Labels: flyer, Teop

Some stray news items and links:

- Above is a new YouTube interview with Blaq Starr.

- Illroots.com has recently ran posts about PenDragon and Mania Music Group's Ron G.

- On my other blog Narrowcast, I listed the best shows I saw in 2008, which included performances by Soul Cannon, K-Swift, Blaq Starr, Dru Hill, Diablo, Rod Lee, Mullyman, Skarr Akbar, Comp, Little Clayway, Teop, Heavy Gold, 1st Family and Huli Shallone.

- Recent reviews by some of my colleagues at the City Paper: Brandon Soderberg on Blaq Starr, Bret McCabe on Ms. Stress, and Michael Byrne on DJ Excel.

- Some other stuff by Brandon Soderberg: a No Trivia post about Scottie B., and a Fresh Cherries From Yakima post about songs by Midas, the Chavy Boys, DJ Excel, E Major, B.O.M.B., DJ Booman, Ray Lugar, Mullyman, and Ron Rico.

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Blaq Starr, Diablo, DJ Excel, Dru Hill, K-Swift, Mania Music Group, Midas, Ms. Stress, Mullyman, PenDragon, Ron G., Scottie B., Soul Cannon, Teop

The Baltimore City Paper's annual top ten issue is out this week, and I voted in a few of the lists. In The Year In Local Music, I wrote the blurbs for the albums by the 410 Pharaohs and E Major. I also voted in The Year In Music and The Year In Film, although I didn't blurb anything and just a few things I voted for got into the lists (Erykah Badu in the former, and The Dark Knight, Iron Man and Tropic Thunder in the latter). The album ballots are up on the website, although my 'final' top 10 albums will look different from what I voted for in November. Also over on the CP website we did a top ten of the best concerts of the year, and my 2 picks for the list were Soul Cannon/Grand Buffet/J-Roddy Walston and The Business @ The Ottobar and Teop/Comp/Mullyman/Skarr Akbar/Little Clayway/Huli Shallone/Heavy Gold/1st Family/SL Danga/Al Great @ Sonar, and there were some other good picks there (My Crew Be Unruly @ Paradox, Whartscape @ the Charles, etc.).

(illustration by Paige Shuttleworth)

Labels: 1st Family, Baltimore City Paper, Comp, DJ Booman, E Major, Labtekwon, lists, Little Clayway, magazines/newspapers, Mullyman, Ottobar, Skarr Akbar, Sonar, Soul Cannon, Teop, Unruly Records

In the past month I've finally started occasionally taking photos to accompany some of my posts on the City Paper's Noise blog at http://noise.citypaper.com (with asterisks next to posts that include pictures by me). My latest posts included: The Club Beat with Dirty Nation Entertainment, Teop with Mullyman (pictured above), Comp, Skarr Akbar, Little Clayway, Huli Shallone, Heavy Gold, Al Great, SL Danga and 1st Family @ Sonar*, 2 Time Quitters, Raspberry Campaign and Engine @ the Ottobar*, Pearl Jam and Ted Leo @ the Verizon Center, and "Weird Al" Yankovic @ Pier Six Pavilion. I also spent last weekend doing a lot of festival coverage: night 1 of Whartscape with Matmos, Nautical Almanac, Ultimate Reality, Mark Hosler of Negativland, Leprechaun Catering, Blue Leader, Ben Heresey and Missoula Oblongata @ the Charles Theatre and Artscape with Dru Hill, Mario, Joan Jett, Mike Doughty, the Oranges Band, Blaq Starr, and what would end being the last time I'd get to see DJ K-Swift (R.I.P.) spin.

(photo by Al Shipley)

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Blaq Starr, Comp, Dru Hill, Heavy Gold, Huli Shallone, K-Swift, Little Clayway, magazines/newspapers, Mullyman, Noise, Ottobar, Skarr Akbar, Sonar, Teop

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

I'm still kinda catching up on stuff I missed during my vacation, here's some Baltimore hip hop coverage by writers other than myself that's appeared in the City Paper recently:

- A feature on the hip hop band Soul Cannon by Robbie Whelan and a review of their album by Michael Byrne (I also reviewed their release party on Noise a while back)

- A review of E Major's Majority Rules by Brandon Soderberg, who wrote some more stuff about E Major on his blog No Trivia

- A review of a mixtape by Teop A.K.A. Myer Lanksi by Bret McCabe

- A review of an EP by The Chavy Boys Of London (Scottie B., Sean Caesar and King Tutt) by Michael Byrne

(photo by Rarah)

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, E Major, magazines/newspapers, Scottie B., Teop

Labels: Comp, flyer, Little Clayway, Mullyman, Skarr Akbar, Sonar, Teop

Bosslady - On Da Grind Vol. 4 (Jam Eazey Ent./House-Of-Platinum Records)

Bosslady, a.k.a. Me'Aze Millioni has made a lot of moves in Bmore as a label owner, host, and show promoter over the past couple years, including the Baltimore State Of Grind compilation. But she's always repped the whole region, including the rest of Maryland and Washington and Virginia, and she covers that whole territory with the latest installment from the On Da Grind series. There are a handful of Baltimore artists on here that I'm familiar with (UnReal, Ms. Stress, Teop, Unstoppable Nuklehidz, Mossburg) and some D.C. artists I know of (Mr. White Folkz, Raheem Devaughn), but a lot of it is unfamiliar folks to me, who I figure are mostly from D.C. or VA. The CD opens with a nice intro track for Bosslady that blends a nice choice of beats (Slim Thug's "Like A Boss," Shareefa's "I Need A Boss," Kelis's "Bossy"), good idea, maybe Bossman should get that track for a freestyle. Look out for Bosslady's new mixtape with Musse' Mus' dropping real soon as well as her new DVD, Pass Da Mic.

Drakkar - "Who The Fuck I Am" (mp3)
Drakkar is the teenage rapper who won Rod Lee's talent search last year. Nice to finally hear some of his music, I'm kinda impressed by this track.

Labels: Bosslady, mixtape/album review, mp3, Ms. Stress, Rod Lee, Teop, UnReal

Hip Hop 101/Old School Mondays
"Best Weekly Event" - Baltimore City Paper
February 4th, 2006 - Five Seasons
830 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201 - ladies $5, guys $10

ONCE AGAIN IT'S ON..

Crime Family
Comp
Teop
Ruff Fam
K.G.
Tufflon Donna
M.O.L.
and more special guest and surprises..

$5 for the females
$10 for the fellas

Dj Jabril on the ones and twos
Shaka Pitts (www.spittersclub.com) hosting the event

drink specials
$1 shots.. (ask for a sonny brown)
Food
lets get it in and have some fun tomorrow night..
it may be cold outside but inside it will be HOT!!!!!

-Sonny Brown

Labels: 5 Seasons, Comp, flyer, Hip Hop 101, M.O.L., Sonny Brown, Teop

Hip Hop 101/Old School Mondays
"Best Weekly Event" - Baltimore City Paper
January 29th, 2006 - Five Seasons
830 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201 - ladies $5, guys $10

ANOTHER HOT NIGHT AT THE 5 SEASONS!!!!

BOMB
CRIME FAMILY
G.E.M.
TEOP
ENHOUZE
WHITEFOLKS
UNREAL
WELDING PRODUCTIONS

AND A HELL OF ALOT MORE ARTIST PERFORMING THAT NIGHT!
$2 FOR $15
$10 FOR THE FELLAS
$5 FOR THE FEMALES


$1 SONNY BROWN SHOTS
DRINK SPECIALS
FOOD

SONNY BROWN HOSTING
DJ JABRIL ON THE 1'S AND 2'S

IT'S GOING DOWN

OH YEAH, WE ARE CELEBRATING MR. WILSONS BIRTHDAY ALSO!!

LETS GET IT IN!!!!

-Sonny Brown

Labels: 5 Seasons, B.O.M.B., flyer, G.E.M./Tha Plague, Hip Hop 101, Sonny Brown, Teop, UnReal

Labels: 5 Seasons, Bosslady, Dirty Hartz, flyer, Midas, Ms. Stress, Scottie B., Sonny Brown, Team Fifty, Teop, UnReal

Hip Hop 101
08/28/2006 09:00 PM - 5 Seasons
830 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, 21201 - ladies $5, men $10

from Sonny Brown:

MR WILSON WILL BE BACK MONDAY AT HIPHOP 101.. SO COME ON OUT AND SHOW THIS MAN SOME LOVE..

XO
EJ
TEOP
BOSCO
TROUBLE
SHAKA PITTS $ MAX MILLIONS
KODE STREET

WITH A SPECIAL OPENING ACT FROM THE ONE THEY CALL J-CASA

DJ JABRIL AND J-VENOM ON THE ONES AND TWOS

HOSTED BY SONNY BROWN

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Sonny Brown, Teop, XO

Hip Hop 101
07/17/2006 09:00 PM - 5 Seasons
830 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, 21201 - ladies $5, men $10

from Sonny Brown:

Ok Ok Ok.. This week ladies and gents we have some outta towners coming to bless us with there presence and some VERY V.I.P's coming in... First up.. all the way from the CHi-town a.k.a. The Windy City we have..

SPARKS.. featuring J-Nina
then all the way from PHILLY PHILLY..
NAT KING
VISION
TEOP
EDDIE KANE

and like i said special guest..

We only have a few spots jumping off so we need to at least support the events we do have.. It's a shame when we DIDNT have to many people doing shows people was crying but NOW we have some events and places to be heard, NOBODY COMES OUT!!! I have more people come to my event that dont rap but just want to hear good music and watch entertainment then my peers and thats a fucking shame.. I'm not doing this for me... I'm doing this for US!!!!

I may be doing some switching up soon for a few weeks so if you want to perform i suggest you get at me now because i stay with a booked roster of artist.. I'm going to be doing some things that will be more beneficial for EVERYONE for a few weeks so stay tuned for the new suprises coming up..

Drink specials
Females $5
Males $10

Hosted by Sonny Brown
Dj Shawn Nice and DJ jabril on the ones and twos

Food by Samuels Soul food in the building..

SUpport Support Support

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Sonny Brown, Teop

There's now an official MySpace page for Hip Hop 101, and while you're there I reccomend checking out the Sonny Brown songs on the audio player, I love that new single "Sick Wit It."

at Hip Hop 101 this week:
1st fam
Ghosel
Teop
Sport Millz
Mask-on

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Sonny Brown, Teop

Old School Mondays
this week:
UNCANNY CLICK
STRESS
SKARR AKBAR
YOUNG HUSTLERS
TEOP

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Skarr Akbar, Sonny Brown, Teop

Hip Hop 101
Hosted by Sonny Brown
Every Monday at 5 Seasons
830 Guilford Ave.

This monday, March 13th:

P-CHROME - NOM CLICK
LIL CHRIS - CHARM CITY RECORDS
TYREE COLION - HUSLE HARD BLVD
YOUNG HUSTLERS - HUSTLE HARD BLVD
TOEP

SHOW STARTS AT 11PM
DOORS OPEN AT 9PM

Labels: 5 Seasons, flyer, Hip Hop 101, Sonny Brown, Teop, Tyree Colion