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THE INSIDE SCOOP >> It is always a good idea to plan your weekend activities - map it out in your mind. If so, you can do as much as possible with the little free time we get. For example, before you get too crazy with your Friday night it in
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KEEP THE DRIVE ALIVE >>> Starting the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, it is basically one big awesome weekend. Wednesday night is big party-time because no one works on Thursday, No Thankstaking Day, then it is the weekend. So what to do? Here ya'll go: One of the more popular new acts of this
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HIT THE ROAD >>> Tonight, ya might want to take a little road trip down to Centralia where a good chunk of Tacoma hip-hop talent will be descending upon the Junction Sports Bar and Grill for a huge cancer benefit show. This is one of the most stacked line-ups I have
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LOCAL HIP-HOP SCENE WITH JOSH RIZEBERG >>> Know this. You should be launching your post-Halloween festivities tonight at Jazzbones. I must give it up to that establishment. They have been steadily - probably once a month - been bringing in national hip-hop artists with opening local artists. It is nice to see
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OMINPRESENT RAPPER >>> Jon Salt is a rapper that you can't nail down. You can't quite put your thumb on it. He does not sound like anything you are used to. He does not sound like he came from a specific locale or that he is even repping a certain style.
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Friday ya'll can just chill and recoup from the hell that is working a 9-5 - Cause Saturday there is plenty of good events to choose from. I will run them down for ya. Probably the biggest event this weekend is the Alliance Battle League's "Flying Guillotine" Battle. This is
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It's a busy weekend, lots to do. Here's some of the stuff to see that's 253 Hip-Hop related: Many of the shows this weekend exist around Luni Coleone, one of the biggest Hip-Hop artists to ever emerge from Sacramento, California. He's a West coast underground legend, and he actually comes
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What else is there to do besides going to shows, downloading albums, and watching videos that one can do to support their local Hip-Hop music-scene? It takes a lot to get-out of yo comfy, cozy house at night and venture off into a club to see a show. Is there
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This weekend, the Hip-Hop highlight brings us back to ground-zero for 253 Hip-Hop, The California Night Club located on 56th and E. Portland Ave. Now, I will tell ya this much, if you've never been to The California Night Club, then you only know about a small minority of Tacoma
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Friday at Jazz Bones, Tone Loc is coming back to Tacoma. This is at least the 2nd time in two years the M.C. responsible for "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" has come to our city. The show starts at 9pm and it looks like it will be a full
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Blak Mic, a highly slept on, talented producer in Tacoma, has quietly released incredibly solid work every month since May. Go to blakmic.bandcamp.com to get your free listen on. Starting in May, Blak released a full beat album titled "H.E.R. (His Evil Reality)." The beat tape is part spacey, part
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There is a lot to do this weekend. So I'll just list it out for ya'll. Friday there's a bunch of stuff to choose from. Sweatbox Entertainment, which is the production side of Mr. Von's crew, brings "Slice of Hip-Hop 2", which is a show he plans at Louie G's
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There's a lot of cool-shit going-on this weekend. With all that in mind, tonight at California Club will definitely be the place to be. If "Town Binnis" is what you're into - then don't miss Lebowski's return home show. It's been two years since Lebowski had a show in his
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Saturday take the day off. Stop neglecting yo chores and yo kids. Hold yo Love's hand. Go for a walk. Cook a meal. Do something righteous; because Sunday you'll be wearing yourself out in the heat outside at Hemp Fest in Seattle. Make sure you're there at 5:30 - So
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There's a lot to do this weekend. It's August so that means this month is yo last chance for some summer-fun. Here's what to do. Friday at Charley's in Fircrest, yeah I said Fircrest, go see Fame Rilla, Q-Dot, Darius, and C.H. of Clear Mind. It's a good bill and
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This Saturday get down to Le Voyeur in Olympia where ya can catch Tacoma's Crazy Monk performing a set - along with 2 Hip-Hop instrumental acts, and 2 other M.C.'s; one of them being Xero Ours from Olympia who I also recommend. Crazy Monk is a one-of-a-kind underground, slightly nerdcorish,
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Hell's Kitchen is closed - but the music-scene just keeps pushing-on. I've seen it happen so many times. To list all the cool music-venues that have been closed due to slow-business or forced to shut-down by the holice would fill-up all my word-space. Our local artists are super-resilient - the
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Every week I search for the best show involving Tacoma or Tacoma artists, tell ya'll about it, & encourage ya'll to go. There's always a multitude of things to do every weekend. So, I still urge all Hip-Hop Heads to check-out and research the other local events that I don't
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A large-national underground artist, by way of Strong Arm Steady, is coming to our town, Saturday, June 16. I'm speaking of none other than Mitchy Slick, the slick-talking street-spitter from California. Slick already had a stellar underground Hip-Hop career, and then a few years ago he hooked-up with Talib Kweli,
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If you ask a minor walking around the city of Tacoma who their favorite local M.C. is - more than likely they'll tell ya Lil Ripp. He's the young Hilltopper who caught our attention when he ingeniously turned "Rack City" into "Tac City" and lit a match under the local