Heads in Toronto gotta recognize that there is a reason that DJ Cash Money was inducted into the DMC-Technics Hall of Fame with the title “The World’s Greatest DJ.” The man can spin! He put on a wicked show at the new weekly The Fever with none other than Russell Peters opening for him. Who [...]
Original Gangster Ice-T along with long-time DJ Evil-E and with no less than four local opening acts was at the undersold Phoenix this past Thursday. As low attendance as the show turned out to be, Ice-T didn’t let the crowd down and rocked the house with excellent delivery of all of his old hits and [...]
Ali Shaheed Muhammad’s on the Gemini mixer… Actually, I think this time, the A Tribe Called Quest DJ was using a Vestax model, but that didn’t stop the crowd from going wild for the veteran hip-hopper’s surprise appearance at the Rivoli during the July 13th Bump n’ Hustle night. Having spun just the night before [...]
Reviewed by Noah Goodbaum | Photography by Philip Litevsky We know him well, we hip-hop fiends. And nearly every last one of us tingles with joy at the mere mention of his name. For a whole generation of die-hard partisans of the boom bap, the words “produced by Pete Rock” elate us like nothing else, [...]
Guess what? Prince Paul is an awesome DJ! The original member of Stetsasonic was on hand working the one’s and two’s at the Gypsy Co-Op and boy did he deliver! Thanks to Never Forgive Action for bringing him in. Click here for the footage.
What’s that? That’s right. Rakim, along with screaming (but still legendary) DJ sidekick Kid Kapri. Think of everything you’d ever wanted to hear live by Rakim. That was what the show was like. However the only thing more annoying than Kapri’s incessant screaming to hype up the crowd was the towel that the Paid in [...]
The Humble Magnificent, Boston native Edan and his collaborator Dagha dropped in to the Horseshoe with my favourite turntable magicians InsideAminD and local hip hop group Soliva Spit Society opening. I’ve only started listening to Edan a few months before the show, but I gotta say, the guy is wicked and his stage presence is [...]
