Youtube member, YO! EDY K RAPS has posted some classic, live Hiero YO! MTV Raps performances and interviews from the early 90’s online, some of which I havne’t seen personally in over 15 years. Check em out. But oh — a word of warning: Get em while they’re hot. Vaicom (MTV’s parent company) pulled the Del / Fab 5 Freddy…
Activision Podcast, One of Swords, Music by Yameen
My man Dan Amrich — former senior editor of GamePro, Official X-Box Magazine, World of Warcraft Magazine and a ton of other journalistic endeavors of the videogame-kind (spanning well over 16 years!) — has just been hired by Activision as their brand-spankin’ new Community Manager! Congrats, Dan! One of Swords, his nom de Web, has just dropped Episode 001 of…
Google Voice’s Transcripts Are Dumb Funny
Google Voice tries to transcribe your voicemails to text so that you can read them online. Here’s my favorite jawn this week from my own mailbox: Kirk, Hi Dad, tech associates I. At together the range listing with us tomorrow. Hey, check the weather report at North Star, and there’s lesbian list. I’m coming in this afternoon and I don’t…
Tour Stories: So, You Really Wanna Be in Show Business?
Dope article written by Tajai of Souls of Mischief over at XXLMag.com about Hiero’s independent legacy: Making the transition from being on a major, where everything is paid for—cars, hotels, plane tickets, tour support—to being on…nothing, was shocking and a little bit scary. We came directly out of high school into a major label deal into a world of stardom,…
Blockhead Blog: Phat Friend
Ya’ll know Blockhead, right? Ninja Tune recording artist, Yameen remix collaborator, one half of Party Fun Action Committee…Well, add Internet O.G. to that list. My man has been blogging before it was even called “blogging” (shouts to alt.rap and rec.music.hip-hop, hoooo!) and now he finally has a website of his own and the shit is straight up hilarious. Phat Friend…
Building a Cheap, Energy-Efficient HTPC & Classic Gaming Emulator Box
Over the holiday I set out to create a small, energy-efficient home theater PC (HTPC) that would sit diminutively under the TV and play all of my HD movies, music and video game emulators. So how did I do it? Peep game: The Prerequisites Affordable if not outright cheap (Sub-$400) I wasn’t interested in putting too much money into this…
Cue Records Pic for the Heck of It, 2004
Found this pic of Cue Records in my Polaroid archives. Summer 2004. BAM!
A Decade of Releases
It’s pretty bugged to think back ten years ago and reminiscence on how these albums were conceived, worked on and eventually brought to life. Here’s some of my favorite full-length releases from my output over the last ten years. Projecto:2501 (November 2nd, 2000) We started the decade not with a whimper, but with a bang: 2000’s Projecto: 2501 featuring me…
New Mobile Website Launched
Upgraded the website today with a mobile version for “touch” devices such as iPhone, iTouch and Android smartphones: When you visit the blog, the website will detect you are on a touch-based mobile device and automatically display the mobile version for you. What’s great is if you prefer to view the regular website, you can easily toggle back and forth…
Chuck D in the Phillies Cap in the Fight The Power Vid, Nahmeen??!
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