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VIDEO: “Bully” – Fearce & Bean

When I was like ten years old, two kids in the class above mine used to snatch my backpack every day right when school let out. They’d grab it off my shoulder, throw it down on the ground, and take turns kicking it all the way to the parking lot where the buses were waiting to take us all home. I was one of the lucky kids because these bullies never got physical with me. Some of my peers weren’t as fortunate.

Fearce and BeanOne go in for a good cause on “Bully,” a new track from the Yuk The World cohorts. Thanks fellas for making this one.

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VIDEO: “Farewell Sol: The Concert” – Sol & Friends

Girls in wedges and dudes in Chucks showed up for Sol’s “farewell show” at The Showbox on June 16th, an event that, in the course of selling out, placed the MC in good company with a handful of other SEA hip-hop artists (Macklemore and Blue Scholars included) who have done the same.

Dude is now traversing the globe for the next year or so on a post-graduate grant. To be sure, that’s a hefty period of time in music years but a duration that I’m sure will pass in the blink of an eye for the man doing the actual traveling. I’m curious to hear what new directions Sol’s music will take as a result of his trip. Until his return, the rapper can rest assured his peers in the SEA rap community will keep a seat at the table nice and warm for him.

Happy travels from 206UP.

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NEW MUSIC: A Plus Collective – Logics

Click album cover to download at Northwest State Of Mind.

Having trouble keeping up with South Sound rhyme animal Logics and his seemingly endless musical output? Me too. DJ B-Mello makes it a little easier for listeners on APlus Collective, a best-of comp available for free over at Northwest State Of Mind. Click through to find it.

And here’s L’s most recent clip for “Serious (Remix)” (featuring Bruce Leroy and directed by Detooz Films).

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VIDEO: “Inception” – Fleeta Partee (dir. by The Note)

New video by Fleeta Partee for “Inception,” which I previously hipped you to here. Did you pick up the track yet? Tsk tsk. This one’s produced by Vitamin D off Fleeta’s LifeMuzik EP.

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VIDEO: “The Physics x Showbox – 6/16/12” & “A Moment With The Physics”

Two mini-doc featurettes starring The Physics a group that, in my estimation, is making the best hip-hop in Seattle at the moment. The clip above is from Sol’s recent going-away show at The Showbox. And the one below documents the crew as they pack up their old studio at the OK Hotel and move to an “undisclosed location” in SoDo.

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I had the great fortune of sitting down with Thig Nat and Justo for a few minutes last November in New York City. If you missed that click here to catch up.

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VIDEO: “Shifty” – Ripynt

Fight music from the North End’s Ripynt. “Shifty” can be found at this location and on the MC’c upcoming Hurt Locker Deluxe (June 26).

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VIDEO: “Foot Soldiers” – Wizdom & Epidemmik (feat. DJ Rise)

From the album Unearthed, the recent collaboration between MC Wizdom and producer Epidemmik. Wiz is the Imelda Marcos of Seattle rap.

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VIDEO: “A Learning Game” – J. Pinder (dir. by Trevor Traynor)

Just caught this on Nah Right. J. Pinder’s new video for “A Learning Game” off the rapper’s Fin Records debut, Careless, which I reviewed at this location.

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