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Bad Habitat w/ Tru Game @ Mt Tabor

Underground Hip Hop Portland Oregon

TRU GAME PRESENTS

THE REALEST UNITED

SATURDAY Jan 22nd

Mt Tabor Theater

4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland, OR
FEATURING
BAD HABITAT
REIGN PRO
FIREFACE LOC
STAY SICC RECORDS
ROULETTE DELGATO

Come down and help us celebrate Boss Hawg’s (of Stay Sicc Records) birthday. Free tatoo giveaway courtesy of Aardvark Tattoo Co.

Tickets

$10 @ Door

$8 Adv

21 and over

Doors Open 9pm

Tickets Available at Tickets West

RA Scion (Of Common Market) – The Water

Ra Scion – The Water

Ra Scion of Common Market is one of the dopest emcees out there. Common Market is now no more so Ra Scion has started a new persona, Victor Shade. He is like a rap super hero, its fresh as hell. You gotta check him out. There are a lot more videos on Bad Habitat Music with Ra Scion aka Victor Shade on them. Good stuff y’all. You gotta check it out.

The Water is a sick as song from Ra Scion (formerly of Common Market) aka Victor Shade. This song was done when Victor Shade was still going as Ra Scion. Its an ill track that you gotta check out.

victor shade ra scion common marketThanks for peeping out this post. Show some love and hook it up with a link from facebook or any social bookmarks listed below. If you don’t know about social bookmarks, you should. Post this video on facebook or a link to this page, thats social bookmarking. Thanks. Victor Shade aka Ra Scion is a dope ass rapper from Seattle, Washington. Come back soon for more ill videos of him tearing it up on the mic. Victor Shade, shown at left, is a super hero rapper… for real, check him out. He is a lot doper than he looks in this funny as picture. The dude is blowing up as you are reading this. Peace

Pirate Town Graffiti Portland


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Cool Nutz & Maniac Lok

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Grind Time Now Presents: Complex vs C4


Grind Time Now Presents: Complex vs C4



Bad Habitat Live at Club Calabash in Downtown Portland, Oregon


Food Wars 3

5/29/2010 8:00 PM @ BOSSANOVA BALLROOM

Food Wars 3

Food Wars in 3D

FOOD WARS III @ BOSSANOVA BALLROOM
722 E BURNSIDE ST, Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: Canned Food
O ZONE PRESENTS: FOOD WARS III

Featuring Performances From: Tragedy503, MitKnight, Brown Caesar, Braille, Groove Bros, Bad Habitat, Diezel P, Bad Crowd, LC Jetson, Kenny Mack, Notes From Underground, Jerz503, Raise The Bridges, Matty, Tru Game, Sik Ones, and MacSmiff.

This annual event is a good cause. Make sure you come out and support your local community by donating canned food. It will benefit the poor and hungry people of your community. The band who’s fans bring the most cans win the contest but the real winners are the hungry children who will have a good meal because of your donation.

LMNO & Kev Brown at Report Lounge

LMNO & Kev Brown with DJ LD

The James Brown Show

Featuring Performances By: Bad Habitat, Brown Caesar, Landon Wordswell, Diezel P, T&E, Tru Game, Diction, The Low 80’s, DJ Red FYA

LMNO & Kev Brown

LMNO & Kev Brown Present

The James Brown Show

With DJ LD

Featuring a performance from yours truly, Portland’s hip hop saviors, Bad Habitat with that “Aggressively Progressive Hip Hop” sound.

FREE CD GIVEAWAY to the first fifty people

05-01-2010 (May 1st 2010) // 9PM // 21+ // $5 Cover

At Report Lounge in Portland, Oregon

1101 E Burnside St Portland, OR 97214

Also for those Northwest hip hop fans in Corvallis on April 30th there will be a show at Cloud 9 126 SW 1st St Corvallis OR 97330. Oregon State hip hop fans check this one out for sure. Its gonna be a dope show. Friday night in Corvallis featuring LMNO and Kev Brown… Word.

PDX Hip Hop – Animal Farm @ PDX-POP ‘09

Animal Farm at PDX-POP ‘09

The Sound Quality is horrible but that was a tight show for sure. PDX POP is an alright Portland Music Festival but its not as good as POH Hop when it comes to hip hop. PDX Hip Hop is all about good underground rap and alternative hip hop with a little bit of West Coast swagger thrown in. PDX POP is mostly all about pop music. Which in my book is pretty lame.


PDX Break Dance

Portland Break Dancers busting out in the streets of Portland, Oregon. PDX Hip Hop break dancers are some of the best on the west coast. The saturation of b-boys and b-girls at PSU is the main reason for it. There are a lot of people that either go to PSU or at least attend their break dancing events and they make up most of the local break dance scene.


Top Ten Underground Rap Songs

I don’t necessarily agree with all the songs on this video. But someone apparently does. They got a lot of views on Youtube, so without further ado… for the fans.

Northwest Hip Hop Videos – Jake One – POH Hop – PDX Hip Hop

Jake One “HOME” Music Video

Another great track from the hit Seattle producer, Jake One aka “Jake Uno”.

Director/DP/Editor: Zia Mohajerjasbi
Produced By: Justin Pinder, Zia Mohajerjasbi, Sam Toloui, Steve Failows

From Jake One:

“Finally, I’m happy to present the video to my tribute to Seattle, “Home”. The song features MC’s Vitamin D, Note, Maneak B and Ish, who have all been big influences in my music. Sir Mix a Lot brought out his orange Lambo and Nate Burleson repped the town and the Seahawks as well. Super Director Zia did a phemomenal job creating the perfect visual for the music and now its time for the world to see it.”

Town Biz
Jake Uno


The Chicharones

At POH Hop 8

Cool Nutz POH Hop Mission Statement

The Portland Oregon Hip-Hop Festival (POH-Hop) has been a monumental and historic event from the time of it’s creation in 1995. David Parks, Steven Spyryt, and Terrance Scott had a vision to create an event that gave local hip-hop artists an outlet to expose their art to the masses.

With the support of the community and some of the cities music industry luminaries, POH-Hop exploded on the scene, and was successful even beyond the expectations of its creators and supporters. Over the past 11 years, POH-Hop has featured some of the most talented local artists, as well as national stars like The Luniz, Spearhead, Mistah FAB, One Be Lo, Mac Dre, Ras Kass, Andre Nickatina, and more.

Not only has POH-Hop benefited local artists in the form of exposure, POH-Hop has also raised and donated funds to The Black Education Center and KBOO Community Radio.

Past sponsors have included: KXJM Jammin 107.5, Vtech Phones, Adidas, 1480 KBMS Radio, Freq Mastering, Phoenix Media, Liquid Assets Jewelers, Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes, Upheaval Designs, SuperHappyWax.com, In Da Mix Records, SPUN Academy, KBOO Radio, Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, and The Oregonian


POH Hop

PDXposed Covers POH Hop

Featuring an Interview with Cool Nutz, J Kronic, Todd G

Jake One and FREEWAY New Album”The Stimulus Package”

FREEWAY speaks about album w/ JAKE ONE

“The Stimulus Package”


Freeway & Jake One

“Know What I Mean” Music Video

First official video from Freeway & Jake One’s album “The Stimulus Package”

Featuring: Freeway, Jakk Frost, Statik Selektah, Hollewood Playboi & Clemmye

Director: Rik Cordero
Producer: Mike Fox
Cinematograper: Ryo Murakami
Prod Co: Three/21 Films


“Hands On” from The Stimulus Package album

Freeway & Jake One

Freeway & Jake One went all out with this package: 4 Freeway Bills, 4 Jake One Bills, with lyrics and liner notes on the backsides, a wallet to stuff them into, plus a download card with the Instrumentals. This unique package was put together by Hip-hop’s Iconic Designer, Brent Rollins.

Jake One

Seattle super producer and self proclaimed “great beat writer” Jake One steps from behind the boards to present his own debut full-length album, White Van Music. Polishing his production chops over the last decade, Jake One has crafted the musical soundscapes for everyone from De La Soul(“Rock Co.Kane Flow” feat. MF DOOM) to 50 Cent (“All Of Me” feat. Mary J. Blige). With an impressive and diverse discography Jake One has managed to bring his sound from the underground to the Billboard Top 10 charts.

Featuring an engaging cast of emerging underground artists as well as some of Hip Hop’s most respected mainstream acts, Jake One’s White Van Music will blur the so called lines between underground and mainstream Hip Hop… just as his stellar production career has.
About Jake One

Jacob Dutton, better known as Jake One, is an American hip hop record producer from Seattle, Washington.

Dutton grew up in Capitol Hill and moved to the North End of Seattle when he was 15. He started making music on a Casio keyboard in 1992. He attended the University of Washington and gave a tape of his music to a friend who worked in a local record store. One of the store’s other employees, the DJ Mr. Supreme heard the tape, and when he set up his Conception Records label, he used Dutton to create backing tracks.[2] The first record he produced was Eclipse’s “World Premier”. His early influences included Pete Rock, DJ Premier, and Marley Marl.

He was a part of the G-Unit production team, The Money Management Group. He is now under Dr. Dre’s production team as of late 2008.

His first album credited to Jake One, White Van Music, was release on October 7, 2008 on Rhymesayers Entertainment, which features contributions from Brother Ali, Young Buck, De La Soul, M.O.P., Freeway, MF DOOM, Slug, and Keak Da Sneak.

He has had tracks included on the soundtracks to films such as Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (50 Cent’s “I Don’t Know Officer”), The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (“Jake Alert”), and Gone Baby Gone.

Underground Northwest Hip-Hop News

SandPeople

“Hate Aside” Music Video


Underground Hip-Hop News

Underground Fuzion: Bringing Underground Hiphop To The Mainstream

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Latest Jay-Z News

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Tony Yayo Hopes Eminem Will Join G-Unit’s U.S. Tour

Hip-Hop News

Tony Yayo Hopes Eminem Will Join G-Unit’s U.S. Tour

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Jack Parow: Meet the Afrikaans ‘Eminem’

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Grind Time Presents

The Saurus vs Illmaculate


206 Hip-Hop

Seattle Hip-Hop Website 206UP

206UP.COM’s Top 10 Seattle Hip-Hop Albums of 2009 « 206-UP!

Contrary to what some prominent journalists and bloggers would have you believe, hip-hop in 2009 is not dead. At least not in regions like the Pacific Northwest, areas that aren’t traditionally associated with carrying hip-hop’s …

YouTube – Blue Scholars – Loyalty

Blue Scholars

“Loyalty” Music Video


Universal Music, Label for U2, Eminem, Names New CEO

Universal Music, whose artists include U2, Lady Gaga and Eminem, saw revenue decline 5.2 percent in the nine months ended September amid music-industry … Read More…

Aziz Ansari a.k.a. RAAAAAAAANDY releases ‘AAAAAAAANGRY’ diss track at Kanye …

My favorite call outs: Kanye’s (especially when he continues on about his blog), Eminem, and Drake. Just take a listen above and check out more from Aziz … Read More…


New Hip Hop Song Releases

Currently focused on Northwest Hip Hop, … I was booking and running production with Anthony Sanchez at Berbati’s Pan under the title Portland Underground for almost 2 years before he was un-justly fired. I then went into some management …

Sound on the Sound’s Top 25 Northwest Albums of 2009 » Sound On …

The local hip hop scene bubbled with excitement and slowly-but-surely burgeoned into a topic on everyone’s lips, thanks to the energy of head-turning acts like They Live!, Champagne Champagne, Fresh Espresso, Macklemore, as well as the …

Back Beat Seattle » Blog Archive » Photos and Review: Sleep, B …

He had a lot to say on the topics of the Northwest hip hop scene, family, old friends, and his crew, Oldominion – all of which are subjects of his songs. It’s obvious there’s a lot going on up in his head. As I mentioned before, …

Eminem And Jay-Z Should Rock Cowboys Stadium, Jerry Jones Says

Hip-Hop News

Eminem News

Yo check out some of the latest news on all star rapper Eminem.

Eminem And Jay-Z Should Rock Cowboys Stadium, Jerry Jones Says

The owner of America’s Team recalled giving Eminem a tour of the palatial venue when Mr. Mathers attended the Cowboys vs. Chargers game in December. … Read More…

Eminem’s 11-Year Anniversary Celebration

As part of Eminem’s celebration for the eleven-year anniversary of his first album “The Slim Shady LP,” the Detroit rapper will take over the FUSE … Read More…

Eminem News

Eminem last played live here on the ‘Anger Management’ tour in 2003. His last headline gig at a festival was at Reading in 2001. Muse and Kasabian are the … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.


Blue Scholars Music Video

“Coffee And Snow”

Blue Scholars “Coffee And Snow” Music Video


Northwest Hip-Hop News

Internet Marketing Guide for Independent Hip Hop Artists

For instance if your band name is G-Rap buy a domain like www.g-rap-hip-hop.com that way it includes hip hop in the domain and gives you more relevancy on search engines. Make sure that the content is different from site to site, …

Bring a child out of the cold dance party this Thursday | Portland …

Support local hip hop, especially when local hip hop is supporting the youth of our community and donate a coat, toy, and lend an ear to the “Bring a Child Out of the Cold, Dance Party” and Northwest Impact this Thursday at Barracuda. …

Seattle Music – 206 Hip-Hop: Still About to Be Big – page 1

But, as long as the fans of NW Hip Hop keep supporting our artists, and our artists keep putting out new, innovative and GOOD music, the scene will thrive and eventually folks elsewhere will notice. And by the way, those “sold out shows …

Eminem News – CBS takes the rap for not taking Grammy’s rap

I hope you’ve been enjoying my posts lately. I thought I might do something different today and rustle up a few bits of info from around the WWW. These are some of the news items and blog posts that have been popular over the last few weeks. Leave me your thoughts.

CBS takes the rap for not taking Grammy’s rap

During a medley performed near the end of Sunday’s award show by rappers Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake, CBS silenced the … Read More…

T In The Park Tickets On Sale

Eminem, Muse and Kasabian were announced as the headliners earlier this week. However the big surprise on the line up is Eminem who hasn’t played a full … Read More…

Eminem’s publicist slams baby reports

A spokesperson for Eminem has blasted reports the rapper and his ex-wife are expecting a baby together. Reports suggesting the “Stan” hitmaker and Kim … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.


Blue Scholars Music Video

“Joe Metro”

Blue Scholars Music Video “Joe Metro”


Hip-Hop News

Grammy News

52nd Grammy Awards

Other winners included Eminem (best rap album, “Relapse”), the French dance-pop band Phoenix (best alternative album, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”), Green Day (best rock album, “21st Century Breakdown”) and Northwest grad and Second City album Stephen … Later on, another all-star hip-hop performance by Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake (with Blink 182’s Travis Barker for some reason on drums) was so rife with nasty language that more of the audio was silenced than broadcast. …

Northwest HipHop News

Macklemore Interview

Macklemore
Macklemore is from the same city as Blue Scholars and the Mass Line Media family: Seattle. His debut ‘The Language Of My World’ released in 2005 and this year he’s back with the ‘Unplanned Mixtape‘ . Together with producer Ryan Lewis he also released the conceptual EP ‘The VS.’ for free this month. On the EP they sample artists such as Beirut, The Killers, Red Hot Chilli Peppers. And in case you are interested in behind the scenes footage of ‘The Town’, then click here!

Graffiti Art and Hip-Hop News

Hip-Hop Graffiti Art

Vancouver BC Graffiti

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Eminem Hip-Hop News

NAMES + FACES Eminem lands European dates

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On this day back in 1999, Eminem kicked off what became a dominant run through the music industry when he dropped his debut album The Slim Shady LP. … Read More…
That’s all the news for today guys, so until next time, thanks for stopping by.


Blue Scholars Music Video

WRC and Grind Time Freestyle Battles

Jump Off TV

World Rap Championship

2007 Finals

Representing the West Coast from the LA Division Illmaculate and The Saurus and representing the East Coast from the New York Division Frankie Wapps and Jaze Juice.

Illmaculate and The Saurus bring freestyle battle raps are way harder. Frankie Wapps and Jaze Juice laugh and clown way too much in this battle. They also use some cliche’ disses on Illmac like calling him lilmac and rhyming “illmac” with “still whack”.


Grind Time Now MC Battles

Hosted by Lush One

Illmaculate vs Conceited

Illmaculate is pretty fresh on this battle, but damn Conceited hit him with some really dope punchlines. You gotta give it up to Conceited on this one.



Who Is Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Terror Suspect Aboard …

Details are still pouring in by the minute, but here’s what we know so far about a man who was subdued after lighting an explosive device on a board flying into Detroit on Christmas: CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

Sleep – Hesitation Wounds

I heard of Sleep a couple years back when somebody emailed me some material from a Northwest hip-hop collective known as oldominion. But I never got around to listening to his music. Then recently, one of my connects over at Strange …

A Time Capsule for 2010 « Publicola

Binary Star, with D.Black, whose latest album is one of Northwest Hip-Hop’s biggest, greatest hopes, and Massive Monkees, Seattle’s elite breakdancing squad, are playing at the Nectar Lounge on Sunday night. …

Underground Hip Hop news brought to you by Bad Habitat of Surreal Music. Bad Habitat is Portland Hip Hop.

Illmaculate – YouTube – Illmaculate/The Saurus vs Lyraflip/Verbs

Underground Freestyle Battles

Illmaculate/The Saurus vs Lyraflip/Verbs

Jump Off TV 2007 World Rap Championship LA Conference

Illmaculate and The Saurus schooled Lyraflip and Verbs in this classic World Rap Championship mc battle.


Blue Scholars

Blue Scholars on Piece Of Shep

In my constant quest for new hip hop music I’ve seen one name come across my screen several times: Blue Scholars. Even though I’ve seen them mentioned by various underground hip hop fanboys, I’ve never given them a shot. I don’t exactly know why. Perhaps they were even on my todo list, I’m not sure. One of the members even appeared on CunninLynguists’ latest album, Strange Journey Vol. 2. The past few days I’ve decided to give them a listen and I have to say, I love what I hear. If you are as unfamiliar with the group as I was, let me give you a brief introduction.

Blue Scholars | piece of shep

Blue Scholars have emerged out of the erupting Northwest hip-hop scene with soulful beats, poetic yet political rhymes and a reputation for dynamic live performances. With two full length albums and 3 EPs, the group has become one of …

NPR Reports about Northwest Hip Hop

The Seattle hip-hop duo follows its excellent self-titled debut and the equally strong Long March EP with a stunning album that sets the bar ever higher for Northwest hip-hop. Sabzi’s production is still warm and soulful, but it’s more …

Bad Habitat Portland Hip Hop Bio

Bad Habitat is steady holding it down for Northwest hiphop. The group stands poised to make a major impact as they quickly grow into a significant force to be reckoned with, stealing shows and new fans at every venue they appear. …

Olympic Speedskater J.R. Celski & Blue Scholars Have A Lot In Common

The Seattle Times published a story about the bronze-medal athlete, exposing J.R. Celski’s love for underground Seattle music and his hope of spreading the word via his Twitter account.

“I really would like to see it put on the map, and one of the ways that’s going to happen is if people talk about it.”

MC Battles Illmaculate vs Swann


Illmaculate vs Swann

MC Battles

Underground Hip-Hop MC Battle between Illmaculate of Northwest Hip-Hop and MC Battle fame, world champion and scribble jam champion vs Swann.

This is a classic battle for Illmaculate from back in the day.


Basket Ball Warm Up CD

Good rap/hip hop songs for a basketball warm-up CD?

If any one knows of a good Basketball Hip-Hop Warm Up CD holler at me. thanks


How about these right… I think you’ll find the following nuggets of wisdom particularly insightful. Leave your comments below. Check out the second one in particular…

The Portland Hip Hop Network

Portland Hip Hop Network brought to you by Bad Habitat of Surreal Music Northwest Hip-Hop group. Holler at me if you think I should add somebody to the image or the article. don’t forget to digg my posts. Don’t know what digg is? you should visit digg.com.

Local station puts Northwest artists on the global map | Tacoma Weekly

Tacoma News reports about local hip-hop group and internet radio station… -  It started as a hobby and promotional tool for Juice’s founder/rapper Quincy Henry’s (a.k.a. Q-Dot) own music career, but now Henry views Juice as a possible staple in the Pacific Northwest hip hop scene and as a way to promote local, …

What Wikipedia Says about Northwest Hip Hop… haha

In 1992, Portland’s Jus Family Records was established by Bosco “Bosko” Kante and Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott, and would go on to become an enduring Northwest hip-hop institution. The foundation of Jus Family Records is important, … this is wikipedia’s outdated and incomplete version of current Northwest Hip-Hop. Find out more about the Hip-Hop Wiki

Grind Time Presents: Hollow Da Don

Grind Time MC Battles

Grind Time Presents: Hollow Da Don vs Philly Swain

Hollow Da Don, 106 Hall-Of-Famer goes up against Philly Swain

Grind Time New York

Hosted By Pumpkinhead at Fat Beats New York

Due to a large number of fouls on each side we decided not to disqualify both emcees and just let them keep going. This is a battle of the beasts! 106th and Park Hall-Of-Famer Hollow Da Don Returns.

Grind Time Now New York MC Battles brought to you by Bad Habitat of Surreal Music.


9 Hip-Hop albums that are good from start to finish?

“All Eyez On Me” – 2Pac

“Ready to Die” – The Notorious B.I.G.

“Paid In Full” – Eric B. and Rakim

“Enter the Wu-Tang” – Wu-Tang Clan

“The Chronic” – Dr. Dre

“2001″ – Dr. Dre

“Me Against the World” – 2Pac

“Straight Outta Compton” – N.W.A

“RGB” Dead Prez

Now im not saying that those the only 9 albums that are good front to back. Post your reply if you know of any dope hip-hop albums that are gold from front to back.


Ok so 3 more posts today that I’ve dug up – I’m an information JUNKIE on this stuff lately. Give em a browse and let me know what ya reckon. They’re just from a few different sites I’ve been surfing lately that are generally good for information like this…

Dizzee Rascal & Lily Allen @ MEN Arena Manchester, Manchester …

UK hip hop show in Manchester: Dizzee Rascal & Lily Allen

Northwest Hip Hop, and Marv Ellis | Tue, Jan 26th 2010 …

Concert Co–Op

Portland Oregon

Get tickets, directions, reminders, reviews, music & video samples, and more at Concert Co-Op for Northwest Hip Hop, and Marv Ellis on Tue, Jan 26th 2010 at McMenamins White Eagle Saloon in Portland OR.

Portland Hip Hop