Category: History
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Today In Carolina Hip Hop History: February 24, 2012 Rapsody (@RapsodyMusic) Releases The Black Mamba EP
Today In Carolina Hip Hop History, Rapsody released The Black Mamba EP on February 24, 2012. The Black Mamba was Rapsody’s first EP. It dropped on Jamla Records and in the same year as her first album The Idea of Beautiful, which came out several months earlier as Idea wasn’t available until August of that…
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Today In Carolina Hip Hop History: February 8, 2005 Rapper Big Pooh (@RapperBigPooh) Releases ‘Sleepers’
Today In Carolina Hip Hop History, Rapper Big Pooh released Sleepers on February 8, 2005. In February 2005, Rapper Big Pooh was still part of the trio Little Brother, which included Phonte and producer 9th Wonder. Sleepers was Rapper Big Pooh’s debut solo album. It was released on 6 Hole Records. Rapper Big Pooh’s Sleepers…
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Today In Carolina Hip Hop History: January 13, 2009 Rebellious (@RebelliousMindz) Release ‘Rise To The Occasion’
Today in Carolina Hip Hop History, Rebellious released Rise To The Occasion on January 13, 2009. Rise To The Occasion was Rebellious’ debut album, which came out on their label Southern Groove Entertainment. The group is comprised of two members, Shawt & G. The duo hails from Edgefield, South Carolina. The majority of the…
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#TBT Carolina Hip Hop Archives: 2009 J. Cole (@JColeNC) Interview, Talks Classic NC Hip Hop Group The Bomb Shelter, Growing Up In Fayetteville + More
J. Cole has had a phenomenal week, music-wise. 2014 Forest Hills Drive, his third major label album project, sold 354,000 copies in it’s first week of release. This makes J. Cole’s third #1 album on the Billboard 200. In July 2009, J. Cole’s star was beginning to rise. Right at the beginning of that…
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#TBT Carolina Hip Hop Archives: 2009 Kooley High (@KooleyHigh) In Studio Freestyle + Upcoming 12/13/14 Show At Pourhouse Raleigh
September 2009 (L-R clockwise: Foolery, Charlie Smarts, Synopsis, DJ Ill Digitz, Rapsody, Tab-One, Me). Kooley High is one of my favorite hip hop groups of ever, and it just so happens that they are from North Carolina. Tab-One, Sinopsis, Foolery, Charlie Smarts and DJ Ill Digitz now split their time between Raleigh, NC and…
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Commentary: 5 Favorite Carolina Hip Hop Releases Of The Last 5 Years (2008-2013)
This past Saturday June 8, 2013 my blog turned five years old. On Sunday June 8, 2008 I wrote my first blog post. Shawty, I was so good and terrible at blogging back then. When I look at some of those early posts, I cringe. I was just so excited to have an opportunity to talk…
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Happy Birthday: Today WXYC (@WXYC) 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC Simulcast Turns 18!!
Eighteen years ago on November 7, 1994 WXYC 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, North Carolina became the first radio station in the world to ever simulcast their stream on the internet. WXYC’s original radio internet streaming used the Cu-SeeMe Utility, which was developed at Cornell University. The radio station is located on the campus of UNC-Chapel…
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LRG Presents (@LiftedResearch) Presents The Beat Junkies: For the Record (Video)
I am always down for a great hip hop history lesson. LRG has teamed up with the legendary world famous Beat Junkies to help commemorate their 20 years of impacting the music industry. Some of these DJs I’ve heard of (i.e., Rhettmatic, Babu), however many of them I hadn’t. The World Famous Beat Junkies included…
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Hip Hop History Lesson: How Traditional Slave Dances Evolved Into ‘The Dougie’, ‘The Butterfly’ & More (Video)
Growing up older folks would always claim that none of the dances us kids did were new, and now here’s further proof. Thomas F. DeFrantz is a Duke University professor of African, African American studies and dance. In a new series of videos he demonstrates how dance moves such as Buck, Wing, and Jig, that…