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Hip Hop don't stop

• NYC vs Baarle Nassau

  

  We’re feeling nostalgic this week you might have noticed. First skateboarding and now Hip Hop. Sorry about that.

  It’s just because these then new American ways of living filled in a great part of our youth. The guys on this picture could have been us. Hanging out with a ghetto blaster, Nikes with them fat laces, caps. The only thing different from them and us is that they were in the New York Subway and we hung out in front of the Super de Boer in Baarle Nassau, watching an occasional bus going by.

  01.09.2010 »

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• The Mother of All Hip Hop Videos

  

  All Hip Hop cliches like bling, bubbles, grills, Lamborghinis, dollars and booty in one video, accompanied by Gustav Mahlers symphony Nr. 5, instead of beats. Great way to illustrate the insanity of this whole movement.

  By the talented Tomas Traum.

  (Via)

  19.07.2010 »

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• Ramellzee RIP

  

  Mr. Hip Hop has passed away… RIP Ramellzee… Truly was a big fan…

  Good thing is he probably will be freestyling in Hip Hop heaven with Guru and Iz The Wiz .

  30.06.2010 »

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• Snake 1 on Faith of Graffiti

  

  Wooster Collective interviewed Snake 1, one of the Dons of graffiti, on the book The Faith of Graffiti.

  We’re getting old…

  24.06.2010 »

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• Best track ever, part 24: Al-Naafiysh

  

  Hell Yeah! Really cannot skip this track for my best track ever list.

  Al-Naafiysh by Hashim. I bought the maxi single as a kid, being 12 years of age, back in 1985. Still timeless and one of the best in my collection.

  25.05.2010 »

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• It’s about time block head hairdo’s come back in style

  

  I’ll help with this old school giant from 3D Bass: Gas Face.

  10.05.2010 »

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• Guru R.I.P.

  43 year old Gang Starr rapper Guru sadly passed away yesterday after a long battle against cancer. R.I.P.

  20.04.2010 »

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• Best track ever, part 22: Witness the Fitness

  I summon up the power of Banana Clan!

  Hell yeah! At least Roots Manuva gets the deal… Best track ever.

  14.04.2010 »

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• How to DJ-Scratch with DJ Jazzy Jay and Africa Bambaata

  Found this great rare clip featuring DJ Jazzy Jay and Africa Bambaata who explain the basics of scratching.

  Funny thing: I found out that Grandwizzard Theodore, the man who invented scratching, listened to one of my podcatsts this week. Those little things make my day, uhh month. No, they make my year.

  (Via)

  13.03.2010 »

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• The rise and fall of the Boombox

  The good old Boombox was the iPod of the 80’s. The shinier the better, and preferably loads of buttons to equalize the sound. Mine was ok, but a friend had the Sharp GF 777, so you will understand that he was underground king in our small town.

  (Via)

  25.02.2010 »

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• Scratch cassettes

  Some posts earlier I forbid people to do things with castettes and floppies because it has been done too much. But this breaks all rules. Wicked!

  (Found on Today and Tomorrow)

  22.02.2010 »

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• Mr. Hip Hop

  Grimey and original hiphop tunes from from back in the days. Isn’t Ramellzee a serious candidate for Incubate 2010? We will pay half! ;-)

  04.02.2010 »

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• Breakdancing in Iran, 1991

  These images are warming my heart. I really do know what those guys are feeling at that specific moment in time, on that carpet, with those clothes, with those people around them who don’t have a clue what they are doing. Because I’ve had the same experience with my crew in 1985 on my local schoolyard. We felt on top of the world. Heroes!

  (Thanks Willem!)

  03.02.2010 »

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• 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7

  A short film, done by Job and Roel Wouters for the If You Could: Collaborate exhibition.

  (Found on Today and Tomorrow)

  20.01.2010 »

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• Graffiti Analysis 2.0

  Wow, tagging in cyber space. Is there a purose? Not really I guess, but that doesn’t matter at all. Damn cool it is! Especially when Seen steps the stage. Hail, godfather of graffiti!

  07.01.2010 »

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• Looking at my Gucci, it’s about that time…

  “Say it loud! I love rap and I’m proud!” Hardcore B-Boying by the inventor of gansta rap, Schoolly D, from the time when we were backspinnin’ on cartboard on the Heuvel. A tip for Incubate 2010 maybe? I promise you Joost, I will break some dance again ; )

  30.09.2009 »

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• Fast Eddie, Yo Yo Get Funky, live 1990

  Footage of hip house legends DJ Fast Eddie and producer Rocky Jones from the early 90’s when Hip House just saw daylight. Mind the dancers and the ignorance of the interviewer. She rrrrealy rrreally likes it.

  30.06.2009 »

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• IZ the Wiz R.I.P.

  

  Sad news in graffiti world. Iz the Wiz, the gentle All-City King of NYC subway graffiti, died yesterday. Iz featured in graffiti movie icons like Style Wars, Wild Style and the book Subway Art. Rest in peace from Tilburg!

  19.06.2009 »

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• The bible is 25 years old!

  The bible of the grafitti movement, Subway Art, is celebrating his 25th anniversary this year. Got this book from Sinterklaas in 1985, when I was 12 years old. Actually Sinterklaas was not planning to give it to me anymore, because just before present day, me and my friends got busted by the police for doing the first ever piece in our hometown. But after some crocodile tears, because i desperately wanted that book, the guy with the long white beard gave it to me after all. I still thank him for that because that book partly made me what I am today. So cheers Martha and Henry, I just ordered the 25th anniversary edition!

  03.05.2009 »

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• Old school party flyers

  

  An endless list of old school flyers from the early 80’s in New York with names like Africa Bambaataa, Gradmaster Caz, Chiefrocker Busy Bee and Spoony Gee. Wonder if 50ct and Sean Puffy Combs realise that those yellow flyers helped to build their golden palaces. (Thanks Flattyre)

  03.02.2009 »

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• Break Machine - Street Dance

  We bought this 12″ when it came out in 1983, but we remember we doubted a long time before actually buying the disc, since it was pretty daft then if you know what we mean. But rarely hiphop vinyl came to that metropool called Tilburg at that time, so we gave it a go. Too bad we don’t have it anymore because one of us sold it at Tommy’s second hand shop some 20 years ago alongside many other great 12″s to get money for a certain slot mahine addiction… asshole!

  13.01.2009 »

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