Features, The Daily Bread Easily their second best album. Perhaps first. Midnight Marauders by seminal rap camp A Tribe Called Quest glimmered with charged basslines and decadent riffs. It was celebratory. Hook heavy. Artistically audacious. And for Lawrenceville, New Jersey native Phillip Annand—owner and…
Features, The Daily Bread “We aren’t gang bangers so we will not be looked at as that,†says 20 year old Chris ‘C-San’ Sanford, referring to the new crop of MCs emerging around Los Angeles. “But that doesn’t mean we should go away from…
The Daily Bread There’s one thing you cannot deny about King Tech: He knows his shit. Nationally recognized as one half of the notable radio twosome, Sway & King Tech, the Oakland-bred DJ—or the King of Techniques, as he’s known around the way—has…
Features, The Daily Bread “Change†is everywhere these days. It’s become so chic that we often forget who we are sometimes. Instead of preserving our best self—regardless of what cynics say—we trade it in for whatever’s convenient. Aegis Apparel, a life style brand out…
Features, The Daily Bread “However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.†Wise words once spoken by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill strike a chord with Inglewood, California rap sage Shawn Jackson. A student of Big Daddy Kane’s refined rhymes,…
Features, The Daily Bread Steven “Flying Lotus†Ellison likes change. In fact, he fully embraces it. Seemingly, that’s what keeps the 24-year-old sonic auteur continually ahead of his peers. While most producers follow the standard, and most bankable sound, Ellison is sure to never…
Features, Other Both his name and job are based on phonetics, literally and figuratively. The name – eskay – is the phonetic spelling of “SK,†the tag he used as a graffiti writer years ago. The job – Nah Right (www.NahRight.com) –…
Features, The Daily Bread In the U-N-I-verse, Yonas “Y-O†Michael is Kobe Bryant and Yannick “Thurzday†Koffi is LeBron James. Luckily for us music purists, they’re playing on the same team. The Los Angeles duo, known as U-N-I, garnered praise in 2007 for their…
Features, Other His affinity for both hip-hop and wrestling is something of a conundrum – what one man could love the true aesthetics of hip-hop and the melodramatic theatrics of professional wrestling? Easy, Peter Rosenberg. The radio veteran’s colloquial pedigree is exhaustive…
Art, Spraycan Stories Graffiti writer Bandit lives by one doctrine: “Be yourself and search for your own style.†For this German-bred writer, these words have become a way of life. His style is unique, to say the least, but such should be expected…
