FDL™ Chicago Riders fam, Million $ Mano (producer/M.C.) and Hollywood Holt (M.C.) were in NYC this week for the Hollywood Moon Tour. We caught up with them over at Frank’s Chop Shop and laced them with Frank151 lids to look proper for the remainder of their tour. Mano has been busy this year, remixing club bangers by artists Matt & Kim, Kanye West, Shawty Lo and more. His other project, He Say She Say, an indie/electro duo featuring Mano and DrEa, recently signed to Lupe Fiasco’s label 1st and 15th, and the two will be out in L.A. over the winter putting finishing touches on the album.
Hollywood Holt recently released a video for “Hollywood” and has been non-stop at keeping Chicago’s party scene on the map, along with his Chicago moped crew “Murder Club.” Be on the lookout for these two returning to NYC for CMJ.
The first two people that email us at fdl@frank151.com that can answer the following trivia question will receive a copy of the new Hatebreed DVD. The question is:
Hatebreed singer Jamey Jasta was previously in a band, what was the name of the band?
Email your answer to fdl@frank151.com and if you answer correctly, we will shoot you the DVD.
Frank151 co-founder Stephen Malbon and the notorious CapOne MPC got together a while back and gave us the below piece, done under the sunny skies of California. A flick of this tag-team just surfaced, never before seen by the masses.
We had to put up the long version, cause seeing Dave roast this dude is entertainment for days. Fast forward to 6:55 to see Letterman bust McCain last night by catching him with Katie Couric down the hall after McCain canceled his Letterman appearance because he claimed to have to leave town due to the economic crisis.
Promo spot for the new People Under the Stairs album Fun DMC (in stores 9/30/08). Music and concept by PUTS. Kindergarten cut and pastes by Controller 7. All done in fun. Dedicated to one of the greatest to ever do it.
Our main FDL dude Kid Kaos in Atlanta has a new video that’s getting quite a bit of views on youtube. Check out the video and press release below:
Atlanta Hip Hop mainstay Señor Kaos tells the world why Girls Rock Too!
With rap music being at the center of discussions about misogyny and male attitudes toward women, the song “Girls Rock Too” by Señor Kaos was made to promote the opposite message.
A few years ago Don Imus came out and called the Rutgers female basketball team “Nappy Headed Hoes” and got away with it by blaming it on Hip Hop. It was at this point Señor Kaos became fed up and decided that it was a time for a Hip Hop anthem women everywhere could be proud off.
“I decided to make a song that countered the negative stereotypes and imagery oftentimes perpetuated in the media and in Hip Hop about women. The result is a song you can play in front of anybody. I can play this song in front of my mother, my grandmother, and my younger cousins, it’s something everyone can relate too.”
For every Hip Hop song that degrades women, theres 30 more that don’t, that you never hear on the radio! here’s a perfect example of a positive song made a young African American male. “I made this song with hopes to enlighten people of the female accomplishments that have been forgotten about. You have adults with children who refuse to let their kids listen to the music because of the messages that are associated with it. At the end of the day, I would love to see the media talk about this song the same way they talked about “Tip Drill” by Nelly. People love to focus on the negative side of Hip Hop, but the positives are all around us, therefore Girls Rock Too was created.” - Señor Kaos
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Jim Woodring is a self-taught artist and cartoonist. According to Jim, he “was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paranoia among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm.” As a child and young adult he suffered from hallucinations, including one of a cartoon-like frog that caused him to drop out of college. During a stint as a garbage man, he developed a severe drinking problem. He eventually quit drinking as he felt it was effecting his artwork in a negative way. He then got a job at Ruby Spears, doing animation for (among other cartoons) Mr. T. He developed a relationship with legendary artists Gil Kane and Jack Kirby.
Jim developed an anthology of comics called Jim, which included a cartoon entitled Frank. Frank became so popular, that Jim decided to compile a book , and this was the birth of Jim Woodring’s Frank Book, published as a regular series by Fantagraphics Books starting in 1986. The Frank book saw two printings, and the second features an introduction by none-other than Francis Coppola. Jim has also delved (of late) into the world of Toys as well, designing some of his own. He also has his own blog you can check out here.
Here at Frank, we realize that the Dancehall massive had been using the pitch-corrector as an instrument long before the pop stars in the states got hip. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that T-Pain, Kanye, Wayne and 50 owe something to their Jamaican counterparts. Enter Busy Signal. Signal (along with several other current Jamaican artists) has been using the pitch tool to enhance his vocals for quite a while now, and he does it just right, regardless of it’s overuse in the current pop market.
Busy Signal began his music career as a hardcore Bounty Killer enthusiast (he claims to know all of Bounty’s lyrics by heart). He broke out in 2005 with his single Step Out. His current album (released today on VP Records) Loaded, uses several rhythms and track-beds that share much sonically with southern rap. 808 beats and stuttering drums are aplenty, and they provide a suitable base for Busy’s fierce chatting and sweet singing as well. Busy tears up the current smash riddim Shoot Out on the track Knocking At Your Door, and holds down several other more uptempo tracks as well. This album will most certainly go down as a top dancehall release of 2008. Go get it!
