Support Creativity!
If you’re living in the UK, you might have noticed that it is a lot harder to watch music videos on YouTube. According to Google this is because the PRS - who work to collect money for all musicians in the UK - are demanding stupid amounts of money.
According to the PRS (a not-for-profit organisation by the way) they are just trying to maintain what Google is currently paying. Google want to pay less than half of that.
Having worked with the PRS I can tell you that they’re good people dedicated to helping out artists like you and me. So please pledge your support.
Put The Roots In The VH1 Hip-Hop Honors 2009!
Don’t Let It Happen! New live music laws…
You hear about these new music laws all the time but this one seems worth thinking about… an obligatory form that must detail the ethnicity of the crowd expected and the full names and addresses of all performers, among other things. Don’t let it happen people. Scrap the 696.
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The 696 Form compels licensees who wish to hold live music events in 21 London Boroughs to report to the police the names, addresses, aliases and telephone numbers of performers, and most worryingly, the likely ethnicity of their audience. Failure to comply could result in fines or imprisonment. We believe this places unnecessary and frankly Orwellian powers in the hands of the Metropolitan Police, an institution which does not have the best record of racial fairness. The 696 form can only serve to deter the staging of live musical events - a positive form of activity in London and all cities - stifle free expression and quite possible penalise certain genres of music and ethnic audiences. It is an intrusion too far.
MADlib - King of the Wigflip
30th Sept new Madlib Album : WLIB AM: King of the Wigflip,
Guests Include Talib Kweli, Guilty Simpson, Prince Po, Murs, Oh No, Frank N Dank, MED and more
I used to disregard Madlib as some quirky cat with a following, but his abstract sound has grown on me to earn a place in my top 3 producers, if you are unaware of madlibs work or sound il sum it up to you as a “beautiful mess” it will raise eyebrows and appear exempt from beatmaking rules and templates, but he has his artform down to a T, hiphop as it should be, unconfined and fresh.
there are a few rappers who just dont do it for me and i dont like hearing madlibs quasy shit but production wise im sure this release will be fire
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