When Thurz & Y-O were in town last month for Bumbershoot, they brought this video up for the 206 fam (peep Y-O’s fresh Hawks hat) to check out. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m continually impressed by the visuals U-N-I release, and even though this video wasn’t done by their longtime collaborator Tomas Whitmore (Fredo Tovar handled this one), it still came out super dope.
Great track made even better with an ill video. If for some reason you don’t have it, grab the audio off the Before There Was Love mixtape.
Look at the homey D. Black getting some love on our local NBC affiliate here in Seattle. That’s big. Congrats to D and the whole Sportn’ Life family. Cop Ali’Yah if you haven’t already!
I feel like a broken record these days, but since I’m pressed for time again this week, we’ll keep it simple. Check out this week’s show for great music from artists like Crown City Rockers, Sean Price, Murs, J. Cole, Skyzoo, Cormega, Rob Murat, De La Soul, Shad, and more. I think we may have world premiered a new Strong Arm Steady track featuring Talib Kweli too, but I’m not sure. I haven’t seen it out there for the general public quite yet…
We also aired a snippet of our interview with the Clipse, but you can look for the full version (with video) to be posted soon on TAOD. Thanks to B. Nolan at Columbia (where they apparently do play fair…+3 points if you get the reference) for setting that up. Shout to the homey Sonny Bonoho as well for coming through the studio to play a new joint of his featuring Playboy Tre. Enjoy!
Show #227 (10-4-09)
Consequence ft. Rick Ross – “The More I Getâ€
Crown City Rockers – “Make It Hotterâ€
Buckshot & Sean Price – “The Feelingâ€
Ghostface Killah ft. Fabolous & Shareefa – “Guest Houseâ€
BK-One ft. Murs – “Eighteen To Twenty-Oneâ€
Strong Arm Steady ft. Talib Kweli – “Okay (Get Started)â€
**INTERVIEW WITH SONNY BONOHO**
Sonny Bonoho ft. Playboy Tre – “I Know†(Local Music)
Big Boi ft. Too $hort & George Clinton – “For Yo’ Sorrowsâ€
Shafiq Husayn ft. Bilal – “Cheeba (Nottz Remix)â€
De La Soul – “La La Laâ€
Shad ft. Jermiside & Destruments – “The Callingâ€
Skyzoo – “The Openerâ€
J. Cole – “Lights Pleaseâ€
Kyle Lucas & Captain Midnite ft. Sol & Grynch – “The New Light†(Local Music)
**INTERVIEW WITH THE CLIPSE #02 (SNIPPET)**
Clipse ft. Kanye West – “Kinda Like A Big Dealâ€
Cormega – “Make It Clearâ€
They Live – “Meth Heads†(Local Music)
Rob Murat ft. Kidz In The Hall – “Dilemma (Remix 1.0)â€
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As I mentioned when we first played this track on SNSS a while back, it seems like Tariq’s singing on the Jimmy Fallon Show might start to shine through more on their recorded material too. If the results are anything like this, I don’t mind one bit.
Get out of these streets and get into the classroom kids.
It’s always interesting when videos like this end up leaking. Were they really that upset with this final result that they felt the need to go create another video with all the robots? Shrug…I like ’em both.
Alright, I’ve put this off long enough but the time has come for me to officially put out the call: we are looking for an intern to assist with Sunday Night Sound Session on KUBE 93 and The Audacity of Dope.
Long story short, with my day job going well, I’m finding less and less time for SNSS and TAOD related projects. Meanwhile, the demand for radio show and website content gets greater and greater.Â
Sound Session has been broadcasting on KUBE’s 100K watts for over 4 years now and we’ve established ourselves as one of the premier outlets for dope, progressive hip-hop on the radio throughout the country. We have great relationships with artists and labels and folks tune in from all over the world each week.
Likewise, the blog has grown from merely a place where I archived radio shows and interviews, to a fairly active site with an increasing amount of traffic every quarter. I would like to post up more content, but my schedule doesn’t allow that many updates each week. Even with the limited posts, TAOD is pretty well known in the hip-hop blogosphere, and I’m always pleasantly surprised when I’m talking with an artist or label and they mention they check out the site regularly. But the bottom line is that there’s a lot of untapped potential here, so it’s time to turn this up a notch.
That’s where you come in.
I’m looking for someone to assist with a few main things regarding the radio show and the website:
Recording and editing our video interviews. We interview artists almost every week, but the amount of time it takes to edit the video and post it often means that they sit on my computer for weeks, if not months (…or even years). We turn down interviews all the time as well, just cause we don’t have time to put together the content after recording. We want someone who can record them (either on your own camera or our Kodak Zi8) and then edit them in iMovie or Final Cut Express/Pro for posting online. We can tweak the format if you have new ideas, or we can stick to the current presentation that we use. Check out www.vimeo.com/hyphentv for some examples.
Editing our audio interviews. Sometimes we don’t record video (though hopefully this would be less often if we had an assistant), so we’d like someone familiar with editing audio. You don’t need to be a Pro Tools expert by any stretch of the imagination, but you should be familiar with basic editing concepts and be able to use an audio editing program or two.
Assisting in the studio during Sound Session. If you’re able to come down to the station most Sunday nights, we’d love to have someone help take phone calls and assist with the production of the show. We don’t run a very complicated broadcast, but if you’re interested in learning how it all goes down and chilling with J. Moore and myself, we could use an extra hand.
Blogging on The Audacity of Dope. I would like someone to help post dope content on the site. It would probably work two ways: 1) I’d send you some material to post up when you have the chance. 2) You’d find content that you think should be posted on your own and then toss it up (probably with my approval at first and then if that goes well, you could post up whatever fits with the site at your discretion). This would also entail sending content to some of the other main blogs to post up from time to time, so you should be able to network fairly well without annoying folks. I.e., if you’re unfamiliar with the magic of the BCC function in emails, please stop reading now.
So there you have it. Nothing too fancy and, in all honesty, nothing too glamorous. This won’t make you a star or guarantee you a job in this industry, but it should be a great way to learn about the business. Plus, you’ll get some fun perks like hanging out with artists, free tickets to shows, being cooler than your friends, etc..
Unfortunately, we cannot offer school credit right now because the Clear Channel intern system would require us to get a new person after every quarter. I don’t want to have to find a different person every few months if I can help it. I’m looking for someone who wants to really throw themselves into this, take pride in his/her work, and dedicate a few hours a week to it for a long period of time. If you’re interested in interning for the KUBE promotions staff and receiving school credit, you can read more here.
A few people have also already asked, “is there any pay?”
Of course not, welcome to the music industry!
If you’re interested, please email me at DJHyphen@gmail.com with a brief letter and any links to work you’ve done that might be similar to this position. I’d also like to know:
Who you are
Why you want to help
Why we should select you
What special skills you may have
Obviously you’ll need to be a Seattle-area resident to help, but if you’re not and still want to get involved, hit me up and we can talk about it. If you know someone who might be interested, please help spread the word via email, messageboards, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, etc..
