Skillz News

The compilation lists all-original tracks from the Grammy Award winning brothers with exclusive guest spots from heavy hitters Slim Thug, Bun B, Talib Kweli, Tum Tum and more.

Young upstarts are common in the rap world, but there's none in the power trio of Crowface, Lil G and I.R. Skillz, performing a rare concert starting 9:30 p.m. today at The Pea Patch.

Street Date Oct 27, 2009 On Sale this Week!!! Grammy Award Winning producers and hip-hop duo Play-N-Skillz consist of brothers, Juan "Play" and Oscar "Skillz" Salinas who hail from Dallas, Texas.

The Heineken Red Star Soul Event hit Philadelphia with the impact of a meteor by bringing some of Hip-Hop's finest artist to Shampoo Night Club last week.

Today just getting word that one of our Hip Hop pioneers has passed. As I started writing this wea re still trying to officially confirm, but according to what DJ Premier twitted earlier Mr Magic who was best known as being among the first to have a Hip Hop show on a major radio station has passed.

Mark Skillz , hip hop historian of a sort and an occasional writer for Wax Poetics , represents the old school of hip hop and lets others tell their stories on Hip Hop 101A .

In next week's dead tree version of DC9, we'll be running our review of the new Jay-Z disc, The Blueprint 3 . Of course, we won't be the first to wax poetic about the disc; early returns elsewhere see the disc as something of a failure, with reviews lambasting Jay for trying to stay relevant in a game that may have already passed him by--or maybe ...

The super talented 11 year old prodigy producer VohnBeatz and 15 year old rhymer M-Pak, who recently released a collabo project together titled "Peer Pressure" , will also hit the stage.

SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER @ THE ROUNDHOUSE 6PM a ' 11PM TICKETS - A 8 / A 10 or A 15 ON THE DOOR LIVE: CRAZY COUSINZ KIG GHETTS GRACIOUS K TINIE TEMPAH TRIBAL MAGS MELEKA KATIE PEARL PLAY ENTS SKANKING SQUAD DOTSTAR ILL BLU PRINCESS NYAH DJs: LOGAN SAMA VECTRA POLICY HYPE MAN SKILLZ MC'S: VERSATILE MC JAZZ LYNC BOYA SASKILLA FLIRTA D Bigga Fish a ' ...

How Can We Help Foundation in partnership with John Muir High School and the Northwest Pasadena community are sponsoring the 2nd Annual basketball/life skills camp.

A lead singer who is also a rap MC, a guitarist who plays blues and rock, a bassist who adores funk, hip-hop and reggae, a drummer who digs heavy metal.

Chris Milbourn of Demencha Magazine sent Wayward Blog a missive about a recent post over at the mag's Web site regarding a piece of local hip-hop history: the missing album from Qui Lo , The Enemy : Qui Lo was a group in the mid-late 90's consisting of Godemis , Joe Good and Big Frame aka Skillz Lane .

The rap battle, no doubt, is the true test of an MC's skills. It's also pretty awesome to watch.

Jazzy Jeff was forced offstage by the venue for playing hip hop. We don't want to jump to any conclusions here, but everyone in American has seen The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, right? Maybe not.

Ripped jeans. Gold chains. Oversized T-shirts. These represent a small portion of the list of banned items at Kansas City's Power and Light District.

Dj Jazzy Jeff was forced to axe a gig halfway through his set - after strict local officials reportedly took offense to his hip-hop playlist.

Another day, another racial controversy at the Power Light District.For a year, the black community has been in arms about perceived racism at the entertainment district, a place their tax money helped fund.

As my colleague Justin Kendall reported early this morning on the Plog , DJ Jazzy Jeff had his set cut short last night at Power and Light for, I was told by witnesses, "playing hip-hop." I was at the show, but at the moment Jazzy and his MC, Skillz, allegedly got escorted out, I was inside of Raglan freakin' Road, buying a drink.

Oaks and dogwoods aren't the only things flowering in Bridgeport this spring. "City Kidz Got Skillz," the third annual talent showcase for city youth aged 18 and younger, is set to roll out the red carpet for an art exhibit Friday at People's United Bank, 850 Main St., and a talent show Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre, 263 Golden ...

When people think of Hip-Hop, they don't always think of something kid-friendly. Preconceived notions, however, are rarely parallel to reality, which is why, though it may come as a surprise to some, Hip-Hop is the driving force behind the Greater Bridgeport Adolescent Pregnancy Program's City Kidz Got Skillz talent show, which returns this Friday ...