The 6th Annual J. Dilla Tribute & Fundraiser, Featuring Pharcyde! [Concert]

Dilla fans, rejoice!

DC to BC is a proud media sponsor for the 6th Annual J. Dilla Tribute and Fundraiser, featuring some of DC’s most prominent hip-hop acts and headlined this year by Pharcyde. I honestly thought I’d never get to see these left coast legends rock a show, but this was a pleasant surprise. At the 9:30 Club, too. Talk about trill.

I can’t believe it’s been 6 years since the incredibly influential producer’s passing. I wasn’t even hip to how influential Dilla was until after he departed; I found out he produced so many jams that I never knew he had any part of crafting. It should be cool seeing all these local acts, as well as one of Cali’s most legendary and iconic hip-hop groups, pay their respects through their music!

Grab those tickets, cuz they’re moving quickly. Hit @heartdilla or the official site for any more info.

I’ll see you guys in there. I’ll be the dude posted up on the wall in the back, doing a super smooth head bop and blending in with my people and my surroundings.

ASAP Rocky – Purple Swag [Video].

I hit NY every once in a while to check in with my folks out there. Since graduation, probably 75% of my really good childhood friends have relocated there. I also gotta dap up those who held me down when I was a newbie to NY, living in Aris’ cozy apartment in the back room and taking the J train to Complex every day, almost always late. I miss NY just typing about it.

One of the guys who looks out the most for me in NY do or die is my bruv Callender (pictured above). I swear to Allah, this man walked about 75 feet, from one spot to another in the Lower East Side, and dapped up 7 people. THAT RATE IS ASTONISHING! I’m talking everybody from the local panhandler to that chick of Caucasian persuasion who looks fly and you don’t know what she does until you find out she designed the entire Fall season of some designer that you’ve heard of but can never afford. “We do laundry at the same place,” Callender explained.

Bare with me. I’m just tryna get my mojo back out here.

Callender took me out to lunch and I brought up this dude Rocky who  he works with and had put me onto back before there was a “ASAP” in front of his  name. Honestly, I wasn’t a huge fan of everything that I heard from him, but I did recognize his charisma and was waiting to hear something that I couldn’t stop listening to. He told me some new jams would be dropping extremely soon. But everybody says that.

Then I was on Twitter a couple days and I saw that my man Noz of Cocaine Blunts fame (as well as every epic hip-hop article, internet or print, of recent) had posted this video that I’m about to make you watch on The Fader.  It’s now 2 AM on a work night. If this whole song and video wasn’t that tight, I woulda been sleep 15 minutes ago. Right? Right.

I rock with Rocky cuz he has a lot of swag. I don’t really care if people think that word is overused, because it’s so appropriate. A Harlem kid with golds in his mouth, permed hair braided up like a left coast legend? That’s crazy.  He pays homage to that Houston movement with a chopped up, not slopped up jammy jam that’ll make you think you just sipped some purple drink once you press play. Lemme know what you think. Just swag rap, don’t expect to learn anything except how he has the boppas goin’ crazy. Just remember, this is a New York rapper. Keep that in mind. New York rarely gives the South respect. There’s something pretty major here.

Video is crispy. Directed by Jason Ano. That white girl in the beginning makes me a little uncomfortable, in a good way. I don’t even know what that means. At 0:50 until 0:54, Rocky’s flexin’ on people.

If the tape is vicious, I’ll throw it up here. Drops end of this month, I believe! Download the MP3 too. You know you want this in your iTunes.

DOWNLOAD: ASAP Rocky – Purple Swag

Is This Thing On?

I hope so.

I’ve kept the DC to BC name alive through my prolific tweeting, but now that we’ve started throwing legitimate events that people really appreciate, I think it’s time to get back to the blog world. I know what you’re thinking. I say that like every four or five months. But this time I have to do it, because once you work in corporate America, you gotta make an extremely conscious effort to ensure that your 9-to-5 doesn’t swallow your brand (all hetero). If my job is Moby Dick (another all hetero can go here if you deem it appropriate, although in my opinion it’s far from needed; I’m referencing a classic which I didn’t read in 11th grade although it was clearly assigned reading and I wrote anywhere from 3-5 papers about it. C’mon, dude.), I’m captain Ahab. I’m not going down without a fight, baby.

So let’s go. I’m posting stuff when I feel like it. My taste is still the same – trill. I got new followers who have no idea why I have all these damn followers and weren’t there for the first wave, so I guess I gotta make sure everything I drop from here on out is as vicious.

Speaking of vicious, did anybody buy the new Kendrick Lamar project, Section 80? I told you a while back he was the future. Just want to make sure people didn’t miss that (but if you did, you can always read that here), cuz I called it.

I’m just gonna act like like it hasn’t been two years since a legit post has gone up and start wherever I left off.