Labels: 5 Seasons, battle, C Love, Ogun, South Paw

Labels: 1st Family, Black Hole Rock Club, flyer, Mullyman, Ogun, South Paw, Teop, Verb

Tha Profitt's upcoming live dates:

Apr 2 2008 8:00P
NEXT UP Dundalk, Maryland

Apr 4 2008 8:00P
The Best of what Baltimore is @ Blackhole Dundalk, Maryland

Apr 5 2008 9:00P
SouthPaw Ent. presents... (Live w/ Scola & Lito) Dundalk, Maryland

May 14 2008 8:00P
Sonar (Live w/ P & Reap) Baltimore, Maryland

May 17 2008 9:00P
Dirt Road Promotion presents... Arbutus, Maryland

Jun 21 2008 8:00P
Blackhole (Live w/ P)

Labels: flyer, Sonar, South Paw, Tha Profitt

Briefly, my latest stuff up on http://noise.citypaper.com: a new Baltimore club music column with with DJ Pierre, a wrap-up of my experiences judging at the Show Me What You Got battle @ Fletcher's (congrats to the winner, A-Class), and reviews of the Best Buy in-store event for Beyond Hamsterdam: Baltimore Tracks From The Wire with Mullyman, Ogun, Verb and G.E.M., last month's 15 Minutes of Fame open mic @ the Turntable Club with B.O.M.B., South Paw Entertainment, Rip The Ruler and others, Jonathan Richman @ the 8x10 and Perverse Osmosis, Shit The Bed and Scoundrel @ the Sidebar.

Labels: B.O.M.B., Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, battle, Dirty Hartz, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Mullyman, Noise, Ogun, South Paw, The Wire, Turntable Club

South Paw Entertainment presents Never Saw Us Coming (DNA/South Paw Entertainment)

South Paw Entertainment is a label comprised of almost a dozen MCs and a couple producers who released a self-titled album in 2005. I hadn't heard a whole lot of music out of their camp since then, but they definitely make their presence felt at shows here and there. Over the Summer at the Making The Right Moves Conference, I was on a panel with the main dude behind the South Paw label, I forget his name, but I talked to him a little bit and he gave me their latest CD, a mixtape with DNA that I think came out in '06. I hope some of the groups and solo artists on the label release projects too, though, it'd be good to hear how they stand up on their own.

Kadar & Gamin - "Whispers" (mp3)
Kadar's group Lost Soulz seems to grind hardest out of all the artists on South Paw and do the most shows, and Kadar really puts in his work on this mixtape and appears on almost half the songs. I like the beat on this song, it's really unique and not really like anything else I've heard before.

Labels: DNA, mixtape/album review, mp3, South Paw

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Kartel, M.O.L., Midas, South Paw

Labels: 5 Seasons, DJ Booman, flyer, M.O.L., South Paw, Team Fifty

PERFORMERS

OGUN
SOUTHPAW
YOUNG SAC
NIC SOPRANO
VISION
SONNY REDDS
BOMB
TY-GUDDA
TYREIKA
NAVY SEAL
JAY LYNN
VEREADY GRACE PRESENTS RON G
FIRST FAMILY
TWIN DESERT EAGLES
BLUE GATES

NETWORKING MONDAY @ THE
5 SEASONS

$10 FOR THE FELLAS
$5 FOR THE LADIES

Labels: 5 Seasons, B.O.M.B., Bosslady, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Ogun, Sonny Brown, South Paw

Labels: flyer, Kartel, Sonar, South Paw

Labels: 5 Seasons, Deep Flow, flyer, Kartel, M.O.L., ShellBe RAW, South Paw

WWW.TEAMFIFTY.COM & STRENGTH IN NUMBERS PRESENT

SUMMER HEAT MIXTAPE EXPO & RELEASE PARTY
FRIDAY JULY 13TH, 2007
8PM-2AM
5 SEASONS
830 N. GUILFORD AVE.
BALTIMORE, MD

HOSTED BY STEVIE STAY HI
WITH MUSIC BY BUMSQUAD'S OWN DJ BOOMAN

FEATURING:
RAY VICTORY
COMP
EAZY MONEY ENT.
CNP
HOOD STRUCK ENT.
REALSIDE
SOUTHPAW
THA PROFITT
WELDING
GHOSEL
UNTAMED
RAY LUGAR (FEAT. SPEILSBERG)
SPITTERS CLUB (FEAT. ONLEY)
DAVE DA BARBER W/ TIM TREES, XO, 1ST FAM & AMMO
CADDY DA DON (FIXED FIGHT)
TRIGGA YOUNG TEX
100 BOYZ (TRU BILL)
KARTEL (MORE MONEY MORE HATE)
MANIAK DRE (SO HOOD PROD.)

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: SAM CASSELL, KEITH BOOTH, KURK LEE, CARMELLO ANTHONY YOUTH CENTER
MUSIC MONTHLY
DOWNTOWN LOCKER ROOM
18+ TO CHILL/21+ TO SPILL
I.D. IS A MUST!
$10 HOOPAS & HUSTLAS
$5 QUEENS

Labels: 5 Seasons, Comp, DJ Booman, flyer, Kartel, Ray Lugar, South Paw, Team Fifty, Tha Profitt, Tim Trees, XO

Labels: 5 Seasons, Comp, DJ Booman, flyer, South Paw, Team Fifty

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, KW Griff, Ray Lugar, South Paw, Team Fifty

Hip Hop 101
07/03/2006 09:00 PM - 5 Seasons
830 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, 21201 - ladies $5, men $10

Come check out some of the hottest emcee's around while celebrating the holiday! MR WHITEFOLKZ DUECE 4 MIDAS SOUTH PAW UNREAL JINX and some special invited guests... And don't miss out on the drink specials before 10 PM.

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Midas, Sonny Brown, South Paw, UnReal

various artists - South Paw Entertainment (South Paw Entertainment)

South Paw is a Baltimore-based label comprised of two solo artists (D.E. and Gamin) and three groups (Lost Soulz, TriState and Kontroversi), plus a producer (Chris B.). The first time I heard South Paw was when they performed at the Bossman show at the Ottobar last fall, and copped the album after that but hadn't gotten around to posting about it. And since then, I've seen a few South Paw guys compete at Style Warz, and Lost Soulz seem to be doing a lot of shows these days, and were gonna open for Mobb Deep until the show got postponed. You can check out South Paw on their official site, and on CD Baby and MySpace.

Gamin - "Childhood" (mp3)
Gamin's other track on here, "All For Self," also appeared on DNA's Harm City 5, but this is the one I'm really feelin', it's just some personal stortytelling over a low key piano loop beat.

D.E. - "Fuck What You Pitchin'" (mp3)
This is like the polar opposite of the other track, it's just crazy aggressive. D.E. really stands out of the camp to my ears, maybe because it's easier to recognize the voices of the solo artists than the group members, you know how that is. First time I heard him was on a track with Mazon on the first Movement mixtape from '03. In my opinion this is Chris B.'s hottest beat on the album, all those 32nd notes on the kick drum are crazy.

Labels: mixtape/album review, mp3, South Paw

Hip Hop 101
Hosted by Sonny Brown
every Monday @ 5 Seasons

This monday, May 1st:
BISHOP
SOUTHPAW
M.O.L.
SPARKS ALL THE WAY FROM THE CHI
DEZ RED

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, M.O.L., Sonny Brown, South Paw