Ed Banger Records is set to release Ed Rec. Vol III on May 26th.
Featuring:
Justice, DJ Mehdi, SebastiAn, Uffie, Spank Rock, Feadz, Murs, Busy P, So Me, Mr. Flash, DSL, Mr. Oizo and Krazy Baldhead.
Click play below to play a teaser from ed rec. vol III
Record-Breaking 25-Hour Event to Be Preceded by Block Party featuring New York's
Largest Electric Slide Demonstration to Aid Impoverished Haitians
The Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem, a fully integrated entertainment and educational complex that uses hip-hop as a tool for teaching youth topics as varied as politics, history and economics, will present its second annual Rapathon on Saturday, May 3, beginning at 9 pm. The event will be hosted by WQHT (Hot 97) New York DJ Ralph McDaniels, aka Uncle Ralph, a revered member of the hip hop world for 25 years, since becoming one of its first VJs. The Rapathon will once again feature over 100 emcees rapping non-stop with no vulgarities. But instead of 24 hours, the artists will again try for a new record, passing the mike for 25 hours. The best Rapathon emcee will win a Ralph McDaniels-produced and -directed video, which will premier on WNYC-TV's Video Music Box, widely recognized as the "original tastemaker to the streets." The festivities will kick off with an attempt to create New York's largest electric slide demonstration outside the Center, on 124th Street between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue, from at 3pm. The "slide show" will be part of a day-long block party featuring live DJs, various local exhibitors and food vendors.
Conceived as a fundraiser for the Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem and also a charity drive to help improve the lives of Haitians living well below the United Nations poverty line, anyone can participate in the electric slide demonstration by donating one can of food. Harlem's Soul Saving Station Church will deliver the donations to Mahotiere Boys Orphanage, located in Carrefour, one of Haiti's poorest districts, just outside of downtown Port-au-Prince. To attend the Rapathon, whose participants were pre-selected from a series of auditions, a $25 donation is suggested.
"The Rapathon will once again provide an opportunity for hours of family fun and entertainment, while demonstrating in words and deeds the positive side of what rap music and hip hop culture can offer," said Curtis Sherrod, Executive Director of the Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem. "In doing so, it will also bring hundreds of people Uptown and contribute greatly to the cultural revival and economic revitalization occurring in Harlem."
The Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem is located at 2309 Frederick Douglass Blvd. on the second floor of the Magic Johnson Theater in the heart of Harlem, along the famed 125th Street shopping district. It is New York City's first official permanent Hip Hop exhibit and cultural arts center.
For additional information or to arrange interviews concerning the Rapathon, please contact Natassia Seward at 212-234-7171 or hiphopculturectr@aol.com.
From Hiphoppress.com
On April 26th Jean Grae announced her retirement on her myspace blog, here is what she posted:
Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes
Everyone who has been on this ride with me since the beginning and continues to be a supporter of music that makes you feel something true and vulnerable and honest by being just that.
It's been a wonderful and awful journey all at the same time. Mostly leaning towards the wonderful part..lol.
Thank you for letting me share what I could with you and sharing yourselves back, as you have really been the reason that I kept on.
It's always nice to know that you could be the voice of someone who didn't have one, or know just how to say it.
No comment or letter or statement of appreciation has ever gone unnoticed.
I love to write, I love to be able to create imagery and a world out of just words.
I will always love what I consider to be true hip hop music... from the bottom of my soul.
I hope you will continue to distinguish those who are contributors to the evolution of hip hop and other black music as both an auditory stimulation and a culture, taking care that they are put in a position to do so.
Thank you listeners, whom I consider my friends and family....
Enjoy.... see y'all around..
It's been amazing.. thank you again.
peaces..
Independent Hip Hop Artist Develops A Revolutionary Concept For Marketing Himself Hip hop artist Drizzy D.R.O has developed a new viral marketing technique that has successfully reached tens of thousands of fans in over 35 states and two countries.
Birmingham, AL . (4/17/08) –Birmingham based hip hop artist Derek " Drizzy D.R.O" Davis has developed a revolutionary concept for marketing himself as an artist by creating the "Press/Play Hotline." Started in 2006, using only a cell phone and word-of-mouth viral promotion, the "Press/Play Hotline" has reached upwards of 50,000 fans in over 35 states and 3 countries. Drizzy allows fans to call his personal cell phone and request a random freestyle on any subject. "Honestly it started as a joke, but before I knew it everyone was talking about it."
Drizzy, knowing that his talent for freestyle rapping was far above average, decided that he would use this amazing ability to get his foot in the door of the music industry. "I knew when I started rapping that the odds of making it in the industry were slim…even with incredible talent. I just couldn't shake my love for the music…It's all I've ever wanted to do." Drizzy started the hotline by sending his friends text messages asking them to call him anytime 24/7 for a random freestyle on any subject. "They forwarded it to their friends, who forwarded it to their friends, who told somebody else about it…before I knew it I was getting new area codes daily." Drizzy tracks the progress of his viral campaign with his trusty white pages. "Page 11" he says, "all the national area codes are listed there, and I check it each time I get a new one." "It's good feeling when I hit a new state."
Currently the "Press/Play Hotline" is free of charge, and open 24 hours a day 7 days a week. "I try to answer as many as I can. I work and I have to sleep sometimes, but I try to get to as many as I can." "If you don't get me…leave a message. I put them on my mixtapes as drops." Drizzy uses the internet and text messaging to further connect with his fans. Most of the calls are videotaped and the best of the week are put up on his own site www.alien8ent.com as well as www.youtube.com/alien8ent . At the end of the day,"Da Drizzle's" intentions are clear, "I'm an artist. I'm not trying to play to the game, I'm trying to change it!"
The Press/Play Hotline: 205-617-9166
About Alien8 Entertainment:
Alien8 is an independent record label/ management-consulting firm started in 2007 by Derek "Drizzy D.R.O" Davis and his business partners Marcus Turner, Jay Sanders and Allen Watkins.
Contact :
Marcus Turner
Alien8 Entertainment
205-533-3472
marcus.birm@gmail.com
www.alien8ent.com
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Hip Hop Appreciation Week 2008 is Announced
Peace and much love!
The divinity in me salutes the divinity in you, word! Greetings Hip Hop Community,
The Temple of Hiphop is proud to announce the 2008 Hip Hop Appreciation Week (HHAW) will be celebrated May 18-25, the theme for this year is EMPOWERMENT! Hiphoppas around the world are encouraged to use this week to empower yourself, your community and increase the work to de-criminalize the images of Hip Hop that are constantly being shown through the mainstream media.
Use HHAW to teach people, especially the youth, about Hip Hop culture and the many ways we have contributed to positive social change in our communities. This will empower Hiphoppas to rise above the negative stereotypes that some people continue to attempt to place on our people, our ways of express and our culture. As the citizens of the USA are preparing for the election season, let us be empowered to know that it is us, the Hip Hop community that is leading the way for new leadership by voting in record numbers! According to some political experts, the Hip Hop community who will determine who will win elections all across the country from local Councilmen to Congress to Commander-in- Chief!
This is also an exciting time in the international Hip Hop community, all over the world more and more people are being empowered through the phenomenon that is Hip Hop culture! This is especially true of Hip Hop beyond the entertainment aspects, such as Education, Politics and Spirituality. According to the United Nations, "Hip Hop is the fastest growing culture in the world"! From New to New Zealand, from California to Cairo, people are looking to Hip Hop culture to empower them to transcend the barriers of the past and transform their communities into what they desire them to be! Hiphoppas, this is what we've been preparing for, we must realize that we have a great opportunity to actually change the course of world history simply through the Empowerment of Hip Hop culture!
Let's not front; let us use the 2008 HHAW as the inspiration to step up and finally recognizing who we are and what we are here to do, "Now Is The Time and We Are The People"!
Have a great, safe, productive and empowered HHAW, Word!
Forever Hiphop,
Minister Server - The Hiphop Life Coach Temple Of Hiphop,HIPHOP Ministries, Inc.
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