City of Dope

Bitches on my mind
I can’t hold back, now’s the time
All you loud-mouth bitches talk too much
And you dick teasin’ bitches never fuck…

Too Short - Dope Fiend Beat

Psychokinetics
‘The Vault’

DNAE Beats feat. Z-Man - Hampsters

I’ve yet to meet anybody who enjoys commercial radio yet I’ve also met very few people who do anything about it. Davey D dropped this article on his site a few days ago and its an important and good read.

By Davey D

Over the past few years there have been a number of campaigns designed to make radio stations more responsive to their communities – battles fought in San Francisco, Detroit, Chicago and New York and other cities. Some have failed and others have succeeded.

If we are to make radio accountable to community, we must identify viable strategies. To understand which strategies work, we need to understand the recent history of reform efforts and the current context.

Faced with government plans to allow additional consolidation in radio ownership, tens of thousands of people successfully mobilized in 2003 through 2005 against such ownership rule changes. Meanwhile, over the same period, activists began to create more alternatives to corporate media – launching their own news-oriented Internet websites, creating blogs and making documentaries. As for radio, activists began to launch pirate operations and pushed the Federal Communications Commission to license low-power radio stations.

This independent media movement, which continues to grow, is a proactive way to give communities options to mainstream radio and other commercial media. Unlike the media reformers who waged a campaign in the early-to-mid 1980s to get the recording industry to put labels on music with “explicit” lyrics and – unlike the movement 10 to 15 years ago spearheaded by seasoned civil rights activists such as the late C. Delores Tucker and Reverend Calvin Butts – the leading media reform advocates today are the 20-to-30-something-year-olds who identify themselves as members of the Hip Hop generation.

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Dont forget to check out the Youth Media Council.

Rapitalism Records is issuing an advisory alert. Discretion is a thing of the past. With the release of the uncompromising “Niggaz and White Girlz,” labelmates Kirby Dominant and Chris Sinister render their thugged-out interpretation of ’80s and new wave music featuring DJ Icewater. Kirb and Chris turn tracks from groups like The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, B-52s, U2, and Gary Numan into a non-stop soundtrack for New Wave Thuggin’.

Kirb and Chris
‘Closer’

Rapitalism.com

Wow. This is so bad thats its great. Please click on this link, you will not be disappointed, I promise you.

“I keep my feet in different gumbo pots ’cause I’m an entrepreneur, not just a rapper,” said D-Shot of the latest venture.

-Rap News Network

E-40 debuts at the top of the Billboard charts and this is what his brother is doing. D-Shot is the ultimate hustler.

Andre Nickatina and Equipto
‘Heelz’

XXL dropped a little piece on the whos who of the ‘hyphy movement’. Check it out, its like baseball cards for rap nerds.

via XXL

Too Short has a new CD/DVD combo dropping titled ‘Gangsters and Strippers.

E-40s new one debuts at #3 on Billboard.

‘Young and Restless’ from the self proclaimed ‘Bay Area Mixtape King’, Balance, hit the streets on Tuesday.

The Venetian Hotel in Vegas is soon to unveil the wax sculpture of tupac.

“We love you Bucc Rogerz”
-Girls from track 13

In stores today so buy it!!!

1. Rock the Planet
2. Declaration
3. Soundport
4. Transmitting Live feat. Kool Keith
5. Materialistic
6. Rezurwreck feat. Spexxx
7. Infinity feat. Dubl A
8. Radio Rap
9. High Powered
10. Watch Your Step
11. On the Street
12. What I See
13. All Love
14. Dedication feat.King Eljen & Nate Mezmer
15. No Turns

Entered the Bay Area scene in the late 90’s as one of the featured emcee’s of the crew, Universal Figures, and has been rockin-it up and down the bay ever since. Although, there are a lot of dope cats out there, few can match the enthusiasm that Bucc Rogerz brings to the booth or the stage.

Bucc Rogerz Myspace
Mad Seven Records