The Audacity of Dope

Look at me staying up late on a Sunday night to archive the show right away, fresh off the presses for y’all.  Well, to be honest, I’m actually posting it up with the quickness because I’m trying to prep for this week as best I can.  It’s set to be a crazy one as I’ll be headed down to SXSW in Austin on Wednesday and coming back to Seattle right before the next SNSS, so free time will be at a minimum.  In fact, J. Moore will also be down there with a lot of the 206 family, so if you’re there too, give us a shout.  SNSS x SXSW, you know what it is.

Shout to Keelay (of Keelay & Zaire) and Nightclubber Lang for coming through last night’s show as well.  If you haven’t copped Kee & Zee’s Ridin’ High album, you’re sleeping on one of the best releases of the year.  Look out for some video footage of the interview coming soon as well.  In the meantime, enjoy the audio:

Show #198 (3-15-09)

1. Fashawn – “Remember The Times”
2. Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce The 5’9”, & Crooked I) – “Fight Club”
3. Focus ft. Big Pooh, Sha Stimuli, & Kurupt – “Homage To Pete Rock”
4. Zion I – “Antenna”
5. Braille & S1 ft. Ragen Fykes – “Stay Together” (Local Artist)
6. Blu & Miss Jack Davey – “iFeel”
7. **INTERVIEW WITH KEELAY & NIGHTCLUBBER LANG, PT. 1**
8. Keelay & Zaire ft. Blu, Fortilive, & Nino Moschella – “The Times”
9. Nas ft. Marsha Ambrosius – “If I Ruled The World ’09 (Smirnoff Signature Remix)”
10. Method Man & Redman ft. Saukrates – “A Yo”
11. Ghostface Killah & MF Doom – “Chinatown Wars”
12. Brother Ali – “Begin Here”
13. Buggs Tha Rocka ft. Little Brother – “Get Away”
14. LaRue – “Rise Up” (Local Artist)
15. **INTERVIEW WITH KEELAY & NIGHTCLUBBER LANG, PT. 2**
16. Keelay & Zaire ft. Tunji – “Addicts For Real”
17. Ripynt ft. Jazz Digga – “Can’t Take It” (Local Artist)
18. Deep Rooted – “Billie Jean Theme”
19. JR&PH7 ft. Black Milk & Guilty Simpson – “Top Rank”
20. Ernie Gaines – “So Sorry”
21. Mayer Hawthorne – “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”

Link to download the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?zzzazggmzzg
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/57120189f9bbb2a7/ )

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.

What up, what up?  I know it’s been a minute since I’ve posted anything up, but your boy has been mad busy.  After heading down to Oregon last weekend for a basketball tournament with my 6th grade select team that I coach, I promptly caught a crazy cold that has me stuck in bed.  I fought it all last week and seemed to be doing pretty well, but when you have a nagging cold and don’t eat or sleep well all week, it usually catches up to you.  Running around from 9am – midnight every day for weeks at a time definitely got to me.  And someone please tell me why it’s still snowing in March in Seattle…wtfffff.

Anyway, I hope to be blogging more again soon.  Here’s this week’s Sound Session to get things started.  Darn good show if I say so myself…

Show #197 (3-8-09)

1. Buggs Tha Rocka ft. Little Brother – “Get Away”
2. Reflection Eternal ft. Bootsy Collins – “Internet Connection”
3. Focus ft. Big Pooh, Sha Stimuli, & Kurupt – “Homage To Pete Rock”
4. DJ Babu ft. MF Doom & Sean Price – “The Unexpected”
5. **INTERVIEW WITH MACKLEMORE & CASSIUS**
6. Blame One ft. Sean Price – “Disturbed”
7. Nottz ft. Kardinal Offishall & Cory Gunz – “Can’t Hide The Truth”
8. Braille & S1 – “For Life” (Local Artist)
9. John Legend – “Lay Your Head Down”
10. Mayer Hawthorne – “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”
11. Zion I ft. K. Flay – “Coastin’”
12. LaRue – “Rise Up” (Local Artist)
13. Kid Cudi – “Sky Might Fall”
14. TiRon ft. Ayomari – “3 Drink Minimum”
15. Ms. One ft. Black Milk & Big Pooh – “2 MC’s”
16. Drake – “Lust For Life”
17. Saigon & Statik Selektah – “The Rules”
18. Ripynt ft. Jazz Digga – “Can’t Take It” (Local Artist)
19. Pacific Division – “Mayor”
20. Slaughterhouse (Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Royce The 5’9”, & Crooked I) – “Fight Club”
21. Method Man & Redman – “A Yo”

Link to download the mp3 – http://www.mediafire.com/?ododhcoedzi
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/56841816dcd6056c/)

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.

I’ll be there…possibly telling you how your beats sound.

Everybody seems to be getting down on this instrumental (shout to Drake especially), but this is the first video I’ve seen over it.  Big shout to Brain, Dyme Def, and the whole Soul Gorilla/800LB fam.  Gotta love the Kingdome footage at the end.  206 all day.

Sidenote:  I’m mad busy this week, semi-sick, and will be headed to Oregon this weekend…so blogging might be at a premium for the next few days.  Hold tight…

The homies Y-O and Thurzday came through Sound Session at the end of last year and it’s taken me a minute to post up the video of the full interview.  We aired part of the audio a few weeks ago, but here’s the full thing.  You can peep the clip above to hear them talk all about their upcoming Love Supreme project (dropping soon!), their possible beef with the Knux, the dreaded ‘hipster’ label, and much more.

If you want to check out the broadcast audio and hear it all more clearly, here’s the audio only:

U-N-I on Sound Session – http://www.mediafire.com/?vuh4mjmr5o3
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/56497985ef8e1e3a/)

And if you missed the last time we had U-N-I in the studio, click here.  I hope you remember this:

While I always like the songs we play on SNSS (I’m slightly biased), there are certain weeks where I absolutely love the tracks.  This was one of those weeks.  From Drake to Deep Rooted, Zion I to Nottz, John Legend to Nat King Cole, this was one of my favorite SNSS episodes in a minute.

Plus, we were joined in the studio by a dope up and coming artist from the town, Sol, and played a snippet of an interview we did with TiRon.  Be on the lookout for the full version of that interview, which I’ll be posting up later this week.  In the meantime, enjoy:

Show #196 (3-1-09)

1. J. Period ft. De La Soul – “Excursions 2009 (Tribute Mix)”
2. Zion I – “Antenna”
3. B.o.B. – “Generation Lost”
4. Drake – “Lust For Life”
5. Buggs Tha Rocka ft. Little Brother – “Get Away”
6. John Legend – “Lay Your Head Down”
7. Nat King Cole – “The Pick Up (Just Blaze Mix)”
8. Pacific Division – “Mayor”
9. Braille & S1 ft. Vursatyl (of the Lifesavas) – “Megaphone Phonics” (Local Artist)
10. DJ Deckstream ft. Mos Def – “Life Is Good”
11. **INTERVIEW WITH TIRON (SNIPPET)**
12. TiRon ft. Ayomari – “3 Drink Minimum”
13. Colin Munroe ft. Young Buck – “I’m Fine”
14. K’Naan – “Somalia”
15. Reflection Eternal ft. Bootsy Collins – “Internet Connection”
16. Deep Rooted – “D.E.E.P. R.O.O.T.E.D.”
17. **INTERVIEW WITH SOL**
18. Sol – “Road Is Rough” (Local Artist)
19. Spaceman – “This Is That Fire” (Local Artist)
20. Nottz ft. Kardinal Offishall & Cory Gunz – “Can’t Hide The Truth”
21. Saigon & Statik Selektah – “The Rules”
22. CunninLynguists – “Never Come Down (The Brownie Song)”
23. Mayer Hawthorne – “Maybe So, Maybe No”

Link to download the mp3 of the show – http://www.mediafire.com/?tgzje4dutwg
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/56445774269b2e5c/)

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.

Remember a while back when I told you about this project that Braille and S1 were putting together called Cloud Nineteen?  Well the Seattle release party is here and you already know it’s gonna be great.  It’s all ages and only 8 bucks, which includes a copy of the album, at the Vera Project tonight.  Braille, S1, Ohmega Watts, Theory Hazit, Ragen Fykes, and Vursatyl of the Lifesavas (possibly the most underrated MC in the country) will all be in the building and you should be too.  I’ll see you there.

To all my Seattle/Tacoma folks, I highly recommend you check out this year’s Hip-Hop Summit at Highline Community College today and tomorrow.  It’s going to be full of great conversations and great performances, including a panel appearance by yours truly later today at noon in the student union.  For the performance, you get to peep some of the best talent here in the northwest (Parker Brothaz, Common Market, Gabriel Teodros, and more) for only a few bucks.  Here are all the details:

Thursday, February 26th

The History & Evolution of Hip-Hop
with King Khazm(founder of Zulu Nation-Seattle Chapter, Hip Hop emcee & activist)
9-9:50am, Student Union-Mt. Constance Room

Hip Hop Politics
with Dr. Tricia Rose of Brown University
10-11:30am, Student Union-Mt. Constance Room

Panel Discussion: Misconceptions of Hip-Hop
with DJ Hyphen, Kitty Wu, King Khazm, and more
12-1:30pm, Student Union-Mt. Constance Room

Friday, February 27th

Art Showcase
Evolution of Art Club
10am, Mt. Constance Room

Poetry Lounge and Open Mic
11am, Mt. Constance Room

Night Show
Doors Open at 6pm
Highline Student Union, Mt. Townsend Room Stage
2 v. 2 Break Battle
With Performances by:
So HyDef, Nam, Khingz, Gabriel Teodros, The Parker Brothers and Common Market
Highline Students $5, General Admission $10

For more information contact: Tony Innouvong at tinnouvong@highline.edu, (206)878-3710 x3904

Come through:  2400 S. 240th St., Des Moines, WA 98198

In between my 2.5 jobs and my lack of sleep, I don’t have a whole lot to say about this week’s SNSS.  You already know the drill though…an hour and half of the dopest music [Olbermann] in the wooorrrrrlllllld [/Keith], featuring tracks by Pac Div, U-N-I, Blu, Kid Cudi, Colin Munroe, Deep Rooted, Strong Arm Steady, Nottz, Kardinal Offishall, Mayer Hawthorne, B.o.B., and more.

On top of that, we were joined in the studio by local artist Avatar Young Blaze (who talked about his collaboration with Lil’ Wayne) and the big homey Jake One.  Also, the homies from Highline Community College came through to talk about their Hip-Hop Summit event going down later this week.  I’ll be featured on one of the panels, so if you’re in the neighborhood Thursday at noon, drop on by the Des Moines campus and check out what’s sure to be a great convo.

Show #195 (2-22-09)

1. Pacific Division – “Mayor”
2. Big Tone – “Business”
3. U-N-I ft. Black Milk – “Castle Vee Re-Up”
4. **INTERVIEW WITH AVATAR YOUNG BLAZE**
5. Avatar Young Blaze ft. Lil’ Wayne – “King of the Streets” (Local Artist)
6. J. Period ft. Consequence & Kid Cudi – “Buggin’ Out 2009 (Tribute Mix)”
7. Dela ft. Blu – “Mars (Remix)”
8. Focus ft. Frank Nitti, T3, Baatin, & Illa J – “Homage To Dilla”
9. Kid Cudi – “Day N Nite”
10. Colin Munroe ft. Young Buck – “I’m Fine”
11. Drake – “Say You Will Freestyle (Say What’s Real)”
12. Big Sean – “Supa Dupa”
13. Deep Rooted – “D.E.E.P. R.O.O.T.E.D.”
14. Strong Arm Steady ft. Chace Infinite (of Self Scientific), Planet Asia, & Affion Crockett – “Black History”
15. Nottz ft. Kardinal Offishall & Cory Gunz – “Can’t Hide The Truth”
16. Rise & the Avid Record Collector – “Rise Anthem”
17. Spaceman – “This Is That Fire” (Local Artist)
18. Sol ft. Philharmonic – “Spliff” (Local Artist)
19. Mayer Hawthorne – “I Wish It Would Rain”
20. B.o.B. – “Generation Lost”
21. **INTERVIEW WITH JAKE ONE**

Link to download the mp3 – http://www.mediafire.com/?z2q1mml3b5k
(back up / streaming link – http://www.zshare.net/audio/5609436093d03955/ )

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.

Exile and DJ Day practice their D-Train routine for their upcoming tour.  Seattle folks: they’ll be bringing the incredible MPC skills to Nectar on March 14th. I highly suggest you be there.  Other dates below:

Feb. 22nd – Long Beach, CA – Blue Cafe
Feb. 26th – Pomona, CA – Cal State Pomona (Session A)
Feb. 6th and 7th – Chicago, IL – Sub T
March 12th – Portland, OR – The Fix
March 14th – Seattle, WA – Nectar Lounge
March 28th – San Bernardino, CA – Paid Dues Festival