New interview over at www.wevegotthejazz.com. MC/Producer of Tanya Morgan drops info on his latest release, the creation of Tany Morgan, what’s next for Tanya Morgan and even lets us know his Top 5 MCs.
Name: Von Pea
Affiliations: Tanya Morgan (is a rap group), The Lessondary
Age: 27
Hood/Hometown: Brooklyn, Ny
Most Recent Release: Tanya Morgan “The Bridge EP” and “The Further Adventures of Von Pea” Mixtape
Record Label: Interdependent Media
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WGTJ: To begin with, for readers who aren’t familiar with your previous solo efforts or your work as a member of Tanya Morgan,can you tell readers who you are? What role do you play as a member of Tanya Morgan as well as in hip-hop in general?:
Von Pea: Well im Von Pea of the rap group Tanya Morgan, im the mc/producer of the group, if we were the original slum village, for example, I guess I’m Jay Dee. I do some rapping and I push the buttons, Donwill is the lead role like T3 and Ilyas is the crazy one that’s secretly a genius like Baatin (haha) actually he’s Elzhi too. He stays in the cut and he’s dope as a motherfucker. our role in hip hop is just to play our part. hip hop is a team and we’re gonna be the small forward playing his role, but were gonna have more rings than anyone else in the end.
WGTJ: As a somewhat avid listener of Tanya Morgan records, I would personally group you with acts such as Danny!, Kenn Star, Median, Kidz in the Hall and of course Little Brother on a basis of lyrical content, production and overall vibe. With that stated, the majority of the aforementioned groups are from the South (Kidz in the Hall is a Midwestern act). Assuming the connection is there, what acts helped to mold the overall sound of Von Pea and Tanya Morgan?:
VP: That’s funny you name those people because I’m either friends or genuinely cool with everyone you just named. That’s a great list to be apart of for me. Actually i think Double-O is from New Jersey or something. Ilyas and Don are Midwest too, and I think that all lends to people having an East Coast/90s influence but from the outside so they all appreciated it in a different way. For me I was the baby in the family for years so I thought I was older and I had all the late 80’s hip hop at the time yet I was born in 81. When I poke fun at myself that’s the Fresh Prince, when I’m boasting that’s Phife Dawg and Big Daddy Kane. When I’m introspective its Posdnuos, my desire to stand out is De La Soul, my wordplay is Common, my album orchestration/sequencing is Prince Paul and ?uestlove, and my production started by listening to the Ummah, so that’s how I ended up being Von Pea. Take all of that and add in the Geto Boys threat,Ice Cube etc. and you get the influence of Donwill and Ilyas. Me being the guy from New York when i was coming up, I only knew New York stuff and Death Row/Hieroglyphics/Outkast. I missed a lot of classic albums because NY was known for not showing outside love back then, unfortunately. I just checked for the radio stuff back then, luckily back then it was classic shit. I’m talking about early 90s.
WGTJ: One of my most thoroughly bumped track off of The Bridge EP (Interdependent Media) has to be Hip Hop Is Dead II. Towards the end of the track you state “They keep sayin’ hip-hop is dead, but I can’t believe it/ I just can’t see it”. It seems throughout the past 3 years or so a lot of cats have also been questioning the livelihood/current state of hip-hop. Although this sentiment is steadily turning around with the growing popularity of so-called “hipster” acts such as Wale, The Cool Kids, Kid CuDi, Jay Electronica etc., I’ve gotten the idea that a lot of East Coast cats are still not feeling like hip-hop is really back to where it should be. A Brooklynite yourself, why do you still have faith in the art? :
VP: I think hip-hop is fine personally. I could rant about this question for like 4 paragraphs but, I’ll keep it short. There’s so much good hip hop out there that’s current. The problem is everything else. Like I said I could be on this answer all day so I’ll just attack my latest beef (ha ha): The whole “hipster rap” label. Was “my Adidas” hipster rap? when Nas said “…and im a Nike head” or “suede Timbs on my feet make my cypher complete” was he on some hipster shit? Rappers have rapped about their clothes forever. Everybody had beef with Biggie for talking about his Coogis etc., but when he died everybody was in love with him. Have you stopped to look at what Black Thought wears? Or what De La soul Wears? These cats have better chains than mainstream rappers. If you stop to listen to some of the so called “hipster” rappers they’re nice as hell. Better yet, some even have more content than so called “conscious” rappers. We don’t really get that label, but I’m just standing up for those colleagues that unfairly do like Kidz in the Hall and Pacific Division.
Read the entire interview here.
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Dope album by Double A.B. Here’s a review from okayplayer.com:
After grinding as a battle rapper for years, New York emcee Double A.B. is putting less emphasis on scathing punchlines and drawing more from personal material. Diesel is a cohesive and vivid Gotham City auditory memoir where just the appearance of certain guest rappers—Cormega, Nature, Vast Aire, among others—invoke grit and restlessness.After grinding as a battle rapper for years, New York emcee Double A.B. is putting less emphasis on scathing punchlines and drawing more from personal material. Diesel is a cohesive and vivid Gotham City auditory memoir where just the appearance of certain guest rappers—Cormega, Nature, Vast Aire, among others—invoke grit and restlessness.
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Here you go, stop bitching already (you know who you are). Shouts to Sunz at MS.
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With everyone making big noise about Tip’s latest release I thought we introduce you all to Tip’s unreleased album that was slated to come out between The Renaissance and Amplified, but never did due to his record labels disdain for the new direction he was taking his music in (some people compare it to Common’s Electric Circus). To basically say “fuck you” to the labels Tip leaked the album on the internet himself and here is the end result. A must have for an universal quester.
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Luda’s highly anticipated new album. From the looks of it it should be dope.
░ ARTiST…….: ludacris ▀▀▀▓▓████
░ ALBUM……..: theater of the mind ▀ ▄ ▀▓▓█
░ GENRE……..: rap TRACKS…: 14 ▐▓▄ ▐▓▓
░▄▀ RELEASE DATE.: 11/19/2008 SiZE…..: 81,7 MB ▓▓▓▌ █▓
▒▌▄▄ YEAR………: 2008 SOURCE…: cdda ▄▓▓▓▀ ▓█
▓▓▀ LABEL……..: Def Jam QUALiTY..: lame3.97 V2 ▄▄▄▓▓▀▀ ▒▓
▓▌ PLAYTIME…..: 60:20 min ▄▓▓▓▀▀▄▄ ▀ ▒█
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Posted by: TheDude in 2000-2007 Releases, tags: 2007, 9th Wonder, B.I., C.L. Smooth, Chris Craft, Divine Mind, EA Floe, Emanon, Felix The Black Cat, J Dilla, John Robinson, MF Doom, Mixtape, Scienz Of Life, Shaman Work Retrospective Looking Back To Move Forward, Sol Uprising, Supremacy, Wale Oyejide
Real nice mixtape I recently came across from 2007. Make sure to cop this goodness here.
Indy powerhouse Shaman Works has compressed some notable hits into one convenient release. Rare tracks from MF Doom, Wale Oyejide, J Dilla, 9th Wonder, Sol Uprising, and CL Smooth are available on this dual-disc set.
Tracklist (dope!) after the jump.
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I am a big fan of Blu Rum 13, this is his first solo effort from 2002. For those of you that are not familiar (or only Vaguely Familiar), he was the MC for Kid Koala’s funk group Bullfrog under the moniker Killer Platypus, and also a third of the supergroup One Self with DJ Vadim and Yarah Bravo. This record has a really abstract jazzy vibe. I highly recommend it.
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Posted by: Breezilla in 2008 Releases, tags: Blu, Capone-N-Noreaga, Evidence, Jadakiss, Keak Da Sneak, Kid Cudi, Nina Sky, Prodigy, Pusha T, Snoop Dogg, Styles P, The Alchemist
New EP from The Alchemist, the DJ Revolution prodigy and man behind the boards for artists including (but not limited to) Nas, Evidence, Dilated Peoples, Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga, The LOX, Everlast and Eminem. I hear he’s planning on putting out 6 new joints along with Evidence in the upcoming year so expect more hot ish. 1st Infantry was a classic, so I know this is probably worth the peep. At least check the tracklist.
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Posted by: TheDude in 2008 Releases, tags: 2008, Anthology B - Sides And Unreleased, AZ, Cassidy, Consequence, Dave HollisterMonifa, Grouprip, Heavy D, Hip-Hop, M.O.P., Mac 10, Music, Nas, New York, NY, Queensbridge, Rap, Rell, Trav, Twista
I’ve been expecting this to drop ever since I saw The Lost Tapes floating around last week. Lots of rare and previously unreleased material are included. AZ’s been on his grind for like 15 years, pay the man his dues and cop this here.
AZ is a career rapper. That doesn’t seem like much of a compliment; however, when you think back to his historic, career-making, big-break verse alongside his Queens compatriot, Nas, on “Life’s a Bitch” from the latter’s 1994’s groundbreaking Illmatic, then you can put into perspective a longstanding career that continues to enjoy success some decade and a half later. So much has changed since that watermark release and in that time, other verbalists have come and gone yet AZ remains and has carved out a body of work worthy of deeper examination. Anthology: B-Sides & Unreleased is that deeper examination. In addition to collecting B-sides from AZ’s prodigious output of unreleased material such as “Knowledge Is Freedom,” Anthology: B-Sides & Unreleased features an impressive round-up of guest appearances from Hip Hop’s finest including Nas, Cassidy, M.O.P., Twista, and Consequence. But don’t get it twisted, this is all about AZ and his collective body of work and Anthology: B Sides & Unreleased runs the gamut from “Sit ‘Em Back Slow,” a single from The Format that features M.O.P., to the remix of “Problems” and includes unreleased songs like “Baby Come Home” and “No Strings attached.” Anthology: B-Sides & Unreleased - It’s AZ from A to Z.
Tracklist after the jump.
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Posted by: TheDude in 2000-2007 Releases, tags: 2003, 8 Million Stories, Blueprint, Greenhouse Effect, Grouprip, Hip-Hop, Music, Rap, RJD2, Soul Position
Our readers definitely know what’s up when it comes to listening to good music. Here’s Soul Positions first album that was requested by gary. Tracklist after the jump. You can cop this release here.
If you peeped the “Unlimited EP” by Soul Position, then there’s little doubt you were highly anticipating the release of “8 Million Stories.” Few things in life are worthy of a perfect 10 (except perhaps J-Lo’s booty) but Soul Position’s last release achieved that rare mark on the strength of Blueprint’s stellar rhymes and RJD2’s fabulous beats. Both have and are perfectly capable of making a mark in hip-hop on their own, but their union formed a hip-hop superduo of stellar abilities whose sole goal was to achieve even greater musical heights together. While underground rap fans fiended for the follow-up like a junkie does smack, Blueprint and RJD2 labored in the studio like chemists until at last they came up with the perfect hit. Without a doubt, unlike Bill Clinton, Soul Position both wants and ENCOURAGES you to “Inhale”:
“I’m willin to take trips into the dark and unknown
corners of your subconcious where the climate’s cold
Use me, to the foolish it’ll never get old
Forget about her thingies and the things you’ve been told
Some people use me as a courtesy for things bought and sold
Let me be an example of how to break the mold
Use me as an innocent, you need to break the hold
Use me ’til I’m gone, use me ’til I’m gone”
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