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FOOTAGE/INTERVIEW: DIAMOND DISTRICT, TREK LIFE & QUARTERMAINE W/ STOLEN MOMENTS

The homies over at SpineTV sent us over some cool footage of the DMV’s own Diamond District while they were over in Berlin ripping shit up. It always amazes me how a group like DD can have a stupid big sellout crowd overseas but find it much more difficult to draw the same amount of [...]

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT | KEYS N KRATES

The notoriety of Canada’s Keys n Krates is something real. In the last fews years they have been able to shake up the music scene and return us to the core of what makes a live performance enjoyable. Organic, raw, are just some of the words to describe their experience, but simply saying it’s a fun, [...]

FOOTAGE: MF DEF | ACCORDIAN (CHITOWN)

$ said he heard it was a sham, but this right here is lookin like the jam!

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SNOOP | VADER | ADIDAS

My favorite gangstas finally collabo! HAHAHAHA… All Day I Dream About StarWars! Shout out to Hypebeast for the fresh!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES DEWITT “MC SILK | JAY DEE | J DILLA | DILLA DOGG | DIL WITHERS” YANCEY!!!

Today we celebrate the birth and amazing career of the G.O.A.T. Jay Dee (J Dilla) born James Dewitt Yancey. Every year I have been making these posts & it still is crazy to me, but let’s not even go there… instead let’s all celebrate the life & musical career of a musical legend that many [...]

F.A.M.E. | EXILE | JIMIJAMES | HAZ SOLO

I’ve been going pretty religiously lately to The 4OneFunk’s The Funktion up in The City, but due to throwing my own shindig with my boy Suge White on the same night (not intentional) I was unable to. Lucky for me & all of us the homie Sef Diggy was able to get some footage and [...]

FOOTAGE: THE ROOTS & MOS DEF PERFORM “DOUBLE TROUBLE”

Mos & Thought spit their verses from the classic Double Trouble joint from Things Fall Apart over a live flip of Ghost’s Indy 500 beat while at the Roots Jam, crazy!

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FOOTAGE: FOREIGN EXCHANGE PERFORM DAYKEEPER AT THE ROOTS JAM

The now-Grammy-nominated Foreign Exchange family performed Daykeeper at the Roots Jam over the weekend in L.A….it sucks that they didn’t win the Grammy but at least they swept every category they were nominated in here at Blind I! We salute you!

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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 [...]

INTERVIEW: DAM-FUNK WITH STOLEN MOMENTS

Very cool footage from filmmaker Dan Canyon’s new series Stolen Moments over at SpineTV. This go round he catches up with Dam-Funk as he wraps about what made him the virtuoso he is today.

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