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NEW YORK CITY
HIT SQUAD REUNION
REDMAN * DAS EFX * KEITH MURRAY * K-SOLO
LIVE N DIRECT – BESTBUY THEATRE – FORTY DEUCE – FRIDAY NITE
COMBAT JACK * FUNK FLEX * PETER ROSENBERG
TIMELESS TRUTH
Internets it will never, ever stop.
When one door closes, another one opens up.
On this episode of The Combat Jack Show, the legendary rap duo EPMD sits in the booth.
Press play to find out who “Jane” really is. Press play to learn what it’s like to be in the music industry when you’re a trendsetting teenager. Press play if you fux with The Combat Jack Show featuring Dallas Penn.
Please logon to www.PNCradio.fm tonite at 10pm for a special edition of the Combat Jack Show with EPMD sitting in the booth with Combat prior to their reunion show at BestBuy Theatre.
It will never, ever stop…
The closing of Brooklyn’s venerable Southpaw wasn’t anything like the funeral some of y’all might have imagined. It wasn’t about being sorrowful that this establishment which has been so instrumental (you see what I just did?) in bringing MySpace music acts to a real stage was going away. The Southpaw finale was a celebration in fact. That after all this time, we are STILL here.
Hip-Hop music was a fad thirty some odd years ago. Graffiti was simply people scribbling their names on a wall. The ways and means that poor people expressed themselves were always marginalized and discounted. This was even the case when Southpaw first opened their doors after the tragedy of September 11th. There was no way a spot in Brooklyn would survive booking independent and underground music acts. Southpaw did survive tho’. Southpaw thrived actually.
As the music consumer changed the constant was that there still needed to be a place which could present the up and coming acts still refining their craft. This was Southpaw’s mission. They were very much like CBGB in this regard because the Southpaw space had no design of being better than the people. This was music democracy if that ever existed. Everything happened in Southpaw’s building. Every type of music. Every type of party. Everything.
So when Combat Jack asked me to be a part of this historic event I thought it should be a celebration of the great times I’ve had in this building. Hip-Hop has been thru a whole lot these thirty-plus years and it is still alive and thriving because of the people who believe in its value and its ability to give a voice to the voiceless and disenfranchised. Hip-Hop will surely miss Southpaw, but Hip-Hop will survive and thrive as long as someone out there believes. Are you a true believer?
Peep The Great Zee pics from the event
Peace to Jah C and Chino BYI
Southpaw R.I.P.
I’m hypebeasting over these Foamposite shoes something ridiculous. I went back to 21Mercer to see what the scene looked like after the store had a flash distribution of wristbands. The scene was a bit defeated but still there was a glimmer of hope. People were there so that means at least that much.
The people were certainly activated at the Harlem House of Hoops where some people might not have even known why they were in line. I think I’ma have to rename this Foamposite ‘Galaxy’ video series Sneakerfiend Confessions because shit is about to get really emotional over these sneakers.
There’s still a few days until the release and people are lined up everywhere. I still believe tho’.