Pharoahe Monch speaks on J Dilla, Denaun Porter and Black Milk
K-Fresh has a link to Pharoahe Monch interview where he speaks about Detroit producers J Dilla, Denaun Porter and Black Milk.
Visit Rensoul.com for the interview.
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Jay Dee aka J-Dilla
Detroit Hip Hop award winners
J Dilla and K-Deezy were the biggest winners at last night’s Detroit Hip Hop Awards, hosted by Mark Da Spark. Winners of the Detroit Hip Hop Awards as written in the Detroit News are:
Female Artist of the Year:
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Group of the Year:
Purple Gang
Male Artist of the Year:
K-Deezy
Producer of the Year Local:
Black Milk
Producer of the Year National:
J Dilla
Mixtape DJ of the Year:
DJ Young Mase
Lyricist of the Year:
Guilty Simpson
Live Performer of the Year:
K-Deezy
Freestyle MC of the Year:
Marv Won
Video of the Year:
Marquise Porter - “Alone”
Album of the Year:
K-Deezy - “Stuck In My Ways”
Song of the Year:
Stretch Money - “Takes Money To Make Money”
Song of the Year Group:
Black Milk ft Guilty Simpson - “Sound the Alarm”
Artist Mixtape of the Year:
Iron Fist Records - “Hand 2 Hand”
Album of the Year National:
J Dilla - “The Shining”
Artist/Group of the Year National:
J Dilla
Song of the Year National:
Eminem - “No Apologies”
Soundscan Retailers Award:
Mae West
Detroit Recognition Award:
Phat Kat
A DJ Houseshoes Detroit 2 L.A. podcast
HVW8.com and Solid State Los Angeles have released the 17th edition of their weekly podcast, this time featuring DJ House Shoes.
Click the cover to download Detroit 2 LA with DJ House Shoes.
Playlist:
House Shoes - Castles (CDR)*D
Guilty Simpson - For the D (CDR)*D
Jay Electronica - Victory is in My Clutches (CDR)
Pete Rock/Slum Village - Gangsta Boogie *D
Blu - No Greater Love (Sound in Color)
Kev Brown - Randon Joint (LowBudget)
Waajeed - Proud (Bling 47)*D
House Shoes - Newports (CDR)*D
Dabrye feat. Guily Simpson - Special (Black Milk rmx) (CDR)*D
Quelle - Special Ingredient (CDR)*D
Qeulle w/ Denmark Vesey - Deal Widdit (CDR)*D
Snowman Jack - Street Corner Music (CDR)*D
M.O.P. - Sharks
Marv Won - Back Like I Never Left (CDR)*D
House Shoes - Dorothy’s Look (CDR)*D
Marv Won - Happy Birthday (CDR)*D
14 KT - Gee Whiz (CDR)*D
Black Milk - Get Down (CDR)*D
House Shoes - It’s On (CDR)*D
Phat Kat - True Story Pt.II (Look)*D
Waajeed - Dusk (Bling 47)*D
Jay Dee - Fresh for 98 (CDR)*D
Illa Jay - Me and My Brother (CDR)*D
J Dilla w/ Ta’Raach - Say It! (Operation Unknown)*D
Guilty Simpson - Get Bitches, Get Rides (Stones Throw)*D
Phat Kat - My Old Label (Look)*D
14 KT - Without Dilla (CDR)*D
Robert Glasper - J Dillalude (Blue note)
D’Angelo - Fantastic (CDR)
Erykah Badu - Didn’t Cha Know
(*D reps Detroit to the fullest, as if you didn’t know…)
Check out HVW8 at podomatic.
J Dilla’s last days on Frank N Dank’s “European Vacation”
Nolan Strong at HipHop-Elements.com has written about J Dilla and Frank N Dank’s new European Vacation dvd (which is in stores now).
Frank N Dank talk about Dilla and the footage from Europe that made the cut:
“We’ve known Dilla since 1984, before there were beats, rhymes or any of that,” Frank told AllHipHop.com. “That’s what this whole thing was built on. Not music, not any of the rap stuff. He was a soldier. This DVD will show all the people who love Dilla and didn’t get to know him as a person, it shows the type of person he was. He didn’t have to go on this tour, he chose to. He loved what he did and he wanted to give that love back to the people who supported him.”
The DVD, which also features former group member Phat Kat (1st Down) and DJ Rhettmatic, follows J. Dilla and Frank-N-Dank traveling across Europe, performing at various sold out shows.
While J. Dilla was confined to a wheel chair during the time European Vacation was filmed, both Frank and Dank revealed that J. Dilla sanctioned and approved the taping, to document his love for the culture.
“We didn’t know how sick he was until he came off the plane,” Frank said. Dank confirmed adding: “Nobody knew he was sick. He was a real personal individual.”
“He’s not gonna tell you ‘I’m sick,’ Dank continued. “So when we got to the airport in London and it was a shocker. It made me want to break down and cry for real, cause my man is in a wheel chair. But at the same time I had to be strong for him for the tour. I carried him every single night, to the venue and after the venues.”
Dank said that another purpose of the DVD is to further educate United States Hip-Hop fans about Dilla’s legacy and the impact that he had on the landscape of Hip-Hop.
“You see a movement, people from another country that don’t speak any English, but they know every song,” Dank said of Dilla’s European fans. “Then you get people here in America and they don’t know none of this s**t.”
Read the full article here.
Jaylib, Frank N Dank - “McNasty Filth” video
Jaylib (Jay Dee and Madlib) with Frank N Dank - “McNasty Filth”.
The first single off of the Jaylib LP (2004). Featuring a cameo appearance by Michael Rapaport.
Frank N Dank - “Puff Puff Pass” audio
Frank N Dank with their first single from their upcoming album FDR - “Puff Puff Pass”.
Produced by Young R.J.
The FDR cd will be released this summer along with Frank N Dank and J Dilla’s European Vacation DVD.
J Dilla’s fam talk about the Lupus Project
J Dilla loyalist Wanja Lange took some time to speak with Dilla’s fam, Uncle Herm and cousin Shon about the J Dilla Project and Lupus awareness.
Says Lange,
We cannot bring James Yancey back. But what we can and should do is keep his memory alive and most importantly help the victims who now deal with the pain that Lupus brings. Whether it’s the ones who were diagnosed to have it, or their families and friends who hurt just as much. It is our responsibility to help, to bring awareness.
And that is what James Yanceys family is doing now. They formed a project to raise money for the research of the disease Lupus and to help the victims. I believe this is of a very high significance, so I had a talk with J.Dillas uncle Herm and his cousin Shon, for them to tell us about their project, their personal memories of a lost family member and what we can do to help.
Read the interview at Lange’s blog, here.
Tajai of Souls of Mischief is feeling that Black Milk
So what is Tajai from Souls of Mischief feeling?
Preview: What are currently listening to?
Tajai: I’m really into Black Milk’s album. It has those real (Jay-Dee) Dilla beats. I’m liking Rich Boy as well. He’s one of those guys whose music is a lot deeper than it seems. There’s a lot of good stuff out there, it’s just that a lot of people don’t know about it. But, you know, a lot of the great albums never even went gold. Lord Finesse never went gold. Main Source never went gold.
Popular Demand gets a vote of confidence from underground hip hop royalty.
