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{ Monthly Archives }

August 2007

Origix of The Zone Radio on DJ Butter and DJ King David’s new mixtape

Origix from WHFR’s The Zone Radio with Origix and DC has taken over the hip hop section of Real Detroit’s weekly Four Track column.

Origix updates us on DJ Butter and DJ King David’s Dip Set & Byrdgang Invades Detroit mixtape.

This summer, Detroit mixtape veterans DJ Butter and DJ King David dropped their latest project together, Dip Set & Byrdgang Invades Detroit. “The mixtape is meant to promote Crime’s LP (Streets Is Contagious), and all of the Dip Set’s up coming releases,” King David says. Harlem Rappers Jim Jones and Hell Rell combined with Detroit’s late Blade Ice Wood and Royce da 5’9” show that our rap scenes have a lot in common. Get a copy from Detroit to NYC at myspace.com/djbutter or myspace.com/djkingdavid313….

…The Zone Radio with Origix & DC airs Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. on 89.3 FM. Stream audio at whfr.fm, and visit myspace.com/thezoneradio.

2007 08 24

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DJ Butter
DJ King David

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Nick Speed, Danny Brown, Big Herk and Phat Kat - “Whatupdoe?” audio

Nick Speed, Danny Brown, Big Herk and Phat Kat with “Whatupdoe?”.

Catch this track and others on Speed’s upcoming double-disc release.

Nick Speed will be at the Zoo Bar August 31st, performing alongside Slum Village.

2007 08 24

Slum Village
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Phat Kat, Ronnie Cash
Big Herk
Nick Speed

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Slum Village and Remy Martin team up to support AIDS Partnership Michigan

Slum Village Aids Walk

Originally printed in Between the Lines news.

They hail from the Conant Gardens neighborhood on the East Side, and their hearts remain in their city as they travel the globe. And Detroit hip-hop group Slum Village came home last week, teaming up with Remy Martin to donate $7,500 to AIDS Partnership Michigan.

The donation, which was presented Friday at APM’s Detroit office, was part of the popular cognac maker’s Black Music Month program, which kicked off in June. Remy Martin picked 10 up-and-coming artists to play shows in their hometowns. Each artist or group picked a charitable cause, and the company made a donation on their behalf.

“It’s a big epidemic going on in the city of Detroit - and in the black and Latino community especially,” said Slum Village’s T3, R.L. Altman, explaining why the group picked AIDS as its cause.

Slum Village recorded for the Capitol Records label before going independent. It has recorded five albums to date, the latest being a self-titled disc released in 2005.

While at APM, Slum Village met 17 of the agency’s employees and learned what each did. When it was her turn to speak, executive director Barb Murray talked about the agency’s history.

“In the early days, to be blunt with you gentlemen, we helped a lot of people die,” she said. “Now we help people live.”

- Jason A. Michael

2007 08 23

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Slum Village
Elzhi
T3

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Obie Trice, Black Milk, South Asian hip hop, Eminem, DJ Butter, Nick Speed…

Detroit Hip Hop news bits:

  • Obie Trice is featured on the soundtrack for HBO’s Entourage.
  • Black Milk was recently interviewed by Cream.cz. Check it out if you can understand Czech.
  • This feature in the Metro Times talks about hip hop’s influence in Metro Detroit’s South Asian music scene and Detroit rapper Kidd Skilly.
  • Lawyers are advising Eminem not to sue Apple.
  • DJ Butter will be releasing the first installment of his Whatupdoe? TV DVD magazine September 11th. Go to tribeglobalbroadcast.com for more info
  • Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a double-disc release from Nick Speed.

2007 08 22

Eminem
Obie Trice
Black Milk
DJ Butter
Nick Speed

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