Just uploaded a new mix: “Stompin to the 90’s – Late Edition”, featuring songs from the mid-to-late 90’s of hiphop. Track listing follows the embed below. Download or stream now at Soundcloud: Track listing: L*Roneous Dynamic Syncopation Dr Israel Abstract Tribe Unique Sacred Hoop Black Eyed Peas Urbanites BMS Kool Keith & Motion Man Sir Menelik INTERLUDE T-Love, Siah &…
New Mixtape! “Sifters: The Game (The Mix!)” – Mixed by DJ Icewater
Brand new free mixtape from the always magnaninous DJ Icewater! An instrumental-fueled selection of tracks from Yameen, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Blockhead, Shock G, Mike Ladd and many more: Download it for free on Bandcamp Tracklisting: Fire (Original mix) Fire (Yameen’s Direct Drive Remix) P.H.I.L.A. Fire (Blockhead Remix) Spirit Walker (Original mix) Spirit Walker (Mike Ladd Remix) Pull Ya Cash Out…
Sifters in the Land of Fun – Yameen Pixel Art Game
I am super excited to announce that my brand new web game Sifters in the Land of Fun is now live and ready to play for free online! Check it out here: http://sifters.in/the-land-of-fun/ There are hot spots hidden around the Land of Fun just waiting to be discovered. Correctly name them and download an exclusive MP3 mix by DJ Icewater!…
All Talk: E3 2011 Podcast featuring Yameen
Well, that’s me and Ed Boon of Mortal Kombat fame at E3 2011 in that pic above. I had a great time at E3 this year, and was invited by the All Things All Things podcast to stop by and talk about the show. We get into Bastion from Warner Bros, Nintendo’s Wii U but of course, Sony’s Vita &…
All That Rah Rah: Dying in Video Games is Dead
For such a fast moving and competitive industry, video gaming sure is hung up on a lot of gameplay conventions from its past. Specifically, I’m talking about holdouts from its heritage in the arcades: Where gameplay was admitted as a limited use contract in exchange for your quarter. The arcades differ greatly than the home console experience we are used to…
Bit by Bit: Obscure Video Game Samples in Obscure Hip-Hop Songs
Hip-Hop beats were built on producers digging through crates of old, dusty vinyl records in the elusive search for the Perfect Sample. But some of these dudes apparently have been digging through yard sales and the used video game rack at GameStop too because there’s quite a bit of video game sampling going on in hiphop. Below are some mad…
BBR Sessions (1998-1999) – Free Album Download
Between 1998-1999, I was a member of the Philadelphia-based group, BBR: Big Brother Resistance. We were a politically-charged and socially-minded hiphop group focusing strongly on technology, the media, politics, and the control and abuse of information by corrupt corporations. It was me on production as Binyameen and occasionally “Stinke”, and MCs Tim T and PCP. I produced all of the tracks…
Matter of Moments – Unreleased Nuntype Song featuring Tajai (MP3)
I was digging in the (virtual) crates and came up on an old CD-R featuring a session demo of a track we cut from the final version of Nuntype, recorded more than likely in 2000. The song is called, “Matter of Moments” with me on production and Tajai on the mic. It’s never been released until now. Although “Matter of…
Hieroglyphics Crew Photos from 1999
I’ve been doing some CD-R Spring cleaning and came up on another batch of Hieroglyphics Crew photos that we took for the old Hieroglyphics.com website Emporium store in 1999. This batch features Domino, Tajai, Casual, Pep Love & JayBiz, Phesto Dee and Del the Funky Homosapien sporting some of the fly fits we had on sale back in the day.…
One Of Swords: Let’s Talk About Yameen
My good, good friend from back in the day, Dan Amrich — who goes by the nom de Web, One Of Swords — is the self-described “social media guy” for videogame juggernaut, Activision: the publisher of Call of Duty, DJ Hero, Guitar Hero and many more. As you may have read on my site in the past, I am a…