what an impressive mix right here. DC-based producer (and all around DMV representer) judah decides to set the record straight. this could be one of the big reasons DC has been overlooked for all these years…the industry has been stealing the city’s sound and throwing it to the mainstream!

that’s judah’s claim, and he proves his point. assisted by one of DC’s finest, DJ M.A.F., judah uses an eclectic assortment of jams that we all know laced with short but potent interludes to narrate the story of the “pimping of go-go” as he described it to me. from the evolution of chuck brown’s “extended groove” to the creation of the genre, to the industry’s swindling of DC’s characteristic sound, it’s all in this 16 track mixtape.

this is for anybody who appreciates go-go music and mainstream jams alike. somebody could write a legitimate research paper using this mixtape as a primary source! shout out to judah for bringing this argument to the forefront, and for calling out a bunch of people. chuuuuch. click the artwork above

DOWNLOAD: Judah Presents…The DMV Makes It, The Industry Takes It [Mixtape / History Lesson] [Mixed by DJ M.A.F.]

]]> http://DCtoBC.com/2009/06/the-dmv-makes-it-the-industry-takes-it/feed/ 8 http://DCtoBC.com/2009/03/who-said-white-people-dont-like-go-go/ http://DCtoBC.com/2009/03/who-said-white-people-dont-like-go-go/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:15:26 +0000 modi http://www.DCtoBC.com/?p=2125

if anything, they enjoy it better than anybody other people. junkyard band shows up in maine, and puts on an incredible show for a snow white crowd! no black people in sight. i’ve been to maine, too. there really are no black people in sight. see if you can catch ol’ granny GETTIN’ it @ around :50 deep.

OH BOY! i’ve never seen a crowd so appreciative of the music. incredible. read the story about why a go-go band decided to go to maine here.

the last go-go i went to was at my school, and i saw a girl getting her ass rocked by her then-boyfriend. i’m talking about open-palmed smacks to the face, rick james style. i helped break up the fight, but the guy got a few swings in at everybody before he was escorted out by security and such. i KNOW there are people who were either there, or heard about this. the girl was really sexy, too! unfortunate. tell her i’ll treat her right if she needs me in her life. ha. all jokes aside though, it was reckless on homeboy’s part!

it was probably the craziest thing i’ve witnessed in my high school years. goodness. just an anecdote i wanted to share. thank my homie dani aka “sexy obama” for the video.

admit you got reeeeeled in by that reckless headline. truthfully, i don’t care what color his skin is. but i gotta make you guys watch my videos somehow. got’em.

my roomie ricky, aka the GOON, put me on this guy wax sometime last year, and i’ve always respected him, but never jammed him fully. well, ricky just put up a new wax video, and this time he rocks on a go-go beat (i feel like this wax guy used to live in DC at some point in his life. or still does. i need my research team to confirm this soon, so i can take this out of parentheses. thanks.). anyway, here he goes.

thoughts!? did he kill it? did he botch it!? can he flow? give me the breakdown, guys. in the meanwhile, i’ll throw you the go-go track he rhymed over. the track? "the bud" by the huck-a-bucks. oh boy, it’s a classic. it’s the joint that sampled those budweiser frogs. yeaaaah, you remember this classic, don’t you! and p.s.: i feel like go-go just gets people hype, regardless of whatever they were doing or going through before the track is put on. you hear it, and you just get happy and bop, as wax does so elegantly.

DL: the huck-a-bucks – the bud

i’m putting this up again because it was overlooked, and because the dc music scene is insane right about now. bubbling in a pot, brewing and stuff, young. trust me.

shout out to young nando mcflyy who made it on the myspace monday segment of 95.5 last night. even bigger shout out to quinn, who hooked it all up. more on this later.

my homies over @ DC fab told me that DC’s premier go-go band, mambo sauce, celebrated their video’s acceptance into the VH1 soul rotation. i’m pretty sure it’s on MTV2 and probably MTV jams. only a matter of time til it hits TRL. oh boy.

pretty huge move for DC, honestly. almost as big as when ludacris performed pimpin’ all over the world with a go-go band on one of those award shows, or as when lil jon came out with that go-go record with funk flexx on that crunk juice album. it adds that visual to the entire scene.

we through the remix up (featuring tabi, wale, and more) lightyears ago on the old blog, so if you want it, hit me. too lazy to throw it up right now. i did get that video though. low budget, but incredible. don’t just watch, though. listen to what they’re saying in the verses. one of the rare go-go songs with some potent, original lyrics.

bladaow.

finally. the wait is over. eat this joint up, and pass it to everybody you know. my man x.o. blessed me with the joint extra early so i could debut it on the blog. pass this to everybody you know. album art is extravagant, and it’s 20 songs of fire. production by local cats, too, and honestly, i love pretty much every song. i enjoy seeing progress and improvement, but x.o. has surpassed that. the man is spitting fire that has major label execs on his tail. you heard it here first, so just know that. hit the album art to get the takeover pt. 2. bump d’wayne and his slum carter 3. it’s about jamal aka x.o. and the takeover. it begins now.

like i said, click that album art to get it. and for anybody scared to take the chance on adding like 100 mb to their itunes library, i’ll give you a test drive, courtesy of us and nahright. yea, he made hip hop’s biggest blog already.

check the last x.o. post to scoop his single, “rid’n,” featuring wale. and other blogs, feel free to snatch this joint and put it up.

exclusive. off of the takeover: pt. 2 mixtape, dropping 6.1.08. i’m excited after this, and you all should be too. i’m pretty sure we’re the only dudes who have this joint. thank us later. get more x.o. here, and shout out to everybody in the dmv who has been supporting his hustle since day one.

download: x.o. – rid’n (remix) (feat. wale)

that guy with the cool hair is DC’s own tabi bonney holding a shirt that my homies over at clockwise clothing created for the DMV area. that’s dc, maryland, and virginia for those who may not know. and it made me think. who runs the DMV? diddy runs the city, but nobody runs the DMV. not that we’ve had enough commotion in the area to have one person that can hold the entire area down, but i was just thinking. we aren’t atlanta or the new age cali or detroit, and that’s why we get cised off just a lll’ fame, like my man in the picture said. we ain’t had much yet.

i feel like the music scene is about to blow, a little bit. kinda like houston did a couple years ago. everybody realizes it, too. sickamore, the former A&R of atlantic records, is scouting DMV talent like r. kelly does girl scouts. and he’s doing great work. the roots just made a go-go influenced track (“rising up” feat. wale, in the previous post), and it’s vicious.

they know the deal. only thing missing is people in the area knowing about the music. the only household names in the area are the man above, and wale. nobody in the DMV can agree on who else that can perform from the DMV. and some people, like j. holiday, don’t rep the area enough for us to embrace them (i’m just tryna keep it real. more people know he’s ethiopian than that he’s a DC representer!). that’s a problem, so that’s where i’m stepping in.

all media outlets have seen the potential we have in the industry, but we can’t just stop once somebody gets on tv or has a song on the radio! we gotta get people on the same page, and let them know we got artists here. the first step is to get the DMV to realize the talent.

so i made this thing:

dmv.muxtape.com

i created this particular muxtape with the hope of increasing the friendly competition amongst the artists in the dmv. whatever it is, if it’s hot, it’ll make the muxtape. is it biased? probably. but my ear is good, and if you like good music, you’ll appreciate the choices. it’s like a battle of the bands: best 12 tracks (in no ranking or particular order) every month get recognition, while those who didn’t make it work harder so next time, they get on it.

click the tape or the link to jam it, and let me know if you like. spread the word if you’re from the area…i want to see this thing on every blog in the DMV.

think you should be on this joint? don’t like what you see? whatever you wanna ask, send it my way: modi@dctobc.com.