In inimitable style, Wiley drops one of the best songs he’s made in 2013 just in time for Christmas. Fuck It is a cracker and a half, with trap-meets-Eskibeat production from Deeco that sounds like it’s arrived in advance from 2014.
Wiley melts the winter ice with pure vocal fire, and turns in one of his best performances of late. Fuck It proves once again that there is no better rapper from the UK, and isn’t likely to be one any time soon. Long live Grime’s very own Santa.
This duo of genre-bender pride has made a name for itself on the Bay Area scene by successfully mixing spiritualism and hip-hop. Oakland’s MC Zumbi and DJ/producer Amp Live blend hip-hop and trip-hop beats with lyrics focused on a message of unity, hope, and spiritual awareness. After a couple of indie hits, the duo slowly made inroads while opening for rap royalty like De La Soul, Rakim, and Run-D.M.C. Their debut album, Mind Over Matter, was released in May of 2000 and features collaborations with fellow Bay Area rappers Rasco, Planet Asia, and the Grouch. Although Zion I operates out of Berkeley, the group was originally formed in Atlanta, making their music difficult to classify as strictly West Coast hip-hop. Their musical style makes them even harder to define. With a style that borrows from hip-hop, trance, drum’n’bass, and reggae, Zion I’s style is equally mystical and mystifying.
Grieves, returns to deliver his fourth studio album, Winter & The Wolves. The insatiable, devil-may-care MC is well known for his meticulous exploration of life, love and loss, through a unique medley of hip-hop and soulful music. Together with B. Lewis, Grieves created 14 new tracks, combining organic pianos and guitars with boisterous synthesizers, to paint a colorful backdrop for his unique blend of rapping and singing.
A reflection on growth and maturity, Winter & The Wolves is about the instinctual fight for survival. It’s about suddenly finding that you’re all alone, facing countless hindrances to your livelihood, and having the courage to overcome them all. Tackling difficult obstacles like addiction and heartbreak, Grieves wrestles with the realization that life doesn’t get any easier as you get older. His signature combination of humor and gloom culminate to depict the struggle of a man’s inner turmoil between abandoning the dreams of his youth, and carving out a new path for himself in this world.
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For the first half of his teenage years, Minister G, formerly known as GunDei (Gandhi), gangbanged on the streets of Miami, chasing money and cheap thrills. Influenced and motivated by the style of music that permeated hip-hop in the early 90’s, Minister G and a group of neighborhood friends known as the 6th Avenue Boyz, affiliated with the Little Haiti gang Zoe Pound, began to commit home invasions and terrorized rival gangs. “I was lost in these Miami streets with no purpose, taking penitentiary chances,” recalls Minister G. Like most young black males in the ghettos of America, he saw crime as the only passage to the proverbial good life, and the gangster rap genre he related to at the time only reinforced this outlook. In 1992, Minister G, along with his parents, relocated to Montreal, Canada. He signed a record deal with Montreal indie label Zoobone Records, went on to release various singles, such as the underground classic “The Solution,” on 12-inch vinyl and toured throughout Canada and the United States. In 2001, after hitting many roadblocks in his career and personal life, Minister G says he had a transformative spiritual experience and gradually began to realize that he had been deceived into trusting the destructive values of a culture deeply rooted in crime, sexism and nihilism.
Fast forward to 2013. The ghetto intellectual, as he likes to refer to himself, founded B.E. Entertainment, his very own music company, and is preparing the release of his full-length album aptly titled Church fo’ da Thugz this coming summer 2014.
Why call it Church fo’ da Thugz? Imagine, a church full of thugs? At first, “church” and “thug” as concepts may seem to be contradictory, but for Minister G, they are simply symbols which are to be manipulated for a greater purpose. A church, at its root, is an assembly of people who come together for religious reasons. For Minister G, his fans gather around his music and form a community which he claims to be a church. His targeted audience are 15-35-year-olds who identify in one way or another to the street essence of hip-hop culture and feeling marginalized. They think of themselves as outcasts, rebels without a cause. “These are the thugs who I preach to,” says Minister G. The album boasts 18 powerful songs dealing with the ethics and consequences of the street life, but it does not merely paint a grim picture of “the life.” It invites the listeners to engage with this subject and pushes each one to propose solutions. The music is not created to passively entertain its listeners; Minister G has a message. He aims to provoke his fans to start thinking critically about the social and political contexts they exist in and to hopefully initiate change.
Church fo’ da Thugz, as a project, took two years to finalize because Minister G says he wanted to deliver an albums of superior quality and content. The album was mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineers, such as Leslie Brathwaite who has worked with Rick Ross and Jeezy, Kori Anders, Ben Diehl who is chief engineer at Miami’s famous Circle House studio and Jason Goldstein who has nearly mixed every project from the Roots and Jay Z’s classic album The Blueprint.
Minister G’s goal is to revolutionize rap music with this album and save the lives of children who believe the lies being propagated through some of the rappers currently ruling the charts. Minister G accepts the responsibility of being a role model with open arms, unlike most of his past rap heroes and peers. “When 2 Live Crew said, ‘Shake what ya mama gave ya,’ the young girls did that. NWA said, ‘I’ma be a zaggin 4 life.’ I believed that and explicitly manifested that attitude and did nothing constructive with my life for years,” said Minister G. “Music has power,” he says, “and I plan to use that power for the greater good.”
Those who have yearned for the redemption of a culture that they feel they have tirelessly poured themselves into, yet to helplessly watch it denigrate through the years, may have finally gotten the answer to their prayers in Minister G. Perhaps you, too, would do well to check him out.
Grown into now a mature artist, Kony Brooks “Eats, Sleeps, and Breathes Music
EmpireStateofGrind Entertainment – Music Artist, Ghost Writer, Musical Mentor, Lyrical Teacher, Basketball Coach and Rap Game Entrepreneur – THIS IS KONY BROOKS King Of NY
Born in the 90’s as Andre Brooks and raised straight from Southern Blvd. in the Boogie Down Bronx, a young multi-talented artist who goes by the name of KONY (King Of New York) BROOKS is on his journey to take over the music industry. Starting at the tender age of 7, is when Andre, (KONY) wrote his first rhyme for a school project in first grade. Not taking it seriously at the time, he left it alone until the age of 11 and as Andre grew older, he began to notice he wanted to take music seriously. Therefore, his lifelong friend & classmate Zay Rhymes, helped him strive further into his newly found hobby.
Around the high school years is when KONY became more active in his craft. It was an added plus that his High School was involved with Hip-Hop culture and KONY joined a program that directly associated him with three other rappers that became “Tha Works Records” which included KONY and a poetic mentor, named Jive Poetic. Jive helped mold KONY from being a normal mixtape artist to being an all around artist in general. In fact, he helped KONY attend and become an extra in a video shoot and getting TWR their first performance at a center in the Bronx.
At age 16, KONY Brooks & Zay Rhymes decided to officially make themselves a group called “The Almighty Renegades”. Back then it included KONY, Zay Rhymes, and a female artist known as “Amazin”. The group consisted of the original 3 and a new member by the name of Hazz. Also being talented in basketball, KONY is the HEAD COACH for a girls and boys basketball team sponsored through Nike and the Department of Youth Community Development (DYCD).
With support from his Manager, Walter L. Morris aka Hustle Mo, CEO of EmpireStateofGrind Entertainment and his small ride-or-die circle of family and friends, KONY has acquired notches and accomplishments under his belt while hes been in the industry. Within a very short period of time, KONY dropped 2 SOLO mixtapes, shot numerous music videos, and his FIRST ALBUM DIVINE RIGHT dropped in March of 2012.
The King Of NY has also appeared all over Internet Radio with Steph Lova on DTF Radio, Dj Dynasty (Niteline), Ivy SoMajor (So Major Radio), Dj ShownTell (Sunday Night Cook Up), MeloDream/IMG Radio, CoCo (Just Gimmie The Mic), AllCityRadio, Teknologist Radio, Underground Express (Connecticut), QSJ Radio, Extreme 104FM and Eddie Kayne (420 Radio) and many more .
Learning from his biggest influences Zay Rhymes, the late Biggie Smalls, the great Eminem, and Lloyd Banks, now much wiser from being the “King of Rap Beef” and grown into now a mature artist, KONY Brooks “Eats, Sleeps, and Breathes Music”.
KONY Brooks Latest/Upcoming Performances included:
THE OFFICIAL OPERATION RADIO POWER 105.1 TALENT SEARCH Amarachi Lounge Brooklyn, NY
February 2012
AUDIOHYPE ARTIST CONTENDER SERIES
Shaheim Cynclair, Warner Bros. – Pearl Studios, New York, NY March 2012
S-ROCK and FRIENDS – New York, NY Underground Lounge March 2012
L2D4 SHOWCASE – Lower East Side NY, The Still Bar
May 2012
PASS THE MIC SHOWCASE
Tony Anderson, BET DJ 3STACKS, Desert Storm Brooklyn, NY May 2012
LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN SHOWCASE – Bronx, NY Ralphael Hernandez Academy
DABUZZ SHOWCASE – Harlem, NY Club Latin Fire
June 2012
ROC NATION SHOWCASE, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Nights June 2012
GOTTALENT SHOWCASE, New York, NY PineTree Lodge July 2012
THE 5 BORO HIPHOP SESSION Brooklyn, NY Public Assembly August 2012
STEPH LOVAS UNSIGNED HYPE SHOWCASE Steph Lova, Kim Osorio Editor-in-Chief of the Source New York, NY Tenth Rail Sept 2012
S-ROCK and FRIENDS/D-BLOCK AND BULLY Headliner – Brooklyn, NY Knitting Factory Sept 2012
NONSTOP MEDIA, Bronx, NY Pompeii Lounge October 2012
THE WRATH ANTI-BULLYING CONCERT – I.S. 318 Bronx, NY November 2012
S-ROCK and FRIENDS/TONE TRUMP – Headliner, Club Touché Brooklyn, NY December 2012
The Art of Muzic – V-Henny/Indie Flava Magazine – New York, NY Sapphire Lounge January 2013
Ciroc Thursdays SHOWCASE Laurelton NY, Dream Lounge January 2013
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ACCOLADES
NON-STOP ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA GROUP SUPER STAR SUNDAYS ALL STAR INDUSTRY ARTIST SHOWCASE
1ST PLACE WINNER – MARCH 2012 $1000 CASH AND MEDIA PACKAGE
1ST PLACE WINNER DROP ON TOP UNIVERSAL RECORDS SHOWCASE OPEN MIC
KONY STATE OF MIND MIXTAPE DROPPED – DEC. 2010
ACT OF AGGRESSION – MIXTAPE DROPPED JUN. 2011
DIVINE RIGHT 1st ALBUM – DROPPED – MAR. 2012
OFFICIAL VIDEO – Bronx Be Bangin feat Zay Rhymes AUG. 2012
OFFICIAL VIDEO – We Want it All feat. Ed
Sweet16s Media/ImFamous Entertainment artist Frsh’s debut mixtape… Raw, Rough, & ReFRSHing! #PressPLAY
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Hip-Hop at its finest…The hip-hop duo from The Bronx returns with a Mixtape that will give u what hip-hop has been missing…Witty lyrics over some of the hardest beats.
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