Dessa and Grieves & Budo head to the East coast. Ceschi plays in Japan and Australia. Fellow Fake Four Inc.-er Bleubird also set to play Japan. Doomtree’s Blowout is looming, half of the Rhymesayer’s roster is heading to Europe and Seattlites Macklemore and Blue Scholars are each going coast-to-coast.
All these tour dates and more on otherhip-hop.com’s (recently updated!) calendar.
The highly anticipated song that everyone’s been asking about is finally here…
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For the record this is my favorite Macklemore & Ryan Lewis song till date
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Minneapolis City Pages interviews Astronautalis. Solely because he is moving to Minneapolis. It starts:
There’s a new love in Astronautalis’s life, and it’s the kind of all-consuming, heart-palpitating summer obsession that is the subject of so many songs. The rapper—known offstage as Andy Bothwell—is in a relationship with the entire city of Minneapolis, and things are starting to get serious.
And it’s awesome.
The Seattle Weekly publishes a story chronicling the pipeline from the Seattle scene to the Rhymesayers roster, in anticipation of Grieves’ upcoming Rhymesayers debut.
Label co-founder Brent “Siddiq” Sayers explains that his interest is rooted in the similarities between the two cities’ hip-hop scenes: “I definitely feel that there’s a connection to us and a scene like Seattle . . . that’s why there continues to be this synergy.”
Meanwhile, here in Boston, the Dig’s only mention of hip hop is a feature about an art gallery’s Wu-Tang exhibition. At least the Phoenix got the Best Local Hip Hop Act right (Moe Pope), but they followed that up by later saying, “[t]he most exciting new local alt-hip-hop act, Time Crisis, have already proven smart enough to separate themselves from the Boston rap community.” Not to mention the fact that the Phoenix named Kanye West Best National Hip Hop Act.
I am feeling jealous.
