The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

Finishing up with the 8th part of this series of posts, I'm gonna focus on Debonair Samir , who was also the subject of the last 4 or 5 paragraphs of the article. Samir's been thick in the Baltimore club scene since the late 90's, and has been on some big local hip hop projects too. In the last few months, I've posted some of Samir's productions for Dirty Hartz and Mullyman and talked a little about his work with Aaron Lacrate. I'm not sure when that Baltimore Club Crack compilation on Koch is dropping, I've heard in the fall, but I've got a rough mix of it and it's some hot shit, tracks from Tim Trees and B Rich and Chopper from Da Band. Samir and Lacrate were also featured on MTV's You Hear It First about the Baltimore scene, and they'll be spinning club music at Sonar's indie dance party, Taxlo, next Friday, August 11th.

Samir's worked with so many people around here, he did a track on Bossman's independent album and some stuff on Bigg Patch's new album. And the other night at the Low Key God/Scottie B. event at 5 Seasons, the dudes from Tru Bill Ent. played a new song produced by Samir that sounded hot. Check out the "Samir's Beats" mp3 on Samir's MySpace page, which is the instrumentals from a bunch of his hip hop productions. Some of them are familiar, like Dirty Hartz's "Post Up" and Tim Trees' "Fire," and there's a crazy sample of the Golden Girls theme, and towards the end there's a weird remixed version of the "Soldier" beat.

D.O.G. f/ Jon Boe - "Soldier" (mp3)
Samir's produced several tracks for D.O.G., including "I Get Doe" featuring Jim Jones, "Higher," and a track from the upcoming album called "Mardi Gras." But when Samir told me that he did this track during our interview, I had to really give him props, this is my shit, the drums are crazy. The other MC on the track, Jon Boe, is D.O.G.'s brother, and he's got a solo mixtape that I'm gonna post about at some point. Champagne Dreams never did drop in July, but last time D.O.G. was on Rap Attack, he said they were about to sign something and make it a national release, so it's gonna be worth the wait.

Don Brody - "Back It Up" (mp3)
Don Brody is this cat that's on DNA's label and has been appearing on a lot of his mixtapes. His MySpace page says he's from Philly, but his solo mixtape, Hard Money has beats from Bmore producers like Akira The Great and Samir, and this is the cut from Samir.

G & R - "Git Ya Money" (mp3)
Not sure who G & R are, but I like this track, produced by Samir from the first Street Radio mixtape.

Joe Pesh f/ Danmoe - "Ridin' Stock" (mp3)
Here's a track from the new Street Radio 3, which I'll be doing a post about soon. Kind of a Southern vibe on this one.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, D.O.G., Debonair Samir, Dirty Hartz, mp3, Mullyman, The Best Of Both Worlds

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

Rod Lee is obviously a hugely important figure in both Bmore club and local hip hop. He's had the clubs on smash since the mid-late 90's, and ever since 2000 when he started doing songs with Tim Trees and Pork Chop, he's been making hits for every other rapper and R&B singer in Baltimore and jump-starting the careers of folks like Bossman and Paula Campbell. A couple years ago, it was common to say that a local artist couldn't get a song on 92Q without a beat from Rod Lee, and while that's no longer as true, which is generally to the benefit of the scene's diversity, he's still running shit. The latest single on the radio that he produced is Cooli Hi's "Take Down (Unruly's Harm Squad Mix)", which is featured on the City Paper's Big Music Thing

This article was the 2nd time I tried to get an interview with Rod, and unfortunately he's the only guy I didn't get to talk to. I called a couple times, and when I got him on the line he kinda blew me off and told me to call back the next week, which happened to be after my deadline. I've heard that he's been kinda press-shy since a couple publications aired out some of his personal business. But I dunno, maybe he was just busy, so I won't hold it against him, because I'm still a real big fan of his music. And he's still killing it on the club tip, with last year's Vol. 5: The Official and the reissue of Operation: Start-Up. This year, Morphius is reissuing the rest of his older albums, including my personal favorites Operation: Not Done Yet and Vol. 3: The Pressure. And he's got a new album coming out, but I have no idea what it's called; Morphius says it's called The Referee, the insert in the Supa DJ Big L CD says it's called The Game, and in SPIN last year he said it's called The Producer, so who knows.

Little Clayway f/ Rod Lee - "Call Me Clayway" (mp3)
I remember the first time I got the sense that Rod was kind of a big deal around here beyond just the club tracks was about 4 years ago when Clayway was on Rap Attack around the time this song came out, and they were acting all like "damn, you got a beat from Rod Lee? You must have a big budget." You can see the video for the song here.

Nature's Problem - "Shake It Shorty" (mp3)
Another one from back in '02, couldn't go 5 minutes without hearing this or "Whoa Now" on the radio that summer. Nature's Problem was Huli Shallone's group back in the day before he went solo, one of these days I'm gonna do a post about their old albums.

Tyree Colion - "Big Pimpin'" (mp3)
Shout out to Tyree, I don't know what the latest on his legal situation is but I hope things work out for him. This is a track from The Problem and the Solution, I remember hearing another Tyree/Rod Lee collabo on the radio last year, and I've heard differing reports on whether Rod produced Tyree's big hit "Bass Drop" but I have no idea if he did or not.

Scola f/ Rod Lee - “Turn It Down" (mp3)
Scola, aka Ruscola, the 5th member of Dru Hill, came back on the solo tip with this joint pretty recently. This is the original version, but there's also a remix with Bossman and Dollars from N.E.K. out there, and lately I've been hearing another version with some live drums on there.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Dru Hill, Little Clayway, mp3, Rod Lee, The Best Of Both Worlds, Tyree Colion

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

Nigga Say What (also known as just Say Wut, for those of us who shouldn't really be saying/typing the first word of his name too much) is one of the younger cats on the Baltimore club scene that I interviewed for my article, although unfortunately all his quotes ended up on the cutting room floor. I feel bad about that, but it was really out of my hands, oh well. He's done some great club tracks the past couple years, though, like "Horn Theme" and "What You Want," sort of in that same wave of more aggressive club tracks like Blaq Starr, and he's been doing some hip hop production too. I looked around a little but it doesn't seem like he has a MySpace page or anything like that, correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT 8/1/06:
Say Wut's wife Crystal posted in the comments and put me up on the website of Say Wut's company Horsemen Entertainment, so check that out.

Nigga Say What - "Let's Go Rmx" (mp3)
Say What produced Huli Shallone's big current hit "Work It Good," which is basically a slowed down version of the beat from this club track. I don't have a copy of the Huli track, though, and Say What didn't even have a copy when I asked him about it. They're playing it all over 92Q these days, though.

Tay-Eazy - "Eazy" (mp3)
I posted another Tay-Eazy track in the Blaq Starr post, here's his big song that's on the radio.

A-ma-zon - "Handz Up" (mp3)
A-ma-zon is another one of those teenage rappers along with Young Leek and Tay-Eazy that K-Swift's Next Level management's got rhyming over club beats.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Huli Shallone, mp3, NSW (Say What), The Best Of Both Worlds

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

DJ Booman is a real important figure in Baltimore club music, from the early days of Unruly Records up through is current work with the Doo Dew Kidz. I've mentioned him on here a couple times recently, including his recent features in the Baltimore City Paper and Music Monthly. He's also got the hip hop company Crooked Streetz and a lot of mixtapes, including the new Skarr Akbar Vs. Bossman mixtape. You can to get more music and info on Booman's MySpace blog, and here's a message he posted on his MySpace blog recently:

k, Im usually quiet on most shit, but when it comes to my music I gotta speak out! Im happy about the recent surge of exposure with the Baltimore Club scene but if I read another Blog, see another TV program, or see another magazine mention the history of the club scene and not mention the trailblazers like Myself, KW Griff, Jimmy Jones, Technics, 2 White Kids, DJ Class, Karizma, Patrick, Diamond K, Chase, Kenny B, Foe, Tapp, Tony, Boobie, Rod Braxton and the countless others that contributed to the most influential time in the music, theres going to be a problem!!!! I dont know about you but that MTV shit kinda pissed me off........not one mention of the OG's that put in the work to make this shit a real success!!! Yall can take this how you wanna but you better show respect to the cats that put it down.....yall aint gonna do us like muthafuckas did Bambatta and flash and the countless others that built hiphop only to have the next generations try to sweep them under the rug. We still doing this shit and its better than 95% the new shit thats out there now. Im going to start taking it on some old school shit and calling niggas out thats wack!!! point blank if you talk about the club shit and dont mention the real OG's we exposing your weak asses.....thats like talking about 90's basketball and not mentioning Jordan!!!! Stop trying to rewrite history and making yourselves hotter than you are, worry about your contributions to the game and leave it at that. The next time I have to write about this im naming names and Im issuing challenges to yall wack asses......YOU WILL BE EXPOSED!!!!!!!!And if you are exposed you better bring ya A game cause Im a fuckin Beast!!!!! Yall know what it is! check out the new joints coming to a Major Label near you......lol.....Did I say That???? Be on the look out for Booman, Jimmy Jones and Labtekwon collabo!!! Sex Machine and Hammer Dance.......Check out the Doow Dew Kidz and Labs myspace pages to listen to them....

That's real talk! Here's a couple of Booman's recent hip hop productions:

Booman f/ Labtekwon and Jimmy Jones - "Oh No (Watch Her Shake It)" (mp3)
A few weeks ago I posted Lab's Booman-produced "Sex Machine", and here's another track from their upcoming album. The City Paper's Big Music Thing includes another one of their collaborations, "Twurk Wit U" by the 410 Pharoahs.

D.O.G. - "Look In My Eyes" (mp3)
I believe that this track was done by Booman and Sean "Mocca" Banks's new production team, The Baltimore Boys, who specialize in Bmore club tracks mixed with live instrumentation. This is just a minute-long snippet from the Walking On Air mixtape, I guess the full song will be on the D.O.G. album.

Sonny Grams - "Uninvited" (mp3)
Here's a track from the Golden Seal mixtape I posted about recently that's also hosted and mixed by Booman. That Alanis Morrisette sample is crazy.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, D.O.G., DJ Booman, Labtekwon, mp3, The Best Of Both Worlds

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

DJ Ron Rico aka Reazons is one of the guys that I talked to for this article, and I wanted to get his opinion because he's kind of the exception to the rule, a club producer whose hip hop productions are pure sample-driven old school hip hop. Shout out to him for the interview.

DJ Ron Rico f/ Mike Malachi - “4 The Love Hip Hop Music" (mp3)
This is the one song on Malachi's Way that Ron Rico himself raps on. I'm looking forward to his remix album, too.

DJ Ron Rico - "Here Comes The Pain" (mp3)
Here's one of his more recent club hits, with some crazy Carlito's Way samples.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

(photo by Jefferson Jackson Steele)

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Mike Malachi, mp3, The Best Of Both Worlds

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

Ron "Dukeyman" Hall is one of the OG's of Baltimore club music period, countless club classics going back the early-mid 90's and all that. It's a shame that only one brief quote from him ended up in the final cut of my article, since he had a lot of interesting stuff to say about the current state of club music and his perspective on the hip hop scene. Here's some of my favorite hip hop beats that he's done:

B. Rich - "Whoa Now (Bmore Version)" (mp3)
People around here hate on B. Rich but he was really doin' his thing for a minute, even if it didn't really pan out, and Dukeyman's beat on this was one of the first real national looks for the Baltimore club sound. This is the original version that blew up in Baltimore, before Atlantic signed him and did a more polished remix for the video and all that. Dukeyman did most of the beats on that album, and produced a song on this year's Born Rich too.

Tim Trees f/ Contact - “Spaced Out (Yo, I'm So High)" (mp3)
This cut from Tim's first album might be my favorite hip hop beat with a video game sample ever, it's from Galaga or Space Invaders, one of those old games, it's just sick how well put together it is.

Bigg Patch - "Supaugly" (mp3)
This is a Bigg Patch joint that I first heard on the first Street Radio mixtape, crazy beat and easily one of my favorite joints by Bigg Patch.

B-Fly - “Take Me As I Am" (mp3)
B-Fly is a member of Brown F.I.S.H. that Dukeyman's done a few tracks with.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: B-Fly, B. Rich, Baltimore City Paper, Bigg Patch, magazines/newspapers, mp3, The Best Of Both Worlds, Tim Trees

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

Blaq Starr is a Baltimore club producer/DJ that I've written about several times before, most recently about his mixtape I'm Banging. And he's been bringing his sound to Baltimore hip hop for a while now too with a whole bunch of hits. He's got a new song with Cooli Hi, who he previously produced "Beat It Up" for, called "Take Down (Unruly's Harm Squad Mix)" (produced by Rod Lee with Blaq Starr on the hook), which is featured on the City Paper's Big Music Thing. According to Blaq Starr's MySpace page, he's throwing a party today, July 22nd, at Patterson Park Rec. 2601 E. Baltimore Street, so check that out.

D.O.G. f/ Yung Joc - “Ryda Gyrl” Remix (mp3)
I've already posted Blaq Starr's original club track and D.O.G.'s first remix, and here's the latest version featuring the ATL guy with the motorcycle dance. I'm still kinda skeptical about this being a good look for D.O.G., since Yung Joc isn't really the kind of guy who gets respect no matter how spins he gets, so not really the best national artist to be aligned with. But still, he sounds better on the record than I expected him to.

Blaq Starr - “Jiggle It” Instrumental (mp3)
The instrumental track to Young Leek's big single. Remember the original version, from before Leek got signed and he shouted out Blaq Starr on the intro instead of Stay Gettin'/Def Jam?

Blaq Starr - “Slyde” (mp3)
Here's a short snippet of one of the club tracks that was played in that MTV You Hear It First segment. I love that synth melody.

Tay-Eazy f/ Blaq Starr - “Slyde” Remix (mp3)
And here's the hip hop remix, which has the same hook over a completely different beat, by one of the other teenage MC's with questionable talent that Next Level has started pushing since Young Leek blew up. Blaq Starr raps a verse himself, and I like that he shouts out the Low Key God with the line "I stay hi like Stevie."

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Blaq Starr, Cooli Hi, D.O.G., magazines/newspapers, mp3, Next Level Records, The Best Of Both Worlds, Young Leek

The Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The "Think" Break
A more detailed examination of the music discussed in my Baltimore City Paper article about the crossover between Baltimore club music and hip hop.

One of the points I touched on in the article (see paragraph 14) is the ubiquity of the breakbeat from Lyn Collins' 1972 record "Think (About It)" in Baltimore club music, and how it's started to bleed into local hip hop tracks, too. DJ Technics' official website, BaltimoreClubTracks.com, has a pretty amazing history page that gives an incredibly in depth perspective on the roots of Bmore club and the early house records and breakbeats that influenced it. The above record is, according to Technics, the first remix of "Think" that Scottie B. discovered and popularized in Baltimore. When Collins passed away last year, Jess Harvell wrote an obituary in the City Paper that focused on her legacy as a widely sampled artist.

To get an idea of just how widely sampled "Think" is, look no further than The-Breaks.com, which lists literally dozens of records that have sampled it, mostly hip hop (the most famous being "It Takes Two" by Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock), mostly made over a decade ago. This illustration by Kagan McLeod is a pretty awesome way to show the song's influence, too. Of course, neither of those sites takes into account the hundreds (if not thousands) of Baltimore club songs that have sampled the song's breakbeat.

I'm not gonna post any Baltimore club tracks with the "Think" breakbeat, simply because there are so many possible examples, and won't include tracks where rappers jumped on a club beat with the "Think" break like Yung Gist's "The Real Mr. Postman" or Bossman's remix of "Dance My Pain Away". This post is about all the Baltimore hip hop tracks from the past 3 years that have slowed the "Think" break down from the 130 BPM of club music, although some of these tracks maintain the same brisk pace as the original beat.

Bossman - "Oh" (mp3)
You should already know what it is, but whatever, I'll post it once again to give you the full picture of the topic here. I should note that out of all these songs, this is the only one that was actually done by a Baltimore club producer, Rod Lee.

Backland f/ Comp - “U Better Think” (mp3)
Although I kind of attribute the recent popularity of the "Think" break in local hip hop to "Oh," I think this song from Backland's 2004 mixtape The One was made before it or around the same time, and they use the actual Lyn Collins vocal sample in there too.

Labtekwon - “Dr. Strangelove” (mp3)
I originally posted this song a couple months ago as part of my review of the Avant God album, and Lab's long relationship with club music is of course well documented.

Barnes - “Jump Da Club Off” (mp3)
This song was popular on 92Q for a while last year and appeared on Street Radio 2, but for some reason didn't show up on Barnes' album The Last Shall be First this year. However, another Barnes track with the "Think" break that did appear on his album is his current radio hit, "Jigglin' Shorty" featuring Dollas, which is part of the City Paper's Big Music Thing downloadable mixtape.

UA Mobb - “U Bad” (mp3)
This is a track from the now shelved Tyree Colion presents Hustle Hard Blvd triple CD that I wrote about a couple months ago, although I don't hear Tyree himself on the track, so I think it's just by UA Mobb. I love that beat, maybe my favorite of all these different permutations of the "Think" break, it just sounds so fucking huge and evil.

Also in this series:
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 2: Blaq Starr
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 3: Dukeyman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 4: DJ Ron Rico
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 5: DJ Booman
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 6: Nigga Say What a.k.a. Say Wut
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 7: Rod Lee
The Best Of Both Worlds, part 8: Debonair Samir

Labels: Backland, Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore club, Barnes, Bossman, Comp, Labtekwon, magazines/newspapers, mp3, The Best Of Both Worlds, Tyree Colion

This week, the annual Big Music Issue of the Baltimore City Paper hits the streets, and I'm really excited about this one, because I have a couple pieces in there, and because pretty much the entire issue is dedicated to Baltimore's hip hop scene. This was Jess Harvell's first BMI since becoming CP's music editor last summer, and I really have to give him props for putting together a hot issue and focusing on hip hop so much in a paper whose readership doesn't necessarily want to read that much about hip hop. Hopefully the City Paper will get enough positive feedback from this issue to balance out the inevitable hatemail. This is one that you should really just pick up a copy of and read from cover to cover, but I'll give you a breakdown of some of the great stuff in this issue:

* The Best Of Both Worlds is my baby, my big article about the history of fusion between Baltimore club music and hip hop. I did a lot of interviews and research for this and I think it came out pretty good, although honestly I'm too close to it to be objective yet. I focused primarily on club producers who also make hip hop, including Booman, Debonair Samir, Blaq Starr, Dukeyman, Rod Lee (who I didn't get a chance to interview), DJ Ron Rico, and Say What (who I did interview, but unfortunately the stuff about him got left on the cutting room floor, so apologies to him). Harvell deserves a lot of credit for greenlighting and editing the piece, and adding his two cents to a lot of the article and helping it take shape, a lot of the turns of phrase and perspectives in there are his. Over the next couple weeks on Gov't Names I'll have posts about each of the producers spotlighted in the article to really share some music and show people what I'm talking about if they're not familiar.

* Baltimore Hip-Hop Trading Cards is an interesting bonus thing that seemed to pop up at the last minute and turned out really nice, with myself, Harvell, and Jason Torres contributing vital stats about some of local hip hop's biggest names to accompany illustrated portraits by Alex Fine of folks like Mullyman, Labtekwon, Huli Shallone, Bossman, Tha Plague, B. Rich, Ms. Stress, Ogun, ShellBe RAW, Tim Trees, Skarr Akbar, and D.O.G. It's definitely a cool little primer for scene outsiders.

* The Come Up by Jason Torres is a thinkpiece about local hip hop that features quotes from a roundtable discussion with DJ K-Swift, Ogun and Wink from Real On Purpose Records, C Love, Mike Mcintosh from Architects Studio, Victor Starr from 92Q, Shawn Caesar from Unruly Records, Ahk from 88.9, Golden Seal, Brown F.I.S.H. and Sekani Williams. It's a really good piece and there's some serious food for thought in there.

* Spitting Game by J. Bowers is a profile of local human beatbox Shodekeh, who I saw perform a few months ago and was really talented and entertaining.

* Stream Of Consciousness by Harvell is about Timmy Grins and TheBreakdownTV.

* Turning The Tables by Jaye Hunnie is about DJ Spontaneous

* And finally, the Big Music Thing is a downloadable mixtape of local music, featuring mp3's by Dirty Hartz, Mullyman, Barnes, Cooli Hi, Rod Lee, and my friends Private Eleanor.

(photo by Frank Hamilton)

Labels: Baltimore City Paper, Barnes, Cooli Hi, Dirty Hartz, magazines/newspapers, Mullyman, Rod Lee, The Best Of Both Worlds