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FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP LIVE!!! [SF]

The legendary Freestyle Fellowship will once again be in beautiful San Francisco Thursday August 18th 2011 @ 330 Ritch. If you were there in January to catch them you know it was off the damn hinges! This one will be even more so! Isolated Wax recording artists Opski Chan & Sub Ren also on the bill. Tickets are only $10 & available now! Peep the FB page for more info & hit the jump for some footage! › Continue reading

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FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP – WHY?

Freestyle Fellowship lets their minds float with “Why?”, a breezy conversation piece from their upcoming LP The Promise, which is due to drop this spring. Also look for a new mixtape to be available soon.

Tags: ACEYALONE, DJ KIILU GRAND, FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP, MYKA 9, P.E.A.C.E., SELF JUPITER

FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP PERFORMING “INNERCITY GRIOTS” TONIGHT [SF]

I’ve told you all countless times how important Freestyle Fellowship is to the development of our hip hop culture & tonight you have a chance to see why. Innercity Griots was the groups 2nd album released on 4th & B’way back in 1993. Their catalog as a whole & individuals runs deeper than Atlantis, but it was THIS album that changed it all & they will be performing this album in it’s entirety followed by their other classic material. I grew up on this album & it changed my life as a aficionado, student & aspiring rapper. I think I turned out okay . It all goes down tonight @ the historic 330 Ritch in beautiful San Francisco! For more details peep the Facebook invite. See you there!

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DAVE DUB & THE SUTTER CAIN GANG

From the earliest Stones Throw releases Peanut Butter Wolf was putting out, to Subcontents, to the F*cking Mutants & so on, Dave “The Baron” Dub has made more than a name for himself. He has built a legacy. Super triple O.G.’s in the game know what’s up & so should you if you do not. He recently recorded a track with Geoff Barrow (yes… the man behind Portishead) & as of yesterday, just dropped an album on M9 Entertainment, which is Myka 9‘s label. The Baron has always been known as the San Jose veteran MC with the ill rhymes & overall takeover presence but what most don’t know is his love for punk. Yes. Punk. The album is entitled Mind Police & is an homage to classic punk such as Bad Brains, Black Flag & Fugazi. Peep the single “Love Lost“…

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EXCLUSIVE: FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP – ON THIS EARTH

The long awaited, finally inaugurated, highly anticipated… other level…

That’s right y’all! The wait is finally over! The West Coast/Los Dangerous underground Gawdz Aceyalone, Myka9, P.E.A.C.E., Self Jupiter & DJ Kiilu Grand better known as Freestyle hello mellow Fellowship, have returned like Jedi’s striking back @ this empire called Hip Hop! Blind I has been blessed (before anyone else) with the title track off their brand new album On This Earth & I personally couldn’t be any more happier! N.W.A. & RUN DMC made me want to rap. Freestyle Fellowship made me want to be the best @ it. I’m just super geeked right now to not only hear new FF material but to also be in a place where I can use my platform to be the first to show the world the new new!! Peep…

Freestyle Fellowship – On This Earth

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Stay tuned in!

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VIDEO: FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP – PURE THOUGHT

FREESTYLE MOTHER FUCKING FELLOWSHIP!!!

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FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP | PROJECT BLOWED 15 YR ANNY

I grew up on RUN DMC & N.W.A. in L.A. & when I was rolling with The Tunnelrats, my man Dax put me onto Freestyle Fellowship. To Whom It May Concern & Intercity Griots would become the only things I would play & study. These 4 men gave birth to a whole new sound & style that to this day many try to imitate but none can compare. It’s crazy to me that Project Blowed just celebrated 15 years of existence as a separate entity from The Good Life, which was home to Freestyle Fellowship as well as a hip hop Apollo if you will. I swear… I can sit here & continue writing a novel about this whole movement. Anyways, much respecognition to my fam Shames Worthy & Dert for the link.

“WE WILL NEVER FALL THE FUCK OFF WE PROMISE!”

Tags: ACEYALONE, FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP, LOS ANGELES HIP HOP, MYKA 9, P.E.A.C.E., PROJECT BLOWED, SELF JUPITER, the good life

BLINDIFORTHEKIDS | WERDUPSUN | ELDOTAYEDOT 2

So nice we had to hit em twice! Watts up, Watts up faithfuls! Trusting you all had a great New Year & a day after to not do anything but recoup back to G status! I felt it necessary to come with the sequel to the compilation my cuzzo Killa Cam & I dropped back in July of last year, where we highlight the artists & music coming out of our lovely city. We went further in on this one & you can judge for yourself on the Track list & DL which is after the jump…

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