Posts Tagged ‘Mass Appeal’
Nas Speaks On His ‘Hip Hop Is Dead’ Album Released 10 Years Ago (Video)
December 26, 2016
Nas shares some insights, including some regarding his “Hip-Hop Is Dead” album on the 10th anniversary of its release, above. Footage from the sit-down continues after the jump, including discussion about the album’s title track.
Mac Miller: The Hero Who Would Be ‘What?’ (Video)
November 9, 2016
Did Mac Miller put in a lot of thought, or barely a little, into his answer? Who knows… but it is actually a pretty interesting character he’s talking about here.
Mac aka What? dons a light-sensitive onesie, sets up shop in a bare bones but very beneficial headquarters, and levitates but doesn’t fly. Watch What? and his sidekick Why? fight their enemy Who? above.
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The Making of Gang Starr’s “Mass Appeal†(Video)
June 26, 2015
Billed as a making of Gang Starr’s “Mass Appeal” banger…but this is so much more! DJ Premier, Big Shug, Jadakiss and others weigh in on Preemo’s and Guru’s place and impact on Hip-Hop and urban music history. Spend your twenty minutes getting enriched by this!
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Here’s ‘The Thing’… Marco Polo Might Have REALLY Messed Up His Picks Playing ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
September 27, 2014
Uh ohhhh. Polo picked three 12″ records. Just three SONGS, not ALBUMS, to sample. Will our hero be able to win Rhythm Roulette after blind-picking such slim pickings at Brooklyn’s The Thing record store? Well, back to Marco Polo’s personal studio to find out!
“When you have no melodic samples, a bass line can save a beat.”
– Marco Polo
We’ll see, Marco. We’ll see. We’re rooting for you. Watch this, y’all.
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Cardiak Attacks The Stacks To Pick 3 And Play ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (Video)
September 22, 2014
Cardiak somehow found his way to the Def Jam Recordings section of Amoeba Records in Los Angeles to make his blindfolded picks for the records he would be attempting to flip for this ep of ‘Rhythm Roulette.’ Gripe, gripe, gripe he did about his picks! Hey, man, that’s how the game goes…
So what do you think? Can Cardiak make hot sh!t out of bullsh!t (his words, not ours)? Click play above and see.
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Apollo Brown Plays ‘Rhythm Roulette’ With Mass Appeal (Video)
July 25, 2014
On this episode of Rhythm Roulette, Mass Appeal meets up with Apollo Brown in his town (Detroit, MI, USA) to make some music. Challenge: Get blindfolded, get in The Record Graveyard, get 3 records out of the stacks, get to work making a beat out of those random blind picks.
Is Brown down for the game? Click play above and see.
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Behind The Scenes: Nas – “Represent” (Video)
July 16, 2014
There’s a YouTube studios? Hmm. Well, what’s really cool is the dopeness that’s about to come out of there. Apparently, they reviewed more than eighty finalists’ video treatments to pick one worthy director’s entry…to do a video for the single off Nas’ “Illmatic” entitled “Represent.” It’s been 20 years, but rather than dwell on what took so long, join us in anticipating how this is so right for Hip-Hop. Check out the behind-the-scenes vid above. And you can pick up Nas’ “Illmatic XX” via the link below.
Posted in Hip-Hop, Videos | Tags: Behind The Scenes, Brian Katz, DJ Premier, illmatic, ILLMATIC XX, Jason Goldwatch, Mass Appeal, Mass Appeal Media, MassAppeal, Nas, Represent | 1 Comment »
Ski Beatz Plays ‘Rhythm Roulette’ With Mass Appeal Media (Video)
May 5, 2014
Rhythm Roulette features an accomplished producer (like Ski Beatz, whose legendary work includes Jay-Z’s “Dead Presidents” and Curren$y’s “Pilot Talk”) blindfolded… fumbling through stacks of strange wax… to pick three source tracks. The challenge: Make a banger. Can he do it? Cliffhanger…
Watch.
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Mass Appeal Catches Up With Jay Electronica At SXSW 2014 (Video)
March 19, 2014
Good chop-it-up session with Jay Electronica chatting with Jason Goldwatch at the SXSW Music Festival for Mass Appeal. They talk about the unexpected release of “Better In Tune With The Infinite†(featuring Latonya Givens aka Tone Trezure) off his “Act II: Patents of Nobility” (The Turn) full-length. The track was dropped at SXSW pretty much because a fan asked. Nice. Get info tibits on that and more from the convo.
DJ Premier Breaks Down the Gang Starr Logo, ‘Mass Appeal’ and More (Video)
September 6, 2013
How appropriate for Mass Appeal channel to have Premo on deck to give personal history like this. With “Mass Appeal” spinning in the background, and DJ Premier talking to the lens, we get the straight dope from one of the dopest. Click play and learn about the creation, evolution and finalization of the Gang Starr insignia and how Premier and Gang Starr fam KNEW “Mass Appeal” was hot before radio and the world would prove them right. R.I.P. to Keithy E the Guru.
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Statik Selektah Can Produce a Beat ‘Blindfolded’ (Video)
July 25, 2013
This episode of ‘Rhythm Roulette’ (on the Mass Appeal channel) features Bostonian-turned-Brooklynite producer Statik Selektah. The blindfold goes on, the fingers dig in the dusty crates, an Statik creates with what he Selekts; throwing in some scratching as the finishing move.
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