Tag: Young Guru

Elemental 76-The Best Of Each Hip-Hop Element This Week 8/23/14–8/29/14

Every Friday I pick the best representation of each Hip-Hop Element-MC,DJ,BREAKING,GRAFFITI-from the past week.Knowledge is to some including me the 5th Element

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MC

G-Unit -Digital Scale-Prod. by 45 Music

Off of the newly reunited groups Beauty Of Independence EP out now.

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DJ

Masters At Work (Kenny Dope & Louie Vega)-Boiler Room London-Mix

Boiler Room sais:

Now, this was special one. In the late 80s, Masters at Work were largely responsible for the heady rise of NYC house music and its exciting mutations. Some decades later, we brought back these mighty pioneers to celebrate their legacy: Kenny and Louie back-to-back, doing the do, for an hour and a half. Enjoy.

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BREAKING

Crazy Legs (RSC) & Focus (FMC)-Shaolin Footwork Mastery

Filmed in the Shaolin Temple in China Aug 21th 2014
Camera work and edit: Jussi “Focus” Sirviö
Music: El Michel’s Affair: Protect Ya Neck

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GRAFFITI

4608-Wolume 2 (Pre Episode)

About a year and a half ago we released our first DVD, ‘Wolume 1, a 120 min train-action dvd with focus on Stockholm based WOL crew.

This year we have been putting in a lot of work to overshine that release. In September we will release of the sequel ‘Wolume 2 in memory of our brother Asoc.

This time we thought that instead of making a regular 2 min trailer with random clips from the upcoming film we decided to give a little extra and made a 10 minute ‘pre-episode’ of the clips that we didnt manage to squeeze into the upcoming DVD.

More info on the release date and release party will be out shortly.

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KNOWLEDGE

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This week I chose this interview with one of the best engineer’s , and behind the scenes people to ever do it , Young Guru of the Roc-A-Fella Records era of course and continuing engineer and DJ to this day.

Watch as he talks to E-Money from HipHopSince1987 about being the engineer for Jay and The ROC , and also

piracy on the internet changing music,deals with Akai Pro, a line of engineering headphones, and an upcoming book, before delving into how teaching at USC and running Jay Z & Kanye West’s ‘Watch The Throne’ Tour have opened up new avenues for him to affect music.

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Thank You for checking this week and Thank You to all my readers who have supported the first 75 of these.

And finally if you would like to read Elemental 1-75 go here ELEMENTAL Click on the header to bring up the full post.

Peace INDOE @IndoeSadSmilez #CheckIt

Young Guru-Vinyl Collection-CRATE DIGGERS w/ Fuse *Video

In this episode, the “Sound of New York” and Jay-Z’s right hand man, Young Guru, talks about his early love of D.C. “go-go” music, U2 drum breaks and producing Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”.

Crate Diggers profiles people with extraordinary vinyl record collections, with owners displaying and telling the stories behind their collections.

Just Blaze & Young Guru-Interview w/ HardKnockTV-Pt. 2 *Video

Just Blaze and Young Guru sit down for an exclusive conversation on Hard Knock TV. In Part 2 Just Blaze and Young Guru start off talking about early Rocafella days and how they think there won’t be a conglomerate like that again for several reasons. As the interview continues they share stories of how Keep It Real Wednesdays came about and how producers would get laughed out of the studio if they didn’t bring their a game. Just Blaze goes on to say how he decided who got what beats including stories of how Cam’ron got the beat for Welcome to New York City so Jay-Z could jump on the track and how Just Blaze made the beat for Roc Da Mic for Freeway and then Beanie Sigel heard it and jumped on it.

Just Blaze & Young Guru-Interview w/ HardKnockTV *Video

Just Blaze and Young Guru sit down for an exclusive conversation on Hard Knock TV. The interview starts of with Young Guru asking Just Blaze about his new song Higher and about making transition from Hip Hop into EDM. Just Blaze says that he has always made electronic beats but that he didn’t always have a place to release those beats which were often ahead of their times. Now that the genre lines are so blurred it is seen as more acceptable to listen to everything. As the conversation continues Just Blaze says that now he is “comfortable doing whatever it is I want…I’m comfortable playing what I want, I’m comfortable wearing what I want and just being me as an individual…not that I wasn’t comfortable with who I am but I was definitely doing a keeping up with the Jones kind of thing…I had to have a fresher jersey than Dame but meanwhile Dame was getting them for free from Mitchell & Ness cause he is Dame Dash and I had to pay $500 for it and I had to this every day for years straight…”