Mixtape - The Chronicles, Freesytles Vol. 1

Greetings World,
It has been a minute since my last update on my blog. It has been crazy to say the least in the last month. I been all through the ATL promoting and spinning at different events. Besides all the new gigs that I am involved in (follow on instagram or facebook for updates), I now have the chance to get in some serious quality time in the Motherland Music studio with my artist MT MotherlandBoy.
This was one of the reasons for me relocating from Berlin to Atlanta, so now its time to make the best of it, buckle down and do what we do best... work on some dope music.
I now am able to influence some of the projects, put my own little touch on it and to kick off our collaboration of we decided to compile a mixtape with the best freestyles that we had recorded up to date. Of course I made sure to put MT on some dope old skool classic Hip Hop beats as well as newer instrumentals. The result is a beautiful blend of old and new school filled with freestyle bars.

Let me present to you:

Selecta Shizzle & MT Motherlandboy - The Chronicles, Freestyles Vol. 1

Selecta Shizzle - A Journey into Vinyl Vol. 1 (live mixing session)

Check out my latest all vinyl mixing session!!
Much love from Atlanta!

Scratch Practice

Selecta Shizzle Practice Session Snippet

Only propper preperation and hard practice makes perfect. I am by far not up there, but I love Hip Hop and I work hard every day.

Sometimes you just don't.... #scratch #scratchpractice practice makes perfect and alway remember the 5 P's!!! proper preperation prevents poor performance! Letz go! The road to turntableism is looooong... "Die Reise ist das Ziel" you better have fun on the way. #motherlandmusic living #hiphoplife #HipHop #selecta #funinthestudio #vinyl #analog #therealessence #4elements #dj #turntablist #turntablism #fun #berlin #herthabsc

Ein von Selecta Shizzle (@selectashizzle) gepostetes Video am 6. Mär 2015 um 5:20 Uhr

MIG Mixtape

THE MIG MIXTAPE

MIG stands for Motherland Music, Ivoricanz and Global Dynasty. If you have been following us for a while you would see that Koffi Masta (Ivoricanz)  and Jay (Global Dynasty) are working close together with MT and Motherland Music, so it was only a matter of time to get everybody together on a project and make it final. That was the birth of the MIG Mixtape. This mix is a interesting project made with non original beats and two languages: English and French, three different styles combined into one mixtape.

The mixtape can be found on Datpiff as usually, but no download is possible due to copyright issues.
None the less you can listen to it under this following link:

MIG Mixtape

A couple videos where released of tracks on the the mixtape:

Danny Glover remix

Ice Cream Freestyle

Un bon Son de Bru Freestyle

The Evils

As usual, leave us some feedback, rate, listen enjoy!!
Bless

Update: Motherland Music

MOTHERLAND MUSIC UPDATE

Yes massive we are back. It has been a while that I posted to my beloved blog, however it was all for good reasons. The Motherland Music team was scattered all over the globe to get ready for the new year 2015 and put MM in a better place. So this update is going to entail most of the new releases from Motherland Music that we have been working on since our last post. Enjoy



First of we released a new Mixtape:

MT Motherlandboy "Coming to America Vol. 2" hosted by DJ AONE
The mixtape basically pics up where MT left off with vol. 1. He is still shining a light on aspects of exploitation happening in Mali and all of Africa pointing out several injustices. The style is elevated as everybody would expect from a sequel mixtape. It is also hosted by DJ AONE who was also putting his contributions on volume 1.

Check it out download as usually is free:


MT MOTHERLANDBOY - COMING TO AMERICA VOL.2



We also released a video for the lead single:

MT Motherlandboy - "Tear Drop":

Also on the Coming To America Vol. 2 is a dedicated track from MT to his homie O' Boy who also had been shouted out on Vol.1 showing how much he invests in hi team and loyalty.

MT Motherlandboy - "Free O'Boy":

MT Motherlandboy traveling back to Mali

Since the release of "Coming to America Vol. 2", MT traveled to Africa to reconnect with his people in the Motherland. Doing what we do best MT networked with local artists and performed at a few shows in Bamako, Mali. The result was two collaborations with local artists from Bamako:

MT Motherlandboy and "D to the O" in "What you talkin' About?"

MT Motherlandboy and Joloko in Pas Do Beyan Remix

Feel free to like and share. We really like your feedback and words of encuragement!
Bless

What is Hip Hop?

Everyday when I am out and about in Berlin or Atlanta, or even when I just surf the Internet, I get annoyed by these "promoters", "DJ's" and "Rappers" that supposedly are promoting and representing "Hip Hop". One look at their content, one visit to their event and one listen to one of their tunes is all it usually takes to convince me that they got it all wrong. Clearly these people have not understood what Hip Hop stands for or even means. Maybe they just use it to try and get more customers, but anyway this needs to stop. We can't let these people continuously slander the name of Hip Hop. I usually feel a deep urge to educate them but with the ignorant people of today all that this would lead into is me screaming at them, missing the effect that I had hoped for.

"DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT HIP HOP IS

 AND WHAT IT STANDS FOR???"

So instead of complaining and turning into a miserable grandpa one day, I am writing this post to put a piece of my mind out there. I am praying that it not only educates a one or two, but also inspires people to partake in this "lifestyle", this "culture" that true Hip Hop represents.

"Once upon a time
on the planet somewhere

a bombastic beat was born... 

Lets call her Hip Hop!" - Erykah Badu

To get to the beginning of it all we travel back to 1974 when Afrika Bambaataa had just returned from Africa where he was crowned a Zulu King. It is that year, that he turned and formed the world renowned "Zulu Nation".
Besides forming a movement that is still represented to day in most of the countries of the world, he sat down and decided to define the elements and principles of Hip Hop. What he came up with is what we today call the
"4 elements" and the "4 principles" of Hip Hop:

4 elements:

• The DJ
• The MC
• Graphiti Art
• Breakdancing

4 Principles:

• Peace
• Love
• Unity
• Having Fun

Afrika Bambaataa even joined forces with James Brown and made a song about the 4 principles.

Hit it!

As time passed Hip Hop evolved and grew. At this point KRS-ONE made interesting statements about the genre.
KRS-ONE personally said that Hip Hop didn't just include the 4 elements laid out by Afrika Bambaataa anymore, but that people evolved Hip Hop to 9 elements extending the original by 5 and that they are to be included when one speaks on or about Hip Hop. The elements he was talking about are:

• Beat-boxing
• Street-Fashion
• Street-Language
• Street-Knowledge
• Street-Entrepreneurship (not including illegal activities)

Once you include these additional 5 elements, it becomes clear that this is no longer a Genre, but it has evolved into a lifestyle. Please note that there are no mentions of faking the funk, lip singing or any other way to get one unskilled self on a big stage. There is no place in Hip Hop for fakers.

 Hip Hop is such a beautiful thing cause the music alone can be expressed in different forms ranging from "militant" to "conscious" , "joyful" to "sad", "educational" to "dancing & clubbing".

Its about time people started living the lifestyle again.



Before I am done I would like to share this with you:
A MC (Master of Ceremony) is a Rapper, but a Rapper is not automatically a MC.
Hip Hop entails Rap, but Rap is nothing else than "rapidly" speaking over a beat.
Violence has nothing to do with Hip Hop.

"The courage to be yourself is the essence of Hip Hop" 

that means:

"BEEING ORIGINAL" 

is what makes you part of Hip Hop.

Real Hip Hop music comes down to 3 essentials: 2 Turntables and 1 Mic.
(no computers, no effects, just naked skills)

Of course you still need a phat MC on the set!

I myself, born into the CD player and computer DJ age am trying to work my way back to the old way. Out of respect, out of the urge to learn and last but not least out of love for Hip Hop.

The Most "EXTENSIVE" Vocabulary in HIP HOP

Today I came across a very interesting read on Hip Hop DX. A self proclaimed "Data Scientist" supposedly started a project where he analyzed the song texts  from various rappers gathered via "Rap Genius". In this research he was only counting the number of unique words that occur in the sampled rappers "first" 35.000 verses. His results are very interesting yet leave plenty of room for new questions, since this study only reveals the rapper using the most of the vocabulary available to him. Its actually pretty cool to see rappers being put on a scale with our worlds greatest poet Shakespeare.

After I read the article and being a scientist myself I first wonder what the definition of "unique word" is that the author throws around all to happily without defining. Unfortunately the writer did not see it necessary to give us a better idea of what this study actually means and leaves us wondering. "Is a word unique when nobody ever used it before?", if so then why are 90's artists on a scale with artists that came out much later and if there are unique words, then should not all words be unique? Like I said its not a conclusive research but its definitely entertaining.

Also interesting to see would be if there is a correlation to album sales, total number of words used by a rapper or even what rapper keeps using the same words.
After all I am just happy to see that WU-Tang Clan did alright and represent good Hip Hop! Check it out though!

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