Articles related to "Emcee"



Creating Relationships From the MC Spot
A look at ways to create working relationships with fellow comedians while you're working as an emcee.
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Hip Hop Dance
A genre characterized by funk and soul rhythms overlaid with heavy drumbeats, Hip Hop can trace its origins back to the early 1970s and New York street emcees.
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LAMF Album Review
Not afraid to be his own man in a world of cookie-cutter artists, "underground" emcee Rheteric from Los Angeles is something completely different.
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Steps To Success: Climbing The Comedy Ladder
A look at the career path followed by stand-up comedians, from open miker to headliner. Includes detail on bookings, pay, and life on the road.
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9 Criteria to Proving the Realness of an MC
9 Criteria to Proving the Realness of an MC: BACKGROUND, BIAS, SOURCES, STYLE, SCOPE, INKD OF MC, POINT OF VIEW, PURPOSE AND PHILOSOPHY.
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The Rap Life - Entry #1: An Intro to Lou Brocc aka MexiCali Slim
A no holds barred look at "the rap life" as told by Lou Brocc aka MexiCali Slim, an up and coming emcee and self proclaimed superstar in the making. He's here to give it to you "rough, rugged and raw, like Petey Wheatstraw".
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Moving Up -- The Three Ways to Get In Front of Bookers
A look at the three ways to get your act in front of bookers at talent agencies and comedy clubs.
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j-toth's P.riceless/U.ntouchable review board
"free rent, like gas and phone, a mamma's boy even though my ass is grown, got the same bedroom since third grade, still be living here when i'm eight hundred and eighty-eight..."--Still Live With My Moms. okay, any emcee who begins his album setting himself up in a degrading position like this (joke or not,) wins the title for most secure emcee in the industry.

HIP-HOP: FROM THE UNDER BELLY TO AIRWAVES
It was once told to me that “Nobody is going to tell your story better than you.” That quote stuck with me as I began to come to the realization that The Hip-Hop Nation has collectively and falsely assumed that the true story of how this remarkable culture evolved would somehow be told by somebody other than themselves...

Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor Review
Amateur or not, Lupe Fiasco joins the ranks of fellow Chicago emcees like Kanye West, Twista, and Common with his first studio effort.
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Modern Dance Research Assignment
The rich hip hop genre evolved from youth culture. This research assignment asks students to submerge in the influences that propelled the development of the dance.
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Handsome Boy Modeling School - So How's Your Girl?
If you're looking for some crazy-ass new hip-hop material that will keep your head nodding while you scratch it in uncertainty, run out and purchase this new conceptual album by DAN THE AUTOMATOR and PRINCE PAUL.
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A Hip-Hop Classic: Nas' Illmatic
In 2008, 14 years after its initial release, Nas' debut album serves as the blueprint for any aspiring emcee hoping to create a classic.
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Boy in Da Corner Album Review
With the widespread success garnered throughout his career, this is a look at the album that crowned Dizzee Rascal as the king of grime.
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Bruce Dow at Stratford Festival
Bruce Dow played leading roles in Oliver!, South Pacific, Into The Woods, and Guys & Dolls. Now, he embarks on the role of a lifetime - the MC in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret
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All About Networking: Working With Your Fellow Comics
A look at working with your fellow local comedians to network and improve your act.
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All Shook Up in Branson
A review of the awesome All Shook Up contest that took place in Branson in May.
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Life Is A Cabaret in Stratford Theatre
The Stratford Festival of Canada is well known for its Shakespearean plays, and a new focus on Canadian works. What they continue to do best is produce superior musicals.
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Top 3 Albums of 2008
Better late than never, there are three albums that rose above the rest in 2008.
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Clean or Dirty? – Working “Blue”
A look at the value of working clean or dirty as a standup comedian and its effect on your career.
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Frukwan of Gravediggaz Speaks Out...
bgyrL4Life and Frukwan (Gravediggaz) rap about the late Poetic, life after Statasonic and the return of the Gravdiggaz.
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So, How Do You Make It? (corrected version)
A look at the process of becoming a full-time comedian.
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Movember Launches 2009 Campaign in Toronto
The Movember movement is once again raising money and awareness for men's health, one moustache at a time. A successful launch in Toronto kicked off the 2009 campaign.
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Queen Visits Canada
Her Majesty, the Queen of Canada makes her Golden Jubilee visit.
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Group 1 Crew
Fresher than this morning's latte, Group 1 Crew's self-titled Fervent Records debut will knock you out, their hearts shining through as fiercely as their bangin' sound.
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Online Hip Hop Awards 2000
The envelope please...My picks for Support Online Hip Hop's Online Hip Hop Awards 2000!
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Pettidee For Redeem the Vote
Southern rapper Pettidee will join the ranks of other recording artists to endorse Redeem the Vote, encouraging young people to vote in the November elections.
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Review of Cobra's self-titled Artists Only! Release
It's been a while, but Cobra's back with one of his better efforts in recent years.
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Cheap and Fun New York Attractions
New York culture has come to the forefront once more and is highlighted in inexpensive tours that celebrate music, art, history and the moving image.
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Soul P: The Premiere
Beatmart continues in its honorable mission to provide Godly hip-hop. Their latest offering is one of their best, Soul P's "The Premiere," smooth and real.
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The 2008 Emmy's: Why No One Watched
The 60th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards came off as a boring broadcast with no clear purpose.
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The History of Hip Hop
I got an email from a mom requesting information on the history of hip hop for her daughter who was doing a research paper for school. My first instinct was to suggest she browse my collection of hip hop history links and imagine my surprise when I realized I didn't have a collection of hip hop history links.
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Country Music Hall of Fame Inducts Pop Stoneman
Forty years after his death and 96 years after the release of his million-selling classic, Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman has joined the Country Music Hall of Fame's rolls.
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Foo Fighters Debut New Song at the White House
The Foo Fighters took a break from their extended hiatus, celebrating Independence Day with a performance at the White House.
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Must-See Summer Television Shows
These are the four shows you can't miss during this summer season.
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Not So Famous Halls Of Fame
Not so Famous Halls of Fame
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Pontypridd Male Choir Comes to California
Côr Meibion Pontypridd’s recent visit to the States gave America a taste of a longstanding Welsh choral tradition.
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The First Academy Award Ceremony
Despite competition from the Golden Globe Awards, the Emmys, & others, Oscar night remains the premier entertainment event of the year. It wasn't always that important.
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Berlin Welcomes Home Cabaret
Cabaret, the world-renowned musical that introduced thousands to pre-World War II Berlin, returns home with a run starting at the Bar jeder Vernunft beginning in October.
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Book Review - The Trouble With Tenors
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Don Rendell and Ian Carr Quintet
Some of the finest modern jazz to come out of Britain in the 60s was created by tenor saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr - jazz that is still vibrant today.
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George Hamilton the new BobBarker?
CBS' The Price Is Right offers a million dollars in send-off show for 35-year host Bob Barker.Gossip has it George Hamilton's the shoo-in for the top job on top game show
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GHOST DOG: The Way of the Samurai/The Album
i'll admit, when i went to Streetside Records to pick up GHOST DOG--i had one thing on my mind--the mesmeric eeriness of RZA's beats that i heard for two hours in the movie.
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GHOSTFACE KILLAH/ Supreme Clientele
i was way siked when i first heard this album--because finally, i could listen to a WU-TANG member who didn't make unwise decisions about his production amongst the many in the last two years (although i did like U-GOD's album a lot.)

Golden Globe History & Trivia
The Golden Globe Awards along with the Oscars and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards have become the Big Three of the annual salute to the entertainment industry.
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Heifers Stroll in Brattleboro, VT
The Strolling of the Heifers is a fun, annual event that strives to raise awareness about Vermont agriculture and to earn money for youth-oriented education programs.
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MC PAUL BARMAN/Very Stimulating (EP)
just when you thought it was safe, no one could possibly come stranger than KOOL KEITH, up jumps MC PAUL BARMAN to the boogety weirdo beat.
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Playdough: Don't Drink the Water
Anybody who caught Playdough's act with Ill Harmonics, Phonetic Composition, or Deepspace5 knew his "Don't Drink the Water" album would be something special.
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Review of "DJ's Choice" and "Triple Spin 3"
Review of VP's two latest dancehall releases.
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Review of Dr. Israel vs. Dr. X
Brooklynite Dr. Israel teams up with (goes up against?) Dr. X at the House of Dub in Ohio with some thick and heavy results.
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