Microphone Check: Big Hud Jacks Beats

Southern underground rapper Big Hud showcases his lyrical flexibility on his latest "Jacking for Beats" - highlighting his ability to vary speed and flow style.  The video, featuring Hud rhyming over familiar backdrops, cements his status as a member of AllHipHop.com's Breeding Ground and suggests the recent RBC Records signee is armed with a thirst to validate his deal.

Microphone Check: Big Hud Jacks Beats

Southern underground rapper Big Hud showcases his lyrical flexibility on his latest "Jacking for Beats" - highlighting his ability to vary speed and flow style.  The video, featuring Hud rhyming over familiar backdrops, cements his status as a member of AllHipHop.com's Breeding Ground and suggests the recent RBC Records signee is armed with a thirst to validate his deal.

SUPERJEW ANTHEM

Kosha Dillz is back at it again.  As his infamous slogan suggests - he is everywhere.   I just watched him above on youtube in Boston, I'm pretty sure I heard him on my television during the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight and I saw him earlier today - where he told me he'd probably be showing up somewhere at Bonnaroo and then heading to Israel.  I'm convinced he has a clone that just hustles for him.

Currently Kosha is out in Los Angeles working on a follow up record with Belief and gearing up for a few festival plays, but the "hardest working rapper in hip-hop" just posted a video for "SUPERJEW" - so we're sharing it.  Its a tribal anthem he created for the homie, Sly Young, who makes a cameo in the video - as do bagels, lox, JDate, a star of david, a yarmulke and a deli.  Its totally brand jewbian. 

Leaked Chappelle Show Footage of Beastie Boys - RIP MCA

Check out the Beastie Boys performing on the lost third season of Chappelle's Show.  This never aired and was posted by Chappelle show co-creator Neal Brannan in the last 24 hours.  Peep it before it gets banned from the internet ether....

#RIPMCA

Leaked Chappelle Show Footage of Beastie Boys - RIP MCA

Check out the Beastie Boys performing on the lost third season of Chappelle's Show.  This never aired and was posted by Chappelle show co-creator Neal Brannan in the last 24 hours.  Peep it before it gets banned from the internet ether....

#RIPMCA

Matisyahu Live Tour Dates Announced/Kosha Dillz Yom Hashoah Freestyle

Today is Yom Hashoah, the day of remembrance for the Holocaust, so it is only fitting that I make an announcement about some of the more outspoken Jewish musical talents, Matisyahu and Kosha Dillz.

Matisyahu just recently announced a grip of summer tour dates and has a pretty cool merch promo going on at MatisyahuWorld.com right now....

Every ticket bought on MatisyahuWorld.com includes an instant download of "Beat Box" from "Live at Stubbs, Vol. II", plus a mystery item from the merch table at the show you attend.....FREE! Additionally, you can get all of the above plus your choice of a new tour t-shirt for $20 -- that's 20% off the price at the show! All you have to do is present your receipt at the venue on the night of the show and you will be able to redeem your items!

Head over to MatisyahuWorld.com to get your tickets and tees, and check out the full tour schedule below. For an extra special deal, try and hit up Gilt Groupe to see if you can still get in on their VIP package for August 3rd at Club Nokia which is sure to sell out - http://www.giltcity.com/los-angeles/matisyahula

SAT 6/25/11 - Boston MA @ The Paradise
SUN 6/26/11 - Allentown PA @ Crocodile Rock
MON 6/27/11 - Cleveland OH @ House of Blues
WED 6/29/11 - Milwaukee WI @ Summerfest
THU 6/30/11 - Minneapolis MN @ The Zoo
SAT 7/2/11 - Aspen CO @ Belly Up
SUN 7/3/11 - Colorado Springs CO @ Black Sheep
MON 7/4/11 - Morrison CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
WED 7/6/11 - Des Moines IA @ Simon Estes Amphitheatre^
THU 7/7/11 - Kansas City MO @ Crossroads^
SAT 7/9/11 - St. Louis MO @ Pageant
SUN 7/10/11 - Detroit MI @ St. Andrews Hall+
MON 7/11/11 - Columbus OH @ Newport Music Hall+
TUE 7/12/11 - Grand Rapids MI @ The Intersection+
WED 7/13/11 - Indianapolis IN @ Egyptian Theatre+
THU 7/14/11 - Chicago IL @ Congress Theatre^^
SAT 7/16/11 - Pittsburgh PA @ Stage AE
SUN 7/17/11 - Baltimore MD @ Artscape- Balt. Fest of the Arts
MON 7/18/11 - Providence RI @ Lupo's
WED 7/20/11 - Cincinnati OH @ Bogart's
THU 7/21/11 - Louisville KY @ Headliner's
SUN 7/24/11 - Salt Lake City UT @ The Complex
MON 7/25/11 - Boise ID @ Knitting Factory
TUE 7/26/11 - Spokane WA @ Knitting Factory+
WED 7/27/11 - Vancouver BC @ Commodore Ballroom+
THU 7/28/11 - Portland OR @ Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre+
SAT 7/30/11 - Seattle WA @ Neptune+
TUE 8/2/11 - San Francisco CA @ Regency Ballroom
WED 8/3/11 - Los Angeles CA @ Club Nokia+
THU 8/4/11 - Ventura CA @ Ventura Theatre+
SAT 8/6/11 - Las Vegas NV @ Hard Rock Pool+
SUN 8/7/11 - San Diego CA @ Humphrey's+
TUE 8/9/11 - Anaheim CA @ The Grove+
WED 8/10/11 - Phoenix AZ @ The Marquee+
SAT 8/13/11 - Omaha NE @ Maha Music Festival
SUN 8/14/11 - Tulsa OK @ Cain's Ballroom
MON 8/15/11 - Dallas TX @ House of Blues
TUE 8/16/11 - Houston TX @ House of Blues
THU 8/18/11 - Helotes TX @ Josabi's
SAT 8/20/11 - Taos NM @ Taos Mountain Music Festival
SUN 8/21/11 - New Orleans LA @ House of Blues
MON 8/22/11 - Atlanta GA @ Center Stage
TUE 8/23/11 - Ponte Vedra Beach FL @ Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
WED 8/24/11 - Orlando FL @ Hard Rock
THU 8/25/11 - Miami FL @ The Fillmore
SUN 8/28/11 - Birmingham AL @ Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center
MON 8/29/11 - Charleston SC @ The Music Farm
TUE 8/30/11 - Charlotte NC @ Amos' Southland
WED 8/31/11 - Norfolk VA @ The Norva
THU 9/1/11 - Atlantic City, NJ @ The Borgata
SAT 9/3/11 - Lowell MA @ Lowell Summer Music Series
SUN 9/4/11 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place-
TUE 9/6/11 - Montreal QC @ Club Soda
WED 9/7/11 - Toronto ON @ The Phoenix


* - Supporting Blues Traveler
^ - With The Wailers
^^ - Co-headlining with Toots & the Maytals, Lukas Nelson supporting
+ - Tea Leaf Green supporting




Kosha Dillz dropped a cool Yom Hashoah freestyle on his youtube page earlier today. It pays homage to those that fell in the Holocaust, including non-jews, and is pretty street and wicked. Check out the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vQykuhY_G4

Machine Gun Kelly AKA MGK - "Cleveland"

Machine Gun Kelly comes to us straight out of Cleveland, coincidentally the name of the aptly titled song "Cleveland"

MGK represents C-Town and Big Ohio quite well - paying particular homage to Shaker Heights, the high school he went to I presume. The same high school that spawned Kid Cudi and me, Boom D.

Houston born Colson Baker, better known as MGK or Machine Gun Kelly, feels home in the city on Lake Erie as displayed in his expletive laden, reference heavy video. While I don't expect him to be repping any other sect like that, I do expect to see more heat and bad ass raps from this rising midwestern MC in 2011.

KOSHA DILLZ and his "L.A. Ish" on SUNSET

Its no mystery that I'm a fan of Kosha Dillz - he is a white, jewish MC that can spit. He is like everything I wanted to be when I was 13 years old but never became (my rap career ended with a brief stint as an MC in the group Dopamine n' Potassium; we only performed in Ann Arbor, MI).

You can see the better of the two of us take the stage at Key Club tonight (buy tickets here). Kosha, from New Jersey, will be headlining the Sean Healy Presents night at the Sunset venue - showcasing his east coast talents amongst a plethora of West coast emcees, including Foci.

If you're a fan of real hip-hop - a Kosha Dillz performance is where you should be. He is quintessential real hip-hop - multiple incarcerations, war stories, trials and tribulations and persevering through it all because he was hungry to rap and had to rap because he was hungry. Now, he's not going hungry being a rapper - but his star is still rising and he is the sort of tenured rapper still looking for their big break.

With a character in NBA 2K11, a Yacht vs. Kosha Dillz mixtape, Freestyle vs. Written with C-Rayz Walz, and the Beverly Dillz full length album, produced by Belief, that spawned at least 2 MTV music videos - Kosha Dillz pot is damn near ready to boil over with blow up potential. It doesn't hurt that he's out here shooting scenes for his music video "L.A. Ish" - the third potential MTV video from Dillz, as well as working on tracks and other content for his forthcoming full length tentatively titled "Garage Sale."

Come to the Key Club and help fuel this jewish pickle's artistry - you may even end up in that content or "L.A. Ish" - depending on how you act. I want to make a cameo in it, so you'll find me there. If you buy a ticket and come give a SUPERGOOD shout out when you're there - I'll do my best to make sure you're in some footage too.

Pictures all courtesy of Daron Jackson - whoizhephotos@gmail.com

East Coast Rappers Sell Out West Coast's The Roxy

On Friday November 12th, 2010, hip-hop veteran Ghostface Killah, hip-hop journeyman Sheek Louch and the up and coming Hebrew hip-hop hipster Kosha Dillz sold out The Roxy for a quintessential rap show.

With the crowd steadily lining up on Sunset Blvd. long before doors, and Kosha Dillz razzing people while they waited with incarceration stories and tales of how he became an NBA 2K11 character - you could anticipate something exciting to come.

Kosha, who'd been hopped up in a studio in Echo Park working on his second full length album, brought the excitement with the live debut of some new tracks and a handful of his freestyle antics. In addition to the performance premier of "Sweatpants Song" and a wicked out your pockets freestyle (video below) featuring shout outs to The Roxy, The Viper Room, Guru and even an L.A. Dodgers' Daryl Strawberry, Kosha Dillz dropped his first album hits "Doo Doo" and "L.A. Ish" for the growing crowd of Los Angelenos.

He closed it out with a brief sample of his recent song with RZA and Kool G Rap - and then joined a growing crew on stage for some of Frank Dukes beats. Chopping it up backstage and in VIP were a handful of Wu family - including Ol Dirty Bastard's cousin and Cappadonna, Sheek Louch's crew, young photographer/cinematographer Ron Polk and even Married With Children's David Faustino.

The crowd was certainly at capacity for Sheek Louch - who played new music, as well as old, like The Lox banger "Money, Power, Respect." A heavy hype-man, who very well could have been an accomplished MC whose name I don't know, also held things down. Sheek and his team had the crowd marinating on hard original hip-hop for over forty minutes, possibly to keep the crowd from losing interest during the delay that followed before Ghostface Killah took the stage.

In classic Wu Tang Clan and affiliates fashion, Mr. Ghostface took stage at 1:25 a.m. for a show whose doors technically close at 2. The crowd's impatience quickly turned to enthusiasm once Ghostface took the mic. Rocking the crowd, he shed his classic looking down jacket and proceeded to rip through classics (I wish I could remember which ones...).

The entourage was thick, and grew consistently throughout the set; women and Wu crew were paraded on stage with relative ease. At one point, Cappadonna joined him, dropping some devestating "Hot 97 Mentality," before the set wrapped up about thirty minutes after it began.

As the packed house spilled out of the venue, you could hear the rumblings of fans wishing they'd had just a bit more time with Tony Starks, but nonetheless happy they witnessed his magic.

When the fans want to see you do more cuts....you know you did a good job. Thanks to The Roxy, Ghostface Killah, Sheek and Kosha for a SUPERGOOD night.