DJ Grain Ear to the Streets Weekly Hip Hop News Wrap Up - January 24th 2009

In the world of Hip Hop, this had been another wild week. To top it all off, Phonte (of Little Brother) let loose on Kanye West, letting his feelings about Yeezy's latest album and the autotune madness. Barack Obama has now officially been confirmed as the President of the United States.

Just Blaze had to mediate to severe beef between Joe Budden and Saigon before things got physical or violent.

Phonte has called Kanye West a coward for his latest album. All that autotune ish did not impress Phonte, who said that '808s & Heartbreak' was garbage and if he really had talent he would have used his real voice.

Former Bad Boy rapper Mark Curry has broken his silence of Puff's crazy business tactics. In some cases, Diddy would charge his own artists to appear on their songs and in their videos. The worst thing was that Diddy would insist his artists have his Bentley in all their videos, then charge them and write off his car as a tax credit for business purposes.

J-Dilla's family unfortunately is not getting anything from the sale of his beats. His money is tied up in medical bills and IRS debt that his estate still owes. In this case, it is very bad because his mom, who now has lupus, is not getting anything and also his daughters are not getting a dime from his estate.

'Til next week y'all, take care and stay tuned for more news.

Peace,

Grain

Happy Australia Day

To all the Australians out there, both soaking it up on our own shores and those ex-pats enjoying a VB and vegemite sanga overseas - Happy Australia Day!

Here's what Wikipedia says about it:

"Australia Day, also known as Anniversary Day and Foundation Day, is the official national day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, the day commemorates the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the unfurling of the British flag at Sydney Cove and the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia."

So basically, today we celebrate both the official creation of our great country, and also the fact that a bunch of white folks claimed 'Terra nullius' on a land occupied by what is possibly the oldest surviving culture on earth, stole their land, committed genocide on their people, treated them as less than human (an attitude which remains today) and even stole their kids mid-last century. Go Australia!

1,000 Visits Strong!!!!

In the world of blogging, 1,000 visits to a site may not seem like much, but to us it is great. There is much more dope iddish to come so stay tuned for more after the jump.

DJ Grain Ear to the Streets Weekly Hip Hop News Wrap Up - January 17th 2009

This week was another wild and crazy week in the world of Hip Hop. 2009 has been great thus far - I just hope it continues to be great. Here are some of the happenings this past week:

The auction of Death Row Records has now concluded. It was auctioned off for $18 million, $7 million lower than the previously highest bid. The Canadian based company called Wide Awake Holdings now owns the master recordings from Snoop Dogg, Tupac, and other Death Row members, as well as various memorabilia from the label.

Slim Thug has now signed with Koch Records, officially ending his deal with Geffen/Star Trak.

Lil Wayne was on ESPN earlier this week with Skip Bayless. Suprisingly, he did very well and he had a thorough knowledge of college football. I'll admit I was impressed. Shouts to Wayne.

Barack Obama, the first African American President of the USA, will be officially taking office on Jan. 20th. Over 2 million folks are going to be in DC for the inauguration and conformation of his election as the 44th President of the United States of America.

T.I. is coming out with a new docu-series called the Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go. The show will focus on T.I. showing teenagers across the country the mistakes he has made and the lessons he learned from making those mistakes.

Next week I have some sad news about J-Dilla's estate and rumors about DJ Drama having some problems at the premiere of Notorious in the ATL.

Y'all be safe and take care.

Grain.

Tunage on YouTube for You...

Apologies for the retarded photo. Photoshop is out of action currently, couldn't whip up a Movement Fam YouTube themed goodie.

Anyway, after a week or so of grinding to work out iMovie's intricacies, I finally managed to upload every song from all four Movement Fam mixtape releases onto The Movement Fam YouTube channel.

So for those who always wanted to just hear the tunes and couldn't be fucked downloading the mixtapes (though you really should, it'll change your life), or you're trying to show one of your homies the dope music coming out of The Fam, then we've just made life a lot easier. For you. Coz we love you all.

The Movement Fam @ Blue Tile Lounge - Sat 10th Jan 2009

So on Saturday just gone, The Movement Fam finally had our first official gig as a crew, and the first gig of 2009. Boom. Although it was billed as a Cee & Bekah gig, the whole crew was in effect for the whole show, which was dope for the stage dynamics.

Big shouts to Cam at Blue Tile Lounge for reaching out and putting us on. We took the early time slot as we haven't rocked a gig since The Evelyn gig back in May 2008 (peep The Movement Fam YouTube page for the video).

The gig went real well though. Shouts to everyone who rolled through, we had a decent little crowd for the 9pm slot. The whole thing was filmed so we'll work out a way to get the highlights on YouTube shortly. Stay tuned for more shows in 2009...

DJ Grain Ear to the Streets Weekly Hip Hop News Wrap Up - January 10th 2009

Man I am truly glad to be back on it again....it's a new year and time to improve from the year before.

Wrap up of this weeks news:

Lil' Wayne is in the process of making an album that is going to be completely rock. He is doing this project to throw folks off like Kanye did with the '808's and Heartbreak' album.

Rumors have been flying that Jermaine Dupri has been relived of his duties as President of Island Records Urban Music, a division of Def Jam. All of the projects he was in charge of flopped, including Janet Jackson's latest album.

Comedian Katt Williams just signed a deal with Warner Brother to distribute the audio from the super funny DVD 'It's Pimpin' Pimpin''.

Travis of the Gym Class Heroes just got signed by T-Pain's label Nappy Boy.

Albums looking forward to in 2009:
Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Mickey Factz
Outkast

Peace,
DJ Grain.

DJ Grain Ear to the Streets Weekly Hip Hop News Wrap Up - Dec 27th 2008

What up, folks?

Here is my last 'Ear To The Streets' report for 2008 on The Edutainment Hip Hop show.

2008 was a great year and there were many ups and downs. I was able to link up with folks around the world through this music stuff. In 2009, expect many projects from The Movement Fam and several mixtapes from DJ Grain. The artists to look out for in 2009 are Drake, Mickey Factz, Che Grand, Tanya Morgan, and many, many others. This should be an interesting year. I hope everyone had a great new year and are geared up for an even greater 2009.

Peace,

DJ Grain.

PS. I jacked the dope image from Aggregate Dope's blog. Check him out. Oh and I'm taking a break for the first show back on January 3rd, but I'll be in effect the following week, folks.

Check out the audio from my report on Dec 27th 2008:

Also, Cee dropped in for a quick chat with BT, so check the audio for that too:

Notion - Don't Rush Me leak!

That's right, folks, here is the first official leak from Notion's upcoming mixtape, 'On The Corner of Notion & 9th', a project centered on Notion's raps over 9th Wonder's beats.

The homeboy Kevin Nottingham has leaked the track on his blog already, so click on the image of Notion and go get your download on!

There will be a new leak from this mixtape on the 1st of every month until the project drops, so stay tuned...

Sports Fans! NBA Widgets on MovementFam.com!

Sup yall!!

This one's for all those NBA fans out there, now instead of waiting for all of that junk to load on nba.com you will be able to keep in touch with the scores here with this Widget much quicker! Its dope. Yes, i know you agree. :)

AND also this Video Highlights Widget! Because if you see the scores... dont you wanna see how they did it?? Yup. Exactly.

Enjoy!
Notion.

DJ Grain - Last Thoughts on 2008

Right now it is already 2009 in Australia and most of the world. In the last few moments of 2008, I had to drop one last post. 2008 has been a great year for DJ Grain and Co. I started doing the "Ear to the Streets" segment on 90.3FM Knoxville, TN with my cousin Rapper BT of 2nd String.

Man early in 2008, I almost stepped away from the music because my taste in music was not the same as the masses. But I linked up with my cousin BT and the rest is history......the show is #1 in Knoxville for its time slot. You do the math.

Then I hollered at Cee of the group Cee and Bekah, and man things have started to take off - so in '09 you all better watch out. This year I also have been blessed to link up with many dope MC's from across the world which I never dreamed would happen.

The best thing that happened this year man was getting the degree and beating all the stats that say I should be dead, in prison, or on drugs. With my passion for deejaying and football burning like a volcano, 2009 is going to be the year I move closer to accomplishing my dreams.

Watch out in '09 for Tommy Gunnz - Garden State Warrior, Notion - On The Corner of Notion & 9th, Cee & Bekah - The Soul Movement Vol. 3 and many, many more releases from The Movement Fam. Y'all take care and have a safe new year.

On a final note, if somebody downs you for doing positive stuff - slap 'em.

Peace,

Grain.

The Movement Fam's Best of 2008

Alrighty...seeing as it's the last day of 2008, what better time to post a Best of 2008 list from each member of The Movement Fam and contributor to the blog than today?

Notion

Top 10 Albums of the Year
Raheem DeVaughn – Love Behind The Melody
Bliss n Eso – Flying Colours
Elzhi – The Preface
Black Milk - Tronic
Cee & Bekah - The Soul Movement Vol. 2 (Mixtape)
The Game - LAX
Pez – In My Own Mind
Nas - Untitled
Lil Wayne - The Carter 3
Drake – The Comeback Season (Mixtape)

**Special Mentions:
Rick Ross - Trilla

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Elzhi ft. Royce Da 5'9" - Motown 25
Black Milk - Long Story Short
The Game feat Lil Wayne - My Life
Little Brother - Sirens
The Roots – Rising Down ft. Mos Def & Styles P
Drake – Barry Bonds Freestyle (Comeback Season Mixtape)
Nas - Make The World Go Round ft. Chris Brown & The Game
9th Wonder & Buckshot – Man Listen (Cause Ummm)
Emilio Rojas – Young Fresh & Fly
Bliss n Eso - Zion Bash

**Special Mentions:
Robyn Thicke ft. Lil' Wayne - Tie My Hands
Busta Rhymes – Arab Money

Worst Album of the Year
C.R.A.C. Knuckles – The Piece Talks

Worst Song of the Year
T.I. – Whatever You Like

Hottest Broad of the Year
K. D. Aubert

Stupidest Thing of the Year
McCain running against Obama… No chance.. BOOM!

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com of course!

**Special Mentions: www.theaudacityofdope.com

Dopest Artist of the Year
Drake

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Kanye West & his 808’s & Heartbreak

Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Drake

Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)

Producer of the Year
Black Milk

Bekah

Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Game - LAX
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Colbie Caillat - Coco
Kardinal - Not For Sale
The Presets - Apocalypso

Top 10 Songs of the Year
The Game feat Lil' Wayne - My Life
T.I. feat Rihanna - Live Your Life
Black Milk - Long Story Short
Drake - Brand New
Robin Thicke - Magic/Dreamworld
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Butterfly - Jason Mraz
Colbie Caillat - Oxygen/The Little Things
Kardinal - Due Me A Favour

*Special mentions:
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Neyo – Closer

Worst Song of the Year
That's Not My Name - Ting Tings

Hottest Dude of the Year
Sakis Rouvas

Stupidest Thing of the Year
George Bush getting shoes thrown at him in Iraq - LOL

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com

Dopest Artist of the Year
Kanye

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne - LOVE him

Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Umm Hello - Cee and Bekah :)

Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)

Producer of the Year
Kanye West - Great Album!

Infinite Archetype

Top 10 Albums of the Year
Blue Sky Black Death - Late Night Cinema
Elzhi - The Preface
Black Milk - Tronic
EMC - The Show
Murs - Murs for President
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - The Formula
Buff1 - There's Only One
Danny! - And I Love H.E.R.
DL Incognito - A Moment Captured in Time
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Black Milk - Long Story Short
EMC - EMC "What It Stand For"
Elzhi - Motown 25 (feat. Royce Da 5'9")
Buckshot and 9th Wonder - No Future
88 Keys - Handcuff 'Em
Common - Make My Day (feat. Cee-Lo)
Q-Tip - Official
Josh Martinez - Underground Pop (feat. Moka Only & Scratch Bastid)
Jedi Mind Tricks - Death Messiah
Blue Sky Black Death - The Era When We Sang

Worst Album of the Year
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks (I'm sure there's worse out there this year, but if there is, I haven't heard it. Sorry Cee, we still cool right?! hah)

Worst Song of the Year
I'm not exposed to much outside of what I choose to listen to. My radio is never on and I don't watch TV. So its gotta be:
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless

Hottest Broad of the Year
Jessica Alba (and it will be next year too)

Stupidest Thing of the Year
The McCain camps pick of Sarah Palin. Dumbest move for them. But good for the Democrats.

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
I second http://www.kevinnottingham.com cos I don't ever go on blogs and I got some free music from there. I like free music.

Dopest Artist of the Year
Elzhi (Coz no-one, and I mean no-one, can mess with his flow. Dude has it sussed.)

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Murs (I would go on to say Most consistent Artist of the Decade. Highly Underrated.)

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Kanye. Sorry. And this is coming from a long-time Kanye Fanboy.

Dopest Beat of 2008
Blue Sky Black Death - The Era When We Sang. Beautiful. Just Beautiful. There isn't one better.

Producer of the Year
Blue Sky Black Death (But there's two dudes. So guess it's producers?)

Marc

Top 10 Albums of the Year
Nas - Untitled
Elzhi - The Preface
Cyne - Pretty Dark Things & Starship Utopia (technically 2 albums but released in the same year...should have been a double album!)
EMC - The Show
Devin The Dude - Landing Gear
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Immortal Technique - The Third World
Black Milk - Tronic
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 1

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Just one!
Elzhi - Talking in My Sleep
Conceptual Dopeness!

Worst Album of the Year
Common - Universal Mind Control

Worst Song of the Year
Common - Sex 4 Suga

Hottest Broad of the Year
Emmanuelle Chriqui (From 'Entourage' and 'You Don't Mess With The Zohan')

Stupidest Thing of the Year
Eastlink

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://speakerb0x.blogspot.com/

Dopest Artist of the Year
Elzhi

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Black Milk

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Common.....Please leave the rap game, and your acting is shithouse!

Artist to look out for in 2009
Torae

Producer of the Year
Black Milk

Dopest Beat of 2008
All of Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

Cee

Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Game - LAX
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Freddy - Mes Couleurs
Black Milk - Tronic
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Robin Thicke - Something Else
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Colbie Caillat - CoCo

Special Mentions:
Immortal Technique - The 3rd World
The Foreign Exchange - Leave It All Behind
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Adele - 19

Top 10 Songs of the Year
The Game feat Lil' Wayne - My Life (hook of the year for sure!)
Jazmine Sullivan - One Night Stand
Jazmine Sullivan - Lions, Tigers & Bears
Black Milk - Long Story Short
Drake - Brand New
Robin Thicke - Magic
Robin Thicke - Dreamworld
Kanye West - Welcome To Heartbreak/Heartless
Janelle Monae - Many Moons
Butterfly - Jason Mraz

Worst Album of the Year
C.R.A.C. Knuckles - The Piece Talks

Worst Song of the Year
That's Not My Name - Ting Tings

Hottest Broad of the Year
Kim Kardashian

Stupidest Thing of the Year
George Bush getting shoes thrown at him in Iraq - classic!

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.kevinnottingham.com of course!

Special mention: http://www.wydublog.com

Dopest Artist of the Year
Drake - only released a few mixtapes in '08 but they had major rotation with me.

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Lil' Wayne

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Q-Tip - album was meh, was expecting a lot more

Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Janelle Monae and Emilio Rojas

Dopest Beat of 2008
Long Story Short (produced by Black Milk)

Producer of the Year
Black Milk

Clint

Top 10 Albums of the Year
Nas - Untitled
Lil' Wayne - The Carter 3
Drake – The Comeback Season (Mixtape)
The Roots – Rising Down
The Game – LAX
Notion – World Domi-NoTiOn (Mixtape)
Cee & Bekah – The Soul Movement Volume 2 (Mixtape)
Guns & Roses – Chinese Democracy
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Xavier Rudd – Darker Shade of Blue

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Flight of the Concords – Business Time
The Game feat Chrisette Michelle – Let Us Live
Lil’ Wayne – A Milli
Nas – You Can’t Stop Us Now
Nas – Black President
MGMT – Electric Feel
Lil’ Wayne feat Robin Thicke – Tie My Hands
Lil’ Wayne – Dr. Carter
Notion – White Australian (Mixtape)
Dizzee Rascal – Dance With Me

Worst Album of the Year
Kid Rock – Rock N Roll Jesus

Worst Song of the Year
Kid Rock – All Summer Long

Hottest Broad of the Year
Alicia Keys

Stupidest Thing of the Year
Sarah Palin winking at the camera and Tina Fey getting more publicity for parodying Sarah Palin

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
http://www.davidgorcey.com/

Dopest Artist of the Year
Lil’ Wayne

Most Consistent Artist of the Year
T.I.

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
The Ting Tings

Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Lupe Fiasco

Dopest Beat of 2008
A Milli (produced by Mr Bangladesh)

Producer of the Year
Timbaland

Tommy Gunnz

Alright yo, here goes. First of all I'll start out by saying I didn't listen to anywhere NEAR as much music this year as I have in the past. Kinda stepped out of the critic game, but I think I was less than inspired by a lot of the music I did hear this year. A lot of the albums in my top ten probably wouldn't get near it another year.

Top 10 Albums of the Year
The Roots - Rising Down
Nas - Untitled
Pez - A Mind of My Own (probably my favourite album of the year, and probably my favourite Aussie Hip Hop release ever)
The Game - LAX (a guilty pleasure, everyone needs their junkfood music)
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
360 - What You See Is What You Get
John Legend - Evolver (not as good as I hoped, but still good enough)
Inverse - So Far: The Collection
...that's all I can think of.

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Kanye West - Heartless
Royce Da 5'9" - Shake This
Elzhi feat. Royce Da 5'9" - Motown 25
Pez - Keep On
Pez - The Way It Should Be
360 - A Subtle Way of Suicide
The Roots - Rising Down
Lil' Wayne feat. Robin Thicke - Tie My Hands
Nas - America
The Game - LAX Files (best hook of the year)

Worst Album of the Year
Can't do this one. I'm sure there was plenty of worse stuff out there than the stuff I didn't like.

Worst Song of the Year
Same again. Although I really don't like Kanye West - Robocop.

Hottest Broad of the Year
Of the year? Not sure how that works, but I'll say Jessica Alba.

Stupidest Thing of the Year
Fashion in Melbourne. Why can't I buy a decent t-shirt for less than $90? In fact, why can't I buy a decent t-shirt?

Sickest Blog/Website of the Year
www.spankwire.com/you'rewelcome

Dopest Artist of the Year/Most Consistent Artist of the Year
Pez: with the exception of "I Wanna Go" which kinda seemed like a poorer version of 60's "My Old School" he brought the heat pretty much every track, including cameos.

Most Disappointing Artist of the Year
Jay-Z: dude didn't drop an album this year, so he needs to hurry the F up. Oh, and I heard Common's record was disappointing but I haven't heard it yet.

Artist to Look Out For in 2009
Saigon

Dopest Beat of 2008
Motown 25 (produced by Black Milk)

Producer of the Year
Matik

DJ Grain

Top 10 Albums of the Year
Young Jeezy - The Recession
Ludacris - Theatre of the Mind
T.I. - Paper Trail
Johnson & Johnson - Blu+Mainframe
Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreak
Common – Universal Mind Control
Lil’ Wayne - The Carter 3
Kay and Nicolay - Time:Line
Murs - Murs for President
Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II

Top 10 Songs of the Year
Bartender - T-Pain Ft.Akon
Swagger Like Us – T.I. ft. Lill Wayne, Jay-Z, Kanye West
A Milli – Lil’ Wayne
Whatever You Like – T.I.
Easy - Ilwil ft. Jermiside
Overdose of Life - Drake ft. Mickey Factz and Travis of Gym Class Heroes
Lollipop – Lil’ Wayne
One More Drink - Ludacris ft. T-Pain
Fly Guys With Glasses - Donwill ft. Kay
Otherwordly - Ilyas

Worst Album of the Year
V.I.C. - Beast

Worst Song of the Year
V.I.C.- Get Silly
On a lyrical level, it’s garbage, but it’s club banger that will get folks dancing

Hottest Broad of the Year
Meagan Good

Stupidest Thing of Year
AIG executives going on retreat to an expensive resort less than a week after getting a $85 billion bailout from the government. Not to mention the $440,000 tab that they racked up, while at the same time they were laying off hundreds of people.

Sickest Blog/Website
http://www.kevinnottingham.com

Dopest Artist of Year
Kay

Most Consistent Artist
T.I.

Most Disappointing Artist
Q-Tip

Artist to Look Out for in 2009
Drake

Dopest Beat of 2008
Swagger Like Us (Produced by Kanye West)

Producer of Year
Kanye West
Honorable Mention: Nicolay

Movement Fam Thrownback ish-Melbourne City

This is the first track that I heard from Cee & Bekah and after hearing it I was like man I need to hit these guys up. The sound was very soulful and the rappin was smooth and steady. Fast forward to the present and you have the Movement Fam, that is gearing up to do big things and show that world that when you have a young southern gentleman and an Aussie gentleman combine their minds you have something serious!!!

DJ Grain Ear to the Streets Weekly Hip Hop News Wrap Up - Dec 20th 2008

Well I have been doing this lil segment for The Edutainment Hip Hop Show based out of Knoxville, TN hosted my cousin Rapper BT and Drop Knowledge for almost a year. It has been great and I now want to bring the show to the internet for the good people in Cyberspace. Every week I will be posting a summary of the major events that happened during the week in hip hop. Audio will be available......well most of the time!!!

Hip Hop News for the Week of Dec 14th 2008

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has decided to stop suing folks that pirate music from the internet via Napster, Limewire, and other P2P networks. Years ago I am sure everyone remembers when the record industry starting going after people that were downloading and sharing vast amounts of music. Despite their efforts to scare people into stopping their pirating, it got worse. Now in order to curve these pirates, the RIAA has decided to team up with Internet Service Providers to cut off or slow down offenders internet connection. Smart idea....no net means no music. Finally, they got something right.

Slum Village is talking about reuniting to do another album. After J-Dilla's untimely death, the group seemed to dissolve with everyone going their seperate ways to concentrate on solo projects. In '09 we will see what happens....I will keep you posted on that!!!!

Top Albums of 08

Kanye West - 808 and Heartbreaks
Young Jeezy - The Recession
T.I. - Paper Trail
Ludacris - Theater to the Mind
Common - Universal Mind Control
Drake - The Comeback Season
Jean Grae - Jeanius
Lil Wayne - The Carter 3
Elzhi - The Preface

Take a listen to the show on the player below.

Until next week...
DJ Grain.

The Movement Fam Online Store!

What it do peoples? Its ya boy Notion gettin his first post on!!

Just wanted yall to peep the new Cee & Bekah Mens & Womens Tee's available to cop online!!
We got all sizes, colours and styles, take a look!

Dope huh? We've also got available ALL four mixtapes available for purchase. For the entire back catalogue of The Movement Fam, hit up the following MySpaces to get ya shop on:

The Movement Fam MySpace
Cee & Bekah MySpace
Notion MySpace

Peace,
Notion.

**Ill be posting more dopeness shortly, keep on bloggin yaaaalllll!

Cee & Bekah on iTunes and Amazon

That's right peoples, y'all can officially purchase The Fam tunes on the interweb. It doesn't get any better than that.

The Soul Movement Volume 1 and The Soul Movement Volume 2 Originals, with full length original songs produced by folks like Styalz Fuego, Whisper, Revelino, KrisblaiR (Canada), Da-Phai, Infinite Archetype and Beat Chemist (Canada), and featuring guest spots from The Movement Fam (Notion and Tommy Gunnz), and Canada's KrisblaiR and Jessica Kaya (sister of ultra dope MC Eternia).

They can be purchased individually or as an 'EP' (6 songs on Vol 1 and 5 songs on Vol 2). And with songs being a lazy $0.89 each and the EP sitting around $5 (on Amazon), how can you go wrong? Either click on the pics above or the links below. Easy.

Cee & Bekah on iTunes

Cee & Bekah on Amazon.com

The Movement Fam on The Understudies 'CC3'

Big ups to the homies The Understudies out in the East Bay, California.

Not only are they top blokes, but they have just released the third installment in their mixtape series, 'CC3'. And what makes this one super awesome is that it features our inter-crew collab, 'Never Going Away', which we recorded in Oakland, California on our recent trip there.

The song will also be released in the very near future on vinyl in both Australia and the USA as a double sided 12", which will be very exciting. So click on the cover to be taken to the 'Name Your Price' site where you can pay what you like for it (minimum is 50cents) - and remember, is not a mixtape full of jacked beats; this is all original, quality Hip Hop from the Bay.

Click on the back cover to be taken to The Understudies MySpace page.

Oh yeah, and while you're at it, go get your free download of the G.O.D.Cast Vol 2 podcast from the crew, which features an interview with Cee, Bekah and Notion by Citizen and Fly Cobb live in Oakland.

Attention artists - new networking tool! Trackhustle.com

For all the artists out there, I stumbled across a new networking tool that could be quite beneficial. Trackhustle.com is dope - it's a little different to the average music social networking site. This joint not only has the usual ish (pics, music, bio, etc), but it also gives you access to submitting music to A&R's, popular contests from around the web and various other networking tools that I'm yet to discover.

Check out The Movement Fam Trackhustle.com page (or click the image), this is yet another dope tool that the net provides for artists. Love it.

Movin' Up From Down Under - Loud.com blog #3 - Get Your Hate On

It's that time again...the latest Movin' Up From Down Under blog (#3) is now live on Loud.com (click the image or the link).

This week, we spoke about the good old haters. Had to get it out the way early.

Drop us a comment.

Still lovin' Twitter, by the way. :)

Tweet?

Tweet, anyone?

Aight, I'd heard of Twitter for the longest time, but never really bothered with it 'til I discovered the Barack Obama tweet. So I signed up and didn't mess with it for weeks...until yesterday.

For those who ain't know, Twitter is like the Facebook status updates...without everything else. And as shit as that sounds, it's actually really dope. And fun. And addictive. And everyone's doing it. Which, of course, is reason enough to join up.

So my man put me onto this thing called Twitterrific, which is like an MSN type program that sits on your desktop and allows you to see all the conversations between folks that you're 'following' and post directly to everyone without using the web app. Shouts to Ash for the link!

Check out the YouTube video explaining Twitterrific

Download Twitterrific

Y'all can follow The Movement Fam on Twitter, too:

Cee
Bekah
Notion
DJ Grain

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