The album is available HERE! for FREE. Check it out Portland rap fans. This is good stuff. Know about it. J-RITZ: Man, It’s been full of Ups & Downs, a lot of trial & error, & a ton of struggle…I dont think people understand how hard it is to be an artist, & [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured, J-RITZ, Saywords
1. We see you. Your release of the Candyman video is epic. Truthfully, we havent seen that degree of cinematography and concept from alot of NW rappers as of late. Tell us about the concept of the song and the video? quiz: Well I wanted a song to show a little [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Quiz
O.K., let us start by saying that we are completely addicted. The videos, the songs, the images, the swag. Count us in on the LMC train. Now let’s start by telling our readers how much of what we see is image, and how much is how you are as a person – in real life…
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Posted in Artists, Featured, LMC
1. Tell our readers about your movement… >> Water Is A fresh face To Tha’ music Scene, Puttin’ hard Work And major effort together, Born & raised in Portland, Oregon, He has started a very strong fan base for him self, With a Flashy Upscale Flow, and A Smooth Swagga on the Mic gives him [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured
Northwest legend Kenny Mack won West Coast Hip hop Artist of the Year at the West Coast Music Awards. Less than a year later he was sent back to prison for 7 and a half years. The sentence was part of a plea agreement he made with federal prosecutors to avoid a 15 to life [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Kenny Mack
HoodLum is my Newest Mix Album. I came up with the name for this album after I watched a 1997 film which was called Hoodlum. When I seen the film it reminded me in so many ways of my own life, and if you listen to my music I talk about things I’ve done, things [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Lil Bamm
To be honest, and not to sound corny, but it’s the stage. It doesn’t matter if I’m rocking in front of 10 people or a 1,000. There’s no better feeling in the world than connecting with complete strangers, and watching people react to my music.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Vocab
Basically when i came out there wasn’t anyone in the game coming out like i was . I came out completely in my own lane. My lifestyle, my slang,100% authentic to my lifestyle. I came in totally spaced out from the beginning and no one had ever heard of space age or being spaced out.
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Posted in Artists, Dubble00, Featured
My music career started as a rapper in high school, after high school I was heavy into the gang life and helped start the Kerby Blocc Crips. I wanted to change the life style and express my feelings and be able to make money. We would always be in the hood listening to music and rapping.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Smurf
We already know the Northwest has talent. As soon as we can stop the violence, shootings, fights at so many of these local hip hop shows I believe this will re-light the NW rap fire in the hearts and souls of the rap/hip-hop heads out here that turn their heads the other way to local shows because of the drama.
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Posted in Anon, Artists
This is a huge moment for me as an artist. A full length debut album giving me the opportunity to truly express myself. I have wanted this since I was old enough to know what music was and have spent my life honing my talent working for this opportunity. I’m proud of the album and excited to share it with everyone.
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Posted in Arjay, Artists, Featured
Doing music is not for the faint at heart and despite what some of you aspiring rappers may think, it's not the quickest way to get paid. You actually have to be good and have hustle to accommodate your talent. You have to constantly elevate your game. Never get complacent.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Mr. D.O.G.
The biggest rapper in the Northwest, a business man, the voice behind the urban music scene at large and of course the self proclaimed, King Cool Nutz.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Jus Family Records
The competitiveness of the NW urban music scene is very exciting. We don’t hear very many of our artists’ music syndicated on a national level, therefore all of us are pushing harder to cross over into that next stage in the game. We are seeing things around here that we haven’t seen in a long while, or even ever.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, J-Kronic, Rose Bent
When I first started things were different we didn't have access to endless instrumentals on these beat websites they have online now, so producing tracks was something I started doing out if necessity. Now its just as much a part of who I am as M.C. is and I truly love doin it but... theres always been a special place in my heart for the art of the flow.
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Posted in Artists, Dzo, Featured
I still can’t believe it happened. E-40 is my favorite rapper in the world and like 4yrs ago I was just some kid working a basic 9-5 and scratching in my basement. Next thing you know I am dj’n a sold out show at the Knitting factory as E-40′s DJ. It feels like it was a previous life or a dream. Everything was a highlight to me. From the bus to the fans to the songs to the artists.
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Posted in Artists, DJ Fatboy, Featured
You may wonder why we have an r & b artist on a NW Rap site. That is, only if you haven't heard the soulful sounds of Maurice Bullock. If you are a rapper and in need of a first rate hook, this is your guy.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Maurice
As Oregon's premier Christian rap duo, we felt it necessary to sit down with these two and get to the bottom of all the buzz on the streets. Balou the Sasquatch has been a known figure in the Oregon underground hip-hop movement for almost two decades. J-Philly is one of the most talked about up and coming producers in the NW.
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Posted in Artists, Cave Dwellers, Featured
The Wheels Of Soul MC is one of the fastest growing Motorcycle Clubs in the Northwest. The brotherhood has single handedly changed the face of Motorcycle Clubs in Oregon. Where the stereotype was a pack of white bikers with long hair and dirty clothes causing problems and spewing racial epitaphs, you can now look around the Northwest and see African American and Chicano bikers looking good on nice Harleys with rap music bumpin not too far off in the distance.
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Posted in North Left Culture, Wheels Of Soul
The real difference between Kali hip hop and NW hip hop is just different scenes you know in Kali its all about 64's hittin switches, palm trees, gang banging, glamor, Hollywood, just the Kali scenes. The NW its more two different scenes; P-Town got the gangster scene and the major underground scene too, and the 541 got the whole underground scene with a growing number of swag flow/ gangsta - even Gamesta rhymes so really its just two different scenes and I rep them both!
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Posted in Artists, Cali Perspective, Featured, JB The Don
Not every producer can boast of being a highly sought after producer, musician and vocalist, but Super Producer Bosko’s talents and accomplishments allow him to do just that.
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Posted in Bosko, Featured, Producers
Whether its hitting the road with the Gorilla Gospel MC, writing rhymes cast in real life for Gorilla Gospel Records, or speaking in venues from prisons to schools with Gorilla Gospel Ministries, Todd G is putting his life story and talents to work to bring good news where it can change lives.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Todd G
My highs would DEFINITELY have to be on stage. Getting to rock wit some a the cats I’ve listened to since a kid is a surreal experience and besides that, the LIVE shows are my favorite!!! The crowd energy, the fans, the music, it gets no better than that…
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Posted in Artists, Endr Won, Featured
I feel we got our own swag, we got so many swags in one over here you feel me? We make it look so good for so many types of people. We got a lot of artists comin out the NW now. The world is gone get flooded wit the NW. I see it happenin now.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Spark Diggz
We have created a club where those who have lived their lives on the outside of society will feel at home. We take care of our own and protect our brothers fearlessly. This is more than a club, this is a way of life.
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Posted in Gorilla Gospel, North Left Culture
Super Producer Hi-Q is the mastermind behind many NW artists. From Drammen, Norway he has not only produced monster hits for Cool Nutz, Maniac Lok, Kenny Mack and Todd G, his work has been written up in The Source Magazine and he has promoted and hosted some of the biggest shows in Europe featuring NW artists.
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Posted in Hi-Q, Producers
I think the biggest reasons I have stayed around for so long is my desire to win and my love for music, period. This is where I excel, there is nothing I do better. So for me, its just that hunger to get people to listen to music. I thrive off of it, through all the ups and all the downs that go with it.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Shaolin
In May of this year I checked myself into the hospital and 2 days later had emergency open heart surgery at 42 years old. The main artery feeding my heart had 99% blockage, so in essence I was a walking dead man. They call what I had “The widow Maker” because if you go into cardiac arrest with blockage that severe its almost impossible to survive.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Mackdub
1. White Boy Will is a name synonymous with Portland Oregon hip-hop. your work as head of street promotion for NW powerhouse label, Jus Family Records supersedes you. How did you get involved with Jus Family? 2. You broke onto the scene as a solo artist last year with your debut, Roguish Game. Tell us [...]
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Posted in Artists, Featured, White Boy Will
My ‘elusiveness’ stems from the days of NASTYMIX in Seattle , circa 1986. The average recording contract in those days were 90-some pages long, and chocc full of loopholes. Until Suge Knight, I kept to my Bay Area DIY Trunk-Store. I have an incredible vision of a better music and so I created one.
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Posted in Artists, Featured, Rated-X
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