VIDEO: Treble & Blues – 808′s and Quintets Beat Video (Blue Note Preview)
CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO Following up from the preview of The Blue Note we posted a few weeks back, the good brother Treble & Blues hit us up with another video to keep us locked until the album...
View ArticleREVIEW (LA): Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Presents: Art In The Streets…
I had the opportunity to attend the Art In The Streets exhibit that went down over in Little Tokyo over at MOCA. This exhibit, which is over three months long, boasts about the street art from the...
View ArticleMIX: Jaguar Skills x Kid Potential – 30 Years Of Hip Hop Broadcast In 30 Minutes
Ok so firstly two things to demonstrate how much I love this: a) usually I limit myself to one post a day so I don’t burn all the stuff i find b) I really really need to be revising. But this needs to...
View ArticleMIX: Bonny Larmes – We Love Polish Jazz 2: Ballads (Poland)
Not sure if you remember but a few months ago I posted a mix done for ‘We Love Polish Jazz’. Anyway here’s a second one, 45 minutes of nice Polish ballads.We Love Polish Jazz is a real interesting...
View ArticleBlack Classical – History Of Spirital Jazz {12 Hour Mix}
Right here is all the music you’d ever need in the world, that I found through The Jazz Meet . ‘Black Classical‘ has put together an amazing 12 hour mix of Spiritual Jazz taken from the archives to...
View ArticleThe World’s Most Famous Sample Explained
A real interesting 20 minute video on literally a drum break that lasted 6 seconds, what is known now as the ‘Amen Break’, and how it helped influence the course of musical history. Its influence...
View ArticleLet’s Sample Like It’s 1988! (Documentary)
A really interesting documentary on sampling from way back when in 1988, talking about its origins and the controversies (legal and moral) surrounding it at the time. This is before my time so it’s...
View ArticleHear A Rap Record From 1937
Now this is a throwback. To the time when cinema barely had sound and colour, and your grandmother’s mother was just in her teens. I saw Akala put this up on his twitter yesterday, and thought it was...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Wolf from 1986: ‘When I Want To Grow Up…’
This has been doing the rounds on Twitter and I thought it’d be real dope to share on here too. Peanut Butter Wolf back in ’86 would have been mid-teens at most, and here he is laying down what he...
View ArticleAkala Lectures On The Evolution Of The MC
Akala has long since woven his legacy into the fabric of Hip Hop. The Shakespeare-studying, eye-opening MC has demonstrated himself to be humble, knowledgeable and most certainly worth listening to....
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: J-Dilla – Donut Shop
J Dilla – History (Mos Instrumental) J Dilla – Sycamore J Dilla – Bars & Twists Glad that Stonesthrow, decided to put this out there for free…I’m a bit late to the party as this free version was...
View ArticleNEWS/VIDEO: A Tribe Called Quest Documentary (Trailer)
Click Image To Watch Video Such is the importance of this announcement, that I actually dropped the other post I was working on for WIB in order to get this one out there as soon as possible. Yesterday...
View ArticleDOCUMENTARY: The Rise and Fall of the Boombox
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW VIDEO About: Before iPods (or even CDs) there were boomboxes. It’s been 20 years since they disappeared from the streets, but the nostalgia they evoke is about more than stereo...
View ArticleMos Def & Talib Kweli “History” Live Performance
By •J• Jimmy Fallon shows hip-hop a lot of love. This is a live performance that aired last week of Talib Kweli, Mos Def and The Roots band performing History from Mos’ latest album “The Ecstatic.”...
View ArticleDOWNLOAD: J-Dilla – Donut Shop
By rveenew Word Is Bond J Dilla – History (Mos Instrumental) J Dilla – Sycamore J Dilla – Bars & Twists Glad that Stonesthrow, decided to put this out there for free…I’m a bit late to the party as...
View ArticleNEWS/VIDEO: A Tribe Called Quest Documentary (Trailer)
By rveenew Word Is Bond Click Image To Watch Video Such is the importance of this announcement, that I actually dropped the other post I was working on for WIB in order to get this one out there as...
View ArticleVIDEO: Treble & Blues – 808’s and Quintets Beat Video (Blue Note Preview)
By peacelove Word Is Bond CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO Following up from the preview of The Blue Note we posted a few weeks back, the good brother Treble & Blues hit us up with another video to keep us...
View ArticleREVIEW (LA): Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Presents: Art In The Streets…
By EricSoul Word Is Bond I had the opportunity to attend the Art In The Streets exhibit that went down over in Little Tokyo over at MOCA. This exhibit, which is over three months long, boasts about the...
View ArticleMIX: Jaguar Skills x Kid Potential – 30 Years Of Hip Hop Broadcast In 30 Minutes
By LRCN Word Is Bond Ok so firstly two things to demonstrate how much I love this: a) usually I limit myself to one post a day so I don’t burn all the stuff i find b) I really really need to be...
View ArticleMIX: Bonny Larmes – We Love Polish Jazz 2: Ballads (Poland)
By LRCN Word Is Bond Not sure if you remember but a few months ago I posted a mix done for ‘We Love Polish Jazz’. Anyway here’s a second one, 45 minutes of nice Polish ballads.We Love Polish Jazz is a...
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