Posts Tagged ‘Wale’

Crafty veteran meets brash newcomer. It’s a timeless cinematic formula, but SCION AV has done it a little differently this time. 45 King, producer of “Hard Knock Life,” “Stan” and dozen other hip hop classics, plays the role of the old-school champ, dropping four jewels from his bottomless stash of beats. The youngsters are represented by man-of-the-moment Wale, crowd controller Pase Rock and 4th Pyramid, with In Flagranti, Eli Escobar, DJ Ayres and Sammy Bananas doing remix duty. Peep the plot:

45 King vs. Wale – Roof

DC native Wale, fresh off sessions with Ronson and Kanye, is a natural to bless a downtempo 45 King special. “Roof” lays a bossa guitar on a menacing bass and 90 BPM drums as Wale manages to fit both Manute Bol and Luc Longley into his sinuous street-level rap. The Rub’s DJ Ayres takes his 111 BPM remix of “Roof” straight to the party, disco style, with live bass, synth snares and plenty of cowbell.

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Wow, Ok, here comes the 4th Annual A3C Hip Hop Festival March 20th thru 22nd @ CW Midtown Music Complex Atlanta, Ga.

The final artist announcement came out the beginning of the month. And other than the fact that Akrobatik will be gracing the stage as well as the AB’s , It will be a historical event the night of March 21st as the “Juice Crew” reunites! Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane, Marly Marl (are you reading this Studs!?!) MC Shan, Craig G, and Roxanne Shante. It’s been too long…and a dream come true for many!

The first day of the show is the MySpace kick off party…
Hosted by: Senor Kaos
House DJ: Lord (Public Enemy)
Featuring: Wale, Del Tha Funkyhomosapien & Little Brother

This also happens to be “Won’t You Wear Your Sweater?” Day - Rock your favorite sweater in honor of Mr. Rogers! It would have been his 80th birthday…The person stylin’ the flyest sweater to the festival will get a free pair of customized A3C sneakers. Also in theme with Mr. Rogers being that he was always rockin’ a fresh pair of kicks everyday! The thought of a festival of Hip Hop fans wearing their cozy sweaters in honor of one of my favorite people brings a little tear to my eye (well, it doesn’t take much, I just have a soft spot for the TV that molded me)

Anyway, so many great performers and things to experience (check out the press releases on the site) at this event I think the best thing for me to do is just give up the links and you can see for yourself…If you like Hip Hop, I suggest heading to the dirty, dirty…

http://www.a3cfestival.com/A3C2008
http://www.myspace.com/a3cfestival

Here is the new Kidz In The Hall single, “Drivin’ Down The Block (Low End Theory)” from their forthcoming sophomore LP, The In Crowd, which will be released on April 28th 2008 by Duck Down / Major League. The In Crowd is entirely produced by Double-O and Naledge. The In Crowd will feature guest appearances from The Clipse, The Cool Kids, Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Travis of Gym Class Heros, Camp Lo, Sean Price, Buckshot, Masta Ace, Wale, The Pack, Phonte and Skyzoo.