Thursday, March 26, 2009

DJ Premier & Blaq Poet with MK & Shortee Blitz


Big Up my man London's mixtape king and complete and utter hip-hop head DJ MK
who hosts Kiss FM's Hip-Hop show with Shortee Blitz. I've been getting some airtime from the boys recently with my Freestyle of "Shut Your Bloodclot Mouth" the record DJ Premier recently did for 50 Cent. Which leads me nicely to this. MK & Shortee recently hosted a visit to their radio show by none other than DJ Premier and Blaq Poet where they discuss Poet's upcoming album "The Blaq Print" coming out on Year Round Records and talk some classic hip-hop moments with Premier like working on "Illmatic", "Kick In The Door" etc



Great Watch

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

WFMU This Friday the 27th


Check me out on New Jersey Radio's WFMU 91.1 this Friday between 7-10.pm my time.
The show is going to be broadcast from from Ireland on Billy Jam's "Put The Needle On The Record" Show from Viva Recording Studios on O'Connell Street.

This is the 2nd Live Broadcast from Ireland, In December Billy broadcasted from the legendary All City Store in Dublin.

I'll be there dropping a few mean bars and checking out all the other acts and turntablists

I love limerick - Shout to Andy Lee who won his fight at the weekend too by the way.

Shout out to Billy Jam

Billy Jam:

"I'm not old. I'm old school," insists Irish immigrant Billy Jam who fell in love with hiphop back in the late seventies when he first got to New York. Since then, he has dedicated himself to supporting the art form of hip hop through various forms of media.
"I look at media, be it print, radio, Internet, television, or whatever as all the same thing: just another way to get your message across," says Jam who started as a radio DJ in 1984 on KALX, Berkeley, CA. In 1987 he added journalism to his media assault, with publications including: The Source, BOMB, Vibe, XXL, CMJ, No Joke, Stealth, Rap Pages, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, and The SF Bay Guardian.
In 1998, he began producing music with an emphasis on DJ/turntablist music and founded the HiphopSlam label and website. Currently living in New Jersey, the part-time journalist hosts the hugely popular 'Put The Needle On The Record' weekly show on the world-reknowed WFMU radio station and performs and records with the turntablist ensemble Djs of Mass Destruction. He was also featured in Doug Pray's highly acclaimed documentary Scratch (2001).

Monday, March 23, 2009

R.I.P HHC


Legendary UK Magazine Hip-Hop Connection recently announced they are going out of print. I suppose this is a sign of the times with the rise of the internet/current economy taking its toll on print media. I grew up on this, my uncle Eddie used to send me this every month from London when I was 14 and back before the internet, the only outlets for a youngster in Wexford to hear Hip-Hop music were Westwood's show on Radio 1 and Yo MTV Raps so their review section was vital when it came to ordering (yes ordering, not that many music stores in Wexford were carrying hip-hop releases) the latest albums.

It was kind of an honour to get a full page few years back

Big Up Andy Cowan

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Rob Kelly on Halftime Show


Shout out to DJ Eclipse who has been playing my ish recently on the 11 year running "Halftime" Show on NYC's WNYU 89.1 FM

Eclipse (pictured far left) who also runs the the legendary FAT BEATS store in NYC, regularly fills in for DJ Premier on his Sirius show "Live From Headqcourterz"(what a shame that Podcast was shut down btw) and is tour DJ for Ill Bill.

He has been showing love to my song from the upcoming Mixtape featuring Reef The Lost "Shook Crews Runnin". The song is produced by J57 who works @ Fat Beats and produces for The Brown Bag All Stars is pictured on far right of this pic with Premier, Marco Polo and Torae etc

Peace to whole Fat Beats Crew and the Halftime Show

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Jump Around



Fresh New Ish from the upcoming mixtape "St Patrick's Day Massacre" available for Free Download on Paddy's Day March 17th exclusively here http://www.myspace.com/robkelly http://www.myspace.com/robkelly

So many people have bugged me to do this over the years from Green Lantern's assistant Swift, to Bigz and S.A.S to Practically every Irish-American head from Myspace. I have to give the credit to the big homie Semtex though for talking me into it.