LargeUp « LargeUp.com | LargeUp Rap Genius BAND OF THE DAY New York Hip Hop Event Calendar From large concerts to open mics, indie and underground rap shows to art exhibits and special events, the Birthplace Magazine New York-area hip hop event calendar is the most complete collection of hip hop-related events in the New York metropolitan area. W H I T E W A S H Curated by Marie Cecile-Flageul April 5 (opening reception) – June 8, 2014 The Jeffrey Leder [...] NYC’s longest-running weekly hip-hop show continues into its 13th year. Still every Sunday night @ Pyramid Club, each week features an open-mic along with special [...] Birthplace Magazine, the award-winning publication covering New York-area hip hop music and culture, presents “The NY Hip Hop Report with Manny Faces,” a weekly listener [...] From Rabbi Darkside: It is with the utmost amount of excitement I can formally announce the ILLEST Hip Hop Show NYC will see this Spring. [...] 1) What is “The Lesson???” DJ Cipha Sounds from Hot 97 and Chappelle’s Show has uncovered the ancient connection between Hip Hop and Improv.
The 100 Best Eminem Songs His name is Marshall Mathers. He's just a regular guy who happens to have a few alter egos, some skeletons in his closet, and a way with words. OK, maybe he's not so regular, seeing how the man also known as Eminem has rhymed himself into Greatest Of All Time contention—not to mention that his every move has been publicized and scrutinized since 1999, when The Slim Shady LP donkey-punched the game silly, making it unsafe for pop stars, moms, and anybody else who pissed off the Detroit representer. Ever since, the rap superstar has attempted to keep his private life private, a task he himself makes difficult by always being so brutally honest in his songs. It's his compulsive willingness to share his raw feelings in inspired lyrics and wide-ranging flows that has struck a chord with fans. But even before his breakthrough, Em was a promising MC looking for his chance to blow. His rise to fame is a real-life drama full of protests, court cases, and a duel with drugs.
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Use Smart Playlists to Keep Your iPhone Filled With Your Newest Music | Gadget Lab Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Maybe you buy a lot of vinyl and you’ve been cashing in all your download cards. Or maybe you just like trading and/or sharing music files with friends. Either way, if your iTunes library regularly gets bombarded with new music, it’s easy for all those incoming files to get lost in the shuffle — particularly if you do the majority of your music listening on an iPhone. Smart Playlists can help. Here’s a super easy way to make sure all the music you’ve recently acquired (however you’ve acquired it), shows up on your iPhone every time you sync. Step one The first thing we’re going to do is create a Smart Playlist that automatically collects all the music you’ve added to your iTunes library in the last few months that you have not yet heard. Open iTunes and create a new Smart Playlist buy clicking on “File” and selecting “Smart Playlist.” Build your Smart Playlist by replicating the rules in that screenshot. Step two Step three It’s simple.
Vic Mensa - INNANETAPE (Mixtape Review) | Read Hip Hop Reviews, Rap Reviews & Hip Hop Album Reviews Vic Mensa embodies the speed and eclecticism of the Internet, and on "INNANETAPE," he browses subject matter without missing a beat. Vic Mensa - “INNANETAPE” (Mixtape Review) DX Consensus: “Free Album (the highest possible praise for a mixtape)” For better or worse, the Internet has changed the mixtape game. It’s ravaged our attention spans, swelled our cultural palates and induced a pressing sense of immediacy that’s spawned as many throwaways as it has classics. Projects are released through booster sites, songs are titled with hashtags, and collaborations are patched together through wi-fi connections and direct messages. The days of Kid Capri, Doo Wop and even DJ Quik have to be Googled at this point. Vic Mensa’s “INNANETAPE” isn’t a tape about the Internet so much as it’s one that mimics or even reappraises it. “Tweakin” has Vic mixing oddball elements of Pharcyde with the jocular violence of Eminem. The hunger prevails throughout the album, but not every song is angry.