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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Beat Cartel Presents: Destination Hip Hop
Beat Cartel Presents: Destination Hip Hop
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Tragedy Khadafi Released From Prison, Working With Capone-N-Noreaga
by Slav Kandyba
Veteran Queensbridge emcee Tragedy Khadafi was released from prison on June 23rd, months ahead of his anticipated January 2011 release date.
“They let me out early, which is a blessing,” the artist formerly known as the Intelligent Hoodlum told HipHopDX Monday evening. “The minute I got out I started working on a couple of projects. Working with a book project that I'm putting out and I started working with a group, one of the main groups that I'm affiliated with, UGP, Underground Professionals. I also started recording for myself as well as linking up with [Capone-N-Noreaga] to begin the process of recording my input for The War Report 2.”
Tragedy, a Juice Crew alum, who has been hailed by many as a key influence on Queensbridge Hip Hop, collaborated with Capone-N-Noreaga throughout their classic 1997 debut The War Report. The duo have stated that he would appear on the highly anticipated sequel and now it appears that the album can be completed.
“Basically from what was conveyed to me was they were waiting on me to come home so they can close the project up,' Tragedy said. “That's where I'm at with that. Aside from that particular project, I'm working on several projects and have been talking to a few people. I've been talking to Vinnie [Paz] from Jedi Mind [Tricks] to put something together, one of my team players, Phantom and [business associate] Scott Davidson, talking with several different people that want to do projects with me.”
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Veteran Queensbridge emcee Tragedy Khadafi was released from prison on June 23rd, months ahead of his anticipated January 2011 release date.
“They let me out early, which is a blessing,” the artist formerly known as the Intelligent Hoodlum told HipHopDX Monday evening. “The minute I got out I started working on a couple of projects. Working with a book project that I'm putting out and I started working with a group, one of the main groups that I'm affiliated with, UGP, Underground Professionals. I also started recording for myself as well as linking up with [Capone-N-Noreaga] to begin the process of recording my input for The War Report 2.”
Tragedy, a Juice Crew alum, who has been hailed by many as a key influence on Queensbridge Hip Hop, collaborated with Capone-N-Noreaga throughout their classic 1997 debut The War Report. The duo have stated that he would appear on the highly anticipated sequel and now it appears that the album can be completed.
“Basically from what was conveyed to me was they were waiting on me to come home so they can close the project up,' Tragedy said. “That's where I'm at with that. Aside from that particular project, I'm working on several projects and have been talking to a few people. I've been talking to Vinnie [Paz] from Jedi Mind [Tricks] to put something together, one of my team players, Phantom and [business associate] Scott Davidson, talking with several different people that want to do projects with me.”
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Album Preview: Capone-N-Noreaga's "War Report 2"
by Jake Paine
Last week, HipHopDX stopped by the EMI Records offices in New York to preview the final mix of Capone-N-Noreaga's The War Report 2. To be released July 13 through Raekwon's Ice H20 imprint - the same team that brought last year's acclaimed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II sequel, another '90s homage, this album hopes to recreate the excitement, energy and chemistry that added a critical chapter to the Queens Hip Hop saga.
The question in many minds is how closely the personnel between the June, 1997 release and the July, 2010 will be. C-N-N manager/rapper Imam T.H.U.G. makes an expected return, as does longtime affiliate Musaliny, both on the "Planet Rock"-ispired "Thug Planet." Busta Rhymes also returns, this time on "The Oath," a conceptual track that features mutual friend and colleague, Raekwon - and brief guest vocals from one of this year's most talked about stars. One superior veteran producer returns to the camouflage camp in D.I.T.C.'s Buckwild, who delivers one of the album's most-talked about cuts in "With Me."
"With Me," will draw many into this project. Although the War Report sequel does not feature Tragedy Khadafi or Mobb Deep, one key Queens representative does show up in Nas. Nas appears on "With Me," to deliver a verse that sounds straight out of his It Was Written mind-state, after notably going absent on OB4CL2.
The War Report 2 balances old with the new. Production work from Alchemist, the aforementioned Buckwild and H20's own BT will feel to fans as '90s beats stored away in a safety deposit box, awaiting such an occasion. Meanwhile, Cam'ron in-house producer Araab Muzik and Swizz Beatz' protege Neo Da Matrix both deliver very contemporary-sounding backdrops for 'Pone and N.O.R.E. Both old and new sounds alike are driven by low-end bass, with few topping Alchemist's album-opener, "Pain," which comes from subs-in-the-trunk era of music-making.
Lyrically, this album's subject matter is both true to C-N-N form, and stripped down from the duo's success and stardom. The lyrics are not rooted in bragging about money, legacy or success, but rather surviving the times. "Favor For A Favor" speaks to both the streets and the Rap industry, as a modus operandi to endure the tough times. "Bodega Stories" and "Dutches vs. Phillies vs. Bamboo" are evident of the group's New York street appeal. These are classic N.O.R.E. subjects, comparing how one likes to roll up, and what really goes on in one of the northeast's cultural mainstays.
Later on, the album looks inward. Treating the H20/C-N-N camps like a Cosa Nostra, songs like "Brother From Another" and "The Oath" focus on the street families and dedication within the group, to each other. Just as Channel 10's "The Argument" captured honest dialog between the partners-in-rhyme, so do these verses. "Live On, Live Long, Pt. 2" serves as a dedication to the then-incarcerated Tragedy Khadafi, who, as the group says, served both as a mentor and in making the '97 classic possible. The verses are honest, and inadvertently speak to the turmoil that's shaped the Queensbridge Rap community over the last 15 years.
Just as the case with Nas, fans will be pleased to see Raekwon appear on three songs within the album he's executive producing. Other '90s New York Rap titans The L.O.X. also appear, on "Bodega Stories" , and deliver masterful, short verses that show chemistry between C-N-N and D-Block. Singers Faith Evans and Avery Storm also chime in, on the two aforementioned contemporary tracks, "The Corner" and "Hood Pride."
The War Report 2 closes with the duo acknowledging various deaths in Rap. "Obituary" is largely talked and not in traditional verse, but the duo uses the Green Lantern-produced opportunity to mention names including Half-A-Mil, Killa Sha, Mike Beck, K.L. and Dolla, all the way back to Scott La Rock, Soulja Slim and Eazy E. The list is hauntingly long, but serves as a milestone to many names, faces and voices Hip Hop has lost.
Calling back to the times of a unified New York front, Capone-N-Noreaga's War Report sequel calls back to the glory and the imagery of the iced-out medallions era, and the album's presentation, guest-list and sound suggest that this is more than just a talking-point sequel, Ice H20 might be freezing time.
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Last week, HipHopDX stopped by the EMI Records offices in New York to preview the final mix of Capone-N-Noreaga's The War Report 2. To be released July 13 through Raekwon's Ice H20 imprint - the same team that brought last year's acclaimed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt. II sequel, another '90s homage, this album hopes to recreate the excitement, energy and chemistry that added a critical chapter to the Queens Hip Hop saga.
The question in many minds is how closely the personnel between the June, 1997 release and the July, 2010 will be. C-N-N manager/rapper Imam T.H.U.G. makes an expected return, as does longtime affiliate Musaliny, both on the "Planet Rock"-ispired "Thug Planet." Busta Rhymes also returns, this time on "The Oath," a conceptual track that features mutual friend and colleague, Raekwon - and brief guest vocals from one of this year's most talked about stars. One superior veteran producer returns to the camouflage camp in D.I.T.C.'s Buckwild, who delivers one of the album's most-talked about cuts in "With Me."
"With Me," will draw many into this project. Although the War Report sequel does not feature Tragedy Khadafi or Mobb Deep, one key Queens representative does show up in Nas. Nas appears on "With Me," to deliver a verse that sounds straight out of his It Was Written mind-state, after notably going absent on OB4CL2.
The War Report 2 balances old with the new. Production work from Alchemist, the aforementioned Buckwild and H20's own BT will feel to fans as '90s beats stored away in a safety deposit box, awaiting such an occasion. Meanwhile, Cam'ron in-house producer Araab Muzik and Swizz Beatz' protege Neo Da Matrix both deliver very contemporary-sounding backdrops for 'Pone and N.O.R.E. Both old and new sounds alike are driven by low-end bass, with few topping Alchemist's album-opener, "Pain," which comes from subs-in-the-trunk era of music-making.
Lyrically, this album's subject matter is both true to C-N-N form, and stripped down from the duo's success and stardom. The lyrics are not rooted in bragging about money, legacy or success, but rather surviving the times. "Favor For A Favor" speaks to both the streets and the Rap industry, as a modus operandi to endure the tough times. "Bodega Stories" and "Dutches vs. Phillies vs. Bamboo" are evident of the group's New York street appeal. These are classic N.O.R.E. subjects, comparing how one likes to roll up, and what really goes on in one of the northeast's cultural mainstays.
Later on, the album looks inward. Treating the H20/C-N-N camps like a Cosa Nostra, songs like "Brother From Another" and "The Oath" focus on the street families and dedication within the group, to each other. Just as Channel 10's "The Argument" captured honest dialog between the partners-in-rhyme, so do these verses. "Live On, Live Long, Pt. 2" serves as a dedication to the then-incarcerated Tragedy Khadafi, who, as the group says, served both as a mentor and in making the '97 classic possible. The verses are honest, and inadvertently speak to the turmoil that's shaped the Queensbridge Rap community over the last 15 years.
Just as the case with Nas, fans will be pleased to see Raekwon appear on three songs within the album he's executive producing. Other '90s New York Rap titans The L.O.X. also appear, on "Bodega Stories" , and deliver masterful, short verses that show chemistry between C-N-N and D-Block. Singers Faith Evans and Avery Storm also chime in, on the two aforementioned contemporary tracks, "The Corner" and "Hood Pride."
The War Report 2 closes with the duo acknowledging various deaths in Rap. "Obituary" is largely talked and not in traditional verse, but the duo uses the Green Lantern-produced opportunity to mention names including Half-A-Mil, Killa Sha, Mike Beck, K.L. and Dolla, all the way back to Scott La Rock, Soulja Slim and Eazy E. The list is hauntingly long, but serves as a milestone to many names, faces and voices Hip Hop has lost.
Calling back to the times of a unified New York front, Capone-N-Noreaga's War Report sequel calls back to the glory and the imagery of the iced-out medallions era, and the album's presentation, guest-list and sound suggest that this is more than just a talking-point sequel, Ice H20 might be freezing time.
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Pioneering Hip Hop Icon Rammellzee Passes Away
by Jake Paine
Details are still emerging, but it has been confirmed that Hip Hop pioneer Rammellzee has died. The Far Rockaway Queens, New York native is perhaps best known for 1982 Hip Hop single "Beat Bop" (made with K-Rob). The song features a cover art by late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The song would go onto appear in seminal graffiti film Style Wars, gaining notoriety and becoming one of the most sought-after Rap records of the early '80s, later re-released by the Profile label.
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Pioneering Hip Hop Icon Rammellzee Passes Away
June 30, 2010 09:19:00 AM CDT | by Jake Paine
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Details are still emerging, but it has been confirmed that Hip Hop pioneer Rammellzee has died. The Far Rockaway Queens, New York native is perhaps best known for 1982 Hip Hop single "Beat Bop" (made with K-Rob). The song features a cover art by late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The song would go onto appear in seminal graffiti film Style Wars, gaining notoriety and becoming one of the most sought-after Rap records of the early '80s, later re-released by the Profile label.
As a visual artist, Rammellzee's work appeared in galleries domestically and abroad. His work has been self-described as "future gothic."
The cause of Rammellzee's death is unknown at present. In recent years, he had appeared in several documentaries, as well as making a 2003 rare musical performance alongside his Death Comet Crew at New York's Knitting Factory.
HipHopDX extends our condolences to Rammellzee's family, friends and family. We honor and appreciate his contribution to Hip Hop, and will keep you updated.
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Details are still emerging, but it has been confirmed that Hip Hop pioneer Rammellzee has died. The Far Rockaway Queens, New York native is perhaps best known for 1982 Hip Hop single "Beat Bop" (made with K-Rob). The song features a cover art by late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The song would go onto appear in seminal graffiti film Style Wars, gaining notoriety and becoming one of the most sought-after Rap records of the early '80s, later re-released by the Profile label.
DX
News
Pioneering Hip Hop Icon Rammellzee Passes Away
June 30, 2010 09:19:00 AM CDT | by Jake Paine
Share49
Details are still emerging, but it has been confirmed that Hip Hop pioneer Rammellzee has died. The Far Rockaway Queens, New York native is perhaps best known for 1982 Hip Hop single "Beat Bop" (made with K-Rob). The song features a cover art by late painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
The song would go onto appear in seminal graffiti film Style Wars, gaining notoriety and becoming one of the most sought-after Rap records of the early '80s, later re-released by the Profile label.
As a visual artist, Rammellzee's work appeared in galleries domestically and abroad. His work has been self-described as "future gothic."
The cause of Rammellzee's death is unknown at present. In recent years, he had appeared in several documentaries, as well as making a 2003 rare musical performance alongside his Death Comet Crew at New York's Knitting Factory.
HipHopDX extends our condolences to Rammellzee's family, friends and family. We honor and appreciate his contribution to Hip Hop, and will keep you updated.
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Dame Grease Seeks New Talent For Martial Law
by Edwin Ortiz
Harlem producer Dame Grease has teamed up with Sonicbids.com, a social music website, to give one producer and one artist a chance to create a bonus track for his latest album Martial Law.
Grease, who is best known for his work with rappers DMX, Max B and The L.O.X., will choose an artist and producer that he deems not only musically talented but also someone who adds a “creative twist” to their submission. Winners will be chosen by August 10. For more information on the contest, click here.
While no official date has been set, Martial Law is still scheduled to be released this year through Vacant Lot Records/Island Def Jam. DMX, among others, is expected to be featured on Grease’s latest project.
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Harlem producer Dame Grease has teamed up with Sonicbids.com, a social music website, to give one producer and one artist a chance to create a bonus track for his latest album Martial Law.
Grease, who is best known for his work with rappers DMX, Max B and The L.O.X., will choose an artist and producer that he deems not only musically talented but also someone who adds a “creative twist” to their submission. Winners will be chosen by August 10. For more information on the contest, click here.
While no official date has been set, Martial Law is still scheduled to be released this year through Vacant Lot Records/Island Def Jam. DMX, among others, is expected to be featured on Grease’s latest project.
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