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“Best Open Mic In The City”

Calling All Poets, Singers and Hip Hop Artists

Doors Open at 7pm

$5 Admission

Drink Specials until 11pm

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1326 U Street NW DC

Anybody do anything epic while you were away from the office/classroom?  We hope you got a chance to check out this, we heard it was a great time.

We learned a few things over time spent with family.

1. My girlfriend now encourages me to act like Jay-Z. I mean, I’m strong, but I don’t know if I’m this strong. Way to respect the lady, Jay.

2. Sometimes we feel as if we live in a cubicle or something, since when did Bill Cosby produce a rap album? And why the hell is he not rapping on it, you know that man can spit it. Unfortunately, from what we hear it isn’t that great and Russell Simmons had some choice words for it.

I spent the entire 6 hour drive to my folks listening to Priceless the Kid’s No Barcode on repeat and Phil Ade’s Starting on JV (also played through Wale’s Attention Deficit). These are 2 dudes you need to check out.

Will someone send us some pics from the Gallery Group Kick Off with Big Boi?

Stay strong. Christmas break is around the corner.

The In Da Club hitmaker — real name Curtis Jackson — says he ditched his body art to avoid spending hours in the make-up chair on film sets.

“I took ‘em off,” he said. “I’ve been on a few acting projects and they been making me get up… My call time is four hours before the regular acting talent because of the tattoos.

“I’ve got a project I’m supposed to be doing with Nicolas Cage, called The Dance, it’s a boxing film… it’s like my passion project and… when you’re a fighter you’re sweating and with a whole bunch of make-up on and stuff like that, it doesn’t look real to me.

“I kept my back piece. I can’t take that off.”

Sorry Mom, we are not getting rid of ours.

If you are around Washington D.C. this weekend check this out.

The Greatest Hip Hop Cover Story Ever Told braves a 30 year journey through the life of Hip Hop from 1979 through 2009 and boldly claims – Like it or not, the world is Hip Hop and there’s nothing you can do about it – at least not now! It’s grown to become an essential part of everyday life around the planet earth as evidenced in most commercial jingles, sitcoms, church sermons, sports competitions, family reunions and school programs. This production tells the story of an art form that has transcended into an ever-growing culture through lyrical content and video imagery while showcasing DC’s brightest Hip Hop stars.

DJs: DJ Roddy Rod, DJ Earth 1ne, DJ RBI & DJ Jav

The Cast: Asheru, Tabi Bonney, Hueman Prophets, Maimouna Youssef, XO, Gods’Illa, Syn the Villian, Head Roc, Rosetta Stoned, Tony Moon, The Package, Fatso, Bomani Armah, Mahoganee, Enoch the 7th Prophet, Natural Mystics, Ardamus, Flex Mathews, Ra the MC, Lyriciss, Laelo Hood, Princess of Controversy, Diallo Daheart Sumbry, Maisha Hyman Sumbry & Papi Kymone Freeman

And check out the afterparty at Almaz

DMV: M Street Three Wheel Motion

From Hip-Hop Wired

“Back in the day, it was live ass XXX Treach and Tupac forreal.”

So maybe it wasn’t enough to continue to keep the legacy of rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur alive with post-death albums. Now there are rumors circulating that the late rapper has a sex tape floating around the Internet.

During his growing success as a rapper, Shakur was quite the ladies man and even professed his overbearing love for the opposite sex.

Although his sexual endeavors may not have been chronicled extensively by the mainstream, a song by the name of “I Get Around” was an indicator that Shakur enjoyed what happened whether the lights were on or off.

Naughty By Nature’s own Treach was able to give an account of a particular example of the good old days with him and Tupac.

“I remember this one time we was in a hotel right, we was staying in the same room. He had this little honey in the room and I had the camcorder and I went up to the room. I was taping him tearing her ass up. Then the door creaked and the n*gga got up like, ‘N**ga, what the f*ck you doing, you got it? Treach you got it on tape? Don’t you ever be doing no sh*t like that’. We watched the tape the next day.”

They’re magnum opus, “That’s not my Name” will probably end up going down as this generations “Hey Mickey You’re So Fine”.

They’re not horrible, it is just hard to see their appeal to Jay-Z. When Hova rapped over  Amy Winehouse, that was hot, we’d like to see something like that again. But the Ting Tings? We must be missing something.

From Paste Magazine:

According to someone close to the Ting Tings, Jay-Z is hoping to work with the band as well. “Jay is hoping to lend his production skills to some of the new material,” the source told U.K. newspaper Daily Star. “The staccato rhythmic style of the Ting Tings sits well with what he does best, so that was the attraction. Jay can make them one of the biggest British bands in America.”

We’ll reserve judgement till we see what Jay does with this. In the meantime, we bring you the TING TINGS!

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Only a few is making cuts that finish so before you spend your hard earned spinach-Talib Kweli