Free Hip Hop!
What happens when you give away free Hip Hop on the streets of London?
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MYSTRO – Around my way from Ian Gamester on Vimeo.
Garbage Pail Beats
“Garbage Pail Beats is an instrumental Hip-Hop, Off-beat album. Try to read the Cupp Cave bio or to listen to his music, and then you should think that his Garbage Pail Beats are a rump-shaking, head-nodding, feet-shuffling slap in the face, one for the crate-diggers and glitch-lovers. Imagine crispy gravel. Imagine a big, red, 8-bit family sedan. Imagine yourself in your car, with your sunglasses and open windows. Imagine the sun shining. Bang, bang, clap; Cupp Cave is certified Hennessy-free.
The idea was to make a sleeve with this feeling. We thought of Oreli for the artwork. Her psychedelyc universe, full of toys and happy monsters was perfect for Cupp Cave’s mind!
It was really hard to choose the right color. First, Oreli thought of Gold and Black. But we were not sure about it. Eventually, fluorescent pink and green were selected for the “backgound” colors and we decided to mix it with 3 various foreground colors: Silver, Purple and Cyan. Remember the 80s, your old video games, or imagine Miami. PAN!
The music can also be quite tough. If you feel tired, or if a headache bothers you, come back later! We wanted to feel the same with the colors…
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Don’t Shoot The Hostages by:Monte Smith
Don’t Shoot the Hostages is more than just another “conscious” or “radical” poetry book. It’s an outspoken contribution towards the clarification and understanding of: Race, White Guilt, Religion, Police Brutality, The Real Drug War, America the Plantation, 9/11, The Prison Industrial Complex and Local/International poverty issues from the perspective of the Revolutionary, The drug dealer/addict, and the common man and woman.
The foreword was written by Bruce George, co-creator of HBO’S Def Poetry Jam. Contributors for Don’t Shoot the Hostages were hand selected for their in your face approach to, “telling it like it is!”
The contributors are Carlos Andres Gomez (winner of the 2004 Red Bull Word Clash and recipient of the Best Spoken Word CD Award for 2006), J DEE (member of the militant west coast rap group, Da Lynch Mob), Nancy Winters (prison rights activist, advocate and friend of Mumia Abu Jamal), The Mad Rabbi (member of the prolific Rap group, Pens and Needles) and Abstract Rude (former member of the legendary Hip Hop groups, Freestyle Fellowship and Abstract Tribe Unique).
What Don’t Shoot the Hostages offers the reader is the opportunity to live out the following scenario: imagine walking into a heavily populated section of any major city and having the ability to read the minds of everyone you passed. You would quickly realize the masses are starving, doing dope to cope, and as a result, severely failing in personal and social relationships. Don’t Shoot the Hostages reminds the reader that the main problem poor, working class people face, are themselves. From beginning to end, Don’t Shoot the Hostages is an unflinching look into the minds of society’s forgotten.
The poetry, social commentary and contributions in this book are radical, angry, and at times, terrifying.
“Monte brings you fire and ice; the burning of his heart is his passion; the coolness, is his reason and insight. His poetry is a welcome ingredient in the mix of Hip Hop.”
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL – Author, Journalist, Unjustly incarcerated political prisoner
MONTE SMITH VS. DJ PREMIER
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The wait is finally over. Atlanta based creative group Underground Champions in association with Third World Citizens has created the mash up of 2009 – “Monte Smith VS. DJ Premier” available now for free at www.streetpoetmontesmith.com.
In conjunction with the release of internationally acclaimed Street Poet Monte Smith’s new book Don’t Shoot The Hostages: Poetry for the New World Survivalist, Underground Champions has combined eight tracks of DJ Premier’s signature sound with Monte’s guerrilla penmanship. Featured tracks include Chuck D spitting his version of Monte’s poem, “The Deal Is Done”, originally released on the audio version of The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press 2008). Some say message music is dead. “Monte Smith VS. DJ Premier” will prove message music is not only alive, but cocked and ready to blast your fu#$%ng head off!
“Poetry abounds in Hip Hop, but rarely does an individual’s work transcend the elements and conventions with such an emotional and political style.”
- ELEMENTAL MAGAZINE
This Is For My Brothers
BumpHipHop.com pays respect to hip hop’s fallen stars with the “R.I.P. Hip Hop” set of nine wallpapers. Featuring Biggie, Big Pun, 2Pac, ODB, Easy E, Big L, JMJ, Mac Dre, and J Dilla.
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