Okay I haven’t quite figured which forum would be the best for me to shout-out the music I’m presently feeling. It seems like this blog is where it will go down. With that said I’ll answer one of the questions I am often asked (Yo Sha!! what are you listening to?).
I’m listening to a lot of different things, too many to list but I will mention what I’m LOVING. “E-Life” by Mint Condition, “Workday, Waterbaby Music Vol 1.0″ by Nate Smith, “Rising Down” by The Roots, “Seeing Sounds” by N.E.R.D and “Conflict” by Sy Smith.
Let me say this from the jump, “I am not a billboard”. I said that so there is a CLEAR understanding for all those who may get the idea to blast my inbox (please don’t). Rarely will I post, plug, display, etc. you fill in the verb, music that I think you should check out. That’s what the dj booth is for or even my show on XM Radio-65. Hmmn…they just blocked me from doing that there. Okay maybe I’ll reconsider. While I try to figure out the best way to broadcast the good word of good works, check out this hot joing by Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific. I dig it & you just might too.
Ever been daring enough to ask yourself who am I, what is this life of mine? One might say Melly Trochez is bit more gutsy. Her self-portraits finger answers upon answers. I like the way she exposes the inner layers revealing even more unanswered questions.
Are we ready to make advancements in America or are we complacent with the status quo? My sights are set on Chicago for the answer. Currently the “Windy City” offers Barack Obama and Hot Stylz. Hmmn… the jury is still out. I’ll check back November 5th 2008. Hopefully by then the laughter will stop and we can get to business.
While in town we stopped in to spin for local radio station Shibuya 78.4. Ali dropped some classics on them and then took time to answer some questions from callers.
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You can’t roll thru Shibuya without hitting the hot spots, can you? As a light rain started to fall we stopped thru some of the shops in the city. The Prada store was bananas, BAPE Cafe was cool too and we couldn’t get enough of the tiny cars. You just wanna run up and squeeze em!
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I’ve always had a thing for Tokyo. Sofia Coppola’s film captured the beauty of the city so well. Ali Shaheed stopped thru Shibuya to help celebrate the 6th anniversary of ShibuyaNUTS Tokyo and Logos Yokohama, two long running hiphop clubs in Japan. We arrived in the middle of the night, jetlagged and beat from the 12 hour flight, but we hit the streets anyway to get a feel for the city. It’s all a bit of a blur….
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The guys over at the Guerilla Union were cool enough to let us setup and record a session in their new studio. By new we mean so spanking fresh it still smelled like paint. They had some candles burning trying to keep down the fumes. But that night Ali was the reason for the funk… he got nice on the decks while a few special guest had us all in tears from the booth.
Ali ended the session with all of us head bobbing to Vibes N Stuff by A Tribe Called Quest. We wrapped it up and headed over to the main venue just in time to catch De La Sol on stage wreaking the whole place. Looking forward to the tour.
word & foto: tishaun