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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Truth In Hip Hop Belongs To The New School. **ARTIST PROFILE** @ClearSoulForces by. @Al_is_Handsome
There are moments, artists, beats and verses in Hip Hop that cover your spirit or mood in a blanket of nostalgia. It is an indescribable joy often marked by a head nod and a smile. We connect that feeling of nostalgia to memories we have acquired or things we have learned in our personal lives. Who can't connect their favorite song or favorite album to a life memory! In a word, we call that connection THE TRUTH. The genuine and organic nature of the truth makes the truth so much more valuable as it is juxtaposed against the routine and monotony of everyday life. Its amazing how the truth just simply happens out the blue.While Hip Hop has given me many truths of my own, I'd like to share with you one that recently covered me in its nostalgia.
I was having a Hip Hop discussion in a Hip Hop forum last Saturday. The forum is filled with mostly late 30 to early 40 year old guys who can relate to you those pioneering Hip Hop experiences of DJing in the park, working with Afrika Bambata and The Zulu Nation and other early Hip Hop comings and goings. I naturally stick out like flashing lights in a rear view mirror. I'm the youngest guy in the group, the only country boy from The South and, lets be honest, the only guy in there that listens to and acknowledges the new generation of Hip Hop music. I stick up for the artistic integrity and dopeness of our 90s-baby brothers and sisters. The culture may be commercialized more than ever now but that doesn't mean the 90 babies don't create fire.
Obviously among those old school former 1980s teenagers, I got bombarded by nay-saying and borderline hostility for my stance.
"Lil Wayne couldn't hold KRS-1's jock strap"
"You think Wacka Flacka and Soulja Girl are real MCs"
"They don't make real hip hop anymore"
Then out the blue one of the commenters threw me a life-line of mutual agreement. He acknowledged that there are a few new guys out here who still carry the torch of Hip Hop creativity and artistry. Lupe, J.Cole, Big KRIT, Kendrick Lamar, B.O.B, Nipsey Hussle, Vado---there are plenty young MCs capable of mastering the ceremony. I'm glad he came along and agreed with me because I was just about to cuss a few niggas out online (and we all know that's some lame shit). THEN IT HAPPENED!!!
The dude posted a link and asked me to check out the young spittas in the Youtube clip. By the time I finished the video, I was floored! I must have rewound it 10 times and of course I had my head nodding. I couldn't believe how raw and witty the four young guys were. Next thing I know I was listening to every Youtube video they had, checking out their website, following them on Twitter and texting my homies like "Yoooooooooo you niggas gotta hear this new shit I just heard. I'm bout to put you on." ...you know the usual online Hip Hop groupie shit LOL #NoHomo...
The experience was so organic! I didn't need 106 and Park to come and tell me that I need to check their song out and vote for it. I didn't need DatPiff.com to plaster banners all over their website for me to check it out. I didn't need Funk Master Flex to retweet them. I found their music the original way in which THE TRUTH is usually passed---word of mouth.
The group is called Clear Soul Forces. They are four young guys out of Detroit. They dig deep in the crates. They twist the wittiest lines into ferocious bars. They possess everything Hip Hop purist say this generation doesn't---skills! There music feels like a marriage of that hardcore street Detroit battle rap and soulful A Tribe Called Quest recording sessions. They are young and original and stay true to the principles of integrity and ability Hip Hop was born from. They have perfect balance. Raw and Smooth. Hardcore and Soulful. Tradition and Futuristic. Youth and wisdom.
The four members, E-Fav, L.A.Z., Noveliss, and Ilajide, were once separate artists following their own individual aspirations. They had come together to pay for studio time that they couldn't afford individually. That studio time would unite them in a 9 hour freestyle session for the ages. That fateful night in 2009 also gave them the opportunity to meet renown Detroit rhymer, Royce 5'9, who sat in on the freestyle session. It was Nickle Nine who suggested they combine their creative energy. And thus Clear Soul Forces was born. Since that day they have released a mixtape, an EP and a debut album. The four are self-proclaimed studio rats and rest assured more is on the way. Inside their studio dubbed "The Complex" they weave socially conscious content, poetic energy and Golden Era Hip Hop soundscapes into innovative blends of new school ambition and old school nostalgia. In a word, Clear Soul Forces is the TRUTH!
Somebody put me on and now I'm putting you on. Check out Clear Soul Forces.
CHECK OUT THE CLEAR SOUL FORCES WEBSITE HERE FOR MORE INFO AND MUSIC
FOLLOW THEM ON TWITTER @CLEARSOULFORCES
We #SUPPORT KoolKidzTV and their documentary project "American Beatboxer". Check it out and donate!
This film documents one of the most neglected genres of Hip Hop culture and placing it in its rightful place in Hip Hop history.We at SRA took the info from KickStarter.com to share with our audience.
On July 31, 2010 in Brooklyn, New York, the first ever American Beatbox Championship took place. Beatboxers and beatbox fans from all over the world converged at Littlefield Performance and Art space to witness and participate in this historic event. Contestants of all races from throughout the United States competed. Now it’s down to the eight finalists! This documentary honors the evolution of Beatboxing juxtaposed against the final day of competition to crown the first American beat boxing champion.
This film documents one of the most neglected genres of Hip Hop culture and places it in its rightful position in Hip-Hop history as a bona fide American art form. The awesome soundtrack is provided by the multi-talented finalist, Maximillion and FulleeLoaded Productions. Featured performers are W.B.A. founder Chesney Snow; host Hobbit from the U.K., and Beatbox, Hip-Hop trailblazers and contest judges, Rahzel and Jarobi White from a Tribe Called Quest!
We need your help specifically to raise marketing funds for our film so we can place our labor of love strategically into relevant film festivals and markets such as the American Film Market (AFM) to obtain distribution. These funds would help pay for submission fees, promotional and screening copies, post cards, poster art, press kits etc...
Let's help put Beatboxing in its rightful place in Hip-Hop culture and music history. Let's help plant the seeds for the next generation of beatboxers. Come on! Be a part of this great project!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!!
A word from Chesney Snow: Giving the audience a way to plug into a part of Hip-Hop history. Hip-Hop as always been about make something from nothing, we are a group of community filmmakers that believe the power, artistry and hip hop and the music of beatboxing and we wanted to tell the story of the first American Beatboxing Championships. We wanted to reach to people who love hip hop, love music and wanted to contribute/take part to a telling a story of historic moment in hip hop, we have seen how hip hop brings people from all of the world together and beatboxing is an example of that. We are a group of diverse artists that are united by hip hop are trying to tell a story about something we love. As a beatboxer, musician, filmmaker, producer and like any struggling artists we are constantly trying to make our works and passions sustainable. So we are reaching out to our friends and community members to help us do something that we might not be able to make possible . We are reaching out to a wider audience to help us get funding for the completion and marketing. Thank You!
Contact them HERE!
GOT TALENT? ALL MUSIC, POETS, MODELS SUBMIT AND GET CONNECTED! READ MORE HERE...
As many of you already know we always are looking for talent to promote and feature on the SR Articles, however, not all submissions make the cut due to poor quality, poor production, being too cliche or just not being Hip Hop enough; but that should NOT stop you, as the artist or poet or model, from getting out your dream. Many know me as just the writer and founder of SRA but I am also a PR and consultant for many artists and have been talent scouting and co-producing for almost 10 years. No matter what, if I get music from you, if its not posted, its forwarded out or at least responded back with some suggestions. Some like it, some don't but you don't learn or get better without constructive criticism. There are no "yes men" over here. With that said, our sister site is now posting and reviewing submissions and we hope you take the time to also get your music, poetry and pics in to sr.mixtapes@gmail.com.
We ask that you take the time to visit The Phaymus Review website and check out some of the talent currently being featured. It started yesterday and there are already some reviews up!
We ask that you take the time to visit The Phaymus Review website and check out some of the talent currently being featured. It started yesterday and there are already some reviews up!
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#ENJOY SUPPORT THIS ARTIST, SHARE THIS LINK, BUILD HIS VIEWS!
[VIDEO CYPHER]: HIP HOP CYPHER PRESENTED BY @IMDANNYOCEAN F/ @MIC_ROSE1 @REALSWAGJONES
This JUST in. Figured I'd premier it for a much broader audience other than Facebook because it definitely deserves some worthy promotion. Great video production with beats from True Bars Beats. Filmed in New Bern, NC with Dj Danny Ocean on the 1s and 2s. Cyphers come out of the ENC alot but its been a while since I seen one well put together like this. Some of you may not recognize any of these artists but allow me to intriduce them to you!
This years BET Hip Hop Awards influenced cypher presented by Make Waves Ent, Southern Drop DJs and CNC Photography.
STARRING: $WAG JONES, LIL' SKEEZY, D.C. MARCO CAINE SEEFOE and MIKE ROSE
This years BET Hip Hop Awards influenced cypher presented by Make Waves Ent, Southern Drop DJs and CNC Photography.
STARRING: $WAG JONES, LIL' SKEEZY, D.C. MARCO CAINE SEEFOE and MIKE ROSE
Monday, October 1, 2012
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