The bio says Kane Mayfield "penned his first lyrics to a Wu Tang Clan instrumental set on loop." He's New York-reared and Baltimore-seasoned. Those facts pretty much explain "Wreck," his new single, which is nice:
ADDENDUM: Mayfield confirms that the guy with the black eye in the picture is Mitch "Blood" Green.
Curren$y is responsible for two of the year's best albums.
At times he appears a midlevel rapper from New Orleans, content to rhyme "mimosa" with "Testarossa" and dispense insight about the usual hip-hop fanfare. Yet sans fanfare.
"I sent her to the Waffle House with an order from the car" sticks out as a prime instance of [...]
You wouldn't have known it at the time, but if you were at Zanzibar on the Waterfront this weekend for the Howard Homecoming event hosted by Erykah Badu, you were there for the venue's last hurrah. It's now closed for business.
Salsa dance instructor Eileen Torres found out Monday night from Zanzibar's management; she informed her [...]
Neal Becton runs Som Records on U Street, but he also goes by DJ Neville Chamberlain for his "Brazilian Rhythms" dance night at St. Ex every third Thursday. He's celebrating the party's third anniversary tonight at the usual venue, and he'll be joined by DJ Provoke and a bar menu of Brazilian food and drink specials. [...]
On Saturday night, Dance Place celebrates its 30th anniversary—not with a performance, but with a gala. This benefit event for this D.C. non-profit home of modern, hip-hop, and other dance styles will feature music by local Latin band Rumba Club and DJ Glowstick. Jim Byers, Artisphere’s marketing director and the host of WPFW’s "Latin Flavor" [...]
Virgin Mobile FreeFest performance times debuted yesterday and rapper T.I. is noticeably missing. According to festival organizers in touch with the Post:
We were waiting for final confirmation from T.I.'s camp, but they're focused on tomorrow's hearing and we've not gotten a final commitment. With that in mind, we adjusted set times to give artists more [...]
Diamond District rapper and producer Oddisee uses free time to hunt down rappers. He's up on his Google Alerts, Twitter, YouTube, you name it. Finding piggy-backers that liberally license his beats is a daily chore.
"I'm bombarded by the underdeveloped and overexposed," Oddisee says. "I never have a problem with an artist rhyming on my beats [...]
Brooklyn-by-way-of Cincinnati hip-hop trio Tanya Morgan, emerged over message boards and corresponding tastes. Through the magic of the Internet—well, during relatively pedestrian Internet age of 2003 that allowed for screen name-to-screen name file-sharing over America Online—rappers Donwill and Ilyas hooked up with producer Von Pea and churned out several hard drives worth of rap.
One theme-driven [...]
It's a stinky-hot Thursday, and you can't possibly have that much to do. And D.C. legend-in-the-making Oddisee probably has been working harder than you. AW YEAH: Synchronicity! He has made a free mixtape for you! Well, OK, it's not specifically for you. It's because he's got an album with L.A.-area rapper Trek Life—Everything Changed Nothing—that [...]
Ana Tijoux’s rapping style demands attention even if you can’t understand her languages of choice, Spanish and French. Tijoux, who makes her D.C. debut tonight at Liv, has a French mother and a Chilean father (who lived in political exile in France during the time Augustus Augusto Pinochet was ruling Chile). Flowing professionally since the late [...]
