Chicago’s DMN Ology has been spelling his name about six different ways since he came up in the Chicago hip-hop scene in the ’90s. It’s not so much that he’s into Satan—although devils and demons do pop up in the imagery of his songs—it’s that “Demon” was his nickname growing up, a…
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Aaron Carnes on February 8, 2012
Doing the unexpected is nothing new for Talib Kweli and Res, the duo behind alternative R&B/hip hop group Idle Warship, which comes to Pagoda Lounge in San Jose on Saturday. Kweli has made a name for himself as a conscious-underground rapper with a sound all of his own. Back in the mid-90s…
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The night before Wallpaper played the Blank Club on Saturday, they were in L.A. With Wallpaper signing with Epic and on MTV, industry types are all over Ricky Reed right now. But halfway through the Blank show, he took stock of the situation and declared that “just like I knew it would,…
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The two MCs behind Calicove are talking about the aftermath of their last party. It was just last week, in fact, after they played a show. “We took the party back to our studio in Santa Clara, and we continued to party through the night,” says Douglas “DJ” Williams Jr., who goes…
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So it turned out that crazy rumor about Kanye West is true. No, not the one about Kim Kardashian, but the even more unbelievable one that the guy has actually been having fun on this tour with Jay-Z. In fact, he was full-on clowning at their HP Pavilion show last night
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