Possibly the hardest working emcee in NYC right now, Donny Goines kicks it with Skyzoo in Manhattan for the latest edition of his “Bars” series.
Possibly the hardest working emcee in NYC right now, Donny Goines kicks it with Skyzoo in Manhattan for the latest edition of his “Bars” series.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Freestyles
Tagged: Donny Goines, East Coast Hip-Hop, Independent Hip-Hop, New York, Skyzoo, Underground Hip-Hop
King Syze ft. Outerspace – “Sibling Rivalry Pt. 2″ ( Babygrande / 2008 )
Taken from the Jedi Mind Tricks affiliate’s album “The Labor Union”.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Music Videos
Tagged: Babygrande Records, East Coast Hip-Hop, Independent Hip-Hop, Jedi Mind Tricks, King Syze, Outerspace, Underground Hip-Hop, Vinnie Paz
Redman – “Run My Block Freestyle” ( Gilla House / 2008 )
Some typically amusing video craziness from the Funk Doc taken from the “Ready Or Not” mix-CD.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Freestyles · Music Videos
Tagged: Def Squad, East Coast Hip-Hop, Gilla House, Independent Hip-Hop, Redman, Underground Hip-Hop
Pain Language – “9MM” ( Soul Assassins / Gold Chain Music / 2008 )
Trailers for this clip have been floating around online for a few months now but here’s the official jizzoint.
Bonus Clip: DJ Muggs in the studio working on the new Cypress Hill album.
Categories: Music Videos · West Coast Hip-Hop
Tagged: Cypress Hill, DJ Muggs, Gold Chain Music, Independent Hip-Hop, Pain Language, Planet Asia, Soul Assassins, Underground Hip-Hop, West Coast Hip-Hop
SonnyJim ft. Jehst & Cappo – “The God Complex” ( Dented / 2008 )
Beat Butcha-produced banger from Jim’s forthcoming “Trading Standards” mix-CD.
Categories: UK Hip-Hop
Tagged: Beat Butcha, Cappo, Independent Hip-Hop, Jehst, SonnyJim, UK Hip-Hop, Underground Hip-Hop
The good people at Ninja Tune / Big Dada have asked me to make this accapella of Roots Manuva’s recent single “Buff Nuff” available to download incase any producer-types out there want to get their remix on – you can cop it here.
Categories: UK Hip-Hop
Tagged: Big Dada Recordings, Ninja Tune, Roots Manuva, UK Hip-Hop
Kyza performing at London’s End Of The Weak event complete with live band.
Categories: Live Performances · UK Hip-Hop
Tagged: End Of The Weak, Independent Hip-Hop, Kyza, Kyza Smirnoff, London, UK Hip-Hop, Underground Hip-Hop
Souls Of Mischief’s Opio receives some strong support from his producer The Architect, Del The Funkee Homosapien and Tame-One as he talks about his new album “Vulture’s Wisdom, Volume One”.
Categories: West Coast Hip-Hop
Tagged: Del The Funkee Homosapien, Hieroglyphics, Independent Hip-Hop, Opio, Souls Of Mischief, Tame One, Underground Hip-Hop, West Coast Hip-Hop
GrandGood.Com delivers some dope live footage from the Video Music Box 25th Anniversary Concert with Ralph McDaniels in NYC’s Central Park earlier this month.
DJ Hollywood & Lovebug Starski
Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz)
Spoonie Gee
Lovebug Starski
Crash Crew
Nice & Smooth
Schoolly D
Special Ed
Sugarhill Gang & Grandmaster Caz
Milk Dee (Audio Two)
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Live Performances · Old-School Hip-Hop
Tagged: Audio Two, Crash Crew, DJ Hollywood, East Coast Hip-Hop, Grandmaster Caz, Lost Boyz, Lovebug Starski, Milk Dee, Mr. Cheeks, Nice & Smooth, Old-School Hip-Hop, Ralph McDaniels, Schoolly D, Special Ed, Spoonie Gee, Sugarhill Gang, Video Music Box
Interview and performance footage of BDK on Whodini’s 25th Anniversary Tour last month courtesy of Connecticut’s Lorna’s Corner.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Live Performances · Old-School Hip-Hop
Tagged: Big Daddy Kane, East Coast Hip-Hop, Juice Crew, Old-School Hip-Hop
The Compton Kid being interviewed at Kube 93’s Summer Jam in Seattle.
Part One
Part Two
Categories: Hip-Hop Radio · West Coast Hip-Hop
Tagged: Black Wall Street, Compton, Interscope Records, Kube93, LAX, Los Angeles, The Game, West Coast Hip-Hop
Interview footage from Scion Radio’s Metro Tour.
Brand Nubian
Big Daddy Kane
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Old-School Hip-Hop
Tagged: Big Daddy Kane, Brand Nubian, East Coast Hip-Hop, Grand Puba, Lord Jamar, Old-School Hip-Hop, Sadat X, Scion Metro Tour
Here are a few bits and pieces that landed in my inbox over the weekend while I was away from the computer celebrating my 33rd birthday – I’m old-school and proud, people!!
Butta Verses “Officer Ross” Freestyle
I don’t usually get too heavily involved in posting beef-related content up on Old To The New mainly because most of it’s just corny WWF-style hype - but I couldn’t help cracking a smile when I heard this new freestyle from Butta Verse’s regarding the recent internet scandal surrounding Rick “I’m A Boss” Ross’s previous career as a Corrections Officer.
Download the freestyle here but for a more accurate example of what to expect from the former De La Soul protege’s forthcoming album “Reality BV” lookout for the new single “If I Die”.
Kardinal Offishall talks to HipHopOfficial about the Canadian rap scene and his forthcoming album “Not 4 Sale”.
Wu-Tang’s RZA in London on DJ MK’s KissFM rap show dropping some knowledge as well as a freestyle.
Footage of Slum Village’s Elzhi performing “Motown 25″ and “That’s That One” on HipHopOfficial.
New Joint : Big Pooh – “With You” ( Hall Of Justus / 2008 )
Lifted from the Little Brother emcee’s forthcoming mix-CD “Rapper’s Delight”.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Freestyles · Hip-Hop Radio · Live Performances · Midwest Hip-Hop
Tagged: Big Pooh, Butta Verses, DJ MK, Elzhi, Hall Of Justus, Justus League, Kardinal Offishall, KissFM, Little Brother, Rick Ross, Slum Village, The Rza
Donny goes to Queens to link up with WhyG and Homeboy Sandman for the latest instalment of his “Bars” freestyle series.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Freestyles
Tagged: Donny Goines, East Coast Hip-Hop, Freestyles, Homeboy Sandman, New York, WhyG
Classic early-90s clip of the mighty Digital Underground performing their “No Nose Job” single on Yo! MTV Raps.
Categories: Live Performances · Old-School Hip-Hop · West Coast Hip-Hop
Tagged: Old-School Hip-Hop, West Coast Hip-Hop, 2Pac, Yo! MTV Raps, Digital Underground, Shock G, Humpty Hump, DJ Fuze, Money B, Tommy Boy Records
Nas protests outside Fox News in NYC with ColorOfChange.Org.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop
Tagged: ColorOfChange.Org, Def Jam Records, East Coast Hip-Hop, Fox News, Nas
After some hotel room rehearsing, Canada’s extremely talented Eternia tears it down with Chesney Snow in Philadelphia at Cushapalooza 2008.
Categories: Live Performances
Tagged: Canadian Hip-Hop, Chesney Snow, Cushapalooza 2008, Eternia, Female Rappers
Nice & Smooth – “Old To The New” ( RAL / 1994 )
It’s hot outside and this joint always reminds me of the summer of 94 when my friends and I had nothing better to do than chase girls, hang out, tell mother jokes and debate the brilliance of debut albums from Nas, Jeru The Damaja and Outkast.
Shoutout to the homies DB and DJ Maniphest who I know will each be cracking a colgate-grin whilst watching this clip.
Plus, if you didn’t know already, this is, of course, where the name for this blog came from.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Music Videos · Old-School Hip-Hop
Tagged: East Coast Hip-Hop, Greg Nice, Nice & Smooth, Old-School Hip-Hop, RAL, Rush Associated Labels, Smooth Bee
Footage of Naughty By Nature performing at NYC’s Queensbridge Park yesterday.
“O.P.P.”
“Uptown Anthem”
“Everything’s Gonna Be Alright”
“Feel Me Flow”
“Classic Hip-Hop Medley”
“Hip-Hop Hooray”
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Live Performances · Old-School Hip-Hop
Tagged: East Coast Hip-Hop, Kay-Gee, Naughty By Nature, New Jersey, Old-School Hip-Hop, Queensbridge Park, Treach, Vinnie
Reks – “The One” ( Brick / 2008 )
Taken from the Boston lyricist’s dope ”Grey Hairs” album which dropped this week.
Categories: East Coast Hip-Hop · Music Videos
Tagged: Boston, Brick Records, East Coast Hip-Hop, Independent Hip-Hop, Reks, Showoff Records, Statik Selektah, Underground Hip-Hop