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All I gotta say is wow. Lots of percussion. Everyone sounded amazing. I loved the outfits. Dave’s reaction. Everyone rhyming along with Wale’s Olsen twin line. Classic.
Camp Lo is one of my favorite groups. When Wale and I started working together and we found out we shared a mutual love over Camp Lo, we knew everything would fall into place. Well, for all you Camp Lo fans out there…today is a good day.
Today, HipHopDX reportedly learned from a SRC executive that the label has also signed another ’90s Hip Hop outfit – Camp Lo.
The Bronx-born duo of Sonny Cheeba and Geechi Suede has been releasing records since 1996’s Uptown Saturday Night on the now-defunct Profile Records. The duo scored mainstream success in the form of the single “Luchini.” With a unique blend of slang vocals, ’70s references and production from Ski Beatz of Reasonable Doubt fame, Camp Lo would reach their pinnacle early, as Profile merged to Arista Records, where Camp Lo later said they were asked to compromise their art.
2002’s Let’s Do It Again and last year’s Black Hollywood have followed on an independent level, neither able to register a commercial single or mainstream presence. Reportedly from the help of Mister Cee of Notorious B.I.G., Big Daddy Kane and Hot 97 fame, Camp Lo was taken to SRC/Universal Records and changed their name to The Lo, marking their first time on a major label since Arista eight years ago.
The duo is presently recording a yet-untitled album. They have premiered their first single, “Lumdi,” [click to listen] incorporating elements of the hit “Mickey’s Monkey” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. I’m not really feeling the new single, but let’s see what they do.
Here is one of my favorite Camp Lo tracks.
Camp Lo “Disco T-E-C” (off DJ Honda’s HII Japan version)
Drake’s manager hit me up today about a Wale collabo. I’d heard of him before but had never HEARD him. I checked out the music. I’m definitely feeling it. I just downloaded the mixtape so maybe you can get a head start and download it too.
Amazing cover for a mixtape too. Looks like a J. Crew catalog picture. I’m all about non-cliche mixtape covers.
The Keith Haring Foundation, Goldman Properties and Deitch Projects announce the recreation of Keith Haring’s celebrated Houston Street and Bowery mural. The mural became an instant downtown landmark after Keith painted it in the summer of 1982. The mural was up for only a few months in the summer of 1982 before it was painted out but its image remains imprinted in the memory of many people who were part of the downtown artist community in the early 1980s. (more…)
Do you smell what Barack is cookin?
I actually like his compared to Clinton and McCain’s (more…)
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By Hillary Crosley Mon Apr 28, 1:49 AM ET
Philadelphia’s hip-hop collective the Roots are off to a rough start at their new label.
After seven studio albums with MCA and Geffen, they signed to Def Jam in 2006 at the behest of then-label president Jay-Z. However, since Jay-Z’s departure last December, things have been a bit more difficult.
In an effort to please Def Jam executives with a radio single, drummer Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson says the group presented the pop-leaning “Birthday Girl” featuring Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump. Label staffers praised the track, but fans panned it, and the tune was stripped from the U.S. version of their new album, “Rising Down.”
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Tomorrow night make sure you tune in to Late Night with David Letterman on CBS to catch me performing “Rising Up” with The Roots and Chrisette Michele at 11:35PM. Actually, if you are in DC, you should Tivo it and come see me perform it live at…
the Darfur Now benefit concert with me, UCB and Southeast Slim at Club Five in DC. Admission is technically free, all they ask is for a donation.
And if you haven’t seen the video for ‘RIsing Up”, go check it on elitaste.com
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