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Straight Outta New Bedford: 2 Men Arrested For Gangsta Rap Video
When two aspiring hip-hop artists from Massachusetts were hauled into court last month and charged with making threats against police in a rap video, everyone in the court room, from the defense attorneys to the prosecutors, agreed on one thing:
Matthew Rufino, 24, and Jason Foley, 28, do not have a bright future ahead in hip hop.
Watch 4 Me, the low-budget YouTube video that landed the pair behind bars, shows Rufino and Foley rapping inside some kind of dark tent, with blurry google images of shootouts and mangled police cruisers to illustrate their violent lyrics.
The four-minute clip, posted by 508 Productions ...
VIDEO: Masta Ace & EDO. G – Ei8ht Is Enough [Directed by Court Dunn]
After being delayed for a month because of some legal tie-ups, Edo G's new album with Masta Ace is coming out tomorrow, Nov. 3.
Really loving the new one-shot video in support of the album with Ace and Edo making their best "hard" and "grimey" faces, respectively.
Arts & Entertainment, the new LP, features collaborations with KRS-One, Posdnuos of De La Soul, Large Professor & Do It All of Lords of the Undeground. Here's a partial track list from Kevin Nottingham:
1.) Hands High (produced by M-Phazes)
2.) A’s &E’s f/Marsha Ambrosious (produced by Baby Dooks)
3.) Fans f/Large professor produced by (DJ Supreme One)
4.) ...
Scratch Orchestra Brings Marxism To Roxbury (Non-Barack Obama Content)
Ah, the 1960s. Those were heady times.
Cultural norms flew out the window, the doors of perception blew off their hinges and the models that had propped up the post-war generation were, at the least, under some intense scrutiny.
Against this backdrop, English composer Cornelius Cardew began tinkering with the idea of a free-form musical group that would be governed by the tenets of Marxism, giving its members total control over not only the ensemble, but the definition of "music" itself. Continue Reading...
Joe Budden Learns Raekwon =/= Something To F*** With
After stirring up controversy in Boston earlier this year, Joe Budden was apparently running his mouth again over the weekend, this time calling out the Wu-Tang Clan at the Rock the Bells Tour.
Budden reportedly took a shiner in the right eye from Raekwon after he complained about being ranked lower than Method Man and Redman on a Vibe MC list. A YouTube video that surfaced after the incident shows Budden discussing the confrontation with emissaries from his entourage.
While we hate to see hip-hop feuds erupt into real-world violence, to be fair, Budden had ample warning that the Clan is not ...
New Yorker Gives Shoutout To Boston DJ In File Sharing Case
Cambridge DJ Wayne And Wax got some praise from the New Yorker blog today for his first-hand account of testifying at the trial of Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year-old BU grad student who was ordered to pay the recording industry $675,000 for downloading 30 songs and sharing them online.
Wayne, whose full title is Dr. Wayne Marshall, is an ethnomusicologist and Mellon Fellow at MIT. He testified as a fact witness in the trial, but he was prevented from answering any questions about the cultural context of filesharing (Wayne wasn't even allowed to define ethnomusicologist). This is a pity because his expertise ...
Passion Pit Nominated For 2009 MTV Video Music Award
MTV has announced its list of nominees for the 2009 Video Music Awards and home-fed electronic outfit Passion Pit are in the running for Breakthrough Video of the Year for The Reeling.
If you haven't seen the video, check it out below -- it's like a manic scrapbook of the part of disco that survived through the 80s. If you HAVE seen the video, then go vote for Passion Pit or entertain yourself with this dance-floor equipped remix of The Reeling from the band's drummer, Nate Donmoyer aka Shuttle.
Passion Pit - The Reeling from phantomcolor on Vimeo..
The video was co-directed by ...
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