Music Red Bull Emsee Seattle Tonight

July 28, 2011 - 5:42 pm

Hosted by rapper Bun B with special performances by judges Too $hort, Casual and Crooked I, Red Bull EmSee is an invitation-only battle series designed to find the best freestyle rappers in the country and give them a national platform to show their skills and earn acclaim. This year’s nine-city tour continues on to its second stop in Seattle on July 28 at The Crocodile with The Trill OG: Bun B playing master of ceremonies. West Coast rap legends Too $hort, Casual (Hieroglyphics) and Crooked I (Slaughterhouse) will be doing double duty as judges and performers while DJ B-Mello of KUBE spins labels on the turntables throughout the night. The winner of the Seattle qualifier will advance to the finals in Atlanta this fall where he’ll vie for the national championship and an opportunity to record with a headlining producer of his choice.

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Gallery Music Dirtbag Dan Dominates Red Bull EmSee L.A.

June 14, 2011 - 12:07 pm

“My name is Dirtbag Dan, I’m from San Jose, CA and I am the best rapper in this bitch.” Normally, I would talk some smack about such a gloat when spoke by a hirsute man bathed in that ruby glow which emanates from the roof of the Echoplex in Echo Park. But we’re cool, considering that only a break beat later this particular clairvoyant MC smoked 7 other regional competitors in front of distinguished judges Kurupt, Chali 2na and MC Supernatural to earn his ticket to the Red Bull EmSee finals in Hot-lanta to battle in front of B-rabbit himself, Eminem.

Red Bull EmSee, a less street chump invitation-only affair, builds upon the traditional head-to-head battle by flashing random images and key words on the plasmas above. Each MC has to then spit that lick somewhere in their flow for it to count in that round of 3. “In these freestyle competitions, it is much more like an out of body performance than me in control of the performance,” So says Dirtbag Dan.

In the end, 8 men enter, one MC leaves.

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Art Livin’ LRG

May 23, 2011 - 11:00 am

LRG

Anyone can sell cloths… Well maybe not anyone, it actually seems like a fairly impacted market to me, I digress, but my point being is this, there are a lot of companies out there to sell threads, and then there is LRG.

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Featured Music Road to 8 Mile: Eminem Judges The Red Bull EmSee National Freestyle Battle

August 30, 2010 - 12:44 pm

It seemed as though every hip hop fan in Detroit made his or her way down to St. Andrews Hall last night to witness the National Championship of the most talked about emcee battle of the summer —Red Bull EmSee: The  Road to 8 Mile.  When judges Eminem, Mr. Porter and The Alchemist named 18-year old hometown favorite FowL as the national winner,  the crowd of over 1,000 fans went bananas.  Hip hop legends Bun B, DJ Jazzy Jeff, and Xhibit were among the VIPs that came out to support.

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Gallery Music A WALE of a Good Time

May 12, 2010 - 11:00 am

Hip-hop was center stage at East Rutherford, New Jersey’s  Bamboozle festival this year.  So much so, that the Genre had it’s own dedicated ‘B-Boy’ tent featuring artists like Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Mike Posner & More.  Included in the group was D.C born rapper Wale, or Olubowale Victor Akintimehin as his mother would call him.

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