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The story of our generation.
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This is a Dom Kennedy appreciation post. Just a classic Dom Kennedy appreciation post.
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Ray J calls into the Breakfast Club to talk about Fabolous, 2011.
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Kendrick Lamar impersonating Wiz and Curren$y over a Cardo beat, on today's date in 2011.
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In 2006, Vibe interviewed Dem Franchize Boyz about the perfect white tee. Jizzal Man said that 5XL was the perfect size.
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Very rare footage of
@kidcudi
in 2006, walking around East New York while on break from working at places like Abercrombie and the grocery store Dean & Deluca, dreaming of a more-fulfilling life.
We talk about this piece of Cudi's life in our 7th episode of The Blog Era Podcast.
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Joe Budden, Wale and Nicki Minaj on Joe Budden TV, 2009.
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Raekwon, Tickle Me Elmo and his bodyguard for Supreme in 2005.
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This is a Pac Div appreciation tweet. There will be many others, but this is one of them.
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This is CRAZY.
Did you know Don Cannon's tag is actually a clip of Pat Summerall in Madden 2001 saying Rich Gannon's last name ?
shit is legendary 🔥
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What women - artists, bloggers, managers, designers, It Girls, etc. - should get more attention for their contributions to the Blog Era?
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Curren$y, Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, 2011.
The trio put out a few songs together - "Dot Dot Dot," "Flowers," "OTTR," "Proceed" among them - but, while a full mixtape was expected, we never got it.
Photo credit:
@Missinfo
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In 2009,
@charleshamilton
had a showcase at NYC's SOB's. In the middle of the night, he went in the audience and asked anyone if they wanted to get on the mic. The second person to say yes was a friend of
@jayrock
's, another artist on the bill. It was an unknown
@kendricklamar
.
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Little Brother, 2006. The blueprint for a ton of people who came afterwards.
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In June 2010, Drake did his first headlining show in NYC after Thank Me Later's release -- a free concert thrown by Paper Magazine at South Street Seaport. 10k people were expected to show, but 20k did. Chairs were thrown. A riot ensued and 7 people got injured.
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Name some artists who were wayyyyy ahead of the curve during the Blog Era. I'll go first.
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Damon Dash may have been brash, but he was also brilliant. And consistently ahead of his time. His art gallery / recording studio / inspiration headquarters, better known as DD172 was the pinnacle of independence. For more, episode 6 of the Blog Era podcast
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We spoke to:
Wiz
Dom Kennedy
Mickey Factz
Chuck Inglish
Miss Info
Joe Budden
Vashtie
FakeShoreDrive
Smoking Section
KRIT
Bun B
Curren$y
Illroots
Big Sean
DZA
Action
Meka from 2DopeBoyz
Charles Hamilton
eskay from NahRight
…and over 100 others who made the Blog Era what it was!
The 4X Signal Award-winning podcast
@theblogera
is more than just music or tech.
It's The American Dream realized and snatched away.
We spoke with 150 people, recorded 500+ hours of original interviews and weaved together the story of our generation.
Available now!!!
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It's
@CurrenSy_Spitta
's birthday today!
Where'd you first find out about him? What song/project was it?
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BET Awards, 2013, when DJ Drama, J Cole and actor Brandon T Jackson all showed up accidentally wearing the same Versace shirt.
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11 years ago today, we did Travis Scott's first interview.
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#KushAndOJ
producers' appreciation thread:
Starting with
@Sledgren
, who Wiz would hang out with most days after school. 'Never Been's glass bottles are sampled from an RPG Sledgren used to play (Chrono Trigger, on SNES). It's 1 of 3 samples that had to be changed for streaming.
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It's
@CurrenSy_Spitta
's birthday today!
Where'd you first find out about him? What song/project was it?
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On May 3, 2012,
@fakeshoredrive
premiered
@PUSHA_T
's extended verse for the Chief Keef "Don't Like" remix after Pusha tweeted "I’m gonna see if I can put out my original verse…a couple dopeboy philosophies were edited out my verse. Glad u guys like it tho!!"
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24 Hour Karate School mixtape trailer, featuring Yasiin Bey, Jay Electronica, Curren$y, Jim Jones, Tabi Bonney, Rugz D Bewler, The Cool Kids, Dame Dash, Stalley, Nicole Wray, Ski Beatz, Jean Grae and Ras Kass.
Shot by Creative Control at DD172.
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Rare footage of Kendrick Lamar on Fuse, talking about how he and others from his era used Drake’s So Far Gone as a blueprint. (via
@nupefiasco
)
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On June 5, 2012, Mac Miller released the first song off his Pink Slime project he planned in collaboration with Pharrell. The song immediately became the top trending topic on Twitter. The mixtape never came out in full but some songs ended up on other projects.
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Tim Vocals- Marvin's Room Remix (Goon Style), 2012.
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What's the best produced mixtape of the Blog Era?
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J Cole, Wale and Rick Ross, on the set of Wale's Bad Girls Club music video, 2011.
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Some early Odd Future photos from 1) DAZED Magazine and 2, 3, 4) their Tumblr.
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In 2006,
@WizKhalifa
gets his first cover for an interview, thanks to
@PGHCityPaper
.
"For 19-year-old Wiz Khalifa, conquering the world is easy -- but winning over Pittsburgh is hard."
Link here:
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The "Joe Budden is a failed rapper" narrative is...complicated! But we get into it in the first idea of The Blog Era, our 10-part series, talking about Def Jam in the early 2000s and why the old label system had to change with the internet.
Spotify:
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Definitely did not remember Nardwuar was talking to Future about cheesecake when he said "sensational."
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Jay Rock, Kendrick and Nipsey freestyling in 2009. RIP Nipsey, RIP DJ Kay Slay.
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June 7, 2011:
Nipsey Hussle - Keys 2 The City
Full thing:
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Before there was fake news, there was MediaTakeOut.
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Overdoz - Pasadena, 2011.
The song and video that made Pharrell want to work with the LA group. P said it reminded him of Busta's "Gimme Some More," his favorite video. Also: shouts to
@CALMATIC
on the video and
@Thundercat
on the beat.
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There was a community online from 2005-2012 that allowed everyone running pop culture online to thrive. Drake, Cudi, Wiz, Curren$y, Nicki, Mac Miller, and hundreds of others came from that. When bloggers took the mantle from the gatekeepers and became gatekeepers themselves.
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J. Cole (and Kendrick and U-N-I) rapping "Lights Please" and "A Star is Born" at U-N-I's album release party for A Love Supreme 2.0 in 2010.
@thurzday
@LoveChakraa
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A$AP Rocky, A$AP Mob and Danny Brown performing "Purple Swag" in the backyard of Alife in NYC, August 2011. The video had come out just a month earlier, Rocky's debut mixtape LIVE. LOVE. A$AP would drop that Halloween. (via
@crookrobbins
)
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In 2009,
@ScHoolboyQ
is interviewed on the set of his first video shoot, for “Take the Pain.” He says he’ll be touring with Asher Roth, Cudi & Tyga and, maybe most importantly, pronounces “Twitter” like “Tweeter.”
He also gives out his email — check and see if it works!
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A portion of Drake's "Better Than Good Enough" documentary he did in 2010. Shot after "So Far Gone" and before "Thank Me Later," it shows the young artist trying to keep up with momentum while struggling to hold it all together. (via
@sixfever
)
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Shouts to
@Rosenbergradio
and
@CurrenSy_Spitta
- two amazing products of The Blog Era - for speaking on this transformational time!
@theblogera
drops in April, subscribe now wherever you listen to podcasts!
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Had a realization today that this is just a stan account for people in their 30s.
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Jay-Z and Eminem dispassionately trying to sell, DJ Hero, a video game they themselves would never play, 2009.
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I was about to start a thread of all the Blog Era Bun B verses but I just found...161 different songs.
So, why don't we do this: send me your favorite Bun B verses and moments during 2006 - 2012!
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I need everyone to listen to our podcast today — we want to get to number one. They’re all great episodes but this - about Charles Hamilton and Kid Cudi’s journeys, and how they relate to the larger story we’re telling - is the one:
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Ari Lennox (
@arilennox
) in 2009 in Brooklyn, singing a cover of Blink-182's "I Miss You."
Full thing here:
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In 2003, the music industry is in freefall: every album is easily available for free online, thanks to Napster.
Their backs against the wall, the big 5 labels sign a deal with the devil. Their shitty position allows Steve Jobs to price music at 99¢, to sell iPods, not music.
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From 2007:
@sza
and
@Stalley
, in the backyard of NYC's Alife® Rivington Club on the Lower East Side.
Photo by
@foodrap
via
@aieshatweets
.
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I always forget this is technically a Def Jam release.
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Early Joe Budden, pre-Blog Era. Episode 1 and 2, now streaming:
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In 2005,
@JohnGotty
(a schoolteacher in Nashville) started The Smoking Section over email, sending zshare links of songs and 100 word reviews to friends. It would eventually grow to become a platform for
@BIGKRIT
,
@FreddieGibbs
,
@bobatl
and many others.
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In 2006, Onika Maraj, a girl from Queens who’d studied drama at NYC's famous Laguardia High School, was just dabbling with rap. After uploading some of her music onto her MySpace page, she connected with a hustler with a big personality, a man named Big Fendi.
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I just asked
#BodegaBamz
the story behind this photo (with
@ZOMBIEJuicee
,
@asvpxrocky
,
@ASAPferg
,
@MeechIsDEAD
and ASAP Yams). The fourth slide is of Bamz' front door.
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Send us your pictures and memories from the Blog Era. Any artists you met, concerts you went to, times you were posted by a blog, songs that changed your life. Let’s make this
#The
thread.
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What’s your favorite news story from the Blog Era that people definitely forgot?
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Who did your favorite freestyle during the Blog Era, and what was it?
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The Blog Era is when we went from 5XL plain white tees to smedium 10.Deep off Karmaloop.
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Yes.
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Want to know how Drake got on? How Cole got on? How Kendrick, Wale, Nicki, Mac, Curren$y, KRIT, Cool Kids, Dom Kennedy and hundreds of others did?
Listen to our (award-winning!) audio series, The Blog Era.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and across the internet.
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It's a smokers' holiday. Burn one.
Here's the 2011 Complex cover with Wiz Khalifa and Danny McBride, art directed by Brent Rollins (who was on a *killer* run).
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Happy Father’s Day to the Cool Kids, who birthed all your style.
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DC wasn't like NYC or LA. In 06, Wale couldn't stand next to Jay or Snoop. But his passion burned to show that he and his city were on the level. With music, he found a healthy outlet for this. Modeled after
#NikeTalk
, Wale & his circle found value in being exclusive.
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