Nuu Elementz is an up and coming Hip-Hop organization created by Lance Farmer/DJ Lidz. This organization's motto is "Creating a new generation of Hip-Hop heads". The mission is to preserve the past generations of Hip Hop while embracing the new generation of Hip Hop. Let's get back to what made us fall in love with Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop is more than money, clothes, cars and women...Its a culture.
Producer Apollo Brown, who produced 12 Reasons To Die by Ghostface Killah, dropped a new instrumental LP today entitled Thirty Eight. This 20-track project takes us on a journey through 1980s Detroit, through alleys, pool halls & day prostitution. Peep and purchase this ode to his hometown below. Play on.
Yet another remix of Future's Honest track "Move That Dope". This time Busta Rhymes and Conglomerate artist O.T. Genasis lays down some freelance bars for ill instrumental. Play on below.
After dropping the his J.Cole assisted track earlier today, Bas lets loose the official album stream to his Last Winter project via Spotify. Peep this 13-track right below and see what the Dreamville signee has to offer. Play on.
With his newly released Last Winter project available, Dreamville's Bas drops a new cut on us entitled "My Nigga Just Made Bail" featuring Dreamville general J.Cole. Peep this one right below. Play on.
After hitting the 500,000 mark of followers on Twitter, Big K.R.I.T. drops a new cut on us entitled "MT. Olympus" off of his upcoming LP Cadillactica. Peep it below. Play on
Schoolboy Q recently sits down with Peter Bailey on his 'Nite Cape' series, speaking on a wide varies of topcis. He spoke being the face of 'Gangsta Rap, his daughter, YG and much more. Peep the interview above. Play on.
Oh yea, the rumors were on point. Power couple of the decade Jay Z & Beyonce announce their upcoming summer tour 'On The Run'. This run around the country features 16 dates that span from June til August and tickets go on sale this Friday, May 2nd. Their first stop, Miami, FL. You guys can peep the full list of dates below. Until Friday, bask in the excitement of their announcement.
On The Run Tour Tour Dates:
June 25 – Miami, FL – Sun Life Stadium
June 28 – Cincinnati, OH – Great American Ballpark
July 1 – Foxborough, MA – Gillette Stadium
July 5 – Philadelphia, PA – Citizen’s Bank Park
July 7 – Baltimore, MD – M & T Bank Stadium
July 9 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre
July 11 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium
July 15 – Atlanta, GA – Georgia Dome
July 18 – Houston, TX – Minute Maid Park
July 20 – New Orleans, LA – Mercedes-Benz Superdome
July 22 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium
July 24 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field
July 27 – Winnipeg, MB – Investor Group Field
July 30 – Seattle, WA – Safeco Field
August 2 – Los Angeles, CA – Rose Bowl
August 5 – San Francisco, CA – AT&T Park
As the first installment of thier new segment, ILLROOTS Process, they catch up with Finally Famous & Detroit native Key Wane on his journey of creating the instrumentals for Drake's "All Me" & Big Sean's "1st Quarter". Peep the ILL footage(pun intended) above.
With 50 Cent's upcoming Animal Ambition approaching soon, he unveils the official cover art and tracklist for the project. This 11-track project contains features from Yo Gotti, Kid Kid, Prodigy and more. Peep the full list below.
Queens MC Pharoahe Monch takes to 106 & Park's 'The Backroom' for an ill a capella freelance rap. My man's got BARS! Peep his latest LP P.T.S.D. is out now. Play on above.
2 Chainz drops the official cover art & tracklist for his upcoming EP Freebase and he his enlisted some dope artists. Chainz grabbed Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, Ty Dolla $ign and more. Peep the full tracklist for project below, dropping May 5th.
Gangsta Gibbs has opened up the flood gates since he and Madlib's Pinata project dropped. Now, Freddie and Bay area based producer The World's Freshest have linked together for an upcoming project entitled The Tonight Show dropping May 13th. Right below is their first offer off of the project entitled "G Like Dat". Sounds pretty promising to me. Play on.
Mass Appeal caught up with the legendary Ski Beatz for another edition of their series "Rhythm Roulette". Ski managed to create a banger out of a record he didn't expect to us. Peep the footage of Ski's creative process rigth above. Play on.
Finally Famous producer Key Wane put out some footage of him working on Beyonce's self titled album song "Mine". Key Wane definitely come up since he's been producing for Big Sean. Check out the clip right above.
After dropping the audio earlier this week, A$AP Twelvyy unleashes the official video to his L.O.R.D. contribution "Xscape". Peep the visual below. A$AP Mob's L.O.R.D. coming soon.
UFC Fighter Phil Davis calls on Pro Era general Joey Bada$$ for some entrance music for his next fight. Joey's "Mr. Wonderful", named after Phil Davis's nickname can be peep right below. Play on.
The Roots are back at it again and they will dropping a new album on May 20th entitled And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. I love that title name by the way. We have the cover art and tracklist for you guys today. Peep both now.
And Then You Shoot Your Cousin Tracklist:
1. Theme From The Middle Of The Night
2. Never
3. When The People Cheer
4. The Devil
5. Black Rock
6. Understand
7. Dies Irae
8. The Coming
9. The Dark (Trinity)
10. The Unraveling
11. Tomorrow
12. Nothing
Thanks to Haz Solo, we have an official remix to Blu's Good To Be Home cut "Rap Dope". Look out for the homecoming project from Blu on May 20th. Play on.
Jet Life's own Young Roddy delivers his 3rd mixtape in 2 years yesterday entitled Route The Ruler. This 13-track mixtape contains featuring and production from Curren$y, Blair Norf, Smoke DZA, Monsta Beatz and more. Stream to new one from Roddy below. Play on.
In celebration of his very first project The Warm Up 5-year anniversary, J.Cole will be hitting the road this summer for his second annual 'Dollar & A Dream' Tour. No info on cities or venues just yet but stay tuned for those soon. Doesn't seems like its been 5 years huh?
Another day, another festival lineup revealed. Today, it's the lineup for the 'Austin City Limits Festival' held in Austin, TX in the first 2 weekend of October. Among those headlining: Outkast, Skrillex, Eminem & Pearl Jam. Other acts include Lorde, Lana Del Ray, Phantogram, Chromeo and many more. If you want tickets, head to ACL Fest's website now.
Linking with Crystal Renee & Tate Dumonde, Cyhi The Prynce drops the official visual to his Black Hystori Project track "Is It Me". We hope this is leading up to more great music from Cyhi. Peep the video above.
Schoolboy Q unleashes a new video from his latest LP for the track "Studio" featuring BJ The Chicago Kid. Peep it above. Oxymoron in stores and iTunes now.
Coming off his Kanye West edition of #BestInTheWorld, Jon Connor unleashes a new visual for his take on the Yeezus cut "Black Skinhead", which can be view above. Play on.
Domo Genesis blesses us with new music entitled "Arrival" & "SS4" this past 4/20 and the MC's progression shows through these cuts. Better late than never right? Peep the new tracks from Domo right below.
Thanks to his Youtube channel, Asher Roth share with us an official album stream of his newly released LP RetroHash. On this project Asher linked up with some friends like: Chuck Inglish, Curren$y, Vic Mensa and more. Check out the album fully below.
Flatbush ZOMBiES link up with Spanish Harlem's Bodega Bamz for their Days Of The Dead official visual "My Team Supreme 2.0". Also, peep the OG version on their Better Off Dead project. Play on.
Coming off of the Treejay & DJ Clockwork compilation project Home N Stoned, Mac Miller contributed 3 new tracks "Happy", "One Nine Six Nine" & "Walkin' Home" (prod. by Nottz). Mac's 2014 has been pretty awesome by far. We hope those 4 projects are coming soon.
Noreaga unleashes his 4/20 themed project named Noreaster. N.O.R.E. puts up Styles P, Raekwon, Harry Fraud and more for this smoker's club project, which you guys can stream below.
Outkast & Nas aren't the only ones celebrating a 20th anniversary. Clothing line Supreme are celebrating their 20th with releasing two of their original opening day tees as well as skateboard decks with the same logos. This collection is set to release on April 24th in Supreme's New York & Los Angeles locations. Peep more snapshot below.
Nuu Elementz celebrates its fourth elemental session on the third element of hip-hop, breakdancing.
According to the dictionary, breakdancing, also known as b-boying and breaking, is a style of acrobatic dancing characterized by intricate footwork, spinning headstands, tumbling and more. It's the most popular form of hip-hop dancing.
Breaking originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the South Bronx by African American and Latino youth. James Brown is noted as the 'Godfather' of breaking with his unique dance style. His hit "Get on the Good Foot" created a dance called the 'Good Foot' which soon was renamed the 'B-Boy'.
Kung fualso had its influence in breaking with moves like the "headspin" and the "windmill". B-boys watched and imitated the physical abilities of the kung-fu actors.
DJ Kool Herc gave dancers the chance to break battle as rappers would do when rap battling. Herc was interested in the break section of the song where the vocal would stop and the beat itself would play for a short period.
Flashdance was the first major movie to feature breaking. Afterward, breaking continued to star in hit movies such as Breakin, Breakin 2 and Beat Street. Beat Street made a great impact because of its battle scene between Rock Steady Crew and New York City Breakers.
Breakdancing has grown from a trend to its own worldwide culture.
In 1990, a series of international b-boying competitions known as Battle of the Yearbegan. It's grown as the biggest b-boying competition in the world, often referred to as the 'world cup of breakdancing'.
The best crews go through a series of competition for the ultimate prize.
The 2014 finalists include crews from Africa, Greece, Italy, Japan, and South Korea. The grand finale competition will be held Oct. 18, 2014 in Germany.
Although breaking originated in New York, media coverage mistreated the culture of breaking causing for its popularity to die down. People had a sense that it was only a fad.
Founder of Nuu Elementz, Lance (@JetLifeLidz) believes that people aren't interested in break beats anymore.
"Once its been capitalized and companies figure out they can profit from it, the whole culture gets exploited," he explains.
"The elements of hip-hop that usually don't sell well are pushed to the side," described Frank (@MrPresident522A)
However a few years later, breaking came back with a new generation of Puerto Rican b-boys who put new life into breaking taking it to the next level.
The culture resurfaced with the support of b-boys who never quit.
Breakdance teams like Quest Crewfrom Los Angeles were declared winners of the third season of America's Best Dance Crew. They've made appearances on So You Think You Can Dance and is currently helping with choreography for artists like LMFAO.
"Tony Hawke Skating Pro had hip-hop and breakdancing all throughout the game," says Rob (@ROBstayRAMEN)
Now a day, b-boy events such as Bboy Summit and Rock Steady Anniversary are organized every year.
The Bboy Summit encompasses knowledge of the history of Hip-Hop culture with the skills of b-boying and b-girling. The summit serves as a platform in which break dancers come together to dance and pay homage to the traditional dance of hip-hop.
Throughout the world are breakdancing societies at universities like Portland and United Kingdom. Lessons and trailings are offered as well as social events.
Last night, Queensbridge MC Nas premiered his new documentary Time Is Illmatic at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. Robert De Niro, co-founder of the festival, presented the film and Nas performed some of the highlighted tracks from the debut album like "The World Is Yours" & "It Ain't Hard To Tell". With appearances from Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Pete Rock, Large Professor and more. Check the footage right above. Illmatic XX in stores now.
Oh yea, just what I've been waiting for. Here we have the official video to Tallahassee MC and producer Stess The Emcee & Backpack Beatz' latest track "Reloaded" featuring C-Red, Omega Crimson & DJ A To The L. What a way to represent Tally. Look out for Stess and Pack's The Lion's Share EP coming soon.
Some of you probably wondering "Bill? What kind of a name is that for a rapper"? Before you judge, take a listen to this cat from Mac Miller's Most Dope team on this track with Mac and Ab-Soul, who dropped a new mixtape today entitled Vagrant. Also, you might have heard Bill on the Delusional Thomas mixtape. Take a listen to this ill new MC's mixtape below.
Asher Roth drops yet another track off of his upcoming LP RetroHash, which drops next Tuesday. With Major Myjah on the hook, peep "Last Of The Flohicans" below.
Aftermath's own Jon Connor keeps the momentum going with a new visual for his #BestInTheWorld freestyle of Kanye West's "Bound 2". Check the visual above.
'Budweiser Made In America Festival' is coming to the City Of Angel! JAY Z's annual music festival will be happening in 2 places at the SAME DAMN TIME. I had to that. HA! Whether you're in Philadelphia or Los Angeles, this festival will going on Labor Day weekend (August 30th-31st). Peep the official trailer for the event right above.
It's alwaysa great thing to find some unreleased J Dilla, at any time and day. Today we have another unreleased instrumental from 2002 entitled "Give Em What They Want". The label run by Jay D's family Pay Jay will be dropping a 6-track EP under the same name on iTunes and clear vinyl. Peep the track right below and enjoy the drums of J Dilla.
Thanks to Funky Volume, we have the official album stream of Dizzy Wright newly released project State Of Mind. With features and production from Rockie Fresh, MLB, Sledgren, 6ix and more, you guys can peep this project below.
Dreamville's own Bas decides to drop a 6-track mixtape entitled 2 Weeks Notice while we wait for his upcoming EP Last Winter to drop in 2 weeks (April 29th), hence the title. You guys can stream and download it below.
Tallahassee Renaissance MCs and producer Omega Crimson & Backpack Beatz drops the video to their lead single "PeaceGawd." off of their project The Gawd. The Tallahassee Hip Hop keep on thriving. Peep this visual above.
After showing us how he put together Drake's Furthest Thing, Jake One is back to show us how to make J.Cole's "3 Wishes" off of his Truly Yours 2. Check out this footage right above.
Logic brings to us a new soulful cut entitled "While You Wait" in promo for his upcoming tour in the same name the 'While You Wait' tour. Peep this track below.
I've been hearing alot about Locksmith and his newly released LP A Thousand Cuts and the guy just too nice. So before you go cop it we have the full album stream thanks to DJ Booth. He has linked up with Anesha, Fallon, Jarell Perry, Leah Tysse, Olamide Faison, R.A. The Rugged Man and more for this project and we got the 12-tracker for you below.
Before you out a cop, take a listen to Nas' 20th anniversary edition of his debut album Illmatic XX. This project contains the original remastered track from Illmatic and remixes some tracks from the debut LP as well. Peep it out fully below.
Gotta love it when King Thelonious drops new beats, this time entitled "Midas Touch". For those who aren't as nocturnal as most, catch Thelonious Martin's instrumentals during commercial breaks on Adult Swim. Peep this new beat below.
50 Cent has been dropping new tracks and visuals to go with them left and right. This time, we have the visual for his new cut "Hustler" off his upcoming LP Animal Ambition which drops June 3rd. Peep the video above.
Even when you though Jon Connor couldn't get any better, he drops another #BestInTheWorld mixtape on us one month after hisfirst one. Only this time, he goes in over the most treasured cut by the late great Notorious B.I.G.. As stated before, look out for guys. Peep the full mixtape below.
With her TDE released projected out now, SZA drops a new visual for the track "Warm Winds" featuring fellow TDE partner Isaiah Rashad. Check out the video above.
Pittsburgh artist Girl Talk took the stage at Coachella right before Outkast and shut the place down. He even brought out some friends such as Busta Rhymes, E-40, Too $hort and Juicy J to help keep the crowd on its toes during his set. Peep the footage of his performance above.
As we all have seen from the Outkast performance, the first weekend of this year's 'Coachella Music Festival' has been pretty promising. On the second of the fest, Pharrell as well as Nas closed out the show. P brought some friends like Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg and Diddy; while Nasir brought out to partner Jay Z. You guys can peep both of their performance below.
After hitting the 'Coachella' stage yesterday, Flatbush Zombies drop a new cut entitled after our favorite game as a kid "Red Light, Green Light". Peep this The Architect produced cut below
The moment we've all been waiting for. Outkast's for performance together since 2004 at this year's Cali music festival 'Coachella'. Man, Man, Man...I sure wish I could have been there to witness this greatness. 3 Stacks and Daddy Fat Staxxx performed nearly ever one of their hits plus some of the new tracks with appearances from Sleep Brown, Janelle Monae & Future. Peep this incredible footage right above and some snapshots below.
