De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 present First Serve - 'We Made It' (official video)

Long Island Natives "big up", Plug 1 & Plug 2 dropped us another skit off the upcoming First Serve concept album. Strong Island is in the building.

New !!! El Da Sensei Featuring Tame One & Dj Kaos Everyday in the Street

We here at WGTTW have always been big fans of the Artifacts, those under the age of 25 may need to do some homework tonight, but El Da Sensei and Tame one have teamed up with Dj Kaos for this new joint titled Everyday in the Streets off the Nu World Remix EP.

RBMA Radio - Masters At Work (MAW Records, NYC) - Live at 103 Harriet, San Francisco - Pt 2

More footage from our trip out to San Francisco with the Red Bull Music Academy. The final night of the NYC to SF Bay Series was NYC House/funk/soul/reggae/latin legends Maters at Work aka Kenny Dope and Louie Vega. These guys rocked live on 6 CDJ'S...live mixing, the entire time. Crazy quality, house was packed and sweaty!! Peep the mix at the Link below 



RBMA Radio - Masters At Work (MAW Records, NYC) - Live at 103 Harriet, San Francisco - Pt 2

True Hip-Hop Stories: Buckshot of Black Moon

True Hip-Hop Stories: Buckshot (of Black Moon) from D-Nice on Vimeo.

Buckshot shorty breaks down the making of "How Many Emcee's" and the state of hip hop today!!

- Mr. Show

Daily Operation Daily Digital Download

                                                                                                                We are finally back with a "Daily Operation" and this time it is from Relative Funk Soundsystem (aka The S-Man) out of Australia! Now you can't go wrong taking the classic Jimmy Castor "its just begun" horn riff and dropping it over some classic B-Boy drums and add some Mighty Mos Def spitting about "B-Boys Breaking"


However, here is where you can go wrong. Don't put up a track and then tell people your not gonna release it for download until you get enough comments on it..thats just a bad look people.
I mean do you really need a pat on the back that bad..i believe the actual downloads should be enough..no?


Anyway you can flash back Here for my entire rant on Soundcloud and things like this!

-Pete Griffin

When exactly was Ice Cube's "Good Day"??

Shouts to the dude Donovan Strain at www.murkavenue.com for checking the facts and doin' the math to figure out exactly what day in history was Cube's "Good Day"..check the facts...

I FOUND ICE CUBES ‘GOOD DAY’

CLUE 1:
     “went to short dogs house,
       they was watching Yo MTV
       RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
               Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
               Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
      ”The Lakers beat the Super
       Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
      Nov 11 1988    114-103
      Nov 30 1988    110-106
      Apr    4 1989    115-97
      Apr  23 1989    121-117
      Jan  17 1990    100-90
      Feb  28 1990    112-107
      Mar  25 1990    116-94
      Apr  17  1990    102-101
      Jan  18  1991    105-96
      Mar  24  1991    113-96
      Apr  21  1991    103-100
      Jan  20  1992    116-110
CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
                Nov 30 1988
                Apr   4  1989
                Jan 18  1991
                Jan 20  1992
CLUE 5:
     “Got a beep from Kim, and
         she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
                 Jan 18 1991
                 Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..

The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
        
          JANUARY 20 1992
      National Good Day Day

-Donovan

New UNION - "CoCo Mango" - Y Society Power Outtage Mix Feat. MF DOOM & Insight - DAMU REMIX

Redef Records is at it again with a double whammy for those who like the dope hip hop....this time its Union Featuring WGTTW all time favorite MF DOOM, Remixed by another WGTTW heavyweight  Damu The Fudgemunk! titled
"CoCo Mango" Y Society Power Outtage Mix (Featuring Insight) (Remixed by Damu in July 2011, Released in 2012)


Available on super cool 7 inch single!!!!! 


Also check out UNION's full length debut, Analogtronics, also out now on Fat Beats Records. The album features MF Doom, Elzhi, Roc Marciano, Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson and more...what????
Pick em up RIGHT HERE BABY PA

Red Bull Music Academy Lecture with Stretch and Bobbito San Francisco, 2012

As promised, we bring you more from our trip out to San Francisco with the Red Bull Music Academy.
Here is the interview on day 2 with WGTTW favorites Strecth & Bobbito. The interview is hilarious, and shows off every bit of their personalities. Shouts to Chairman Mao for another great interview with two NYC legends. Plan on putting aside an solid hour and a half tonight to watch.

Lecture: Stretch and Bobbito(San Francisco, 2012) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

_ Cocka Cocka Joe

Nerd Alert !!!!! Akai MPC Fly Pad for IPad 2

We get geeked over some of the new technology that comes out. This time it's Akai with the Fly Pad, and yes...it looks fly. 16 Pads, built in case. Eq, Sample editing, effects,and a four track mixer and sound library. Get more info and all the nerd stats and facts RIGHT HERE

 _ Lewis Schlonik    <<<< Click Here too for some stupididy

RBMA Radio - Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito (NYC) - Live at Mighty SF, San Francisco - Pt 2

So last week we were in San Francisco with the Red Bull Music Academy for a few days of fun, parties and beat diggin. Stretch and Bob were guests at the Red Bull Info Session on Thursday, which, as soon it goes up on Vimeo we promise to also show you. It was absolutely hilarious! Here is the after party recorded live on Red Bull Radio. Dj Shortkut opened up, you can peep him on part 1 and on some of part 2, around 32 minutes into part 2 Bobbito gets going, he was hyped!! Stretch to follow with Thug Thursday Style. Peep it here.


RBMA Radio - Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito (NYC) - Live at Mighty SF, San Francisco - Pt 2

New EP "Soft Space " from Keor Meteor Available now for free download

Brand new EP from WGTTW favorite Keor Meteor is out now and available for free. Loaded with super dope hip hop beats,spoken word, scratches, flows and on point drums. We fell in love with it as soon as we saw the cover, which is in our opinion is a very conducive image when we like to sit around and fiddle with our drum machines. Here is a promo track off the EP titled Making Beats Half of my Life. Yeah...we dig...pick up the EP RIGHT HERE



 Frank Dank

Fokis Ft. Sadat X - #Justsayin'

L.E.S. MC, Fokis continues to build on his "A Vintage State of Mind" Mixtape..This time out he drops "#justsayin" featuring a WGTTW favorite, Sadat X! Props to Fokis for making an effort to pay homage to the architects of this hip-hop shit..if more so called rappers payed attention to their forefathers the game might not be so fucked up like it is..on that note, enjoy Fokis's latest offering.



- Jenifa - Oh jenny

J57 - The J57 Collection (Mixed By DJ Concept)

Our dude Dj Concept is back again! This time he lends his Dj'ing skills to the collection of Brown Bag All-Stars producer, J57. For those who don't know about J57 this is the perfect introduction. He is has produced many dope tracks with the likes of Homeboy Sandman, Skyzoo, TEK (of smif-n-wesson) and many more..cop the mix below and get your weight up kid!

                                                         Download Here

Hot Peas and Butta (DJ Skeme Richards) Presents - Schifrin-Budd Play Shaw Bros

Hot Peas and Butta is back with another installment to the Sound of Film series with the current
being dedicated to the classic 42nd Street Shaw Brothers Kung Fu films and two of the greatest
composers of all time, Lalo Schifrin and Roy Budd for this cinematic adventure titled Schifrin &
Budd play Shaw. In true Hot Peas and Butta fashion, Skeme Richards reworks dialog from some of his favorite flix and rearranges them to his favorite film scores which gives it a totally new feel from both angles.


Sit back, relax, grab your popcorn and enjoy this cinematic adventure.

-Bruce Norris

Fat Beats of The Week Volume 6

Fat Beats of the week is back with another round of dope beats for the dome. Here are some we were feeling this week from some of soundclouds finest behind the boards.

Dj Z-Trip is Back on Soundcloud!

For those that never noticed, Dj Z-trip opened up a Soundcloud account about 9 months ago and dropped a few gems on us and then disappeared. Now 4 months later he is back and loading up his page with lots of goodies..so check him out at his page here and listen below for a preview of whats to come!!

-Richard Clark

Daily Operation Daily Digital Download

Back once again with another Shawn Lee mash-up is Steely Chan..this time out Pharaoh Monch tells you to get the fuck up over a rock/funk hybrid..check it!

Stones Throw Announces Digital Music Subscription Service

Thats right.. Stones Throw has teamed up with Drip.fm and started their own Digi-music subscription service. For only $10 per month you will receive every thing Stones Throw releases including singles, albums, and EP's delivered right to your inbox..say word!

How it Works:
- Get every new Stones Throw release, delivered to your inbox
- Download any time, anywhere
- 320 kbps MP3 files, with no 'DRM' restrictions of any kind
- Exclusive tracks, mixes and sessions from Stones Throw artists
- Month-to-month billing. 

Upon signing up, receive our three latest releases. Currently:
- Homeboy Sandman's Subject: Matter EP
- The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2 (advance release exclusively on drip.fm)
- M.E.D.'s Classic Instrumentals LP

Next up:
- J. Rocc's Mystery Tracks EP
- Quakers, Quakers Album (Geoff Barrow of Portisthead & a hip-hop group of 35+ members)
- Jonwayne's Oodles of Doodles Album

                                                      http://stonesthrow.com

Carhartt x UDG DJ Bag (Late Pass)

Don't know how we missed this one but Carhartt teamed up with UDG to release an official record bag. This joint is crafted out of the same Duck Canvas they use for their jackets..what?!?!? Your gonna be the man on your block..assuming your block hasn't progressed since 1993..you can't carry no lil' wayne and drake records in a Carhartt bag..it would probably spit them shits out!! This is strictly for carrying your "Punks jump up to get beat down" and "not gonna be able to do it" 12"s son!!!

-bishop

Sadat X - Remember That (Official Video)

Sadat X - Remember That from Love Strandell on Vimeo.

Sadat's Will Tell produced joint "Remember That" gets the video treatment and its all gravy son!

Dj Mixed Bag...Random Funk Soul Jazz Super Disco Records

Once again we present the DJ's with a round-up of Funk, Soul, and Super Disco Breakin goodness for your record bag and dance floor!

Dj Douche <---- Click here

Where It All Began: DJ Jazzy Jeff

Jazzy Jeff takes us back to buying his first record, who his first favorite rapper was and much more in a really insightful interview..check it!

- bitch Willie

Loop Diggers Volume 1

Loop Diggers will be a new feature article we will do dedicated to featuring the art of the loop. As we all know, some guys think they have to chop every sample to shreds..but here we applaud those who knew that the loop could stand on its own and for that we thank you!

GENSU DEAN "JOINTZ" MIXED BY DJ CHIEF ONE

As Gensu get's ready to drop his debut Long-Player on the world, Dj Chief One took some time out to blend together a greatest hits of Gensu's productions of the past. For those who slept..Gensu has produced for Large professor, Cl Smooth, Sadat X, Roc Marciano and i think you get the point..take a listen below and we'll let you know when the album drops..peace!
- Ed Valenti

Dibia$e Interview

Dibia$e from Aisha C. Vertus on Vimeo.

Producer extraordinaire and all around nice guy Dibia$e talks music production, dance, the L.A. music scene and more while up in Montreal.

Whosgunnataketheweight is heading to San Francisco with the Red Bull Music Academy

Thats right, some of our staff is heading to San Francisco to hang with the Red Bull Music Academy for 3 days and nights of events with Aloe Blacc, Gary Bartz, Stretch and Bobbito, Kenny Dope and Louie Vega aka Masters at Work. If you are in the area and are interested in attending any of these events click HERE TO GET THE 411.
The guys decided this is the official Theme Song of the Weekend







_ Barry Bonds

Making a Beat with Pete Rock

Statik Selektah & Action Bronson - Strictly Business Parts 1 & 2

In honor of Statik's 30th Birthday today, he has blessed us all(the internets) with a new gem from Actions upcoming project "New Jack City". Strictly Biz has Action going all in over chopped and screwed versions of "Motownphilly" and Jeff Redds "I Called and Told You"..peep it below!

Homeboy Sandman - Subject Matter Out Now

Stones Throw artist Homeboy Sandman drops his new lp. Here is a taste, you can also pick up the album
right HERE at Fat Beats


- Marty McFly

Adult Swim Bump Beats Vol 11

This weeks Adult Swim Bump Beats...that stuff they play in between commercials..yeah..that...here are some we think they should use.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth - The Main Ingredient (Deluxe Edition w/ Book) In Stores Today!!

After the recent success of last years "Mecca & The Soul Brother" Deluxe edition, Pete Rock & CL Smooth are doing it again with "The Main Ingredient" LP. It comes with a 20 page booklet and 2 CD's containing the original Lp version on one and 12" versions, remixes, instrumentals, and acapellas on the other. The 2nd Cd also contains the much sought after remix of "Searching" that was only available on a special edition vinyl release around the time the Album dropped.
                                                        Track Listing After The Jump

Ice T The Art of Rap Documentary Promo Trailer Something From Nothing

Ice T gets behind the camera and documents the art of the mc. In an age where most young people thing Drake is Hip Hop, Ice T breaks down real rap with some of the best from Redman, Mos Def, Big Daddy Kane, Lord Finese and more! Move will be premiering this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival.  Looking forward to this, ANYTHING to educate the young people on the realness is a great thing. 

    _ Ari Gold

Daily Operation Daily Digital Download Dig

WGTTW Favorite Steely Chan outta Canada hit us off with a lovely new blend. Peep our Soundcloud Spotlight feature we did a while back here on these cats for more real great blends and mashes in the funk genre.

    _ Kung Fu Joe

Rampage ft. R.A. The Rugged Man - Zig Zag Zig

New Rampage coming out on Def Jam Digital featuring the one and only R.A. the Rugged Man ( a WGTTW Favorite)!!!!

TOKYO CITY SERIES - DJ MURO

TOKYO CITY SERIES - DJ MURO from Spine TV on Vimeo.

The "King of Diggin" lets you into his home and record collection and breaks down his history with the legendary DJ Krush!

-Takagi Kan

Random Rap Record Round Up #3

Back once again with the RANDOM RAP RECORD ROUND-UP...those joints mostly from the mid 90's that you may have missed because they only pressed a limited amount of vinyl, usually themselves and some of these people were never heard from again..enjoy!


6Th Floor - Project Logic


Backlive - 1,000 MC's


Buc Fifty - Dead End Street


Dead Poets Society - Don't Quit


The East Flatbush Project - Head To Head


Jigmastas - Dead Mans Walk


L-Swift - Check Da Style


Saukrates - P's & Q's


Stretch and bobbito
-- Hoops McCann

Shit Turntables Say

Shouts To Tim Zawada and the CUTZONCUTS crew for putting together the turntables take on "Shit Girls Say"

-skratchy seal

Fadin' - DāM-FunK (unreleased)

New Dam-Funk track "Fadin'" up now on his Soundcloud. Straight up Funk like you expect...no loops, or sequencers here people..peep it!!



-Larry Black

Pete Rock & CL Smooth Yo Mtv Raps Interview 1992 Style

Fantastic old school Yo Mtv Raps footage with Pete Rock & Cl Smooth, with interviews, freestyles, Pete Rocks basement,money earnin Mt Vernon, barber shops and basketball. Hip Hop like it should be.

K-Def ft. Ebaneezer - Shoulda Gave Up (Vocal Snippet) - SIGNATURE SEVENS

From K-Defs forthcoming "Signature Sevens" series is a snippet of "Shoulda Gave Up" featuring mc Ebaneezer. K-def never disappoints and might be the most underrated producer there is! If you haven't checked his "Nigh Shift" album yet, you are definitely missing out on one of the best release's in the past year.



-Larry-O

Mr. Green "Live from the Streets" with Thomas at the 3 Block (Part 2) featuring Action Bronson

In this episode of "Live from the Streets" follow Mr. Green as he bumps into Action Bronson (stoned out of his skull) at Peter Rosenbergs Hanukkah party and then heads back to the Philly to chop it with a homeless man at 3 block skate park, and then proceeds to make a beat using the interview. Don't sleep!!


-Bling Bling

J-Live does a cover of Gang Starr's Classic Dwyck

Do What Ya Can Kid = DWYCK...NOPE Old School rapper Biz Markie coined the idiom, and DWYCK is an hip hop urban slang for "the male genitalia."



Big Richard

HANDBOOK - NOMADIC (Beat Album)

Straight outtta Great Britian comes up and coming super producer Handbook! He has built himself a large following on Soundcloud and take one listen below and you'll know why. These ain't your ordinary loops here..he manages to keep the listener interested through out the whole track and constantly tries new techniques and changes the style like Son Of Bazerk (study your history new jacks)..get up!

Will Sessions - Mix Takes: TAKE TWO

Will Sessions impressed many with the meticulous craftsmanship of their studio re-workings of the classic tracks for "The Elmatic Instrumentals." With their new two-part video "Mix Takes," the five-piece band is taking a similar approach in recreating some of their favorite songs--only this time it was all recorded and filmed live in real time.


The soundtrack to "Mix Takes" is now available on a limited edition vinyl pressing. Order the vinyl here at fatbeats!


-Louie

Phife Dawg - Thought U Wuz Nice (prod by J Dilla)

Phife Dawg hits us off with a joint he did with Dilla back in 1999. Shouts to the people at Bamalovesoul for unearthing this joint!!


-Nicky Cerone

Lookin4Galt Documentary (Video Trailer)

LOOKIN4GALT - HD Trailer from Gasface on Vimeo.

The good people at GasFace are about to drop a new documentary called "Lookin4Galt". Its a quest to find legendary composer/producer/musician and creator of many classic breaks Galt MacDermott. Along the way they meet up with Evil D, Prince Paul, Buckwild and many others!! This looks like its gonna be a lot of fun!


- Sweet Dick Willie

NERD ALERT!!! The Rane Sixty-One & Sixty-Two Mixers

Rane is getting ready to change the game once again...peep the video for all the details..except the price of course, they don't want to scare you off right away.


-Mort the Jew

Dj Concept - Flight Patterns (Beat Tape)

Our Homie Dj Concept is back with his new official beat tape "Flight Patterns". Flight Patterns was made during a six hour flight from JFK 2 LAX and made solely from Parliament-Funkadlic tracks and that is definitely not a bad thing..peep the tracks below and download HERE !!!!

New Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band "Apache" Out Now

Wicked new version of the B-boy classic Apache from the Incredible Bongo Band avalible now on Ubiquity Records grab a copy HERE !!






Greykid

Dj Premier & Bumpy Knuckles - We Are At War

New track from the upcoming Dj Premier and Bumpy Knuckles (aka BAP) lp "The Kolexxxion". Featuring what you would expect from Premo beat wise and killing the scratch with some Sister Soulja courtesy of Terminator X's "Buck Whylin"!!



-Fredrick Foxworthy IV

Daily Operation Jimmy Castor Tribute R.I.P

Leftside Wobble and Kool Hertz hit us off with tributes to the great Jimmy Castor.





_Leroy

Gang Starr Affiliate "Gusmo" Says Gang Starr Broke Up Over Drug Use and Stealing Money

Gusmo pretty much calls Dj Premier a crack-head and a thief, but who knows? Gusmo is putting out a DVD about the break up and what's a better way to create some hype than that! Only two people know the truth and one's passed on to the after-life (R.I.P. GURU) and the other might be a crack-head.
Its your call people!

-Juanita? Fatima? Solika? Oh, it's Freda?

Straight from the Whosgunnataketheweight Beats and Breaks Crate

Back again from diggin in the crates with some more beats and breaks for your chopping delight! You guys keep using them and we will do our part in finding them..Dont forget to let us hear what you have done with them too!!


Vincent Geminiani - Ophis le serpentaire


Rolf Kuehn & His Orchestra - Manhattan skyline II


The Cavendish Orchestra - Funkrund


Christian Chevallier - Newscast One & Two


Magician - House of the Purple Mist


Orchestra Cometa - Obstinacy


Maneige - Les pentocles (Drum Break)


Hi Voltage Orchestra - Midnight Blue (Drum Break)


Ghostface & MF Doom - War (Acapella)

-Mel Blanc

Fat Beats of The Week Volume 5

Fat Beats of the Week is back again with another round of Beats. Top Choice cuts here, from Soundclouds top hip hop beat makers.
Heres one we fell in love with instantly, sick drums, and a George Duke Vibe


This Sun Ra just kills, more of a song than a beat, but we had to include it!!!


Real Fly


Give me the light...and a blunt.


Freaks come out at night


B-BOY Style


Hard Time


No Games here serious stuff


Chop Suey


Brocks Back


Vibin' Out




-Gordo Alberto

De La Soul's Plug 1 & Plug 2 present First Serve -- 'Mrs. Whitter' [official video]

Yesterday we hit you off with First Serve's latest single and Mixtape..today we are smashing you with their new video "Mrs. Whitter"!! This is possibly one of the funniest videos of all time, from Trugoy's Rick Ross beard to Pos's du-rag/smoking jacket combo and every word that comes out of their mouth is gold!! Shouts to whoever the art director on the video was too!


This is Must See TV!!!

-Jenifa

Longshot - Real Thing ft. Psalm One (prod. by Jake One)

Rhymesayers/jake One contest winner Longshot get his chance to work with the established producer and a guest appearance from Psalm One and we ain't mad at it.

-Stan lee

New Mr Complex Holy Smokes

Old school WGTTW afilliate Mr Complex is back again with a new track titled Holy Smokes. Glad to see homie back in the game, we need more of the 90's indy artists back again!


_Special Sauce

New Black Star Definition Remix Freqnik & WDRE

We must have missed this sitting in our in box a few days ago so we need a late pass. Freqnik & WDRE are back again, this time with a funky remix of Black Star's hit Definition . Pretty much anything these guys put out is a certified banger, this remix proves it. Solid work. I also found this interesting, yet hilarious interview with the two of them , definately worth checking out, they speak on skateboarding, music production, and what sucks about soundcloud and your beats. Listen HERE.

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Thuggin

Gangsta





- Craig Jones                 freddie gibbs madlib thuggin 

Hip Hop Fashion Tips For Dj's and MC'S From The WGTTW Staff

For those lacking style points we have provided you with some fashion tips, since we are in the fashion forefront, these cutting edge styles will have you looking fabulous at your next party.


Dj's, (Left) be sure to get yourself a leather fishermans cap, some driving gloves like "Knight Rider" had, hit Jamaica Ave and pick up a gold name plate and a belt buckle with your Dj name on them, attach that belt buckle to a studded belt (also probably available on Jamaica Ave ). Then head over to V.I.M and grab a pair of pumas with fat laces,..no problem...your chillin homie


MC's (Right) Dude...get yourself some leather pants, real stanky leathers, top that with a leather sleeveless shirt for a real classy look. Then head over to St Marks St and pick up some white suede boots from one of the shops the strippers buy costumes from. While you are there pick up some assorted leather straps, a scarf or two and tie them all around your leg..oh yeah, your gunna need that name plate belt too, then bounce to the sporting goods store and buy a set of knee pads. Throw out one , or give it to a friend, and wear the other one outside of your stanky leathers. Top your ensemble off with a fox tail, or a raccoon tail and you can bless any mic son.

_ Tim Gunn