Today was awesome! I’m so lucky I was able to witness this amazing event. So many influential Philly bred Dj’s were in attendance. It was a day full of mutual camaraderie and photo flashes from every angle with every combination of Dj’s. The event was held at the Mansion at Forrest Hill in Fairmount park on Parkside Ave. It was a gorgeous space. Jonene Taddei and Kamau Stanford, with a gang of others organized the event, attended to every tiny detail and did a fabulous job. There were individual shots of each Dj taken, one with headphones, a second with a name plaque. Everyone received an information booklet complete with Dj quotes about the event, information on the location and 3 blank pages for autographs in the back. Custom T-Shirts by FreshMeltWater, to celebrate the occasion. During Jonene’s thank you speech a moment of silence was given to note DJ AM’s absence, it was touching. Not but a half hour after the first round of photos were taken did Mix Master Mike, better known as Mayor Nutter arrive to be bombarded with cameras, handshakes and smiles. Everyone was so excited to see him, it was awesome. There was a great vibe and a great celebration of all the great Philadelphia Dj’s, big and small. I had a great time. The afterparty is sure to be a hit as well.
For more behind the scenes photos check out the slideshow.
UPDATE: More pictures here courtesy of the Philadelphyinz. See other pictures from the official photographer Jonene Taddei. Will update as more pics stream in.
Oh shit, this is so classic. Club bangggeeerrrr!!!! Emynd & Bo Bliz picked 30 of their favorite Philly rap songs for volume 1. You know there is Beans, Peedi and Freeway of course. Plus Gillie, Schooly D, Reef, Cool C and a whole lot more.
We completed this about two years ago so there isn’t much new stuff, and it’s really impossible to be exhaustive when making mixes like this–you’re bound to leave someone disappointed with what’s been included and what’s been excluded. But, that being said, since we never wound up doing anything with this mix and we’re both still really happy with it, we figured we might as well post it on the internets for the world to download. Big shout outs to Cosmo Baker who was a big influence on this mix (he was the reason we put “40 Barz” up on this ish).
Listen below. Get the tracklist and download link after the jump.
The Rub has just rapped up their History of Hip Hop series with Volume 21, ending in 1999. Be sure to download the whole series if you haven’t already. If you’ve noticed Brooklyn Radio has been having some problems, Imeyer at Crewcial.org is hosting the ’90s. So many quality tracks. Did you notice anything they left out? Leave it in the comments.
El-P talking shit on Spank Rock sparked the hottest comments battle on this blog. Shit was kinda unincredible with three friends talking bullshit to each other probably all drunk by themselves in front of a computer when they should have been out and about getting wasted at a bar drinking with some overweight bitches. Instead they was like lets stay inside talk about hip hop cause like when I grow older I am totally gonna keep it real and teach my kid about that real shit and not that wack shit even though my son has an angle haircut and is listening to fall out boy 2 the sequel or maybe fall out boy will be like the Stones or some shit.
But this brought up the fact that I once was super into Def Jux fan boy type shit. And I mean super super into Def Jux cause I thought they were gonna change Hip Hop. I had the first Can Ox, Co Fo split 12″ and sat in my dorm room buggin out. I just sat staring at the art work and the rhymes about scientifical word play madness. I was dating this girl totally into Jay Rule at the time and she was like turn that shit the fuck off and lets listen to some music that we can ball out in a hot tube in even though we was in the middle of Indiana in the winter time. We had a deep understanding of each other at that time so I totally tried to explain to her the power of Deep Space 9mm when I played it for her and her response was “no one would ever dance to this shit”. And to this day thats still true. The production is incredible but its headphone music. So of course for the whole time we were dating I just thought I was musically superior to her. Then I heard the RJD2 single and my whole life was flipped since that dude really was the next Dj Shadow. This she enjoyed but still thought it was not as good as Snoop Dog, so I tried to educate her. Then we moved to Philadelphia together which I am super duper happy about even though the three years we lived here together were pure hell. So after buying all the Def Jux 12″s and CD’s and shit and the promise to overthrow hip hop it dawned on me. They are not gonna do it. They just exist in there own scene that they created and will be the top of the heap in that scene. That’s about it. They don’t really have cross over appeal there is no face of the Def Jux camp that is gonna be able to go up against Young Jezzy or what ever. They are just two different genres and it’s pretty stupid to compare them. If Def Jux really wants to cross over like that then they should sign Mickey Avalon but even his beats are not based on space samples and that really annoying sound the phone makes if you leave it off the hook for to long. There greatest hope for cross over appeal was RJD2 and all the shit he is touching right now turns to shit.
Bottom line is once in like 2004 Def Jux was running this special to buy a special DJ bag or some shit and inside was a bunch of records. Included in that was this special RJD2 private pressed record for his tour gigs of like special blends and break cuts for his live act. This is before Serato and all that shit so that’s what people used to do and any ways I wanted one. So I had to buy this whole craziness which I wasn’t that mad at since I was a big Def Jux fan but..
Now I have this Belt buckle and Dog Tag that I have never worn so if some one wants to buy it for their independent hip hop hommie get at me. Oh yeah the belt buckle is the vinyl monster thing from Def Jux PSt Vol 2. Vinyl monster haha how things have changed.
I will let both go for a cool 50 bucks just hit me up.
