So its been a crazy four days, I will break down more of it in blogs once I reach Prague. It is almost 7am here in the Czech and Im bleary eyed after tearing down another stage with 3P. J-Live was our special guest. I wont get ahead of myself because this all gets very dope, but I wanted to hit you with something before our car picks us up to head out to Prague, so... This is some footage shot leading up to J-Live's set (which I may or may not post in order...). Hip Hop Kemp was absolutely crazy (other then losing my camera, dont worry the Flip is in a effect, just means more video then pictures). So check it out and enjoy....For my facebook homies just click Straight Organics
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Get up Stand up Tour-first stop: Berlin
OK....
So the show is back on the road and this time, yes we are coming to you live via VIDEO!!! For my FACEBOOK peeps...click Fresh Roots Music
Bare with me, this is the first attempt of stepping into the digital realm!!!!!!
Then later on.....
So there you have it. We have a two hour train ride tomorrow to Leipzeg and we rock later that night! Below is just a sample (a small one) of the Graff and beautiful city I saw on the first day. Peace!
So the show is back on the road and this time, yes we are coming to you live via VIDEO!!! For my FACEBOOK peeps...click Fresh Roots Music
Bare with me, this is the first attempt of stepping into the digital realm!!!!!!
Then later on.....
So there you have it. We have a two hour train ride tomorrow to Leipzeg and we rock later that night! Below is just a sample (a small one) of the Graff and beautiful city I saw on the first day. Peace!
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Hired Gun on the Come UP-click the link and leave a comment @ Ihiphop
Get up stand up.....
Peace everyone, if you've been following The 3rd Party posts or blasts you'd know in a few short weeks we will be once again crossing the Atlantic. Its been a beautiful hot summer for us and I hope its been for you as well.
Down to business....
I'm hitting you up to let you know that the hip hop site, ihiphop has me featured in their new artist section, "The Come Up". Click HERE to check it out and please LEAVE A COMMENT. I will be hitting you all after this weekend with more up and coming about the tour and what's going on with Fresh Roots....PEACE!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Free Music Free Download straight from Fresh Roots Music
Peace everyone,
I'm hitting you up to let you know that Reverbnation has hit me with an amazing opportunity to promote myself and my music. Out of tens of if not hundreds of thousands of artists, I was selected with a thousand others in a program sponsored by Microsoft Windows. What does this mean? Well, we are a part of an independent artist web campaign that offers one of our songs FOR FREE for download from the banner below.
What do you have to do? Click on the banner and download my track "Unforgivable Blackness" for *FREE*. No solicitations, no passwords, just click, then download and its over as fast as your internet connection is. What does this mean for me? Exposure and an opportunity for a larger market to possibly check out my music. Thank you all for your support in the past, it has only been through everyone who has commented on websites, purchased the album or voted for me on various awards that I've won, that these types of opportunities continue to open for me. Click on the link below, get some dope FREE music, help me, and let's keep it movin.
-HG
I'm hitting you up to let you know that Reverbnation has hit me with an amazing opportunity to promote myself and my music. Out of tens of if not hundreds of thousands of artists, I was selected with a thousand others in a program sponsored by Microsoft Windows. What does this mean? Well, we are a part of an independent artist web campaign that offers one of our songs FOR FREE for download from the banner below.
What do you have to do? Click on the banner and download my track "Unforgivable Blackness" for *FREE*. No solicitations, no passwords, just click, then download and its over as fast as your internet connection is. What does this mean for me? Exposure and an opportunity for a larger market to possibly check out my music. Thank you all for your support in the past, it has only been through everyone who has commented on websites, purchased the album or voted for me on various awards that I've won, that these types of opportunities continue to open for me. Click on the link below, get some dope FREE music, help me, and let's keep it movin.
-HG
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
New Music....New Interview....Straight Organic
The Summer has officially arrived....
....And it has been a pretty strange weather pattern though, rain, sun, rain, sun. Speaking of Strange, my people's Michael McFadden and Acee (you may remember Acee's unbelievable beat for "unforgivable blackness" off the People's Verses....)just dropped their latest, release...self titled "Agent Strange". Myself, IllSpokinn (Spokinn Movement, Sin Sin fam), and Stephanie Diaz are featured on this amazing album. My track is "Hired Hand" and you can hear the track here (click the album cover):
It is available via itunes, napster, rhapsody or wherever dope music is sold.
I also had the opportunity to sit down with Zeb d'essence (of "Rappers are in Danger" fame off The People's Verses) and discuss the URB Next 100, new projects and in general the state of the music. Peace to the middle row.
....And it has been a pretty strange weather pattern though, rain, sun, rain, sun. Speaking of Strange, my people's Michael McFadden and Acee (you may remember Acee's unbelievable beat for "unforgivable blackness" off the People's Verses....)just dropped their latest, release...self titled "Agent Strange". Myself, IllSpokinn (Spokinn Movement, Sin Sin fam), and Stephanie Diaz are featured on this amazing album. My track is "Hired Hand" and you can hear the track here (click the album cover):
It is available via itunes, napster, rhapsody or wherever dope music is sold.
I also had the opportunity to sit down with Zeb d'essence (of "Rappers are in Danger" fame off The People's Verses) and discuss the URB Next 100, new projects and in general the state of the music. Peace to the middle row.
Monday, June 1, 2009
DJ Zajazza-Musical Puzzle
The musical foundation behind the latest collaborative project between myself and fellow cohort from 3rd Party, Rabbi Darkside...Zajazza is a true loop digger with a love of the classics, and the skills and knowledge to bring it to you live. Musical Puzzle is Zajazza's latest homage to the roots of this culture we call hip hop. You can download the album for free by clicking this
link. Or you can click on the album cover. Peep below for the tracklisting and more desription about the project.
Musical Puzzle is a selection of breaks (jazz, soul, funk) mixed with freestyles from NYC hip hop artists. Zajazza tried with this mix to show the direct relationship between music from the 60’s/70’s and Hip Hop. Expect some famous samples used by Dr Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, US3 and more…
Zajazza’s comment:
“This project took me like 6 months of digging in the crates of Phily and New York, researching the right breaks and recording some NYC mcees in order to produce this homage to the roots of Hip Hop Music. So, what’s the recipe? Some good records, two turntables, a handheld recorder and some skilled mcees…”
Intro by Kid Lucky (Hip Hop Subway series) and Bill Blass on Kenny Burrel - Midnigth blue
Donald Byrd - Wind parade
Jimmy Smith - I’m gonna love you just a little bit more babe
The Wild Magnolias - Corey died on the battle field
Silver Convention - You turned me on, but you can’t turn me off (scratch interlude)
Mark Holder - Music Turns Me On
Richard Groove Holmes/Ernie Watts - Come Together
Barry Ungar - Lightly salted (Hip Hop Subway series freestyle)
Donald Byrd - Cantaloupe Island
(drum interlude)
David Mc Callum - The edge
S.O.U.L. - Soul
The meters - Live wire
George Freeman - The bump
Bill Withers - Still bill (scratch interlude)
Bobby Blue Bland - Goin down slow
Joe Williams - Get out my life woman
Lou Rawls - Christmas will be (Hired Gun freestyle)
Sly and the family stone - Sing a simele song
Sugar Ray - Knock him out (beat juggling interlude)
Michel Audiard - Tatou strip tease
Guy Pederson - Les copains de la basse
Bernard Wystaete - Day dream (poem by Aeden and freestyle by Bill Blass)
Driver OST - Driving
S.O.B.eat (beat juggling interlude)
Sonny Stitt - Slick Eddie
Lou Donaldson - Blues walk
Brother Jack McDuff - Oblighetto
Ronnie foster - Mystic Brew (outro by Rawaness)
Zajazza is a French DJ/Producer who has been traveling around the world since 2002, finding musical adventures in Chile, Brazil, Portugal and New York City. In 2007, he spent a year in Brazil, digging and playing with the best local Hip Hop DJs, and MCs. The same year, he released the mixtape “O Segredo da Beleza“, a selection of the best Brazilian Popular Music he collected while touring. In 2008, he went to New York, and started to work with underground hip hop artists.
link. Or you can click on the album cover. Peep below for the tracklisting and more desription about the project.
Musical Puzzle is a selection of breaks (jazz, soul, funk) mixed with freestyles from NYC hip hop artists. Zajazza tried with this mix to show the direct relationship between music from the 60’s/70’s and Hip Hop. Expect some famous samples used by Dr Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, US3 and more…
Zajazza’s comment:
“This project took me like 6 months of digging in the crates of Phily and New York, researching the right breaks and recording some NYC mcees in order to produce this homage to the roots of Hip Hop Music. So, what’s the recipe? Some good records, two turntables, a handheld recorder and some skilled mcees…”
Intro by Kid Lucky (Hip Hop Subway series) and Bill Blass on Kenny Burrel - Midnigth blue
Donald Byrd - Wind parade
Jimmy Smith - I’m gonna love you just a little bit more babe
The Wild Magnolias - Corey died on the battle field
Silver Convention - You turned me on, but you can’t turn me off (scratch interlude)
Mark Holder - Music Turns Me On
Richard Groove Holmes/Ernie Watts - Come Together
Barry Ungar - Lightly salted (Hip Hop Subway series freestyle)
Donald Byrd - Cantaloupe Island
(drum interlude)
David Mc Callum - The edge
S.O.U.L. - Soul
The meters - Live wire
George Freeman - The bump
Bill Withers - Still bill (scratch interlude)
Bobby Blue Bland - Goin down slow
Joe Williams - Get out my life woman
Lou Rawls - Christmas will be (Hired Gun freestyle)
Sly and the family stone - Sing a simele song
Sugar Ray - Knock him out (beat juggling interlude)
Michel Audiard - Tatou strip tease
Guy Pederson - Les copains de la basse
Bernard Wystaete - Day dream (poem by Aeden and freestyle by Bill Blass)
Driver OST - Driving
S.O.B.eat (beat juggling interlude)
Sonny Stitt - Slick Eddie
Lou Donaldson - Blues walk
Brother Jack McDuff - Oblighetto
Ronnie foster - Mystic Brew (outro by Rawaness)
Zajazza is a French DJ/Producer who has been traveling around the world since 2002, finding musical adventures in Chile, Brazil, Portugal and New York City. In 2007, he spent a year in Brazil, digging and playing with the best local Hip Hop DJs, and MCs. The same year, he released the mixtape “O Segredo da Beleza“, a selection of the best Brazilian Popular Music he collected while touring. In 2008, he went to New York, and started to work with underground hip hop artists.
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