Rock the Block 4/6/07

UCB Students for Hip Hop presents…

Rock the Block

Lower Sproul 5-7pm

live DJs, breakers, graffiti

and a special performance by Rising Asterisk

Rhythm, Rhyme and Representation

 Hey Bay Area Hiphop, this event is going on now!  Don't miss it.    

 

Rhythm, Rhyme and Representation: A Community Discussion on Hip-Hop &

Gender: April 2nd and 3rd 2007 at the University of California-Berkeley.

The UC-Berkeley Hip-Hop Studies Working Group presents:  "Rhythm,

Rhyme and Representation: A Community Discussion on Hip-Hop & Gender"

April 2nd and April 3rd, 2007  at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Hiphop in the Park

What’s up yall.

I want to respond primarily to those of you who posted asking about the deal with Hiphop in the Park.  Unfortunately we don’t have any more room for new artists, although we would like t0 showcase everyone possible and throw the event all the time.

However, for those of you who still want to get down, we will be having a Rock the Block on Lower Sproul this Friday from 5 – 7.  There will be an open mic where you can rock the mic.

De La Soul concert @ Ruby Skye 4/3/07

From Ruby Skye’s website:

The Red Devil Lounge, Jay Siegan and Sean Healy Present

The Impossible Mission Tour

De La Soul

Tuesday, April 3 – 8 PM

At Ruby Skye!

DE LA SOUL BIOGRAPHY:
De La Soul is a Grammy-award winning hip hop group from Long Island, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap subgenre. The members are Kelvin Mercer (Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, Plug One), David Jude Jolicoeur (Trugoy the Dove, Dave, Plug Two) and Vincent Mason (P.A. Pasemaster Mase, Maseo, Plug Three). The three formed the group in high school and caught the attention of producer Paul Huston (Prince Paul) with a demo tape of the song Plug Tunin’. Prince Paul was also sometimes referred to as Plug Four.

With its playful wordplay, innovative sampling, and witty skits, the band’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising, was hailed as a hip hop masterpiece. It is also the band’s biggest commercial success to date, with their subsequent albums selling progressively less, despite receiving praise from critics. The group has influenced other hip hop artists such as Camp Lo, Black Eyed Peas, and Digable Planets. They were also instrumental in the early stages of rapper/actor Mos Def’s career, and are a core part of the Spitkicker collective. They are the longest standing Native Tongues Posse group, after the Jungle Brothers.

Opening:

ZION I

Ruby Skye nominated once again for Best American Club (22nd Annual International Dance Music Awards-Winter Music Conference 2007)

Cover: $25

Free Native Guns concert 4/2/07 @ Elbo Room

It’s a FREE Native Guns Show!!!!

Celebrating their first place finish on mp3.com’s “Get Exposed” contest!

With an exclusive live performance by your very own NATIVE GUNS

also featuring 2nd place finalist The Shapes (hecka tight!)

(the performances will be featured LIVE online on mp3.com!!!)

@ the Elbo Room
647 Valencia Street, San Francisco Mission District

Doors 8:30pm | 21&over | FREEEEEEEEEE!!!!

The Game at the Fillmore 1-31-07

The Fillmore is one of the nicest places for a hip hop. Hip Hop concerts are very interactive and the stage at the Fillmore is not set far from the audience so artists can engage with the audience more. The sound is set up so up close you can hear without getting your eardrums blown out but if you decided to sip your drink in the back you can still hear every beat. With standing room only, it insures that everyone will be up and participating. The Game concert was no different. The audience was compromised of listeners generally around the same age as the performers from about 18-30. However, there were some members of the audience who were as young as 12 and as old as 50. The Game has no problem winning over all of them.

l’Atlas : Paris Graffiti Revisited

About a year ago I posted some pictures of l’Atlas’ graffiti. However, I never came correct with the second batch, that uses a mixture of earthly colors to give you a taste of pointilism, an autobiography, some jungle like creatures, and a wheatpast over a window of a woman looking out the window with a real flower pot attached to the wall. That’s some ill shit. I’m going to let the images speak for themselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ya’ll should also check out this video. Atlas did this project where he went around the city and stenciled a labyrinth like figure onto manholes. Anyone know why sewer entrances are called manholes? I’ve been wondering that since the Ninja Turtles, and that’s a damn good portion of my life. Anyway, after he paints the labyrinth image, which is a play with calligraphy (symettry, lines creating and negating space, order, harmony, ya ya,) he paints some numbers next to the manhole in order to indicate its lattitude and longitude. The whole point of the project is to call to attention the order of street space for the civilian who walks on the pavement, and not set up to advertise or direct those in cars and other street vehicles. It brings back a sense of liveliness, control, and creativity over the streets by those who walk it.

Clack it.

Interview with DJ Sake1

Stefan Goldstone (a.k.a. DJ Sake 1) is coming straight out of the Fillmore district in San Francisco where “Sake 1″ was first created as a graffiti pseudonym, or “tag name.” He graduated from Washington high school, went on to complete his undergraduate studies at UC Santa Cruz and has since then received his MBA in social welfare from UC Berkeley. He currently lives in the Mission and volunteers for Caduceus Outreach services which provides mental health treatment for homeless adults. Sake is also close to completing a yearlong initiation process in becoming a santero, or priest of Elegua in the Lucumi religion that has a strong historical following in such countries as Cuba and Venezuela.

Street Art

Here we could publish photoblogs of graffiti or whatever shows.

Journalism

I thought this might be where we put longer articles written on Hihop. Theory, criticism, historical pieces, narratives, and whatever.