Bronx born and Money Earnin Mount Vernon raised Pete Rock is an DJ, a Rapper, and a Producer. Pete rose to fame and gained his first audience in the World of Rap by working with DJ Marley Marl at WBLS in NYC doing the “In Control…” show and the “Future Flavas” show……at the tender age of 17. He was regarded as the man “puttin in work” because of his use of double copies of each record on each song he spun, a rarity at a time when most DJ’s might have done it every third or fourth…….probably his Jamaican heritage at work.
He was half of the critically acclaimed group Pete Rock & CL Smooth.
He began producing in the early 1990s working with such groups as Run DMC, Public Enemy, Biggie and Nas.
Check out this dope little interview with Posdnous of De La Soul about the “Scenario” recording sessions, and the lost versions of the track with members of Tribe, Leaders, De La Soul, and Black Sheep. He also talk about the recently released A Tribe Called Quest’s “Beats, Rhymes, & Life” documentary.
VICE loves to party. And so does Snoop Dogg. For its newest video series, PARTY LEGENDS, VICE teamed up with the upcoming feature film, Project X, and rounded up its favorite celebrities with legendary party pasts, asking them to tell us their most ridiculous party stories… And then animated them.
In the first video of VICE’s PARTY LEGENDS, Snoop Doog goes to the Playboy mansion, hangs with some Bunnies, drinks from his Pimp Cup, and then SHIT HITS THE FAN.
Schoolboy Q joins Danny Brown on stage to perform “Blunt After Blunt” during the Fool’s Gold Take Over at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, CA on January 24th, 2012.
Here’s a new track from Action Bronson called “Strictly Business I & II” from Statik Selektah’s re-up mixtape with Action Bronson, New Jack City: Chopped And Screwed.
I’m a big fan of Action, and I feel like him and Roc Marci are really waving that flag for the return to classic hip hop!
Akai debutED its MPC Fly for the iPad 2 recently at the NAMM Show. It combines 16 backlit MPC pads into a built-in iPad 2 case, and is completed with an integrated iOS app that boasts an array of effects, a four-track mixer, sound library, sample editing and an EQ. Looks like the perfect toy for a producer on the go.
Peep the brand new video for “Falling Down” off of EV’s recently released album, Cats & Dogs, out now on Rhymesayers.
“I never woulda thought the words wrote on a page/Would have me on the other side of Earth on a stage/I never woulda thought there was a stage on Earth/That made me feel more at home than my place of birth.”
