Thursday, September 25, 2008

West Coastin'


Big Up Irish Producer Danny Diggs who recently got placement on the new Killah Priest album. I have said it before too many people sit on their laurels and wait around for shit to happen for them, "Nobody gives it you, you gotta take it"

Danny has been around a few years and is not short on self belief which is needed and shows a few others what can be done if you put your mind to it..

While I think of it Danny used to work alongside another Irish producer called Mista Sick, I first met Mista Sick about 6 years ago, the guy used to get death on a certain forum for his production style (He was way ahead of the game when it came to down south hip-hop too, he must have been the only person I knew with Chamillionaire, Three 6 Mafia, Lil Flip and all them on tape in 02) but he kept at it and has worked with some big names and has produced music for a B.E.T series.

Anyway...Props to Danny Boy from the West Coast...Galway :)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New DJ Revolution Featuring Special Teamz

"Big Top" From the new album "King Of The Decks" out on Duckdown.
Duckdown have a superb roster these days, already home to all the original BCC heads as well as Kidz N The Hall, Special Teamz, and now KRS One, Revolution and B Real..

New Heltah Skeltah album is out later this month too.

Shout out to Slaine and No Ha at Duckdown

Notorious Movie




I'm really looking forward to this, Biggie is my hero.
Brooklyn Rapper Gravy plays the lead, Gravy is famous for signing a massive lucrative deal with Warner a few years ago, then being shelved, then being shot, then ghost writing for Foxy Brown. Not that I'd say he cares, He has an acting career now.



IHH Volume 1


Is available on I-Tunes now for €10.00
Use your money to give something back to artists who have given you a reason to be proud over the last few years.

Full Tracklist here.

Fair Play to Ammo for compiling this

Launch Party October 1st

TRACK LISTING
01 Sleepy - intro
02 Rira - 25 o' clock in the mornin
03 GMC - Home
04 Nucentz - It's not easy
05 Collie - Deadly Buzz
06 Rob Kelly - Take a Look
07 Ammunition - Irish Dreams
08 O' Liffey Cousins - Stop Fantasizin (Dj Flip Mix)
09 The Elements - Nu Skool
10 Shaymin - Lassie
11 DJ Mek - Interlude (Look out he's Irish)
12 Jee4ce - Contact
13 Intox ft Diligenz - The Rawest
14 Redzer ft Jambo - Gritty City
15 Terawrizt ft Nucentz - Game of life
16 Project 77 - Takin on the planet
17 Sirocco MC's - Everybody
18 The Infomatics - Wake Up
19 Ophelia - Revolutionary
20 SertOne - Outro

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

New Angerville


Shout out to Angerville...
I did a track with these guys when I was out in Toronto for some shows a while back, and although Canada is colder than cold, these guys can heat it up in the booth.

Their new ish is called 'Stop Frontin' and even though the genre of dissin' fronting rappers is kinda tired at this stage they keep it fresh on this and the video looks really nice. Shout out to Fortunato's wife who likes to play bashment reggae at 7am and my man G who drove me around T Dot..These guys work damn hard



You can check more music from the guys here
www.myspace.com/angervilleforever

Monday, September 15, 2008

Rob Kelly & Republic Of Loose


This is an exclusive (No Clue)as I haven't laid my vocals yet but there is going to be a collaboration between myself and Mick from top rated Irish Funk/Pop band the Republic Of Loose on the album. The Pro Tools Session is in the post as they say and it's a Mike Donnelly beat so its a good combination..

Shout out to the Loose...

Friday, September 12, 2008

DJ Semtex & Rob Kelly



Me & Semtex linked up last night in Belfast @ Thompsons. Thompsons is THE Spot.Shout Out to those who reached. Sem murdered it on the 1s & 2s - That's the difference between him and these fly by night club dj's - Semtex is a thorough hip-hop head and although he played club shit too - his selection was so nice.

Shout to the owners of the club too who kept the drinks coming, don't try go drink for drink with Semtex though he will body you on Jack Daniels...(you would think he was Irish)

We put our heads together and came up with a genius idea, I'm giving nothing away yet but 09 IS SO MINE (I'm gonna copywrite that shit btw)

Sem is keeping schtum too http://djsemtex.wordpress.com/

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

New Kanye


Love Lockdown

Premiered this on the VMAS.
I don't give a fuck what anyone says about a) Autotune being played out or b) Any Kanye west hating because as far as I'm concerned, he is doing pretty good as far as geniuses go and is now for me, THAT GUY when it comes to whose LP I eagerly anticipate every year

http://www.zshare.net/audio/185469496521ed74/

Anyone who doesn't love this is mad at themselves.

New S.A.S & Cam'ron


Told ya this would unfold...S.A.S back with Cam'ron after their split from Juelz.
(Cam'ron recently sold Juelz' contract back to Def Jam for 2 mil)

"Nothing Long"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vhrkzn

Free The Krutch



My good friend Frankie Krutches is currently serving a sentance in a New Jersey Prison for assorted Scallywag behaviour.

Frank was originally a member of Dipset and many will remember him for his infamous "Krutch Dance" in the video for Cam'ron's "Hey Ma" before falling out with Jim Jones & Cam at a later stage.

Frank and I became friends a couple of years ago when we were both rostered to a TV Show called 16 Bars, A perfomance based ppv event that was scheduled to take place in the Hammerstein Ballroom, unfortunately (or fortunately whatever way you look at it) the show never materialised but we still kept in contact and began to do some work together.

I owe Frank a lot, he plugged me into the mixtape thing and opened a lot of doors for me. He has been doing a lot of work with Cassidy lately and opened up a brand new studio "The C4 WarRoom" in his new jersey home, where everyone from Cassidy,Maino and Red Cafe have been recording, when Frank gets out I will be over to record some new material with him.

We had a ball when him and his assistant Eddie B (No Pillow Talk) came to Ireland last year, we ended up doing an impromptu performance in Spirit on a Friday night, Snoop was in town so the crowd were expecting some of his entourage to be in town so when he came through and performed it was a bonus for the crowd who gave him the full celebrity treatment. LOL @ Frank & Eddie B driving around Dublin in a rental.

If anyone wants to write to him in Jail hit me on the myspace and I will give out his address

S.A.S Split from Juelz' Skull Gang


Following recent rumours that Juelz Santana got robbed in London, over an alleged £70 grand debt to some UK promoters for shows that weren't performed, Juelz made an appearance on www.worldstarhiphop.com stating that he still had all of his jewellery and that all was good in London, strangely enough he didn't mention his London Affiliates S.A.S in the video.

Word has it he was surrounded in a hotel and things were about to get ugly and Mega and Mayhem from S.A.S helped sort out a tense situation but Juelz didn't acknowledge that in his video and this has led to the duo breaking all ties with Juelz.

Spoke to May last night and this is about to take an interesting turn :)

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7672/title.s-a-s-talks-juelz-santana-robbery-breaks-from-dip-set

DJ Semtex



Props to DJ Semtex.

Big Dog (No Westwood) of hip-hop on BBC 1xtra who has been recently spinning out my material new and old on his hip-hop show on Friday Nights 10-12 and Saturday Night 12-2am so make sure to tune in to 1xtra.


Semtex has the the dope youtube channel called SemtexTV where he has the best interviews with the biggest stars in Hip-Hop from the UK & US and as he is Dizee Rascal's official tour DJ, some live dizee perfomances too.

Meeting up with Semtex this week so will have some pics up later

I have been getting some spins on regional radio lately too, I have had the #1 Spot on the Fresh 30 Chart on Beat FM with "Jealous" for the last three or so weeks so props to people that voted.

You can still vote here..



and to thank people for their support I have put up a free download "The Best Of Bobby Bars" is a free 40min download mixed by Canadian Deejay - DJ Law

Tracklist is as follows

TRACKLIST

DJ Mo-K Freestyle.

Do My 1.2 featuring Frankie Krutches + Baby Blue Produced by Mr Green

99 Problems Remix produced by Mike Donnelly

Criminal Minded produced by Soundsmith Productions

Take A Look produced by Mike Donnelly

In The Air produced by Mike Donnelly

Bizerkk Produced by Mike Donnelly

Throw Down Your Armz produced by Show N Prove

Rockstar featuring Frankie Krutches produced by GQ Beats

DJ Pudgee P Freestyle

Alright Produced by DJ Flip + Freezemaster Slick

The Response Produced By DJ Flip, Ads + Freezemaster Slick

Do It To It (original version) Produced by Mike Donnelly


Download it here or here

Rob Kelly & Slaine...Again



I have hooked up with Slaine again for a new track on the upcoming album for Bawston Strangla, The track is called "Take it All" produced by MP2 and can be previewed on the album sampler here www.myspace.com/bawstonstrangla

The album is called Sociopath and is out in October on Commonwealth Records.

Shout out to Strang, Mandel, Slaine & Dru @ Commonwealth

IHH Volume 1


Props to my man Ammo who has compiled the first Irish Hip-Hop Compilation that is to be released on September 30th, Launch party is on October 1st TBC

CD features a track from pretty much everyone involved in IHH including me (and that is a good enough reason to buy it)

Out on I-Tunes September 30th Please do cop this and show support. Ammo has invested a lot of time and money into this project and has high hopes for it, some people are mad sceptical on how it will do but I hope it does well for him.

King Apparel


I've recently joined the ranks of Pyrelli, Plan B, Wretch 32 and Sway by becoming an affiliate of King Apparel. King have provided us with the attire for the new video shoot and basically enabling me to stye on motherfuckers even more :)

Photoshoot coming soon

Shout out to my man Sean from Connected Clothing in Abbey St, Dublin who made all this happen and Good Luck to him on his and Kerry's big day this month.
Props to Tom from King also

The clothes are mean, check the website
http://www.king-apparel.com/

Rob Kelly in XXL Magazine


For those that don't know I was in the September Issue of XXL.
Shout to Mel my publicist (and part-time mentor) for making this happen
I have had a lot of moments in my career so far that people would consider a big look and this was certainly one of them. Props to the folks @ XXL Magazine for the nice feature and shout to Evolution Apparel for the custom Jacket.

I have now been in XXL & HHC so if I can add 'The Source' to the CV I'll complete what would have seemed an ambitious hat-trick at the beginning of my rap life... :)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Kellovision




"Kellovision" is a documentary about me that I have been threatening to release for the last few years :)









It basically contains a lot of footage shot by my man G.Leech, following me around on my travels doing live shows etc









I have to say I haven't been as dilligent with the camera as I should have been and I have let a lot of good ops pass but there is a lot of good ish in there, which is currently being edited by my man Yung Rexy, who will be hitting us with a trailer soon to launch the Youtube Channel.

I will be updating the channel frequently and some stuff to look forward to is me doing some stuff for Vlad TV and the making of the new Video for the first buzz single off of "Kell's Kitchen"









Here was the last video shot by the Lambert Brothers "Dropkicked"

Shout out to my man Boxer Andy Lee who came to the video as well as a gang of models including Claire Tully



(we couldn't clear the sample but it will still make the album with the help of the Bible Code Sundays www.biblecodesundays.co.uk/)

The Lamberts are doing the new video too in the next few weeks so stay tuned to Kellovision for more details








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