Brain/Buck/Bull - URB MAGAZINE
EDITORS NOTE: Brainstorm did not win the Red Bull Beat Battle… However he received the speakers for 2nd Place and got the trip to LA to record w/ Buck because Sabzi was indisposed. So basically, the spoils of 1st and 2nd…
behold the BRAIN
Bboy’s Suburban Makeover @ O’ASIAN {exclusive pictures}
Photos by Santo Valentino
For Stylin’ On You
SASQUATCH Abducts Dyme Def !!!
Photos by Ryan Weight
For 800LB
Presented Mighty Fine
THANKS 4 TRILL
DYME DEF - Unsigned Hype
Without an appointment and escorted by Saigon’s management, Fearce Villain & Brainstorm walked into an editor’s office at the SOURCE and dropped a CD on the table. He said he would be back in 2 minutes. It took 20. He returned and called Space Music a masterpiece then listened to some new material. Never shy of a microphone each MC spit 16 for an online showcase the SOURCE is doing, but went long as a crowd gathered in the hallway outside the recording booth. Two months later they are Unsigned Hype…
DYME DEF @ SASQUATCH
Dyme Def * Big Stage
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M.I.A. - R.E.M. - Flight of the Conchords - Ozomatli - Rodrigo Y Gabriela - The Cure - Modest Mouse - Michael Franti & Spearhead - The Hives - Fleet Foxes - Blue Scholars - The Blakes - Grand Archives - and many more…
SAIGON exclusive interview w/ SG Presents
ON WORKING WITH JUST BLAZE:
“It took a lot of twists and turns in three years. We were getting to know each other as people, and as artists. Now we like brothers. Its closer than business associates, and the music we make together is phenomenal. I probably would not wanna make an album without him. It would be devastating to start over with someone new cause of the chemistry we have cooked up. A new Gang Starr, or Erik B. and Rakim, that’s what I’m always tellin’ him. Its the way hip-hop is supposed to be before it became so corporate.”
ON HIS EARLY YEARS WITH MARK RONSON: “Mark Ronson pretty much taught me how to record. How to write bars. When I got outta prison he was the first producer I ever ever worked with. He was still heavy into DJin’, learnin’ his way around the studio. He knew a little bit about producin’ and workin’ with artists. I was the first or second rapper he ever worked with. The studio was right in his bedroom on 34th street. He said ‘One day I’mma start a label Sai, one day I’mma start a label.’ He was busy, but would still bring me to parties. I used to carry his records. Again just like Just, Mark is like my brother. Its ironic cause Mark is jewish but I would go to his house for Christmas dinner.” ON THE ROLE OF RAP IN PRISON: “Bein’ in a maximum security prison around kids my age that got 45 years to life - you don’t see how real that is until you’re close to it. There’s kids in there, sixteen-seventeen, and they in there until the sun burn out. You gotta think of something to do, so we used to rap. It was a hobby I picked up to kill time… I started battlin’ in prison. That’s how I got the name Yardfather. The recreation yard is everything, its society. That’s where everybody interacts with each other.”
Mr. Supreme on HBO’s the WIRE Soundtrack
LICENSES SHARPSHOOTERS TRACK TO HBO
“ANALYZE” - FROM THE CHOKED UP LP
