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PREVIEW: “CRUSH” WITH RUSTIE
The Sunday night after a week with a Monday holiday is a type of low that should be avoided at all costs. It reminds you that you shouldn’t get used to the peachy days of the previous week, when you...
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DJ SET OF THE WEEK: ARAABMUZIK
Not a DJ set per se, but a live underground stream of one of the sickest producers of the century. Araabmuzik delivers us a mix of his anticipated set at the Middle East tonight! “The MVP of the MPC”...
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INTERVIEW: THE RETURN OF THE GETO BOYS (PART 2)
Born in Jamaica, Bushwick grew up in New York and later moved to Minnesota to attend Bible college. He was planning to do missionary work in India, but on his way overseas, he stopped in Houston to see...
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INTERVIEW: THE RETURN OF THE GETO BOYS
It was a landmark moment in gangsta rap history and cemented the rapper’s legacy as one of the most notorious figures in music, right up there with GG Allin, Sid Vicious, and Marilyn Manson. Now in...
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HARD TO EARN: BOSTON RAP PROMOTER LEEDZ STUCK IT OUT WHEN THE REST SAID,...
Photo by Mona Maruyama It was April 2004 when a then-budding mononymous rap promoter known as Leedz landed his first show at the Middle East. A New Hampshire native and occasional DJ who by then had...
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LEEDZ EDUTAINMENT HOSTS TRIBUTE SHOW FOR GLENN JACKSON
Thursday night’s show at the Middle East Upstairs is exactly something Glenn Jackson would have appreciated: a packed house of hip hop heads waving their hands in the air to a lineup stacked with local...
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QURAN DMC: BLAK MADEEN ON MUSLIMS, FIVE-PERCENTERS, HIP-HOP, AND MARCO RUBIO
Image by Harrison Searle You may have noticed that Republicans aren’t hustling to win over the hip-hop demographic. In the war on black youth, they have sided with authorities. In the war on...
View ArticleQURAN DMC: BLAK MADEEN ON MUSLIMS, FIVE-PERCENTERS, HIP-HOP, AND MARCO RUBIO
While most facets of American society revolve around Christianity, as Yusuf and AL-J are quick to note, hip-hop circles around a different set of principles.
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