Who is Mayer Hawthorne? (you better already know)

Posted in Artists, Other Peoples' Interviews, Videos on October 14th, 2009 by Hyphen

If for some ungodly reason you don’t…peep this dope piece put together by the Ruby Hornet team for a nice recap.  Shout to the homies Buff, KT, and the whole Athletic Mic League.  They’re one of my favorite crews of all time and it’s great to see all the success that Drew/Haircut/Mayer is having these days.  Great music from great people!

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Sene – WonLover (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 14th, 2009 by Hyphen

If you aren’t familiar with Sene, you really need to get hip.  Luckily for you, he’s about to drop his full project with Blu handling all the production (you didn’t know Blu got beats?), ADayLate&ADollarShort, and here’s the first bit of visuals for it.  I’ve been bumping the album recently and it’s great throughout.  Blu did a great job crafting a consistent sound and Sene’s style is actually real similar to Blu’s on the mic.  Highly recommend y’all cop it…

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Sound Session #228 (10-11-09)

Posted in Episodes, Sound Session on October 12th, 2009 by Hyphen

Back again with another edition of SNSS, highlighting the latest and greatest music out there each week.  This time around, we ran new cuts from folks like J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Keelay & Zaire, BK-One, Shad, Janelle Monae, J*Davey, Yoshi, and many more.  We also gave out some tickets for an upcoming Ghostface Killah show here in Seattle, but if you missed it, don’t fret: we’ll have more tix in the coming weeks.

Yep.  Pretty much what we do.

Show #228 (10-11-09)

  1. Sean Price & Buckshot – “Can’t Fight The Feeling”
  2. Skyzoo – “Under Pressure”
  3. Raekwon ft. Cappadonna & Ghostface Killah – “10 Bricks”
  4. Ghostface Killah ft. Fabolous & Shareefa – “Guest House”
  5. They Live – “Meth Heads” (Local Music)
  6. J. Cole – “Welcome”
  7. Strong Arm Steady ft. Talib Kweli – “Okay (Get Started)”
  8. KRS-One & Buckshot ft. Mary J. Blige – “The Way I Live”
  9. Lupe Fiasco – “Fire”
  10. Debaser (Sapient & Ethic) ft. Phat Kat & Rasco – “Out Front” (Local Music)
  11. Crown City Rockers – “Make It Hotter”
  12. Keelay & Zaire ft. Tunji, Thurzday, Kam Moye, Ragen Fykes, & the Park – “Addicts For Real (Remix)
  13. Big Boi ft. Too $hort & George Clinton – “For Yo’ Sorrows”
  14. BK-One ft. Brother Ali & Scarface – “American Nightmare”
  15. Shad ft. Jermiside & Destruments – “The Calling”
  16. Grynch ft. RA Scion & Illa J – “You Know Me (Remix)” (Local Music)
  17. Yoshi ft. Buff1 & Darien Brockington – “Magnetic”
  18. Peter, Bjorn, & John ft. Drake – “Let’s Call It Off (Remix)”
  19. Janelle Monae – “Come Alive (The War Of The Roses)”
  20. J*Davey – “End Of Your World (Mama’s Back)”
  21. Joss Stone ft. Nas – “Governmentalist”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?xmymyiyukym
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/66879242614734ab/)

If there are any problems with the links or if you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.

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Yoshi ft. Buff1 and Darien Brockington – Magnetic (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 10th, 2009 by Hyphen

Really feeling the the two tracks I’ve heard from Yoshi so far…here’s a video my man Gerard directed featuring Buff1 and D-Brock.  Real smooth.

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U-N-I ft. Fashawn – Pulp Fiction, Pt. 1 (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 8th, 2009 by Hyphen

When Thurz & Y-O were in town last month for Bumbershoot, they brought this video up for the 206 fam (peep Y-O’s fresh Hawks hat) to check out.  As I’ve mentioned before, I’m continually impressed by the visuals U-N-I release, and even though this video wasn’t done by their longtime collaborator Tomas Whitmore (Fredo Tovar handled this one), it still came out super dope.

Great track made even better with an ill video.  If for some reason you don’t have it, grab the audio off the Before There Was Love mixtape.

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D. Black on King 5 News

Posted in Artists, Other Peoples' Interviews, Videos on October 8th, 2009 by Hyphen

Look at the homey D. Black getting some love on our local NBC affiliate here in Seattle.  That’s big.  Congrats to D and the whole Sportn’ Life family.  Cop Ali’Yah if you haven’t already!

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The Foreign Exchange – I Wanna Know (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 6th, 2009 by Hyphen

Okaaaaaay, you can blame it all on me tonight.

Real music.

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Sound Session #227 (10-4-09)

Posted in Artists, Episodes, Sound Session on October 5th, 2009 by Hyphen

I feel like a broken record these days, but since I’m pressed for time again this week, we’ll keep it simple.  Check out this week’s show for great music from artists like Crown City Rockers, Sean Price, Murs, J. Cole, Skyzoo, Cormega, Rob Murat, De La Soul, Shad, and more.  I think we may have world premiered a new Strong Arm Steady track featuring Talib Kweli too, but I’m not sure.  I haven’t seen it out there for the general public quite yet…

We also aired a snippet of our interview with the Clipse, but you can look for the full version (with video) to be posted soon on TAOD.  Thanks to B. Nolan at Columbia (where they apparently do play fair…+3 points if you get the reference) for setting that up.  Shout to the homey Sonny Bonoho as well for coming through the studio to play a new joint of his featuring Playboy Tre.  Enjoy!

Show #227 (10-4-09)

  1. Consequence ft. Rick Ross – “The More I Get”
  2. Crown City Rockers – “Make It Hotter”
  3. Buckshot & Sean Price – “The Feeling”
  4. Ghostface Killah ft. Fabolous & Shareefa – “Guest House”
  5. BK-One ft. Murs – “Eighteen To Twenty-One”
  6. Strong Arm Steady ft. Talib Kweli – “Okay (Get Started)”
  7. **INTERVIEW WITH SONNY BONOHO**
  8. Sonny Bonoho ft. Playboy Tre – “I Know” (Local Music)
  9. Big Boi ft. Too $hort & George Clinton – “For Yo’ Sorrows”
  10. Shafiq Husayn ft. Bilal – “Cheeba (Nottz Remix)”
  11. De La Soul – “La La La”
  12. Shad ft. Jermiside & Destruments – “The Calling”
  13. Skyzoo – “The Opener”
  14. J. Cole – “Lights Please”
  15. Kyle Lucas & Captain Midnite ft. Sol & Grynch – “The New Light” (Local Music)
  16. **INTERVIEW WITH THE CLIPSE #02 (SNIPPET)**
  17. Clipse ft. Kanye West – “Kinda Like A Big Deal”
  18. Cormega – “Make It Clear”
  19. They Live – “Meth Heads” (Local Music)
  20. Rob Murat ft. Kidz In The Hall – “Dilemma (Remix 1.0)”
  21. Brother Ali – “You Say (Puppy Love)”
  22. Aloe Blacc – “What Was Your Name”
  23. Lee Wilson ft. Mos Def – “Soul Kiss”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?jmdmwbd3nft
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/665512784d57eb89/)

If there are any problems with the links or if you’d like to be added to our weekly email list to receive the playlist and download links after every show, just shoot me an email, DJHyphen@gmail.com.

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The Roots – How I Got Over (video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 3rd, 2009 by Hyphen

As I mentioned when we first played this track on SNSS a while back, it seems like Tariq’s singing on the Jimmy Fallon Show might start to shine through more on their recorded material too.  If the results are anything like this, I don’t mind one bit.

Get out of these streets and get into the classroom kids.

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Common ft. Pharrell – U.M.C. (original video)

Posted in Artists, Music Videos on October 3rd, 2009 by Hyphen

It’s always interesting when videos like this end up leaking.  Were they really that upset with this final result that they felt the need to go create another video with all the robots?  Shrug…I like ’em both.

And for the record, this album is still dope.

Swiped from 2DopeBoyz.

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