Bryant Dope‘s new video for “Champion Sound” premiered on The Fader. Click here to check it out.

 

 

Click here to grab the Smif-n-Wessun-sampling MP3 for free.

We’ve teamed up with Mobli to bring you a killer not-CMJ show on Wednesday night (10/17) at 285 Kent. The show is all ages, will run you a meer $10, and kicks off at 8PM.

Here’s what Wednesday night will look like:

☰ Heems (of Das Racist)
☰☰ Main Attrakionz
☰☰☰ Kool A.D. (of Das Racist)
☰☰☰☰ Deniro Farrar
☰☰☰☰☰ Cities Aviv
☰☰☰☰☰☰ Bryant Dope
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Kitty Pryde
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Supreme Cuts
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Sasha GoHard
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Ryan Hemsworth
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Weekend Money
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ CBG
☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰☰ Safe

Come hang! RSVP via Facebook.

Our friends Mishka NYC recently chatted with Fat Tony about some of his favorite things (spoiler alert: Guinness and denim). Here’s a snippet:

Mishka NYC: How did you get started rapping and making music?

Fat Tony: I was in middle school. I was walking to my 7^th period history class, coming from P.E. I was listening to my walkman, jamming to radio. And they played Cam’Ron “Oh Boy,” you know the classic produced by Just Blaze? It was my first time hearing the song and I was just like mesmerized by it. I ran to my three friends and I was like “We gon be a fuckin rap group! You gon be our manager! You gon be a rapper! You go rap, too and I’m gonna produce!” I went home and I was like “I gotta bring some beats back for these boys!” But, I didn’t know how to make beats at all.

So, what I did is I got on the internet, I went to Soundclick.com and I found some free beats I thought sounded okay. I pulled out my little Radioshack tape recorder, I recorded the shit, I put it on a tape and brought it to school the next day like “Ah man we about to rap to this!” The next grade I got a little more advanced with it. I had a homeboy that had a lot of speakers and mics and stuff. We went out to his house one evening and chilled and recorded. The first two songs I really recorded was on Mobb Deep’s beat for “Win Or Lose” and over a Pete Rock beat. And we sampled that Pimp C line from “Big Pimpin” that line “What you know about them Texas Boys?” I forget what we called the song we made over the “Win Or Lose Beat.” But, it was something very revolutionary and powerful.

Check out the full interview HERE.

Good morning, West Coast. We’ve got a special treat for you. In honor of Main Attrakionz‘ side of the country, you can now purchase their forthcoming debut LP, Bossalinis & Fooliyones, early from select retailers. The record officially hits stores on October 22, and these are a very limited amount of CD-only test copies.

If you hurry, you’ll be able to find Bossalinis & Fooliyones in these stores:

Amoeba Records – 1855 Haight St., San Francisco, CA 94117 | (415) 831-1200
Amoeba Records – 2455 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94707 | (510) 549-1125
Rasputin Music – 2401 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704 | (510) 704-1146
Fingerprints – 420 E. 4th St., Long Beach, CA 90802 | (562) 433-4996
Silver Platters – 701 5th Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109 | (206) 283-3472
Easy Street – 20 Mercer St., Seattle, WA 98109 | (206) 691-EASY
Sonic Boom – 2209 NW Market St, Seattle, WA 98107 | (206) 297-BOOM

Good luck!

Main Attrakionz share “Do It For The Bay” today, the lead single from their debut full-length album, Bossalinis & Fooliyones, due out on October 22. You can stream and/or download the track, which features fellow Bay Area rapper DaVinci and production from Harry Fraud, HERE.