With our August 1st redesign, HipHopDX wants to do a better job of showing our beloved readers some cool stuff we stumble upon on the Internet. It might not be traditional news, but plenty of hardworking sites, writers and culture curators are making dope content happen, and we want to share it however we can.
The big homies at Complex.com have profiled several cases of rappers walking out of radio interviews, after Gucci Mane’s reported walk-out last week.
Check that here.
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Artist Erika Iris Simmons takes cassette tapes and uses the good old magnetic tape to pay tribute to icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley and The Clash.
Check them out here.
Nine & Smoothe The Hustler Perform “Make Or Take” Live In New York City
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Two rappers that the DX staff deeply admires are Smoothe The Hustler and Nine. The former Profile Records labelmates are all about hard rhymes, scratchy voices and spelling “murder” backwards. Last year, we caught up with Smoothe for the “These Are Our Heroes” segment, but to see the Brownsville legend get back on stage with Nine is great, and the GrandGood guys put us onto game.
Check out the video footage here.
10 Fat Joe Songs You Might Have Missed
UnKut.com is one of the DX staff’s favorite stops on the worldwide web. Robbie put out a list of likely unheard stellar Fat Joe appearances. With The Darkside Volume 1 being a staff favorite, we nod in approval to some of these deep cuts, or cuts off of albums that might not have been that deep. And if like this, check our Bitties From The DX Lounge Podcast from last week, talking all things Joe.
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Check out the audio/list here.
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