Our good homie Waajeed recently relaunched his Bling47.com site & it’s better, faster, stronger, fresher! We encourage all of you to add it to your bookmarks or homepage it if you havn’t already!

Bling47 Breaks takes you on a journey into samples used by J Dilla.  This original series is directed, filmed and edited by Waajeed himself. The 3^rd episode features him speaking about samples used in, “Featuring Phat Kat” from the BBE release, “Welcome To Detroit”. “This time marks an important phase in the relationship of our crew.  When the opportunity for a solo project came from Peter of BBE – it was another crack in the widening gap between Dilla and Slum Village.  J took the leap and made one of his most comprehensive projects to date.  “Featuring Phat Kat” is just one of the many hidden jewels on the album that would become, “Welcome 2 Detroit.”

An hour-and-a-half of Daniel Dumile.

The homie Trackademicks gives us the back story behind the stellar “More Than Two Ways”, off his “State Of The Arts” album. This is the digital version of having a jacket in your hands reading the liner notes seeing who did what & who thanked who & so on… y’all remember those daze? More than two ways. da da tsssh… anyways… Shout out to our brotha Teeko… that lil impromptu set in your crib y’all were doing was fresher than fresh!! Lemme get a dubb! hahaha

While our SF constituents get hyped to see Ali Shaheed w/ Sa-Ra next Friday, our good homies from GowhereHip-Hop had the opportunity to catch up with Ali Shaheed while him and Phife were in Chicago for a performance. My homie @GY312 lays out a very smooth interview as Ali Shaheed drops gems on em. Partake!

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The Goodie Bag caught up with the producer-extraordinaire Flying Lotus to chop it up about his North Coast Music Festival experience this past weekend and grab a little information about his Pattern + Grid World project coming up. I was on the stage for this performance and I’ll admit I didn’t know what to expect from his set but I was thoroughly entertained. So were the thousands of people who waited over 4 hours JUST to see him rock. Crazy!

Y’all by now should be up on game re: my homie Nemo. If not… ketchup.

My BFF stays grindin’. She’s up in Japan as we speak with her beau Haz right now killin it on a lil lowkey shows & shindigs extravaganza. If you missed our killer instinct “ultimate mega supreme combo” of a post we did on her, then this video alone gives you a perfect sneak peak into the world of JimiJames. Peep the in the lab turned live version of the song she made exclusively for us MayTricks (BlindI) up in the vid too! & stay tuned for more great things from Ms.JimiJames.

Gilles Peterson is a 43 year old UK version of me when it comes to purveying  the truest essence of our musical culture. I have been a fan of Gilles & admirer of his works from jump. Oh how I would love to trade music with him & tap his musical brain one day. Peep this interview he did with Friends We LOVE