DJ Stylus on the DC Hip-Hop History Project
Documentation is critical. Glad to tell our stories with my peers.
Category: Science
Thoughts behind the music
Tweets from the booth, episode 2
Featuring King Most, Applejac, DJ Ayres and Yeezus.
Tweets from the booth, episode 1
Featuring King Most, DJ Dredd, J Boogie, Stereofaith, Stuff DJs Hate and The Magnificent Jazzy Jeff.
SXSW 2011
I went. I saw. I overindulged on food trucks. I also survived several nights of this: It was my first time, and with all things late pass related, the prevailing wisdom is that the best…
Went to the Black Milk show
Enjoyed it. Wrote about it. In concert: Black Milk at U Street Music Hall – Washington Post Click Track blog
Free Man in Paris
Shoutout to the homie Kokayi who just got back from rocking Paris with Pharoahe Monch and Jean Grae, ably assisted by DC fam Zo!, Jon Laine, Ezra, naturalaw-dp, and Quartermaine. Seems like a fitting time to…
About that Tribe movie…
Re: Phife’s breakdown, it made me emotional to think about some dudes not even out of their teens going on to have such a huge impact on music and on so many lives, like mine.…
B.M.F, Rozay, and much ado about nothing
A bourgie around-the-way girl intellectual friend who retains a taste for the ‘hood and overthinks music as much as I do passed on an essay deconstructing the popularity of Rick Ross’ “B.M.F. (Blowing Money Fast)”…
Notes To The DJ: Help us to help you
Read this before you write notes to the DJ.
Douchebags and the economy of leisure
Somebody’s gotta buy out the bar.
Digital DJs, do you have a game plan for catastrophe?
Are you prepared for when disaster strikes? Not if, but when.
Taking this rap shit too seriously
I played back-to-back classic hip-hop parties this past weekend. I teamed up with two of my favorite DJ colleagues in DC, we had a blast and smashed on both nights but the crowds couldn’t have…