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FOOTAGE: SWIZZ BEATZ AT DD172

Swizz Beatz, in addition to being a prolific producer, is an avid art collector. Not in a trendy way either. I’m talking Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Herring, Andy Warhol, absolute greats. Coodie & Chike catch up with him at the DD172 artist space and chop it up about collecting and how the art world is the hardest platform to gain credibility within. Listen up kids, buy art! It will only appreciate as times passes.

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FOOTAGE: THE COOL KIDS + STALLEY + SKI BEATZ – “DO IT BIG”

And it keeps on coming from DD172. This time The Cool Kids link up with Stalley & Ski Beatz to create “Do It Big“. NYC I’m out there on the 23rd I’m knocking on the door DD172 let me in.

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MOS DEF – 24 HOUR KARATE SCHOOL (PROD. BY SKI BEATZ)

Mos Def & Ski Beatz collaborate to make “24 Hour Karate School“, another gem coming out of the DD172 situation. Props to XXL for the leak. Indulge!

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A GLIMPSE INTO A NEW AMERYKAH PT. 2

We’re all anticipating A New Amerykah Pt. 2 Return of the Ankh.  This Creative Control TV video provides some insight into Ms. Badu’s forthcoming album at her recent listening event in NYC. The clip also takes us inside Damon Dash’s new gallery/studio compound, DD172.

Between Badu and Sade’s releases, February is going to be MAJOR.

Partake.

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VIDEO: COOL KIDS / CURREN$Y / JAY ELECTRONICA LIVE AT UNDER100

I love a good cypher ! I’m really feeling Curren$y right now.. Jet over everything. The slow flow is ill. They caught Jay off guard .. but he’s off the hook.  Definitely Fresh! Peep

DD172 and Under100 put together another crazy night. I ran through with Dan on Tuesday to check out a special performance from the Cool Kids who had friends Stalley, Mikey Factz, Jay Electonica, Amanda Diva, Curren$y and more in the building with many jumping on the mic for an extended cypher. Word was that the Black Keys and Mos Def would be making a late night performance, but around 12:30 the show ended, supposedly due to cops and a noise complaint, and the show turned into a mini party upstairs in the gallery space. – Keap Hope

Check out the rest of the footage at their tilt. (via 2Dopeboyz)

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DD172 FTW (AGAIN) – STALLEY, CURREN$Y & JAVELIN

More DD172 dopeness in the making. This time Stalley, Curren$y, and Javelin go in over some live drums for a small crowd. As a musician in a city where it’s few & far between to see artists working together in a good space, this is refreshing. Shouts to Dame Dash!

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FOOTAGE: SKI – TAXI (FEAT. MOS DEF)

Here’s a sneak peak of some more DD172 magic – this time involving Ski Beats and Mos Def for a dope-sounding track called “Taxi“. Mos is one of the premiere writers of our generation. I admire his ability to say so much with very few words on certain joints.

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CURREN$Y – BREAKFAST (PRODUCED BY MOS DEF)

New shit from the workspace that is DD172. This time Curren$y goes in over some Mos Def production (yes, THAT Mos Def). It seems like more and more rappers are starting to produce! I hope that trend continues, then maybe people will start giving hip-hop more musical credibility outside of the genre. Oh well. Partake!

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BLAKROC & DD172….

As the recent publicity surrounding Mos Def, Jay Electronica and Curren$y’s collaborative-side-group Center Edge Territory reached a feverish pitch in the viral music world, questions arose around the studio where said collaboration and countless other secret musical rendezvous are rumored to have occurred. Alas, Mr. Damon Dash, a very familiar face in the trend-setting music mogul world has been behind it all, providing artists with the DD172 space in Tribeca. DD172 seems to be a new hot-spot for brainstorming sessions, musical vanguard, and almost certainly a long, raucous line of eager artists wanting in to create their own masterpieces. For this is how musicians work. We are historians at heart, purists of our art form, and suckers for atmospheres where our creativity can flow at ease. Dash and DD172 have recently partnered up with rock group The Black Keys and artists like Mos Def, Zoe Kravitz, Raekwon, ODB, RZA, Ludacris, Pharoahe Monch, Billy Danze of M.O.P., Om’Mas Keith of Sa-Ra, Tash and more, to create the BlakRoc project, of which we recently posted a video clip on the site. Chicago-bred video mavens Coodie & Chike have spearheaded the coverage of the project as well as Creative Control. Pretty much a creative mash of great proportions! We’ll see what fruitful creations come from this space in the future, but one thing is presently sure: the future is bright for ideas of this magnitude, and I hope it spurs more individuals to create workspaces and projects similar to this one. Great music!

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