Featuring Evidence & Sick Jacken plus production by Alchemist.

Soul Assassins’ Intermission drops 6.23 on Gold Dust. Hit www.soulassassins-intermission.com for the skinny.

Recently, I was asked who we didn’t get for The GOP B&T that I wish we would have gotten. Stepping back & looking @ it, I think the lineup is super solid. Again, there’s not much else you can do to say “Hey, come check this free show, which is probably one of the best you’ll see in 2009.” Literally, we asked & every artist you see responded with a quick “Yes” without hesitating.

But if we’re speaking hypothetically, one cat I wish we had reached out to would be Mr. Boy Meets World. Fashawn’s got Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks back, TSS second-cousin on our Uncle Gotty™’s side, Phontigallo, extended an invite for yours truly to bear witness to greatness on the set of Evidence’s new video, “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” featuring Tay, Blu and Will.i.am. A little Hollywood magic sprinkled over Hip-Hop, served up right with some of the best in the business. The above picture is from the shoot (no pun intended), below the break is the byproduct. Read the rest of this entry »

Get to know Fashawn before his debut album, Boy Meets World with Exile, drops in Spring ’09. Consider this your last fuckin warning!

Previously Posted — Video: Fashawn & Evidence – “Our Way” Live | Fashawn – Higher Learning Mixtape

Fashawn & Evidence rock Exile’s beat @ a recent performance in Fresno, Ca. Keep track of those three names Read the rest of this entry »

Dilated Peoples has been a cornerstone in Left Coast Hip-Hop since the early ’90s. Back then, the three man band catered to a relentless touring campaign leading to their first full-length record in May 2000 under Capitol Records. Now, free from the shackles of a major label, the three parts of Dilated have been pursuing their respective solo projects. Rakaa is gearing up for his first solo release, Babu is busy promoting the newest installment to his Duck Season series and Evidence is putting his unrivaled work ethic into overdrive promoting his newest endeavor, The Layover EP.

With one of the most heralded albums of 2007 under his belt, Evidence has cemented himself as a shining star in the stratosphere. The Layover EP marks the beginning of a ruthless world tour and the eventual release of his second LP, Cats & Dogs. But before he taxi’s down the runway to embark on his conquest, E-V cut it up with the Crew’s own Landon A. to discuss the EP, his video blog and his future as a Dilated Junkie.

Words By Landon A.

TSS: Yo What’s going on Ev?

Evidence: How are ya?

TSS: Good man how are you doing?

Evidence: I’m doing good

TSS: Where you calling from today?

Evidence: I’m actually at the crib in Venice, California

TSS: I don’t know if you remember around this time last year being in Lexington, Kentucky…

Evidence: Holy shit with Little Brother!

TSS: Yeah with Little Brother! I interviewed you on the bus before the show that night.

Evidence: Yeah, yeah I remember man!

TSS: They actually tore that venue down this year, which sucks because no Hip-Hop really gets to come through Lexington anymore.

Evidence: That sucks!

TSS: Alright, since we last spoke you’ve done a lot of cameo’s, a lot of guest produced spots and now you’ve got The Layover EP, which has garnered a lot of hype for an just an EP, can you explain why you’ve put so much behind something that’s essentially just building toward another, bigger project.

Evidence: There’s a lot of EP’s that I came up listening to that I didn’t necessarily feel were better than the LP’s that came after them, but were no joke you know? There’s a lot of them. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s All Souled Out, Ice Cube’s Kill At Will, Showbiz & A.G.’s Full Scale, Bone Thugs’ Creepin’ On Ah Come Up, Jurassic 5’s first release….ah fuck..Intoxicated Demons [The Beatnuts]… Just a lot of good ones man and I don’t just think that because it says EP it has to be a half step. I mean if you look at Illmatic, like I already knew what “Halftime” was and “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” was already out, and if you look at the intro it was just a beat and “One Time For Your Mind” was like a one and a half verse joint. Never in my life was I so happy to get six or seven songs and that goes down as one of the all time greats. I don’t want to erase the notion that just because it’s short doesn’t mean it can’t be crazy, if anything it’s harder to do.

TSS: This year you’ve had a lot of help from the blogosphere too as far as pushing your material and I heard you’re shooting a video for each song on the EP. Read the rest of this entry »

Once served solely as an appetizer, the EP has unofficially became the main entrée for several Hip-Hop fans lacking the attention span to stomach an entire album’s worth of artist’s material. Looking to prove they have the recipe to give the people more for less, fraternal twins-in-rap, Evidence and The Alchemist have jumped on the short order bandwagon with their latest EPs The Layover and The Alchemist’s Cookbook respectively. Seeing that neither of the producer/MCs are the most electrifying rappers around, the technically-sound, soundmen still whip up a batch of delectable bangers that will assuredly tide hungry fans over for the time being. Read the rest of this entry »

Featuring Krondon & directed by Decon’s Jason Goldwatch.

The Layover EP/DVD hit stores today.

Featuring KiD CuDi, Evidence & Blu on the track.The Cookbook is available on iTunes today. Link after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

Words By Jason Hortillas

Two for one post seeing that The Alchemist has been busy… Read the rest of this entry »

On my Momma, ya’ll should get familiar with this kid lol. Read the rest of this entry »

New Evidence off his upcoming EP, The Layover (Decon, holler!). As a bonus shot to feed you beasts, Read the rest of this entry »

As the days gets shorter and the weekly amount of posts get longer: the line continues to blur between real life events and the entertainment world. As always the Crew was here to cover it all.

On the political front LC gave us all a view of how people think in the Midwest when the paved roads turn to dirt. Gotty looked Palin right in the eyes and said “Fuck You & Your Glasses” (but mainly your glasses). David D. sent out an open invitation to Aaron McGruder to drop by and give some political commentary. And who would have ever thought that our weekly dose of Keri would introduce the world to a last minute political force. Read the rest of this entry »

The Layover EP is definitely on my most anticipated for 08 list.

While I consider EV to be a very sub-par MC, most of the time anyway, I find his choices in production and his taste for collaborators to be quite the opposite. Read the rest of this entry »