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The Outlawz And dead prez Unite for New Album from allhiphop.com

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Soundlessons.com

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DENNIS BROWN, FREDDIE MCGREGOR, JUNIOR REID, AND COCOA TEA LIVE!!

Lighter!!

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Sunz of Man “Savoir’s Day” video

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Audio links::

The Coup - My Favorite Mutiny featuring Black Thought & Talib Kweli (Quicktime Medium)

“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”-Suzanne Neckler

In The News-

Germany to open Holocaust archive from BBC News.com

Make sure you visit MooseShirts for some of the illest hip-hop tee shirts out. Dude has some nice shirts from groups like People Under The Stairs, Common, Danger Mouse, Big L ,Afrika Bambaataa ,Curtis Mayfield, Eazy-E ,J Dilla , Ol’ Dirty Bastard and tons more! Check him out and tell him Q sent you!
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Word On The Street
~Rap Listeners Prone to Alcohol, Drugs, Violence; Study Raises Questions About Alcohol Industry Marketing Through Hip Hop-from HipHop Press.com

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Today’s playlist

Matisyahu: King Without A Crown (Live) from ifilm

“Cut the Damn Check”- Bad Seed mp3 from Draft Records.com

Charm CD by Danny!- from allmusic.com

Check the Rick Ross “Hustlin” video from MTV.com

“NAS, ‘Just a Moment’” video from aol.com

“‘Supa Star’” Floetry feat. Common video from aol.com

Majestics - Funky Chick Real audio link from Funk45.com

“Tight f/ Fat Joe” - Remy Ma mp3 from filelodge.com

“The Diary of Prince Paul - Industry Can Be Crazy” from from ifilm.com

“Restless - Sorry i’m away so much(Prod.DJ Quik)” mp3 - Xzibit Feat.Suga Free,DJ Quik

“‘Shooter’” - video Lil’ Wayne

“Shadows on the Sun - Bitchslap!” - Brother Ali audio link

Beef II intro at ifilms.com

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Shout outs

DJ Daz

Ang 13

quote from the email:

Attention Los Angeles Hip Hop Heads!

People Under the Stairs is having a record release party at The Knitting Factory on Wednesday, April 19th!

Want to get into the show for free? Just make sure to get your copy of “Stepfather” at any local Wherehouse Music store, and you’ll be hooked up with your very own ticket at the register, compliments of People Under the Stairs and KDAY 93.5 FM! Check out all the details on the flyer above.

COME HANG OUT WITH P.U.T.S. and GET YOUR OWN AUTOGRAPHED “STEPFATHER”!

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS IN-STORE APPEARANCES
Date Location Time
4.18.06 Amoeba (L.A.) 7:00 pm
4.21.06 Virgin (Ontario) 7:00 pm
4.22.06 The Basement (Sherman Oaks) 7:00 pm
4.23.06 Stacks (Cerritos) 3:00 pm
4.26.06 Amoeba (San Francisco) 6:00 pm

PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS - NEW STEPFATHER TOUR DATES
Keep it locked on the P.U.T.S. MySpace Profile for all the latest news!

Confirmed Spring 2006 Tour Dates
Date Venue Location
4/25/06 Downtown Brewing Company* San Luis Obispo, CA
4/26/06 Independent San Francisco, CA
4/27/06 WOW Hall* Eugene, OR
4/28/06 Humboldt State University* Arcata, CA
4/29/06 Ash Street Portland, OR
5/1/06 Chop Suey* Seatlle, WA
5/3/06 Neurolux Boise, ID
5/4/06 Urban Lounge* Salt Lake City, UT
5/6/06 Fox Theatre* Boulder, CO
5/7/06 Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom** Denver, CO
5/8/06 Sokol Underground* Omaha, NE
5/9/06 Vaudeville Mews * Des Moines, IA
5/11/06 Subterranean Chicago, IL
5/12/06 Grog Shop* Cleveland Heights, OH
5/13/06 The Reverb Toronto, ON
5/14/06 The Buffalo Icon* Buffalo, NY
5/15/06 Higher Ground* South Burlington, VT
5/16/06 Century Lounge* Providence, RI
5/17/06 Middle East** Cambridge, MA
5/18/06 S.O.B.’s New York, NY
5/19/06 Ottobar* Baltimore, MD
5/22/06 Cat’s Cradle* Carrboro, NC
5/23/06 The Earl Atlanta, GA
5/25/06 The Social* Orlando, FL
5/26/06 Common Grounds* Gainesville, FL
5/27/06 Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, LA
5/28/06 Warehouse Live* Houston, TX
5/29/06 Emo’s* Austin, TX
5/30/06 The Sanctuary* San Antonio, TX
6/02/06 Troubadour* West Hollywood, CA
6/03/06 The Casbah San Diego, CA

*All ages **18+
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shalom

In response to the post…

Bun B Says:

April 4th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Who the fuck are you to sit behind you safe little cubicle and criticize who we are and what we do? For more than 20 years. Southern Artists and fans have faithfully supported any and all hip hop that was offered. We accepetced everyone on their own merits, gave evryone a fair listen, and then spoke. In light of you comments and views, it occured to me that you haven’t given near as much open mindedness to our music as we have to yours. The reasons I say yours is that it doensn’t what type of music came out, we supported it, so we in no doubt supported whatever the fuck you listen to.

To think that all we know is what we do, or that we may know nothing at all is preposterous. If you’re a paying member of Soundscan, you can see that ALL MUSIC SELLS IN THE SOUTH! 5 percenter? Bought it. Backpackers? Bought it. Black power, Wu-Tang, horrorcore, need I say more? Meanwhile, after 25 years of unconditionally holdin down all forms of rap/hiphop music, as soon as we even try to join a club we bought and help build the clubhouse for, they wanna deny us access. Well guess what you Elks lodge habitatin, Masters in Augusta wanna-be, finger-pointin behind the bushes, throwin a rock and runnin ass nigga, I just thought I’d tell you to take whatever preconcieved notions you have built up in your air and watertight cranium AND STICK IT IN YO PUSSY! I guarentee you the TRUE FANS AND MAKERS OF HIP HOP JUST MIGHT DIFFER WITH YOU!

I know this because I am friends with Cool Herc, Grandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap and other extremely well known originators and creators of this artform. The problem now is the act of causing division and dissention amongst the fans by people whom are not in the know. You see, YOU may not like Laffy Taffy or DFB or whoever, and you know what, that’s your GOD-given right. Hate all you want on the South, Southern rappers, or just Pimp C, since you brought him up. IT STILL WONT HELP WHOEVER YOU LIKE SELL SHIT! Talib Kweli: close friend of UGK. De La Soul: close friends of UGK. Kanye West, Common, Dead Prez, close firends of UGK. Jam Master Jay, 2 Pac, Biggie Smalls: ALL FUCKING FANS OF UGK, and I dont say this from second hand conversation. These people told me this from their own mouths, yet you would have people believe otherwise. They could learn to be openminded about the music the listened and the regions the music was popular in, so it should come at no surprise these people went further thatn the average artists. Whatever alterior motive you may have is trying to bring down the Southern rise, it won’t work. God kills hate with love.

Oh yeah, by the way, as far as your comments on my brother and his reason for incarceration, he pulled a gun on a group of people thrreatening him in a mall. Only the girl went back and told the police, that’s why it seems as if it was between only him and the girl. The problem is, misinformed people give misinformation and cause misfortune to the learing. I hate to call this the blind leading the blind, because by the look of your commment posts, they know what’s up. So instead of just going to New York, screaming and ranting in White Nigga’s office, I came to see you on your turf, because I’m no coward. I’m willing to come in your yard: care to come in mine? Right a rhyme, let;s see what you have the hip-hop community musically. Oh and make sure it’s Grammy-nominated when you do it, because mine was.

And while you’re at it ask Nas, Jay-Z, Papoose, Camron,, Russell Simmons, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Chino XL, Self Scientific, Cyrpess ill, Snoop Dogg, Ludacris or anybody else in this industry you like if Pimp C is wack. I bet they bark on you louder than I want to. God forbid you’re in the wrong place and the wrong time like Pimp and have to spend 4 years of your life behind bars. You’re a black man, so fuck how educated and well read you are. You’ll ride just like Pimp, and you’ll be sorry about it, just like Pimp. The only difference: nobody’s gonna wear a fuckin t-shirt with yo face on it. Leave the South alone, becausse we’re just tryin to eat.

Quit bloggin and write a book if you got more goin on besides gossip and shootin slugs. Because after blogging has come and gone, and XXL is no longer on stands or online(which I would hate to see), UGK and our musical legacy will survive. Will your triflin rants sustain?

Fuck what you heard…I’ve been up on “Pocket Full Of Stones”….you see him on the side of my shit here, holding it down!

“T.I. - Front Back” video

“‘I Ain’t Heard of That’” video Bun B

“Front Back feat. Bun B” T.I. audio link

“‘Get Throwed’” video-Bun B

Underground Kingz “Use Me Up” and “It’s Supposed To Bubble” video links!!

What you know about that? Another batch of goodness from your favorite uncle, El Q. The message for today post is trust. You can always trust in you Uncle Q to come through with nothing but the really realness. Got to make sure all my people everywhere are happy, stress free, safe and sound. That’s how I get down, and you already know the scope, don’t lose hope! Its crunch time party people, turn the volume up and let the bass drop!

~Webslingin’
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RIP Proof

“D12 Rapper ‘Proof’ Killed - video” from Roo.com

“Proof - Gurlz Wit Tha Boom” video from blastro.com

Details In Proof Shooting Emerge As Police, Second Victim’s Family Speak Out

Bouncer Questioned in Rapper Proof’s Death

Eminem pays tribute to his slain ‘best friend’ Proof

Eminem’s tribute to dead friend

Op-Ed piece–In Proof’s death, the medium was the sad message-

Proof joins a lengthening list of murdered rappers
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Cooley High!
~Plotting His Next Big Break-Eric Monte was a successful Hollywood writer before losing it all. Now, on a laptop in a shelter, he’s got projects waiting to be pitched.
By John L. Mitchell, LA Times Staff Writer

taken from the story::
But almost from the start, Monte says, the “Good Times” plots were laced with stereotypical images and dialogue written by white writers who didn’t understand black life.The show’s stars, John Amos and the late Ester Rolle, fought with producers over the show’s emphasis on their TV son, Jimmie Walker’s character J.J., with his toothy grin, bug-eyed antics and trademark catchphrase: “DY-NO-MITE.”

“The writers would prefer to put a chicken hat on J.J. and have him prance around saying ‘DY-NO-MITE,’ and that way they could waste a few minutes and not have to write meaningful dialogue,” said Amos, who added that he was ultimately fired from the show for being too outspoken.Monte says he left the show when production began on 1975’s “Cooley High,” an autobiographical film he wrote in an attempt to dispel myths about growing up in the projects.

“I grew up in the Cabrini-Green housing project and I had one of the best times of my life, the most fun you can have while inhaling and exhaling,” he says. In the final scene of his bittersweet tale about a group of high school friends coming of age, the lead character, Preach, stands at the edge of his best friend’s open grave, twists the cap off a cheap bottle of wine and pours a few drops on the ground “for the dudes who ain’t here.” He takes a swig, bids farewell and heads to Hollywood to become a successful screenwriter.Todd Boyd, professor of critical studies at USC’s School of Cinema and Television, calls “Cooley High” a “great movie.”

“No one had seen anything like this imagination of black characters,” he said. “It captured the black experience from a particular time in a way that very few other black films have done.”A year later, “What’s Happening!!,” a sitcom loosely based on “Cooley High,” aired on ABC. Monte was given credit as creator but says he received no money. He filed a lawsuit seeking $400 million from ABC, CBS and the producers of “Good Times,” “The Jeffersons” and “What’s Happening!!”

Eric Monte Uncut interview at jimi izreal.com

Great interview by Mark Skillz with Eric Monte (Good Times, Cooley High, The Cosby Show, etc)

“It’s funny, fresh, and funky!!”- Whats Happening commercial-Real file
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-Killah on the Road-Ghostface returns to the streets — and his own inner weirdo — on Fish Scale By HADLEY TOMICKI-LA Weekly.com

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“The frenzied discipline of his staccato cadence and plaintive pleas held the raised-fist crowd at the House of Blues teetering on ecstatic explosion. A lover as much as a killah, Ghost packed the stage with girls from the audience but strangely all but ignored material from his new album. Admittedly, his live energy held us rapt in a way the new CD attempts but falls ever so slightly short of matching. ………..

Pressing play on Fish Scale launches a breakneck journey across the Verrazano Bridge, over the Hudson, Ghostface driving with a lead foot. Killah hits the streets hard, churning up cocaine blues and gunblast-echoing cityscapes with furious lyrical style. The album’s first half bum-rushes the heavy expectations placed on Ghostface’s sophomore output for Def Jam, under the new Jay-Z presidency. Die-hard fans buy almost anything sporting a yellow W, but the family-affair dirty funk of “Dogs of War” and the flute-laced “Underwater” should be astonishing enough to woo young ears from the unimaginative flows of the latest Young Jeezy. (In “Underwater,” for example, Ghost finds spiritual communion with scriptural scholars, as well as “some mermaids with Halle Berry haircuts” and “Spongebob in the Bentley coup, bangin’ the Isleys . . .”) “
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Full time jack moves-(Gimme that beat fool!)
-Art of Rhyme.com has “F— Touch It”, the Dinco track dissing Busta Rhymes. The former Leaders of the New School spazzes out on Bus on this cut. Peep “F— Touch It” it at the site! along with new cuts from MF Grimm, El Da Sensai, Ghostface and more!

-Check out “Ne-Yo - When You’re Mad” Real Media Win Media over at Hip Hop Magazine.com! Not for nuthin’, the mad face is sexy…sometimes….

-NEW LL COOL J “Control Myself” (featuring Jennifer Lopez) AUDIO::: Real file ///Windows

-Lupe-”Kick Push”

note to self: Gotta cop the longboard next time in Venice…..

This was originally a comment that I posted on Katharine Donelson’s post at BC

“Whatcha looking at, nah shawty, u don’t know me…”
That damn T.I. goes hard..gotta remember to
thank Noelle for the download!”

Song suggestions for The President’s IPod

1. Bubba Sparxxx “Ms. New Booty” video view here
2. Three 6 Mafia & Bun B - Sippin on Sizzurp vs Grace Jones - Private Life (A-Trak remix) From The Rub - It’s The Motherfucking Remix 2 CD-from The Rub.com
3. Legalize It- Peter Tosh –(I heard about that weed comment…don’t be a hypocrite, do like Peter says!) -Real audio
4. “The One” Shabazz the Disciple - from Art Of Rhyme.com
5. Styles P ft. Jadakiss”Shots Fired (50 Cent Diss)” Windows Media Real Player from Ballerstatus.com
6. Karma-Alicia Keys
7. U Don’t Know Me,-T.I. (dedication from the American working class and SS Reformers)
8. Ordinary People-John Legend(dedication from the Iraqi people to Mr. Bush) WMP video
9. Drop It Like It’s Hot,-Snoop Dogg Featuring Pharrell–(Iraq war suggestion)WMP video
10. Soldier-Destiny’s Child Featuring T.I. & Lil Wayne –(technically he is/was one)QT video
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MySpace Makes Room For The Office Staff from Blogcritics.org

more soon…..

Happy belated Passover and Memorial ya’ll….

What’s up!

Here are a few mp3s for you from the crew! Check out the new tracks from singer/songwriter Jha Voice, sure to be a international star! With recent radio spins on KPFK and recent performances in Los Angeles venues, she is sure to be one of your favorite new artist this year!

I have also posted a few lo-fi underground hip-hop songs that I am working on! DJs, make sure you give a few of the mp3s a spin and holla back at me with comments and feedback! With styles from hip-hop, r&b/new soul and dance, you shouldn’t have a hard time finding a set to add them too!

Groups, producers and artists, let’s work! Promoters and venues, send me an email about your company! Holla back at your boy Q, pass the letter along, add the artist to your MySpace accounts, and enjoy!

Peace!

MP3S– are stored on You File and Rapid Share!! If you have
any problems with the downloads, email me for an alternate link.

“Why Do We Kill” - Jha Voice produced by Kaiu

“Forever“- Jha Voice produced by Kaiu

“The Day“- Jha Voice produced by Kaiu

“Same Ole Song”

- Jha Voice feat. Q.Rock639 - produced by K-Beats

“Embryonic Beginnings“-Jha Voice produced by Kaiu

“Voice To Sing” - Jha Voice produced by K-Beats

“MySpace Freestyle Promo”-Jha Voice, K-Beats and Q.Rock639

“Nocturnal Rhyme Emmissions“- Q.Rock639

All U Can Do Is Stare -Q.Rock639

“My Stereo” -Q.Rock639

“The Basics” -Q.Rock639

“Dreamz” - D.M.R.S. -dance track

Whats the word? You know I stay working over here, grinding in multiple games so hard, sometimes I forget to brag. So in the spirit of getting my swagger on, check the style as I break it down for youz all!!

Make sure you check out Jha Voice’s page for some next level R&B/Hip-Hop vibes! Peace to Kaiu, Malak and K-Beats for the work they put in! Be on the lookout for the new CD soon! “Got Your Back” is the jump-off!
http://www.myspace.com/jhavoice

Chi King is preparing his new mixtape and it’s FIRE!! I got a few beats on there that you’ll hear soon, but until then go listen to “New Ish” for that Havana Joe flow.
www.myspace.com/chiking

For some real reggae vibes, make sure you check out La Dee Dred’s page! The LA reggae legend has a new MySpace page that is being re-tooled as we speak! Add her, show her some love and find a new favorite reggae joint from La Dee Dred!
http://www.myspace.com/ladeedred

I see right now you don’t know what’s happenin……
P Sunnzinni’s page has my favorite joint off the “Return OF The Prodigal Sunn” CD, “Godz People”. That’s what’s up for real. Pass through Prodigal’s page and show some love!
http://www.myspace.com/prodigalsunn

Go to the EBay page to get a signed CD from P Sunn! Be on the lookout for that new mixtape for that fire!!

ohh snap..The Goddess Makeba’s got a page too!! Do the knowledge, add her!
http://www.myspace.com/mooncyclecom

And finally, it’s my stereo and it’s my beat! I got a few more cuts nailed down over here, and you can check the new dusty stylee of “My Stereo” at my other page! And “The MySpace Freestyle” give s you a little glimps into a night in the life of the crew here in the downtown compound. The real vocals by Jha Voice are on the way!
www.myspace.com/qrock639

alright…you get the idea…more music soon!! peace