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Pics from the Camp Lo – Uptown Saturday Night show w/band Big Wheel, DJ Low Key, Sounds Supreme & more at Vinyl

February 25, 2008 / / One comment

Camp Lo, Sounds Supreme, Dameion Hines & myself after a RIDICULOUS show. Big up Velli (aka Covell Photos) on the pics, our sponsors Akomplice, Frank 151 & Strictly Fitteds for helping make the show happen, the bang Big Wheel for CRUSHING the songs (some audio is on the way), Damieon Hines (FJP/DJ Check One/Dwele’s drummer) for being a hell of a bandleader, Mark Spitz, Sonny Cheeba & Geechi Suede for gettin down to do the first album with a band for the first time ever (!!!!!) and Sounds Supreme & Jonny from Vinyl for being down to help make history in organizing the show with me…Refresh Fridays is on some other ish & we’re just gettin started…

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Red Bull Music Academy & Subsoniq “Dilla Day” Audio w/Pete Rock, Kweli & Ma Dukes

February 25, 2008 / / No comments

A few days ago, The Red Bull Music Academy (these guys just “get it”, big up everyone from the recent RBMA ATL trip) & Subsoniq (XM Radio) threw “Dilla Day”, one of the coolest Dilla tribute concepts I’ve seen yet, at the XM Performance Theatre in D.C. featuring a live band (The Players & Friends) performing classic Dilla tracks and special guests Pete Rock, Maureen Yancey (Dilla’s mom aka Ma Dukes) & Talib Kweli talkin about their Dilla experiences & memories in a Red Bull Music Academy-esque panel. Proghiphop.com has audio & some pics of the event (man, I would have LOVED to go to this) up for download here for those of us outside of DC and I imagine that video will probably end up in the RBMA’s GIGANTIC archive. Big up every involved in making this happen, hip hop needs more events like this.

Pete Rock, Maureen Yancey & Kweli photo by Mike Nova from ProgHipHop.com

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Straight from the mouth (?) of Von Pea….

February 23, 2008 / / No comments
02/22/08 10:26PM
whats going on with von pea?
yea, so heres what you should be looking to download cop in 2008 from your peoples. me!

dj soul & tanya morgan present “tanya morgan is a rap group” hosted by *** *******
this will be ready and out within the next 2 weeks. if youve been keeping up with us for the past year then you wont care much about this one but for those who havent youll be able to play catch up with us on this one. its a collection of all of those spare cuts weve been performing but arent on any albums or anything and theres also a few new cuts, featuring torae, kay of the foundation, kam moye (aka supastition), and naledge of kidz in the hall.

tanya morgan “the bridge ep”
this one is coming out in may. look for the title track featuring Elucid in April. Production by myself & brick beats of course, mysterious, aeon, and 88 keys (not cuddle bums). you may have read about it on the tanya morgan myspace blog but please know this is NOT some project only available at our merch table. if all goes well and we dont have to kick no ass (haha…haha?) itll be available wherever you usually buy music you like from.

sometime around those dropping, loosie music will be peer pressuring me (haha…haha?) into releasing a von pea instrumental mixtape mixed by dj low key, so for those that like my beats, youll have that to play with. the american angster stuff, the grander vonye stuff, tanya morgan stuff, i got beats man!

THEN

the main event…honestly the only thing i really truly care about these days. the true & actual follow up to tanya morgans “moonlighting” album. that album is called “brooklynati”. i want to say brooklynati will be ready and available by august of this year. we’re not just working on some songs for this, it took so much to get to this point, and more is on the line than you think, so we are approaching this album like its our final artistic statement. with that said, we promise to not disappoint.

so yea, we’re at it. if youve hit me up about working and it didnt happen, please dont take offense. like i said, a lot is on the line and im not talking about no record deals, im talking about life! we’re at a tipping point if there ever was one.
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Tone Loc, DJ Low Key, Von Pea & more in Denver…

February 22, 2008 / / No comments

Yep…that’s me, Von Pea (from Tanya Morgan), Tone Loc (!!!!!) & our lady friends at King Soopers (a 24 hour grocery store if they’re not in your town) last month after the Beat Thieves 2 Release Party (prolly around 3 am) in the holy grail of drunken pictures…Can it get more random? “Funky Cold Medina 2008” coming soon !!!!!

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“My ode to Low Key…in a blog” (c) Donwill of Tanya Morgan

January 30, 2008 / / No comments

Donwill from TM: im writing my ode to low key
Donwill from TM: in a blog
Donwill from TM: gimme 3 min
Ahahahahaha…It’s not really an ode on his blog, but check out the song (the first song on DJ Low Key – Mixing In Action #1, which you can download for free in the mixtapes section) he mentions, it kinda is…
Anyways, you should have already been checkin Donwill’s (from Tanya Morgan/Ilwil) interesting/random/behind the scenes/goofy/informative blog regularly (he can show you where to cop the best jeans for women to dance in, get you updates on working with Kanye’s homey/super-producer 88 Keys and put you up on the best in 80s R&B videos), but if not, head over there and bookmark that iddish now…
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Pics from the Beat Thieves 2 Release Party w/Tanya Morgan, Sounds Supreme & DJ Low Key

January 25, 2008 / / No comments

Tanya Morgan presents

Ilwil – Beat Thieves 2

mixed by DJ Low Key

Anyways, the release party at Vinyl was dope, even a crazy snow storm (check out Donwill’s take on it at his blog) couldn’t stop the real heads from coming out. Big ups Janet Kawamura & Sarah Covell on the pics and props to all the cats who came out despite the snow storm. Hopefully everyone’s been enjoying the super limited release party versions of the tape we gave out (now collector’s items…I saw one yesterday on ebay for $58.50 with 9 hours left, not too bad), it’ll be up here and at rappersiknow.com any day now for everyone else to download.

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Blu Collar Worker: The Video Part 3

January 21, 2008 / / No comments
Before we get into day three of the Blu & Exile “Blu Coller Worker” video shoot, let me post up a couple of late additions from day two. The pic above is Blu waking up at his house and I’m guessing it’ll be the opening shot of the video. Below is another pic from Chikara’s studio, this time of Blu at the mic stand.
So anyways, day three started off at a cool ass record store called Record Surplus (how great is their vintage art on the wall in the pic below), where Blu digs for breaks (dude is on his production grind, I’m telling you).
Next we headed over to the Santa Monica Promenade to meet up with our first female lead (big up J.C.) for a shot of Blu in date mode.
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Blu Collar Worker: The Video Part 2

January 14, 2008 / / No comments
So anyways, I probably should have mentioned in part 1 that the concept of the video revolves around Blu’s (and Exile’s) day to day life and interactions with women. Anyways, back to the shoot…
After a long day and night of prep work, scouting locations, dealing with unexpected complications and a late night blog, day 2 started bright and early with… a two hour delay in renting a crucial lense we needed to start filming. Not being the type to waste time, we picked up a big box of free gear (big up Akomplice, 10 Deep, Estate LA and Strictly Fitteds for all blessing us for the shoot, thanks again) and the crew headed over to get things setup at our first location, Blu’s house and soon after the lense showed up.
To quote one of the dudes on the crew “it looks like an art director already came through here”. Blu’s spot has mad flavor (you’ll see in the video), from the recording setup/corner with taped up rhymes to his beatmaking setup (you didn’t know Blu had beats? Just wait…) to the retro decorations and classic fishing poles (!!!!!).
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Blu Collar Worker: The Video Part 1

January 8, 2008 / / No comments
Every other day or so I find myself talkin about how “my life is crazy, I couldn’t make this shit up”. Here’s an example:A few months back I linked up a group of friends of mine including director Aaron Rosenbloom, video producer Exile Ramirez (of “Lean Back” fame, not Dirty Science), international boss Eric Maitrepierre (aka France) and Blu & Exile (of Dirty Science, not “Lean Back” fame)’s crew, fast forward to now and I’m sittin here at Free Speech’s spot in LA after prepping for the “Blu Collar Workers” video all day/night, blogging when I should be sleeping (it’s 4:25 AM and the next two days of the shoot are packed). Anyways, I somehow became an executive producer for the project (the first of two CRAZY projects I’m workin on with Blu) and figured I’d share my experience with y’all. So much more to come, we’ve only just begun (c) Skateboard P, cheers…
Me, diggin’ for a few gems (yes, those are records…old fashioned non-serato records, some of us still like them) while scouting locations in LA earlier today. Big ups France on the pic.
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You know Che Grand from the Fixtape, right?

December 9, 2007 / / No comments

Well download Che’s first single, “Swing”, right now (it’s a BANGER, trust) so you can get ready for Everything’s Good Ugly, his debut LP, set to drop in 2008 on Loud Minority Music…anticipate it, damnit!!!

And if for some reason you still don’t know about Che Grand & DJ Low Key – Limited Edition:The Fixtape, head over to the mixtapes section and download it for free so you can get up to speed for 2008.

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