Archive for July, 2010

Grind Time – Illmaculate Battles

Grind Time Now

From the best of Grind Time Now featuring Illmaculate, world famous battle emcee. Props to Illmac, dude deserves the props he gets. He is a mad ill battle emcee. Props to Grind Time Now for snagging him up and keeping dude.

Grind Time Now Presents

Another dope Illmaculate battle from Grind Time Now on Youtube. No question Illmaculate is a premier battle rapper. Watch the video and check out the Grind Time Now website at www.grindtimenow.com

Grind Time Northwest

Grind Time Northwest is super ill with dudes like Illmaculate killin it in the ring. Grind Time Now has been hittin it hard for a long time now and is currently growing even bigger. Grind Time Now is by far the biggest rap battle league on the planet. Featuring some of the worlds top battle emcees like Illmaculate, Grind Time Now has attracted high caliber battles emcees from all over the United States.

Underground Hip Hop videos brought to you by Bad Habitat of Surreal Music. Bad Habitat are Northwest Hip Hop. Also check out the latest on WSHH and Grind Time Battles. We got the latest and hottest videos from World Star Hip Hop aka WSHH.

Thanks for coming through and visiting the site, I (Mindskillz) hope you enjoyed this post about Grind Time Now and the dope emcee battles going down in the Northwest hip hop scene. Grind Time Now is big in the Northwest and with Illmaculate heading up the show it has got a lot of recognition from the jump. Grind Time Now Northwest is dope for sure and I hope you come back for more Grind Time Now videos. Bookmark the site using one of the bookmark links below. Peace

Okwerdz – Portland Hip Hop

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Surreal Music and Underrated Favorites Present

Okwerdz & Greyspace

The “Home Grown Tour” Tour

At Rodders Pub
19195 S Molalla Ave
Oregon City, OR 97045

July 31st 2010

Featuring Performances By: Jon The Baptist, Bad Habitat, Diction One, V!RTU, Northorn Lights and more.

$6 Cover – 21+

Doors Open @ 8PM – Show Starts @ 9PM

This show is going to be crazy. I have been working on using Facebook ads to promote the show. And while it has been somewhat expensive I believe that I am able to reach more people who would like to go to the show than with more traditional methods like putting flyers on cars or putting up posters around town.

Check out all the different versions of the flyer I did recently.

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Okwerdz

Okwerdz is a fresh coast battle emcee who has been grinding hard on the rap battle scene for a long time now. Okwerdz is regarded as one of the top 10 battle emcees in the world. Okwerdz has been killin emcees in the Grind Time Now rap battle league since it started back in the day. His most notorious battles have been vs T-Rex and Hollow Da Don, two of the dopest battle emcees in Grind Time Now league. The Okwerdz vs T-Rex battle can be seen in a previous post on Bad Habitat Music. Also the Okwerdz vs Hollow Da Don battle has been previously posted on our site.

Thanks for visiting the website, show some love and hook it up with a social bookmark below. If you haven’t checked out Global Grind hit the green button below and sign up. Its a dope hip hop news website. I hope y’all come out to the Okwerdz show in Oregon City, Oregon on July 31st. Its gonna be a sick show. Peace

Grind Time Presents: Illmaculate vs Conceited


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Beat by Dre Studio Headphones

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Beats by Dre – Dr Dre Studio Headphones

Dr Dre’s line of Studio Headphones are quite possibly the dopest looking studio headphones on the market today. But how does the quality match up with the aesthetics?

Beats by Dre Reviews

Cnet Reviews gave the Studio Headphones 3.5 stars out of 5 which isn’t bad at all. Customers who have purchased Beats By Dre headphones from Amazon have rated 4 out of 5 stars overall with Sound Quality, Ease of Use and the Wow Factor being the highest rated attributes. Apple also reviewed Beats by Dre studio headphones and rated them 4 out 5. Most of the Beats by Dre reviews that I have found have been very good. Bother users and tech-blogging professionals give Beats by Dre studio headphones high ratings in their reviews of the product.

Find out more about Beats by Dre at the official website.

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$340.00

Beats by Dre

Studio Headphones

Beats by Dre The Studio Headphones in Black, Headphones for Unisex: High performance on-ear headphones with precision engineered advanced speaker design powered amplification and powered noise cancellation you hear music the way its supposed to be heard. Hands down one of the best studio headphones on the market today. Brought to you by Beats by Dre high quality studio headphones. These are a must have for any serious hip hop producer. Get your own Beats by Dre studio headphones on Amazon.com or DrJays.com.

Beats by Dre Headphones

Interested in buying Beats by Dre studio headphones? You can get them a number of different places. I recommend getting your new Beats by Dre headphones from Amazon.com or DrJays.com. You can find Dr Dre’s headphones in department stores but you will probably find a better price online. You will have to wait for your new Beats by Dre headphones to ship but the savings will be worth the wait.

Stay up to date for more deals on Beats by Dr Dre studio headphones by bookmarking us. We will be releasing reviews and future deals on Beats by Dr Dre headphones so stay posted.

Rocawear Sunglasses

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$50.00

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Dynasty Shades from Rocawear feature Gold Metal Frames, Tinted Lenses, 100% UV Absorption, Plastic and Metal arm combination with a silver case included. Rocawear is one of the premier hip hop fashion companies world wide. It is no wonder they have such fresh sunglasses on their 2010 summer line. These Rocawear Sunglasses and others like it can get gotten at DrJays.com at sick discount wholesale prices. If your interested check it out at DrJays.com and search for “streets is watchin shades”, they will come right up.

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THE DYNASTY SHADES

$50.00

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The Dynasty Shades from Rocawear feature Square Metal Frames, Tinted Lenses, 100% UV Absorption, Plastic and Metal arm combination with a silver case included. The Dynasty Shades are a line of sunglasses from Rocawear which many find to be some of the illest ever made by Rocawear. Find all kinds of dope Rocawear Sunglasses and Rocawear Accessories like these at DrJays.com.

Rocawear Accessories

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Rocawear Sunglasses

Rocawear is one of the worlds dopest hip-hop/urban fashion brands. Founded by hip hop legend Jay-Z, Rocawear has came up from a jean company and became a huge urban fashion icon. Roccawear Sunglasses and all other kinds of Rocawear Accessories are available at wholesale prices online at DrJays.com.

Flud Watches

Turntable Watches

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Rocksmith Tableturns – Black

$199.00

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The Rocksmith X FLuD Table Turns: Internationally Renowned and Respected watch brand Rocksmith, designs their version of the best selling Flud turntable watch. Featuring an Automatic movement and a distressed premium leather band, The Rocksmith TableTurns is a premium piece for any watch aficionado or hip hop enthusiast. All Flud Watches like the Rocksmith turntable watch are available online at DrJays.com. So if you want  to get hooked up with one of these ill watches get at DrJays for the deals. When you go on the DrJays website just search “Rocksmith Tableturns” and choose the black one. Below is the other version of this watch in two tone.

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Rocksmith Tableturns – Rose Gold

$199.00

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The Rocksmith X FLuD Table Turns: Rocksmith designs one of the freshest watches ever unveiled to the hip hop community. The turntable watch is where its at in the realm of dope watches. From Flud Watches, the Rose Gold turntable watch, known as the Tableturns watch, is essential for any watch aficionado looking to add a piece of hip hop culture to their watch collection.

Wholesale Flud Watches

You can find wholesale Flud Watches on DrJays.com for sometimes 20%-25% off MSRP.

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Flud Watches

These Turntable Watches are pretty sick but Flud Watches actually have quite a few designs which are all really tight in my opinion. I’m gonna be putting them on blast here for a while until I cover all of the different designs of theirs that I like. There is another old school hip hop watch design that I really like from Flud Watches. It features a boombox with a digital display in a couple different colors. I just ordered my first Flud Watch but I will probably be ordering a few more sooner than later. Some have referred to the turntable as the Flud DJ Watch. They are not wrong in calling it that. I believe that all Hip Hop DJ’s should have one like this. It is not a Flud Digi Watch but there is just something about the hands of the watch going around on a turntable that makes me wanna scr-scr-scratch it.

Don’t scratch your Flud Watch.

Although less popular in Underground Hip Hop, jewelry is kind of a big deal to a lot of hip hop heads. No other piece is as iconic as the turntable watch from FLuD. Dudes make some of the sickets hip hop style watches I have ever seen. And when you can get them at discount its even better. Stay tuned for more info on FLuD watches and where to get wholesale deals on urban/hip hop gear.

Okwerdz – Battle MC

Grind Time Now Presents: Hollow Da Don vs Okwerdz

Main Event form BOLA 3. Two of the best in the world go at it in one of Grind Time’s hottest matchups yet. This is a classic battle featuring Okwerdz!

Okwerdz is a dope battle rapper hailing from Stockton, CA. He has hung with some of the greats of the battle rap scene and won a considerable amount of battles in the Grind Time Now rap battle league. His albums are sick as frick and you should definitely check them out. Okwerdz albums are available online through Amazon or iTunes. Check out the stuff below for direct links to buy Okwerdz CD’s.


Buy Okwerdz Music on iTunes
okwerdz portland oregonOkwerdz is gonna be performing live in Oregon City on July 31st. Check out the Facebook Event on Bad Habitat Music Facebook.

July 31st 2010

Presented by Surreal Music and Underrated Favorites // Okwerdz & Greyspace – The “Home Grown Tour” Tour

Featuring performances by
Jon The Baptist
Bad Habitat
Diction One
V!RTU
Northorn Lights
With DJ Cuttah on the 1’s and 2’s

Okwerdz – Battle Emcee

To buy Okwerdz Music, T-Shirts and other Okwerdz merchandise check out his online store at shop.okwerdz.com. Dude has some ill albums and some pretty tight Grind Time Gear too.

Also take a gander at his Youtube Channel. He’s got some dope freestyles on there for your eyeballs and eardrums.

Become Friends with Okwerdz on Facebook to keep in touch with the dude. While Okwerdz is touring and smashing on fools in other area codes keep up with him on Facebook, your internet overlord social media site of choice.

Also peep Okwerdz on SoundClick where you can listen to and download Okwerdz music. Show dude some love and buy some of his ish yo.

Warped Tour 2010 Lineup

The Vans Warped Tour 2010 featuring performances by winners of Battle of the Bands 14

vans warped tour 2010

There are a lot of bands in the lineup for the 2010 Vans Warped Tour. Some of them are a little better known than others but all of them are worthy of performing on this stage. The Battle of the Bands competition awards local bands the opportunity to perform on the Warped Tour along side some of the newest up and coming bands in the United States. From Florida to Southern California, Montreal, Canada to Portland, Oregon the Warped Tour has a stacked lineup of quality acts.

Click Here to see the full 2010 Vans Warped Tour Lineup

  • 3OH!3
  • 5606
  • After Midnight Project
  • Agent Orange
  • Alamance
  • Alesana
  • Alkaline Trio
  • AM Taxi
  • American Sixgun
  • Anarbor
  • Andrew W.K.
  • Angry Samoans
  • Anti-Flag
  • April Chase
  • Artist Vs Poet
  • Assorted Jelly Beans
  • Attack Attack
  • Automatic Loveletter
  • Beacher’s Madhouse
  • Big D and the Kids Table
  • Brass Tackz
  • Breathe Carolina
  • Breathe Electric
  • Bring Me The Horizon
  • Burning Empires
  • Call The Cops
  • Callback California
  • Chase Long Beach
  • Closure in Moscow
  • Cobra Skulls
  • Columbyne
  • Conditions
  • Confide
  • Crookedhook
  • Deals Gone Bad
  • Deas Vail
  • Death Punch
  • Dickies
  • Dinner And A Suit
  • Dirty Little Rabbits
  • Disco Curtis
  • DIVE
  • Dropkick Murphys
  • Drowning Scarlett
  • Dustin Jones and The Rising Tide
  • Echo Movement
  • Eddie Rap Life
  • Emarosa
  • Emmure
  • Enter Shikari
  • Ever Since
  • Everclear
  • Every Time I Die
  • Eyes Set To Kill
  • Face To Face
  • Fake Problems
  • Far From Finished
  • FEAR
  • Fight Fair
  • Fit For Rivals
  • Flatfoot 56
  • Four Year Strong
  • FunkyJahPunkys
  • Gardening Not Architecture
  • GBH
  • Go Action Team
  • GOGO13
  • Green Jelly
  • HaSkaLA
  • Haste The Day
  • Hey Monday
  • His Name Was Iron
  • Hollywood Heartthrob
  • Hope For AM
  • Hot Chelle Rae
  • Hounds and Harlots
  • I Can Make A Mess Like Nobodys Business
  • I See Stars
  • Ice Nine Kills
  • In Fear and Faith
  • Ionia
  • ivy league
  • iwrestledabearonce
  • Jack Grisham and the West Coast Dukes
  • Kaile Goh
  • Kallahan
  • Kelsey And The Chaos
  • Knock-Out
  • Last Call Chernobyl
  • Left Alone
  • Letters Burning
  • Longway
  • Lovers Drugs
  • Manic Hispanic
  • Maxwell Smart
  • Mayday Parade
  • Me Talk Pretty
  • Medium Troy
  • Middle Finger Salute
  • Mike Posner
  • Monkey
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Motionless In White
  • Mr Fork In The Eye
  • Natural High
  • Neo Geo
  • NeverShoutNever
  • New Years Day
  • Of Mice and Men
  • Our Last Night
  • OUTERNATIONAL
  • Parkway Drive
  • Passafire
  • Pennywise
  • Pierce The Veil
  • Polar Bear Club
  • Reel Big Fish
  • Riverboat Gamblers
  • Set Phasers To Stun
  • Set Your Goals
  • ShiraGirl
  • Shorelines End
  • SKRILMO
  • Sparks The Rescue
  • Speakeasy Tiger
  • Spider Rockets
  • Spinlight City
  • Street Sweeper Social Club
  • Streetlight Manifesto
  • Suicide Silence
  • Sum 41
  • Swingin Utters
  • Terrible Things
  • Tess Dunn
  • Testing For Echo
  • The Adolescents
  • The All-American Rejects
  • The B Foundation
  • The Banana Convention
  • The Bots
  • The Bouncing Souls
  • The Cab
  • The Casualties
  • The Chase
  • The Darlings
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan
  • The Downtown Fiction
  • The Early Strike
  • The Fabulous Rudies
  • The Flatliners
  • The Frantic
  • The Goodbye Soundscape
  • The Impalers
  • The Jukebox Romantics
  • The Mighty Regis
  • The Mission District
  • The New Cities
  • The Pretty Reckless
  • The Reverend Peytons Big Damn Band
  • The Rocket Summer
  • The Scary Mondelos
  • The Skank Agents
  • The Snips
  • The Sparring
  • The Summer Set
  • The Swellers
  • The Untouchables
  • The Uptones
  • The Upwelling
  • The Voodoo Glow Skulls
  • The Word Alive
  • The Yellow Team
  • This Time Next Year!
  • Tip The Van
  • Tomorrows Bad Seeds
  • Trial By Combat
  • TUGBOAT
  • vanna
  • VersaEmerge
  • Victory In Numbers
  • Volcanoless In Canada
  • Walk Off The Earth
  • We Are The In Crowd
  • We The Kings
  • Whitechapel
  • You Me At Six

Battle of the Bands Warped Tour

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Bad Habitat is in the running for the contest to decide who will perform at the Vans Warped Tour 2010 in Hillsboro on the Battle of the Bands Showcase. We need your help so visit the Battle of the Bands website and vote for us.  Its gonna be a great show so make sure you vote and we will see you there.

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Vans Warped Tour 2010

The Warped Tour has been touring for years, bringing music and extreme sports to people nationwide. The tour is held in venues such as parking lots, outdoor venues, fairgrounds, parks or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected. The BMX/skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans, among others, has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, and it is often referred to as the Vans Warped Tour. The tour started out as a showcase for punk rock music, but its more recent line-ups have featured a diversity of genres. Click here for a full list of the Vans Warped Tour Lineup.

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Battle of the Bands 14

Below is a little bit of background information about the Battle of the Bands Competition from wikipedia. Also included below is an excerpt about the contest directly from their website which has information about signing up for the Battle of the Bands 14 and how the contest works.

Battle of bands is a contest in which many bands, usually rock/guitar bands but often from a range of different styles, compete for the title of “best band”. The winner is determined by a panel of judges, the general response of the audience, or a combination. The winning band usually receives a prize in addition to bragging rights. Prizes usually include cash, free recording time in a local recording studio, support or main slot at a local or large gig, a piece of new equipment, or a gift certificate.

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Good BIZ feat. Illmaculate & DJ Wicked


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Okwerdz – Home Grown Tour

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Okwerdz & Greyspace

The “Home Grown Tour” Tour

At Rodders Pub
19195 S Molalla Ave
Oregon City, OR 97045

July 31st 2010

Featuring Performances By: Jon The Baptist, Bad Habitat, Diction One, V!RTU, Northorn Lights and more.

$6 Cover – 21+

Doors Open @ 8PM – Show Starts @ 9PM

Okwerdz is a dope battle emcee hailing from Stockton, California. He has been killing it in the Grind Time Now battle league for some time now, holding it down for his home town. Known for being a an ill battle emcee, Okwerdz has also gained a lot of notoriety as of late for his skills on tracks as well.

Joining Okwerdz in Oregon, City on July 31st is Greyspace. Also from Stockton, California, Greyspace are a live hip hop band and word is that they are really good. This is sure to be a good show for hip hop fans and alternative fans alike.

The “Home Grown Tour” Tour featuring Okwerdz and Greyspace is brought to you by Surreal Music and Underrated Favorites. Additional performances by Jon The Baptist, Bad Habitat, Diction One, V!RTU, Northorn Lights and more.

Check out one of Okwerdz dopest battles vs T-Rex

Grind Time Now Presents

Okwerdz vs T-Rex

Massacre of the Bay: A grudge match of epic proportions is finally settled in Oakland, CA. Originating with a string of YouTube videos, the beef is finally settled… in the form of a YouTube video. Stockton battle veteran Okwerdz takes on New York legend T-Rex. Who will win this battlle of the titans?

Guerilla Funk – Paris

PARIS – Don’t Stop The Movement

Acid Reflex – Hip-Hop Protest Anthem

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If you’re familiar with underground hip-hop, especially on the more political side, I’m sure you’re familiar with Paris. If you’re not familiar with him, he’s released six solo albums, a collaborative effort with Public Enemy, Rebirth of a Nation, and a very well received group album that featured Public Enemy, NWA’s MC Ren, and more. Back to his own game, FTD brings us his sixth solo album, Acid Reflux, over a month before it hits stores. With the implications of the upcoming presidential election, I’m eager to see what the writer of tracks like “Bush Killa” has to say about the current political situation. If you enjoy alternative or underground hip hop, give this a shot.

Oscar Jackson, Jr. (born October 29, 1967), better known as Paris, is an American Hip Hop artist from San Francisco, California known for his militantly confrontational rapping, and especially the controversial tracks “Bush Killa” and “What Would You Do?”.

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Grind Time Presents: Young Nate vs Mic Phenom

Grind Time Presents: Illusion-Z vs 9DM Pt.2

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Grind Time Northwest

Talib Kweli – AZ Imigration Protest Song

Talib Kweli – Papers Please

Talib Kweli releases a new song protesting Arizona’s strict new immigration law. Talib Kweli’s new song, “Papers Please”, addresses the controversy over Arizona’s immigration laws.

Even though Talib Kweli just released a new Reflection Eternal album with Hi-Tek this week, he’s still got new music to share with the world.

Take a listen and be reminded of what hip-hop is like when people are just rhyming about chains and whips (hello slavery!), b*****s and hoes, plastic dolls, how much money they want us to think they have, and how whack the next dude is.

talib kweli papers pleaseTalib Kweli Protests Arizona Immigration Law

Controversial new immigration laws in Arizona have inspired a series of hip-hop activists to release songs in protest of the laws. Most recently the Brooklyn emcee Talib Kweli with “Papers Please”. Old hip hop heads remember the early days of hip-hop as a period of political consciousness, an era that has given way to mind numbing materialism, stories of the lives of a gangsters, pop rap and club “bangers”. I hope Kweli brings some light to the tense situation in Arizona. If

Talib Kweli – Papers Please

It’s not as simple as a typical protest song says Kweli. “Papers Please” is proof that the socially consciousness meem of hip-hop continues to this day. In fact, the protests of the law have parallels in the history of hip-hop.

The rap group Public Enemy released the song “When I go to Arizona” in 1991. At that time, the state has been at the center of another debate. The song, which is part social commentary, part threat, captured the collective will behind a Arizona boycott launched in early 1990 to oppose the State of Arizona who refused to allow a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

Public Enemy’s Chuck D called for another boycott of the state after the immigration law passed.

Kweli, who had two tours in the state in the spring, said his fans on asked him on Twitter to stand aside and honor the boycott. Other Arizona area fans begged him to come.

He chose to keep the dates, but wrote the protest song called Arizona law, “the new Jim Crow” and came in contact with immigration activists in the state.

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“I grew up with my mother telling me . . . you are never supposed to leave your house without ID,” Kweli said in an interview on Friday. “This is something I’d grown up used to as a young black person. I’ve been stopped and been detained.”
His song “Papers Please” is at least the third hip-hop artist targeting Arizona. Chuck D released “Tear down the wall” and a song by Toki Wright, called “The Time I Get to Arizona in 2010″ asks what an illegal immigrant looks like.

“Our country is in crisis,” Kweli said. “It has always been whether we have a black president or not. I’ve grown up as the type of artist that I’ve always felt responsible to uplift the people.”

Grind Time 9DM Is Evil


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Grind Time Presents: Knowledge Medina vs Mic Phenom


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The Coup – Portland, OR

the coup portland doug firThe Coup at Doug Fir

Thursday 07/08/2010

Featuring Mic Crenshaw

Doors at 8pm, Show at 9pm
$18 advance, $20 day of show


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The Coup

Boots Riley and The Coup are one of the dopest Revolutionary hip hop groups ever. They hail from Oakland, CA and if you haven’t heard them before you gotta check em out. The latest CD, “Pick A Bigger Weapon”, is one of my favorite albums of all time. Also “Party Music” is a classic album. Show some love and pick up one of their CD’s from Amazon or if your more into the MP3 thing check out the iTunes links below. If your looking for a really good deal Amazon has The Coup albums for real cheap used. The Coup are performing live in Portland, Oregon at The Doug Fir on Thursday 07/08/2010. Be there!

Buy The Coup music on iTunes

The Coup

Fat Cats, Bigga Fish

This is an old school classic hit from The Coup called Fat Cats, Bigga Fish. I have been rocking The Coup albums for a minute and Boots Riley is hands down one of the dopest revolutionary emcees ever. Pam is a dope DJ and has been cuttin up tracks for decades. I am stoked to be seeing both of them in Portland this year. Last time Boots was in town he performed an acoustic set with a guitarist from Tom Morrelo’s band The Nightwatchman. That was a dope show but I expect this one to be way doper with the full beats and everything. Props to Boots and Pam, The Coup are rocking Portland tonight.

Grind Time Now Presents: Ex-I vs 9DM


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