Tomorrow night, Casselman’s is the site of this year’s Denver DMC DJ battle. The longest running and most recognized DJ competition in the world, the DMC World DJ Championship has played host to some of the world’s best DJs over the years. DJ Craze, Neil Armstrong, Jay-Z’s DJ, A-Trak, who…
Iman S. is passionate about everything he does. The Denver native (“It’s all Denver everything — I’m from Park Hill,” he says) has only been rapping for two years, but to hear him tell it, he’s the best out there. Known for releasing mixtapes with upwards of thirty songs, the…
This week in local hip-hop, we have a bunch of new tracks from a fresh new face, Kid Plat, as well as some others we’re already familiar with, including a food-heavy cut from Turner Jackson, a nostalgia-tinged track from the Roadside Profits, and a very grown-up collaboration featuring Haven, Surgon…
Last year’s mixtape from Acezi was all about defecting samurai and the need to create a new system of style and art. In what is designed to be an album update of sorts, Ronin 1.1 Enter the Villain uses very dense subject matter to paint a picture of preserving individuality…
“I remember hopping out the car and just praying to God to please help me,” says Innerstate Ike, recounting a fateful night almost six years ago when he was shot while sitting at a stoplight in Capitol Hill. “I looked on the other side, and Cac was on the ground…
The last time we checked in with him, B.Blacc was strictly on the rapping end, churning out mixtapes and keeping the streets ablaze with his presence. The Montbello MC has since decided to diversify his portfolio by going back to the craft that molded him into the artist he’s out…
NIPSEY HUSSLE KDJAbove • Mr. Midas • TC Crook Tytanik • Mid Wes T • Nyke Nitti • EC3 04.14.11 | Casselman’s Bar & Venue The people got down last night at Casselmans for the Nipsey Hussle show, and not only did the West Coast performer bring out damn near…
On Friday, April 29 at Beta, seven DJs will get twelve minutes to rock the crowd in SkullCandy’s Throwdown A DJ Challenge Experience. Up for grabs? A thousand bucks in cold, hard cash. The DJs (Amen, Sick, Bedz, Nick Skeet, Digi, Large Child and Wushu) will be judged on their…
The hip-hop scene has been buzzing with a slew of local rap releases and videos recently. The most compelling of these features Input, with some help from DJ Ear Attent and Caleb Slade, giving a thematic performance on “Gods of Misfortune,” while LKeys draws on the club element for his…
This is a rant. It involves rappers and how rappers shouldn’t rap over their pre-recorded vocals, a phenomenon we’ve been seeing more and more lately. It’s the equivalent to singing along with a music video on BET turned up so high that the volume is distorted. No matter how lively…
Whoa, swag. Ashley Judd has made some pretty inflammatory statements about hip-hop, saying that hip-hop is the “soundtrack to misogyny” and insinuating that the genre’s “abusive lyrics” perpetuate “rape culture.” She’s since backed away from her statement. Even so, once you get past the initial “You’re not from around here”…
Last night, after kicking it at the Red Bull Thre3Style competition at the Boulder Theater, (which DJ Vajra won, by the way) we decided to kill two birds with one Boulder, if you will, and headed down to the Fox Theater where Red Man and Method Man were getting underway…
RED BULL THR3STYLE TOURNAMENT 04.07.11 | Boulder Theater Last night at the Boulder Theater, the Red Bull Thre3Style tournament was live and absolutely direct. Beyond the blazing marquis outside and the multi-Mini Coopers with the gigantic Red Bull attachment, the energy was electric and the competition was stiff. Many came,…
Tonight when the clock strikes midnight, you should expect calamity, destruction and famine to sweep the nation, because word on the street says the government is shutting down. Word to Chicken Little: A bunch of awful things are supposed to happen…we think. They don’t pay us the big bucks to…
The Kool Crue, the triple-threat team of Concept, Chris and Quinn, is out for lyrical blood. Leaving nothing on the table, the crew gets right to the point with eight very solid tracks, each different from the next. The production, handled here by the whole crew, fuses samples and sounds…
DJ MU$A has emerged from his creative cave with a striking new mixed CD he’s been working on called My Robot Girlfriend. A mash-up that’s more sophisticated than many full album productions hitting the streets these days, My Robot Girlfriend finds MU$A infusing elements of old-school funk and newer R&B…
Dear Barry Bonds, The prosecution is set to wrap today its case against you for four counts of false testimony and one count of obstructing justice on account of you gave false testimony to a grand jury in 2003 about taking performance enhancing drugs during your time with the San…
Black Thought is the best rapper alive. Ok, so that’s a lofty statement. Still, in many hip-hop circles, there are few who would disagree. The frontman for the legendary, world famous Roots crew more than rocks the mike. He draws shapes with his words and paints a picture of clarity…
Mane Rok’s latest album, The Ugly Truth, which dropped last summer, is chock full of thought-provoking lyrics delivered with the MC’s typical vitality. While each track stood out on its own, production and performance-wise, one joint in particular, the Ichiban produced, police brutality-centric “This One’s,” struck a pretty massive chord…
Got a Chevy? Mr. Midas is looking for you. This Saturday at noon, the rapper is filming a video at Swansea Park, at 48th and Clayton, and he wants you to come show off your ride. The single, “Feeling Me,” is from his award-winning album, Son of the Crack Era,…
DJ Low Key, the DJ ambassador of all things good music wise, has moved his sushi bar rocking operations to a new location. Well, sort of. This Sunday, his new night, Connected, is taking a trial run at Hai Bair (Sushi Hai), where Low Key will be spinning soul and…
D’Girl (aka Dosha Harris) has emerged as a compelling new force to be reckoned with in the mostly male-dominated local scene. But it goes way beyond the fact that she’s a lady MC. The twenty-year-old, who’s been rhyming since age thirteen, carries herself with the poise of a veteran and…
