On That Leak: Panama "Mr. International"

Panama "Mr. International" (prod. by D.I.R.): Hopefully you didn't miss my interview with Panama. Dude is doing the damn thing, especially over heaters like this. Bump this one in your whips, throw it on your mixtapes, and keep dude's name in the streets.

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[video] SDSU Interview: Mickey Factz

Mickey Factz sat down with Sit Down Stand Up to discuss upcoming shows, his influences, and other bits, and even blessed SDSU with a freestyle:



Big up to Wes for all of his hard work.

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ATLiens Resurrection

New mixtape from DJ Food Stamp that exclusively uses instrumentals from Common's Resurrection and Outkast's ATLiens and blends a host of MCs over them. Check it out:

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Tracklist:

01 DJ Food Stamp - ATLiens Resurrection
02 Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (ATLiens Blend)
03 Ying Yang Twins - Salt Shaker (ATLiens Blend)
04 Tha Alkaholiks f. ODB - Hip Hop Drunkies (Communism Blend)
05 Jurassic 5 - Unified Rebellion (Maintaining Blend)
06 Pharcyde - Runnin (Mainstream Blend)
07 Redman - Can’t Wait (Wailin’ Blend)
08 Mos Def - Mathematics (Watermelon Blend)
09 Nas f. Olu Dara - Bridging The Gap (Two Dope Boyz Blend)
10 MF DOOM - Vomit (Two Dope Boyz Blend)
11 The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La (I Used To Love H.E.R. Blend)
12 Cee-Lo f. Timbaland - Ill Be (Ova Da Wudz Blend)
13 M.O.P. - Pounds Up (Millennium Blend)
14 Beatnuts - Props Over Here (This Is Me Blend)
15 Nas - It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Jazzy Belle Blend)
16 East Flatbush Project - Tried By 12 (Orange Pineapple Juice Blend)
17 Common - Chi City (13th Floor/Growing Old Blend)
18 Afu-Ra - Whirlwind Thru Cities (Nuthin’ To Do Blend)
19 Pharcyde - Passin Me By (Chapter 13 Blend)
20 Jungle Brothers - How Ya Want It We Got It (Elevators DNP 86 Remix Blend)
21 Camp Lo - Luchini (Babylon Blend)
22 Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean (Sum Shit I Wrote Blend)

Via 2DB.

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[video] I-20 "Flicking Ashes"

I love how we are making two minute videos. I feel like I just bought a promo reel:



I do like the grid-work in the visual, though.

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You Are Important!

In high school, I always seemed to roll with people who had great talent. It still boggles the mind that people I went to high school with have gone on to continue in their Art, and create captivating pieces. One of those such people is Stephanie Cinelli. She has the gift of the eye, which helps in the staging and storytelling that goes on within her photography. One such piece, You Are Important, is available for purchase through 20x200. Imagine trying to tell the story of a family going through separation and divorce... without words. The art of making an image sing/scream/curse/sob is just one of the many gifts Steph has, and the above piece is no exception. More from the artist:

Beneath the carefully composed tableaux of these photographs underlies the common thread of unsettled individuals and broken lives. This body of work attempts to grasp the subtleties of the changing landscape of a household divided and the everyday struggle of a family enduring separation and divorce. These fragmented lives are described through their belongings, strewn about, laid to collect dust, now forgotten. Their surroundings, once vestiges of safety and sanctuary, now lost. Lacking a voice to narrate their history, the environment is left to tell the story for the family.

Very interesting stuff. For more information on Stephanie Cinelli, hit up her website, or this interview over at Jen Bekman's blog.

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Trackstar the DJ presents Boogie Bang 13

Goddamn - Trackstar just dropped Still Dreamin', and Boogie Bang 12 is only a month old, but he already has Boogie Bang 13 up and ready, with Chaundon & Vandalyzm of the Justus League handling hosting duties. New music from The Roots, Scarface, Vandalyzm, NYOil, AZ, Wafeek, John Hill and others make this set a must-grab:

DOWNLOAD (link updated April 4th, 2008)

Tracklist:

1. Big Boi/Andre/Raekwon-Royal Flush
2. Jay-Z-Maybach Music
3. The Roots/Mos Def/Styles P-Rising Down (Hum Drum)
4. Method Man/Redman-Broken Language 2008
5. Joell Ortiz-Free Agent 90s Freestyle
6. Vandalyzm/Big Pooh-Hands High (prod. Vandalyzm)
7. Crooked I-Back Down (Hip Hop Weekly #50)
8. Tef Poe-The Perfect Rhyme (snippet) (prod. Dro)
9. NYOil-F***cking Dumb***
10. Chaundon-Can I Live
11. Joell Ortiz/Novel-Fighters Remix
12. Lupe Fiasco/Young Jeezy/TI-Superstar Remix
13. AZ-No Superstar
14. The Roots/Dice Raw/Peedi Peedi-Get Busy
15. Vandalyzm-Get Dough (prod. Flying Lotus)
16. Scarface/Nas-Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It Remix
17. Talib Kweli/Nina Sky/Joell Ortiz/Blu-Hostile Gospel Remix
18. Black Spade/Tef Poe-Good Crazy (prod. Stoney Rock)
19. Chaundon/Darien Brockington-Don't Take it Personal
20. Fowlstyle-Retrospect
21. Gotta Be Karim/Family Affair-We Here (prod. Stoney Rock)
22. Vandalyzm/D Hendrix-Frontin (prod. Vandalyzm)
23. NYOil-The Difference
24. Wafeek-Cocaine Flow
25. Chaundon/Darien Brockington/Percy Miracles-Understanding
26. John Hill-37th Chamber (prod. Tom Inglish)

Don't sleep.

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On That Leak: Kashmere "Do The Numbers"

Kashmere "Do The Numbers" (prod. by LG & Jehst): More UK Hip-Hop for the people (shouts to Corin for these). Kashmere's sophmore LP, Raiders of The Lost Archives, will be released on Jehst's Ynr Productions imprint on April 28th. This track has a nice, uptempo vibe to it, with a Nice-N-Smooth sample that took me all the way back to like 5th grade.

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[video] Ying Yang Twins "Drop" (Making Of)

Go behind the scenes of the new ignorant banger from the Ying Yang Twins:



I'm mad that they used that Beastie Boys sample in there.

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Vast Aire ft. Vordul Mega "Mecca And The Ox"

Vast Aire ft. Vordul Mega "Mecca And The Ox" (prod. by Pete Rock): From Vast's forthcoming Deuces Wild album. Produced by Pete Rock. Need I say more?!

Via Nah Right; more info over at The Rap Up.

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Katt Williams Hits Trenton

There's not too many comedians that genuinely crack me up. Chris Rock is one, and I can't think of many others that are still performing today. The first time I saw Katt Williams on Comicview, then seeing his subsequent appearances on Wild'n Out and his Pimp Chronicles Part 1 special, I just can't stop from laughing. Even thinking of his VOICE kills me. Dude is just talented.

My wife just hit me on the work phone like "got to Sovereign Bank Arena's website and look at May 4th" - and low and behold, I see Katt's "It's Pimpin' Pimpin'" Tour is making a stop in my hometown, Trenton, NJ, on May 4th. Tickets are kind of pricey ($45, $50 & $55), well for me anyways, but wifey and I will be in the house. Tix go on sale April 5th.

The last time I went to see comedians in Trenton was damn near 5 years ago - we went to see D.L. Hughley, Sommore (Trenton, stand up!) and Chris Thomas at the Arena, and had a ball. Ya dig, yeah!

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