Via the good folk at KNOCKSTEADY (make sure to check their quality hustle, here). Surfing the Land of Twit yesterday, I was happy to come upon a live UStream broadcast, hosted by Dumbfoundead, and featuring Blue Scholars. The crew performed a few new tracks off their upcoming Cinemetropolis and answered some questions from the viewing audience. The clip above is just a bit of that show.
(For more SEA love from KNOCKSTEADY, peep Grieves and Budo’s recent appearance, here.)
Remember The Incredible Journey? I loved that movie. Slug must like it, too.
I only got hip to Dice within the last couple of months when she was featured on “For The Love,” a Valentine’s Day drop from Sol. She is, without a doubt, one of the most multi-talented artists Seattle’s hip-hop/R&B scene has right now.
“Things I Couldn’t Say” finds her rhyming and singing in such an emotive way she nearly becomes transparent. This video takes its cue from the PostSecret art project and features many of The Town’s hip-hop movers and shakers. Everything is done beautifully here, except for some of the placards — if only they’d written in thicker Sharpie.
Probably the most artistic and well-conceived skate shoe commercial you’ll ever see. Thank the ethereal sounds of Flying Lotus, esoteric presence of SP’s Palaceer Lazaro, and visionary direction of Kahlil Joseph for that. I was never a skater, but this makes me wish I had been.
Has a black-and-white Seattle ever looked more striking?
(Via Potholes In My Blog)
From the Problematic EP (get it for FREE here) “Proud 2 Be” is Logics’ rallying cry for his music and, apparently, his life in general. This clip has an appealingly grimy DIY feel to it. Watch the Tacoma emcee go ham with a sledgehammer on a helpless television and felled tree, and then casually hang out with his homies on some old army tanks and heavy construction machinery. The dichotomy between existence in nature and artificiality is definitively Northwest (that is probably too heavy an analysis for this video, but whatever). As far as Logics’ flow, it’s still growing on me.
Saw this over at SW Reverb courtesy Nick Feldman. I caught wind of the LRG promotional outing to the San Juan Islands (my hometown) via a brief Twitter exchange with 9th Wonder back in January. Check out the previous post, here.
Turns out the influential streetwear company also bankrolled a music video for Bronx-based emcee The Kid Daytona. It’s an unlikely setting for a rapper from the Boogie-down, but then again I never would have predicted I’d end up living in Harlem for three years when I was a bored and clueless teen attending keg parties in the middle of the woods on Lopez Island. Funny how life goes.
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More hustle work for Rockwell Powers and Ill Pill’s Kids In The Back 2, dropping April 16. Tacoma is the jump-off for the release. All you SEA cats who think you’re too good for the South Sound, swallow that pride pill and get thee to the 253.
Thanks to my homie for hipping me to this. From the SXSW 2011 files, the vexatious yet shockingly well-informed Nardwuar interviews Seattle’s own Macklemore. Is this a true sign that the artist formerly known as “Professor Macklemore” has finally “made it”? That’s unlikely. But it still must be an oddly satisfying career landmark for The Town’s currently favored son.
Fun fact: before Drake blew, Macklemore had the opportunity to hire mainstream rap’s reigning prince for a “show and verse” for the low, low price of $6,000. One of those fork-in-the-road moments that’s fun to ponder.
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