Asleep at the wheel During 50 Cent’s beef with Jadakiss, Jada memorably remarked that he did “real songs with Big, no made up shits,” referring to the fact that he had once collaborated with the living Notorious B.I.G., whereas 50 had only appeared on a song that posthumously sampled Biggie’s vocals. That lyric ran...
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Midas Mania Music Group’s Midas (now going by the name DDM) has a hip-hop and club fusion record called American Graffiti coming out soon on Unruly Records. The project was first mentioned in City Paper a few weeks ago in a profile of Unruly borders-breaker Schwarz (he has a beat on the album) and,...
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Just drink it! In early 2007, a rapper named Ckrisis started making some noise around Baltimore with the mixtape Muscle Up Vol. 1 and the single “Tore Up,” in which producers the Pornstars married a Baltimore club-inspired “Think” breakbeat to a saxophone riff that sounded like it was sampled from a 1950s rock ‘n’...
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Somehow, we missed out on talking about James Nasty’s The Truth About James Nasty when it was released in early January. This pause tape-like mix of the Moustache Party DJ’s original productions, and a few from his club producer peers like Murder Mark and Benny Stixx, is a breezy, juiced-up journey through club music...
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It’s been a bittersweet year for Sean Caesar and Unruly Records, the definitive Baltimore club label that he founded with DJ Scottie B in the early ’90s. This summer, they signed a long-awaited distribution deal with the country’s largest independent label, Koch Records. But, almost simultaneously, the Unruly family also lost a vital member...
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www.joshsisk.com Scottie B and K-Swift A funny thing about Baltimore club music is that you can listen to it almost endlessly and not get sick of it. By all rights you should–it’s technically repetitive as all hell, and there seems to be a mathematical law that demands that over the course of three DJs,...
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Considering how much Baltimore club is defined by high energy and fast tempos, it’s no mean feat to make some of the most aggressive, in-your-face music the genre has to offer. But that’s just what’s being accomplished these days by Dirty Nation Entertainment, a pair of college kids making their own noise that DJ...
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Brandon Harris had been spinning records as DJ B-Eazy for nearly 10 years before he broke into the Baltimore club scene as a producer. And that breakthrough came partly as a result of advice from his cousin, the already established DJ Manny. “‘Baltimore has a thousand DJs, you gotta set yourself apart,’ that’s what...
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| Image by Sexy Fitsum/iLLIMETER Taxlo fixture DJ Dave Nada has been busy spreading his rowdy blend of Baltimore club and hip-hop far beyond the East Coast. Despite a gnarly cold, Nada was kind enough to check in with Noise during a lull between touring, to discuss recent shows in California and Canada, his...
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