vulnerability. And I think that’s what Daddy’s Little Girl is. It’s a [...]

We are excited for this album, there is no flow quite like Q-tip, and it’s interesting to watch these videos and hear how he’s been thinking about this work over the years.
Battery Records (a subsidiary of BMG) is set to release long-awaited, much anticipated Q-Tip album Kamaal the Abstract:
In these hard times, we can [...]

Speech Debelle took top honours last night for her album Speech Therapy, featuring arrangements by Lotek HiFi for double bass, live drums, clarinet and more, released on indie label group Big Dada / Ninja Tune.
www.myspace.com/speechdebellemusic
http://www.ninjatune.net/home/
http://www.myspace.com/lotekhifi

Fun, boppy, Canadian, entirely self-produced hiphop from indie artist Mantis who’d:
rather speak the truth in my music than see dollars
Fair enough.
http://www.myspace.com/mantishiphop
Mantis “What? (feat. Justis)” (mp3) from “Still Life” (Brick Records) Buy at iTunes Music Store Buy at Rhapsody Buy at Napster Stream from Rhapsody More On This Album