Gang Starr opened for these guys on a UK tour back in the day. History.

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Directed by Dz1ne & KonflictedOne.

Keelo GramZ spits something over the LL classic.

Off his “Back From The Mothership” mixtape.

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MTL’s general, Magnum 357, comes extra greezy on his new joint/video “Spazz”.

Swaggy. Before kids used the word swaggy.

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Church Chizzle defends his spot against newcomer Jewels.

Previously: VIDEO: Rapcity’s “Hashtag Freestyle” (Church Chizzle vs QShinobi)

Some of the city’s finest come-up kids gather at I&I tonight to celebrate Gospel music. I’ll let my celebrity crush tell it:

Tika Simone Presents:

THE CELEBRATION OF GOSPEL 2.0

FEATURING HEADLINER: NEVON LYRIQ
…
W/ LIVE BAND NEW ERA

THURSDAY, APRIL 21ST

Doors Open @ 7pm

$20 AT THE DOOR

Alongside Opening Acts:

• Revived
• O’Sound
• Tanisha
• Grace Henry
• Peculiar Simone
• Ryan Hamilton & Lyle Bailey
• Krystal Chance
• Regular Robb
• May Marquardt
• Tonya Domize
• Aquila

+ MANY MORE

Hosted by: Tika Simone

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Directed by Lenz Crew Productions.

Come-up grimy emcee Justin Barz goes in over Cory Gunz’s “Night Riders”.

“Before The Fame And The Starz” EP out in a bit.

Previously: VIDEO: Justin Barz – Cold Steel Verse (In Studio Performance)

Nice footage of Tanika doing her thing at CMW this year! I’ll let Mark Valino tell it:

I captured this little gem on March 11 2011 at a CMW show. This was shot with my new AG100. The song is very significant to me and I’ll tell you why. About 4 years ago around this time I was on a shoot (It was a Zaki Ibrahim Show) and I heard this song for the first time. Although at the time it was performed over an instrumental of an MF DOOM song. It immediately caught my attention because I am a pretty big MF DOOM fan. Anyway to hear Tanika on the track breathed new life to that song. To hear such a soulful take of the song with such beautiful bittersweet lyrics melted my heart and I’ve been a fan of Tanika Charles ever since. This eventually led to me seeking her out to work with her on various projects including the “Silly Happy Wild Sessions” that lead to her EP release May of 2010.

additional footage:
Char Loro for LoveHard

download the music @
tanikacharles.bandcamp.com

For all artist info please visit:
myspace.com/​tanikacharles

Original performance from Manifesto 08:
vimeo.com/ ​5328494

Silly Happy Wild Sessions:
vimeo.com/ ​album/​213048

Shing Shing Regime drop visuals for “Shing Till Infinity” off their debut mixtape entitled “I Am Shing”.

Previously: NEW MIXTAPE: Shing Shing Regime “I Am Shing”

Directed by Sixteen Pads Films.

Music and visuals for MTL artist Mugz’ single “Lonely Girl” which debuted last week on Rapcity.