Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Diamond- Superbad



Diamond, from the group Crime Mob, is breaking out with the debut of her new video Superbad, which features Cee-Lo. Dr. Teeth directed the video and it's got a catchy beat. I'm interested to see if she'll take off.



What do you think about it?

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Unreleased Version of Cosmic Journey!



On Solange's sophomore album, Sol-Angel and the St. Hadley Dreams, she has a track on there featuring Bilal called Cosmic Journey. Now of course, the album version is on point. But recently via twitter a friend of mine came across the Unreleased Version. Which I think should have been a bonus track on the album, because this version is pretty damn HOT!



Check it out HERE and let me know what you think!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

PEDX presents Always Dope



Last night if you didn't make it, you missed one hell of a night at Red Maple for Always Dope. Every Tuesday night, PEDX brings you this event and it's LITERALLY Always Dope!
I made sure I was in attendance because I wanted to see one of the featured guests perform, by the name of Jasmine Solano. I first got introduced to her by one of my favorite blogs, Hip Hop At Lunch. They did a really great interview with her, check it out below.



I found it real interesting about her background in music and radio, the fact that she's a DJ & that she's an artist as well. It's not too many women out here making real moves like that, so you gotta respect a lady on her grind as such. Plus I was digging her recent single That's Not It.



Last night she got on the turn tables and gave Baltimore a taste of what her Philly/NYC style is about and right afterwards she performed her single. She had the crowd rockin' right along with the featured DJ, Hip Hop Dan!

Check out her Brooklyn performance of the song right below:

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Wendy McIntyre: Interview


Images by: Diamond Digital Portraits

Another talented artist who performed last week at Gypsy Soul's Ear Candy, Wendy McIntyre.
Bobby Marvin of Hue Voices, was fortunate to get a sit down interview with her. She talks about her start in music, influences and gives her opinion on the current state of the music scene in the DMV area.

Check out the video here!



Monday, December 21, 2009

eLZhi- The Leftovers Unmixedtape



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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Bilal: Interview



I can't begin to explain how EXCITED I was to have the oppurtunity to conduct this interview. Bilal has been around for some time and has made some CLASSIC music for us. I fell in love with his first album, 1st Born Second. It's a great album that you have to have in your collection. And even though his 2nd album hadn't made it out officially, it too was a Master Piece. He's done plenty of collaborations, and I always try to keep up with his work. Well now he's returned, no longer signed to Interscope and he's making his way back into the spot light.
Check out the interview before his show at Rams Head Live in Baltimore on Dec. 16, 2009.


This was a round table interview with other journalist and myself.

Thanks again to Gypsy Soul for this oppurtunity!

Images by: Lenee Fotography

Estelle- Pretty Please (video)

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Terrence Cunningham

I can't tell you enough how if you haven't been to Gypsy Soul's Ear Candy event yet... YOU'RE TOTALLY MISSING OUT ON GREAT TALENT. You'll never be disappointed. This week they had 3 great performances. Bobby Marvin had the oppurtunity to interview Mr. Terrence Cunningham.

He opened his set up with a classic from Prince, How Come You Don't Call Anymore? Now we all know not just anyone can sing a classic as such, but Terrence KILLED it. He did an amazing job while singing and playing the keyboard.

You can hear his lovely song Falling on his MySpace page, but you have to see him perform it live. He almost brought me to tears with this one.
His album has just been recorded and I'm looking forward to getting my copy of that.

Check out the interview here conducted by Bobby Marvin of Hue Voices.



Images by: Diamond Digital Portraits


Wednesday, December 16, 2009

NEW LEAKS!!

HipHopOfficial.com tells us about a NEW LEAK from J*Davey called Crawl All Over from their Up & Coming EP: Boudoir Synema: The Great Mistape

DOWNLOAD HERE


2DopeBoys.com tells us about a NEW LEAK from Hollyweerd ft. A.Leon Craft PRODUCED by SMKA, called So What. From the 808 Experience Vol. 2 mixtape! Volume 1 was off the hook, I had my speakers rocking with that one.



DOWNLOAD HERE

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Poetik Force- The Questions

Poetik Force feat. Sean Wyze & Blakface- The Questions

You heard Poetik Force on the High Power Moves single, That Spliff with Hardwerk and El Prez. So now he's dropping his first single for his anticipated 2010 release The Mary Jane LP. You gotta check out this track that was produced by Jansport J. The Questions is definitely a smooth track, so I can only imagine what he'll have in store for us on the rest of the project.



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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

FLY GYPSY on mtvU



Fly Gypsy is really making moves. This week they are competing on mtvU's weekly video poll for new artists. You can go vote for their video You as many times as you would like, all week long. The goal is to get the video into rotation on the station.
So please go VOTE for Fly Gypsy


mtvU The Freshmen!!

Friday, December 4, 2009

DJ Quicksilva- Where They Do That At (video)



D.C.'s DJ Quicksilva just got his new video added on MTV Jams playlist. If you haven't heard, check out the Baltimore version too: CLICK HERE

Lupe Fiasco: Enemy of the State-A Love Story (mixtape)


(Click the pic to go Download)

Lupe Fiasco has got the internet buzzing about his new project that he dropped last week on Thanksgiving! It's sponsored on DatPiff, so you don't need an account to download it.