This Friday, we’ll be debuting the video for my song “Gone” at Northside Tavern as part of DJ Pillo & DJ Apryl Reign‘s Selectas Choice series.

The whole evening will be amazing automatically, as Pillo, Apryl & DJ Rare Groove are spinning all night long. The video is really just the bonus.

Plus, it’s my Birthday weekend, so come out and kick it. 21 & up, FREE.

Friday, April 27, 2012
@ Northside Tavern
4163 Hamilton Ave., Cincinnati

#SynesthesiaYellow

#BeCool

A couple nights ago, I had a nightmare that Freddie Gibbs robbed and killed me.

The next day, I saw this video, and realized why.

Funny story:

Illogic and I had a show with Gibbs last Spring, afterI interviewed him for Citybeat a month earlier. Gibbs and I were sitting right next to each other at the Merch Table. Illogic told me I should introduce myself and tell him that I had just interviewed him a few weeks back. Since we just rocked a pretty big show with him, I though “Ok, cool, I can do that.”

So I introduced myself to him. And then he looked at me the same way he looks at the camera in this video. Then I went back to my seat. So that was that.

The End.

Enjoy the video. This song is amazing.

I haven’t performed live since the SLAM Festival in Cincinnati way back in early August.

This is easily the longest I’ve gone without performing.
But there’s  a lot of good reasons for that. Though they won’t be coming ’til 2012.  So come enjoy the only show I’ll be doing from now up until February:

This Saturday, November 12th, I’ll be joining my good friends Soundscape for a show in Cinci @ Mainstay Rockbar.  If you’ve ever been to a Soundscape Show, you already know.

And as Far-I-Rome Productions (one of my favorite promoters in the state) is throwing this event, expect the entire evening to be AMAZING.

Get your FB RSVP on right here.

Pics Courtesy our friends @ Self Diploma

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Pics from the Amazing Show in Cincinnati on Friday Night.

Thanks to the great venue, Tobe & The Animal Crackers, and all my friends who came out..people I haven’t seen in a while. Everyone gave great shows. Great night all around. One of my favorite Cinci hip-hop nights in years.

Tobe – Animal Cracker

Piakhan

King Solomon

Jack Walker – Iswhat!?

Napoleon Maddox – Iswhat!?

Nati Kid – Animal Crackers

The Crackers Reunited.

Thanks to Sybilka Storie for the fantastic pics.

VoiceOfRzn Presents “The Rhythm Room”
A night of Hip-Hop, Soul, Spoken Word and More…

Saturday, October 9th
@ Kobo (formerly Oldfields on High)
2590 N. High St.
Columbus, OH

Featuring
Illogic
Middle Child
Searius Add
DJ Pos 2
DJ Manwell
Hosted by Ill Poetic

RSVP Here

Celebrate the release of Ruckus’s The Chicks EP with a night of live music with the Man-Machine himself, as well as live sets by myself and the turntable-jam-band-symphony Skratchmatik!

It all goes down Saturday July 17th 10pm at Peach’s in Yellow Springs! ($5 / 21+UP!!! The posters say otherwise, but Peach’s just informed me that it’s 21+UP. SORRY!)

Listen to The Chicks EP here

Peach’s Grill
104 Xenia Ave.
Yellow Springs, OH

RSVP On Facebook HERE

Also, don’t forget the Dayton Re-Release for my album “The World is Ours” will be the following Tuesday @ One Eyed Jacks, with Abstract Rude, Ruckus Roboticus, and much more…

Tuesday July 20th @ One Eyed Jacks in Fairborn, OH
AWFUL TRUTH TOUR/THE WORLD IS OURS RE-RELEASE PARTY

Featuring:
Abstract Rude (w/ DJ Tramlife)
Musab (Sab the Artist)
Ill Poetic
Ruckus Roboticus
Skratchmatik

Abstract Rude (Rhymesayers)
Abstract Rude is a West Coast veteran of independent and underground hip hop. He like many other rap artists in the LA scene got his start at the Goodlife Cafe. Over time, his distinct voice and vast catalog has kept him working in the music business since the mid 90s releasing groundbreaking albums such as Project Blowed, South Central Thynk Taynk, Mood Pieces, P.a.i.n.t [battleaxe] & Haiku De Tat. As front man of his original group Abstract Tribe Unique (ATU) and collaborator with Freestyle Fellowship members Aceyalone & Myka 9, Abstract Rude has endeared himself to fans worldwide through consistent touring.

Musab (Sab the Artist) (Rhymesayers)
Musab “Sab” Saad began his music career as a hip hop artist named Beyond. He was part of the Headshots crew and then went on to be a co-founder of Indie giant Rhymesayers Entertainment. He is a member of Dyno Spectrum and even went on to release an album with Hiero Imperium. Along the way he has also released 6 solo projects. Now, Sab The Artist is embarking on a new journey. For the last 2 years Sab has been working on his new album HGH (Heaven, Girls, Hell) to be released late 2010.

Ill Poetic
Definition Music will be re-releasing Ill Poetic’s Debut National album “The World is Ours”. Released exclusively alongside the album will be an exclusive remix project entitled “The World is Illuminated” with legendary Ohio Producer/DJ J. Rawls (Black Star, Lone Catalysts). The Project features unreleased songs from the recording sessions of “The World is Ours” as well as exclusive new remixes. “The World is Illuminated” album features J. Rawls as host, as well as Ohio vets Piakhan (Reflection Eternal), Zerostar (Weightless), Jermiside (Tanya Morgan, Lessondary), Zone (Definition), and more.

Ruckus Roboticus
Ruckus has been drawing national praise since the 2008 release of his debut full-length, Playing with Scratches, which charted on the CMJ charts in the Top 10 and also helped him become “in demand” for his remix abilities (he’s done mixes for Bloc Party, Lady Tigra and Vampire Weekend). Ruckus’ inventive collaging of sound returns on the new The Chicks EP, which gets “album release partied” this Friday during the monthly dance party Dip Dip Dive at The Stand in Mount Lookout; he’s joined by resident DJs C. Witzel and Marty Spitfly.
Ruckus is the rare mixologist who manages to be incredibly creative and exploratory while also being remarkably accessible, entertaining and, of course, danceable.

Skratchmatik
The Legendary Dayton DJ Collective has been holding down the Dayton OH Hip-Hop scene for over a decade, both locally and through national acclaim. Come watch some of the flyest turntablism on the planet go down at this event.

$5
18 and up
Doors @ 9PM

One Eyed Jacks
2638 Colonel Glenn Highway
Fairborn, OH 45324-6559

Click Here to RSVP on Facebook

This Friday and Saturday marks the second Clifton Heights Music Festival in Cincinnati.
There will be lots of venues with every type of genre of music you can imagine.
Really fun event.

I’ll be doing a Set on Saturday at 10:30p at the Rohs Street Cafe.
Lots of new stuff and new ideas with old stuff.
Some announcments as well.

Click Here for more Information

Swing through.

Friday March 12
10:00pm-2:30am
@ Grammers Bar

1440 Walnut Street (corner of Walnut & Liberty)

$5 @ the Door, Ladies free till 11:00pm

Everyone free with purchase from Original Thought Required

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