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Black Rocs

The Blackroc project's what you get when some of Hip-Hops finest meet with O-Dots Blues-rock band The Black Keys. This slick trailer just amps me up.

Blakroc Project from Myrhax on Vimeo.

Can you ever have too much larry?

Back for its 7th season is Curb you enthusiasm. Larry and his adventures of misfortunes and cock ups are airing in the states every Sunday at 9pm.
I aint gots to give you tips on where to go.

Break Of The Week

Scribe - The Crusader



Beached Bro...

Now Hold Up. Lets make this OFFICAL

To our 9 subscribers, 4 public followers and anyone else in the the abyss of interweb who pops in. Next Tuesday the 24th of September the Run Royal store will be open for business. I've made a link in the side panel alternatively bookmark http://www.runroyal.com/

The winner of of the prize pack will be notified on Tuesday also.

Have a gork, buy some gear, shoot us some feedback(hatemail) once were live to info@runroyal.com

Show your support. And keep reading The Royal Rundown you fuckers!

Monthly Mixtape - Tragedy Khadafi

I thought once a month Id do up a brief mixtape of joints, some old, some new and sticking to a particular artist, theme or era. I'll Possibly throw in some b-sides depending on how motivated I am as far as recording some wax goes.
This month your lucky. Thought Id make an effort for the fist.
QB vet Khadafi's the flavor in the ear this month. Two Five to the death!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Enjoy

Break Of The Week

Nas - Lifes A Bitch



Ether.

Monch!! Gettin the fuck up!! Get them hands up

W.A.R(We Are Renegades)the new LP from Pharoahe is in the pipes but in the mean time, in between times the Queens native will be blessing our shores for an early xmas present. December 5th he'll be performing at the valleys old hip-hop stompin ground The Zoo.
If management staff were hesitant about holding this event I'm sure they'll draw to a conclusion when they have to turn away 100 pissed punters wanting to "get the fuck up" along another 400 crazed goons inside doing the same. The Good Vibrations performance 2 years ago was one of the best live performances I've witnessed.

Hopefully this LP which he mentions in the interview drops prior to the show.

Rub on them titties. Yeah I said it!

Break Of The Week

Brand Nubian - Word Is Bond



Slow Down.

Words of Wisdom from Ghostdini

While I was searching for the vid from my last post I inter webbed upon a charismatic clip of Mr GFK aka Ghostdini promoting his upcoming LP which I hear is laced with abit more of a "mature" R&B feel. Hope to shite he ain't using any more auto-tuned doochbags whining and spoiling the hooks. I'm refering to that 1st single, baby something?? Ain't heard Stop Playin featuring John Legend as yet but he's pulled this kinda shit off before and he's done it in style.

Anyways here he is breaking it down on the smooved out "massage the bitch, do some fucking volley balls with your woman" tip.

And remember kids. "Don't suck on that pussy too hard" ahaha.

Ghostdini : Wizard of Poetry Drops September 29th on Def Jam
Cant seem to find the official track list.

Big Pun - The Legacy

To coincide the realese of Big Pun - The Legacy documentary Super Lyrical is being re-released as a single to the film soundtrack. A personal faviourite of mine of Capital Punishment.

Could be worth a look.

More info HERE

Jazzy Jeff the Magnificent!

You can't front on talent and this guy has it in abundance. Before he was hittin' on Hilliary and gettin' thrown out the house by Uncle Phil (The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air anyone?) Jazzy Jeff was winning grammy's (the first ever rap grammy for that matter, awarded in 1989 for "Parents just don't Understand") and carving records alongside his then partner The Fresh Prince. A Phillidelphia pioneer who is also credited with perfecting and popularising the "transformer" scratch, he won the New Music Seminar DJ competition waaaaaaay back in 1986.
Ranked alongside DJ Cash Money as an inspiration to almost all modern DJ's, he also rates as one of the greatest technical turntablists of any era.
He's also put out a couple of noteworthy production/compilation albums and can be found at the helm of Nu-Soul and R&B label A Touch of Jazz.

Apocalypse 999

The Ultimate revelation will arrive tomorrow you kooks! A fuck off festering black holes going to eat the earths arsehole out.
Maybe a Mac virus to wipe out you "Id buy that for a dollar" ituners. Probably not.
I do know... Thanks to the internets, that the new movie 9 produced by Tim Burton will be released tomorrow(US) and it looks butter on all accounts.
The rundown :
Based on Shane Acker's short film, 9 takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened. A community of fully mobile rag dolls living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9 (Wood), displaying leadership qualities that may help them to survive.



More Info HERE

Your going to die!

Ultramagnetic MC's: Raise It Up.

I'd never known there was a video for this song until 15 minutes ago. Taken from the classic The Four Horsemen LP which was just re-issued again recently, "Raise It Up" is a slice of that early 90's hip hop most of us are endeared with.
What makes this particularly great for me is the Godfather Don verse and his appearance in the video. For those that don't know, Don is a notorious recluse rarely giving an interview let alone appearing in front of a camera for his or anyone else's video. As you can imagine i got a little excited when i saw this and figured i'd be doing a disservice if i didn't share it.
On a side note, rumour has it that Godfather Don isn't even involved in hip hop these days, instead focusing on live instrumentation and work with a rock band of some description.... May it also be noted that Ultramagnetic MC's dropped the most groundbreaking yet under-appreciated album of 1988, Critical Beatdown.
Do the knowledge.

3 The Art Way & The Bamboo Rollercoaster Exhibitions

Two Exhibitions coming up at The Fort in the next few weeks featuring some very talented mar fuckers.
I'll do my damnedest to go down and take some flicks of at least one of em.
1st being 3 the art way kicking off tonight and The Bamboo Rollercoasters opening night Friday week.

3 the Art way

Fortwenty Gallery proudly presents “3 the Art way”, an impressive collection of artworks by three very talented artists with complementary, yet distinctly different backgrounds and styles from 3 – 10 September 2009.

Featuring one-off, pick-of-the-litter works from a vast collection of exceptional paintings by Polish born, Queensland resident Cezary Stulgis, who’s highly sought after paintings and sculptures can be found in busy public spaces from Queensland’s coastal towns to Brisbane’s CBD.

EVENT DETAILS:
WHAT: 3 the Art way Exhibition
WHEN: Opening Night Launch Thursday 3rd September 2009 from 7pm
RSVP: 0410 787 110 or 420gallery@gmail.com
EXHIBITION: 3rd September – 10th September 2009
WHERE: Fortwenty Gallery, The Fort Arts Hub, 57 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley

More info about this show HERE


The Bamboo Rollercoaster

The inspired works of young freelance designer and international muralist Fintan Magee will premier to the public at the newly established Fortwenty Gallery in Fortitude Valley from 11 September – 24 September 2009.

The Bamboo Rollercoaster is a tribute to Fintan’s extensive train adventure across twenty countries and countless cities. Capturing the urban environment he discovered while painting and photographing his way across Europe, The USA, North Africa and Asia, Fintan’s new work comments on the relationship between nature and our ever expanding cities.

EVENT DETAILS:
WHAT: The Bamboo Rollercoaster Exhibition
WHEN: Opening Night Launch Friday 11th September 2009 from 7pm
RSVP: 0410 787 110 or 420gallery@gmail.com (For Catering Purposes)
EXHIBITION: 11 September – 24 September 2009
WHERE: Fortwenty Gallery, The Fort, 57 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley

More on this one HERE

Brisbane Record Fair

The record nerds are back once again pushing all their dusty treats to the public.

Date : Sat 19 September 2009
Time : Early Bird admission 8.30am - 9.30am; Open 9.30am - 4pm
Where : West End Club, 2 Vulture St, West End
How Much : Early Bird $5; general $3

Contact HERE

Jane. A Hip-Hop Saga Concluded.

We pick up the Jane saga sometime in 1992, Business Never Personal has dropped to rave reviews and we're posed with the question "who killed Jane?". Could Jane be dead? Well according to the police in P's crib there's been a homicide and he's the number one suspect. P's mind boggles, "couldn't be the squad kid i think we've been framed". P's cuffed and taken down town, to make matters worse he hasn't been allowed a lawyer. Insults are flying thick and fast between the arresting officer and P, including some rather nasty racial slurs. P decides to ignore the insults but he needs to use facilities to urinate. He's escorted down stairs by an officer and decides there's no time like the present to go for the cops "black 9mm" and let off a few shots to let them know he's innocent. Make sense? Maybe not, but the cop goes down and we're left wondering what happens for a few years while EPMD split up to focus on solo projects....
1997 rolls around and EPMD haved reformed to release Back In Business and as luck would have it 1992's trumped up charges were a mere technicality. P's let go as the dead girl wasn't Jane but Valerie, "the prostitute from downtown". Its two hours later and P is on his way home by bus when its hyjacked by a mysterious women in a robbery. Things escalate quickly, a white chick goes down, an off duty P.O. gets hit along with the driver of the bus, the bus tips and P's taken hostage.
Of course Parrish isn't one to lose his composure as he follows the mysterious female to a range rover. The female starts to roll a a spliff as P begins to wonder "could this be Jane as my co-pilot?" Sure enough, "Jane on the licence plate pushin 95 with no headlights down the interstate".
The final part in the Jane saga is a little convoluted. It plays out on EPMD's 1999 finale, Out Of Business. It would seem that after all the events of the prior albums P is back nailin broads with E, a half Phillipino half black cutie in the back of a Benz to be precise. Like they've learnt nothing at all, the cuties in the benz prove to be a tad scandolous when 5-0 stop the Benz in front of the store the girls have gone into to cop a dutch. The obligatory gun-play ensues and EPMD and the bitches are on the run again. It would seem that a fellow by the name of "Tommy Twotime" who used to "move moonshine" has started "droppin dimes" on the crew and he can be found "down on 48th and Lex near the black museum". Here's where it starts to get a little convoluted. A character by the name of Jay enters the story along with a "chick who talks like a dude" and they begin to reminise on Jay from the schoolyard before the girl lifts her skirt and pulls out a dick and tells jay to bend over. "The chick who talks like dude" proceeds to analy rape jay while P thinks he hears the dude say "yo, don't do it Jane".
What happend to the cuties in E's Benz? What happend to the cops? And most importantly, was Jane a tranny (it was hinted at in Jane3 on Business As Usual), and if he/she was a tranny is P a closet fag? He did after all fuck this creature named Jane on more than one occasion.

In summarising the Jane saga i listend and re-listend to all six EPMD albums trying to make sense of the whole narrative Jane played through out the catalogue. In short it made little to know sense at all, they should've killed the fuckin man/women off on Business As Usual when they found out it was trying to get down with the crew. Are Eric and Parrish fags? (if memory serves Eric Sermon did try to commit suicide over some "unresolved personal issues" a few years ago) Is Jane some bizarre chracter conjured as a vent for thier closet fantasies to be realised?
Mmmmmmmm, probably not. Its just a bunch of rap songs after all.......

Jane. A Hip-Hop Saga. Part 1.

According to EPMD's seminal 1988 debut Strictly Business, the saga of "the fly girl with a haircut like Anita Baker" began sometime in 1986 when PMD turned up at E's house. E was trying to nail her friend and needed P to run some interferance. Now, the details from here on become a little murky, did both E and P go the menage-a-trois or did P roll dolo on that pussy. What i have gatherd is that jane wasn't satisfied, and by the time 1989 and EPMD's second album Unfinished Business rolled around she'd had a change of image.
P was coolin at the crib and thought he might hit a local club for a bit of dancing (it was spanish night after all) when he spotted a fly honey "lookin more like Whitney Houston" named Chris, who seemed rather impressed with P's Cadillac parked outside. Long story short, P and this broad named Chris slide back to the the crib and start gettin freaky when Chris remarks to P, "your the master, you've gottin bigger, better, stronger and much faster". All of which are issues Jane had had with P on Unfinished Business. Chris was "the J to the A to the N to the E". And as we leave P and E reeling from the realisation, we're told the story is to be continued.
In 1990 EPMD dropped thier third opus Business as Usual, and this is where things start to get a little wierd. A bloke by the name of Jay has moved into the neighbourhood (Brentwood Long Island i'm presuming), and seems cool enough to be put down with EPMD's crew The Hit Squad. He packs a 9milli a pet pitbull and has a nice crib although the hot pink decore leaves Eric and Parrish a little suspect. Any way P has to take a piss and finds a douche bag, leotards and numerous feminine products in Jay's bathroom. Of course P confronts Jay and an altercation and tussle ensues involving knifes, guns and karate upon which which Jay's true identity is revealed; Jane. Hearing the news E remarks, "did you go out like a sucker" to which P remarks, "nah, i took the moustache off grabbed that ass and i fucked her".
Wierd huh? After fucking this broad on a couple of occasions in the years prior neither Eric or Parish could work out that they'd just put a stalking transvestite in the crew... Maybe they're just not that observant.

What happens next between our hapless heroes Eric and Parrish and they're nemesis, on-again off-again root Jane... Tune in tomorrow for the climatic ending. Either that, or just listen to the next three albums ya bad delf.

Break Of The Week

Trez - Fahrenheit



Lethal Weapon!

'Trails To The Underlair: The Prequel'

The Long Awaited Mixtape From Kings Konekted Hits Stores Today!

Dontez - MC/Producer
Culprit - MC
Stricknine - DJ/Producer

01. Underlair Intro (Interlude)(Produced By Dontez)
02. Poisonous (Produced By Trem)
03. Stricknine Interview (Interlude)
04. The Delegates (Produced By Dontez)
05. Three Choices
06. Trails (Interlude) (Produced By Stricknine)
07. From The Ground Up (Produced By Stricknine)
08. One Aim
09. On The Eve Of Deceit (Produced By Dontez)
10. Tribute To The 80's (Class Of 87/88/89)
11. Necro Interlude
12. West Line Story Pt. 2
13. Lifes Lessons (Produced By Dontez)
14. Maintain (Produced By Trem)
15. Two Steps Ahead
16. Co-Ordinates (Produced By Metabolites)
17. Tour Of Duty
18. Trails To The Underlair (Produced By Stricknine)

Kings Konekted
Class A Records

Watch Your Step Sucker!!

Check it out after the all ages tale of two cities launch.

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