Showing posts with label dvds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dvds. Show all posts
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Beats_Rhymes_and_Life_The_Travels_of_a_Tribe_Called_Quest_2011_LIMITED_DOCU_BDRip_XviD
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop
bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have
kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much
publicized breakup in 1998. Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind
the scenes drama that follows the band to this day. He explores what's next for, what
many claim, are the pioneers of alternative rap.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Scratch.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
Scratch.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
added to the Street DVD Collection
While rappers may be the most visible musical exponents of hip-hop culture, it's the DJs (or "turntablists," as some prefer to be called) who generate the funky beats and cut-and-paste musical structures that have made hip-hop the dominant musical phenomena of the past 20 years. Scratch is a documentary that examines the role of the DJ in hip-hop music, from the pioneering work of old school hip-hop artists like Afrika Bambaata and Jazzy Jay to contemporary masters like noted trip-hop musician DJ Shadow and award-winning turntablist group Invisibl Skratch Piklz. The film also explores how DJs turned the turntable into a musical instrument, the increasingly elaborate techniques involved in "scratching" (manipulating vinyl discs, turntables, and tone arms to produce different sonic effects), and how different turntablists dig up the rare and elusive LPs from which they draw the samples that they craft into new songs. Scratch was directed by Doug Pray, who previously examined a different musical phenomenon -- the Seattle rock scene that spawned the grunge explosion -- in his film Hype!.
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 92 mins
- Download Part 1 HERE
- Download Part 2 HERE
- Download Part 3 HERE
- Download Part 4 HERE
Monday, October 3, 2011
Young.Jeezy.Thug.Motivation.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
Young.Jeezy.Thug.Motivation.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
Exploring the life and music of a hip-hop phenom, this program is packed with performance footage, interviews and behind-the-scenes clips. Known on the streets as "the Snow Man," Young Jeezy was a troubled Atlanta teen involved in the drug world before he became part of rap group Boyz N Da Hood. He went solo in 2005 with the multiplatinum album "Let's Get It," and there's been no looking back ever since.
Download Part 1 HERE
Download Part 3 HERE
Download Part 4 HERE
Planet.Rock.The.Story.of.Hip.Hop.and.the.Crack.Generation.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM
Planet.Rock.The.Story.of.Hip.Hop.and.the.Crack.Generation.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUMPlanet.Rock.The.Story.of.Hip.Hop.and.the.Crack.Generation.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM
Link.............: http://www.vh1.com/shows/vh1_rock_docs/episode.jhtml?episodeID=183554
Release Date.....: 2011-09-19
Filesize.........: 700.905MB
Runtime..........: 1h23m
Video............: 1052Kbps XviD
Audio............: 144Kbps MP3 2 channels
Frame Size.......: 624x352
Frame Rate.......: 29.970 fps
Description......: Archival video footage, photographs and interviews with prolific rappers are used to investigate the connection
between the emergence of crack cocaine and hip-hop music during the 1980s, along with their cultural impact.
Download Part 1 HERE
Download Part 2 HERE
Friday, September 23, 2011
The.Comedy.Central.Roast.of.Charlie.Sheen.HDTV.XviD-aAF
The.Comedy.Central.Roast.of.Charlie.Sheen.HDTV.XviD-aAF
aAF released a special Comedy Central program “Roast of Charlie Sheen”.
RELEASE DATE........: 2011.09.20
XviD | MP3 | 700.48MB
Seth MacFarlane hosts a salute to actor and all-around winner Charlie Sheen. Roasters include Jeffrey Ross, Anthony Jeselnik, Steve-O, Harvey Levin and Mike Tyson.
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
How.Hip.Hop.Changed.The.World.WS.PDTV.XviD
How.Hip.Hop.Changed.The.World.WS.PDTV.XviD-FTPRelease Group: FTP
Release Name: How.Hip.Hop.Changed.The.World.WS.PDTV.XviD-FTP
Release Date: 2011-08-15
Filename: How.Hip.Hop.Changed.The.World.WS.PDTV.XviD-FTP.avi
Source: PDTV
Size: 1.414 GB (1,517,999,369 bytes)
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: N/A
Season & Episode: How Hip Hop Changed The World
Presented by actor, DJ, MC and lifelong hip hop fan Idris Elba (The Wire, Luther) and featuring stars from both sides of the Atlantic (Snoop Dogg, Mark Ronson, Nas, Rakim, Debbie Harry, Jessie J, Chipmunk, Tinchy Stryder and N Dubz, to name just a few), How Hip Hop Changed the World counts down the defining moments of a culture that exploded out of the wastelands of 1970s New York and went on to become one of the most dominant global economic, political and social forces of our time.
Download Part 1 HERE
Download Part 2 HERE
Download Part 3 HERE
Download Part 4 HERE
Amy.Winehouse.The.Untold.Story DVD
Amy.Winehouse.The.Untold.Story.WS.PDTV.XviD-C4TVAired On Channel: FiVE
Airing Date: 04/08/2011
Resolution: 624 x 352
Audio: MP3 128kbps VBR 48KHz
Size: 350 MB DESCRiPTiON: Documentary examining the life of the late singer-songwriter, who died on
Saturday July 23. On stage, she was one of the most gifted female vocalists of
modern times, but away from the spotlight, the demons of drunken binges, drug
abuse and an explosive relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil led her to spiral
out of control. Featuring interviews with her former husband and mother-in-law
Georgette, this documentary reveals the reality of her life away from the
headlines
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Black & Blue : Legend Of The Hip Hop Cop DVD
- In March of 2008, the LA Times published an article that implicated Sean "Diddy" Combs and his associates in the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at Quad Recording Studios in New York. A few days later, the Times retracted the article once it became apparent that the author, Chuck Phillips, had relied on fabricated documents and less-than-credible sources. Nevertheless, despite the quick (and embarrassing) retraction, the story got nearly one million hits on latimes.com, more than any other story for the year, and as a result, the story-within-the-story became the overwhelming public interest in the shooting, even 14 years after the fact.
It can't be understated the degree to which this surveillance is weird and threatening and, relative to the amount of crime that actually takes place in the (narrowly-defined) rap community, completely disproportionate. Hip-hop cops are, as Nielson points out, a naked throwback to "the COINTELPRO days of the '50s and '60s, when black artists and activists were routinely monitored by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies"--except these days, the New Yorker writes bemused profiles about the cops involved.
I have yet to read an even remotely convincing justification for their existence, although Ian Frazier did give it a shot in that New Yorker piece: Fabolous shouts out Street Fam, which is in fact a criminal gang, all the time; Vibe reported on Young Jeezy's ties to the "ATL street crew" Black Mafia Family. So yes, these dudes knew/grew up with/are still friends with criminals.
Which is where Neilson's essay takes a turn for the bizarre. "Given the extent to which rap has always been under this kind of pressure and surveillance, it shouldn't come as any surprise that in many ways it has come to be defined by them. For one, no genre integrates surveillance practices into its themes more than rap music does--just think of the hundreds, even thousands, of songs that address a sense of being watched or followed in some way." As examples (and he's right, he had his pick), Neilson offers up Goodie Mob's paranoia epic "Cell Therapy" and the Firm's "Phone Tap"-- "In the Firm's "Phone Tap", the rappers' voices are distorted to sound as if they are being called in over a cell phone, giving us (the listeners) the same perspective as the federal agent who is tapping the lines. Three rappers who play the part of drug dealers discussing their next deal provide the verses."
Right--the Firm were pretending to be drug dealers. Hence the surveillance. They were doing Goodfellas. The above, in fact, is pretty much the only time where Neilson explicitly mentions that surveillance and hip-hop come together primarily not at the odd Public Enemy album or "Fuck the Police" counter-programming incident but at the intersection of rap and violent crime. Cops watch rappers because they're potential criminals, and rappers talk about surveillance because often, they're talking about potential crimes they might in fact commit. "The fixation with being watched that is generally characteristic of rap" has an explanation beyond the Foucauldian one about to be given, and yikes, here it comes.
- Consider cars. They have always been an important symbol of wealth and mobility in African American popular culture--indeed, in global culture--but in rap, they are nearly ubiquitous in lyrics and music videos. One of the appeals of the car is that it affords a kind of privacy--it is mobile (and therefore elusive) and has built-in mechanisms like tinted windows that frustrate surveillance. Even the typical driving position, laid back, functions to obscure the presence of the individual driver, making him or her tough to identify.
- Hip-hop fashion has certainly changed over the years, but one of its enduring characteristics has been that it is way oversized. Rappers wear jeans that are so large that they will ride low on the waist (or even lower), their t-shirts or jerseys are always at least two sizes too large and hang well below the waist, the hoods on sweatshirts are often pulled up, and sneakers or boots are frequently unlaced, making them appear larger than normal. On one hand, these large clothes, reminiscent of the zoot suits of the previous generation, serve to exaggerate the MC's size and physical presence, but they also serve the obvious function of obscuring or disguising the rapper as well.
- Or consider the aesthetic within rap, evident in sampling and voice distortion, that tends to favor a kind of technological mediation between performer and audience, an added layer that, like the alias or the oversized clothes, intentionally complicates, and in many cases obscures, the rapper's presence.
- "Rap, however, is the true exemplar, confronting the American surveillance culture head on even as it finds new and creative ways to thwart it--and in the process, offering its listeners a valuable insight into what it means to be a black artist in the United States."
At some point, in other words, this piece moves from a neat think-piece on the relationship between law-enforcement and rappers to academic treatise on how hip-hop has integrated the panoptic eye into its very soul without stopping at the only part that matters: how and why this came to be. The fact that rappers are prone to slap one another every once in a while doesn't seem to be justification enough. Read The Dirt--how many arrest warrants could you have spun off that? I understand why Nas did "Phone Tap"; what I still don't understand is why cops listen to songs like "Phone Tap," take them literally, and start staking out people's houses.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hip.Hop.Immortals.We.Got.Your.Kids.2004.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
For more than 25 years, the musical (and cultural) hip-hop
phenomenon has changed the way corporations market their
products. Find out about the pervasive influence that affects
how we buy everything from music to sneakers to jewelry in a
fascinating documentary that features such artists as Bonz
Malone, Cypress Hill, Coolio, Mos Def, Nate Dogg, Zxibit, Wyclef
Jean, Snoop Dogg, MC Lyte and many others.
Cast:
Bonz Malone, Black Rob, Bone Crusher, Busta Rhymes, Coolio,
LaToya Jackson, Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones, Bow Wow, Snoop Dogg
phenomenon has changed the way corporations market their
products. Find out about the pervasive influence that affects
how we buy everything from music to sneakers to jewelry in a
fascinating documentary that features such artists as Bonz
Malone, Cypress Hill, Coolio, Mos Def, Nate Dogg, Zxibit, Wyclef
Jean, Snoop Dogg, MC Lyte and many others.
Cast:
Bonz Malone, Black Rob, Bone Crusher, Busta Rhymes, Coolio,
LaToya Jackson, Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones, Bow Wow, Snoop Dogg
Download Part 1 HERE
Download Part 2 HERE
Download Part 3 HERE
Download Part 4 HERE
The.Notorious.BIG.Business.Instead.of.Game.2008.DVDRip.XviD-XDG
This engaging documentary explores the life and tragic 1997 death
of hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace),
including his long-running feud with his friend-turned-enemy, fellow
rapper Tupac Shakur. Using rare footage and previously unaired
interviews with the artist, this program sheds light on all stages
of Biggie's life, from dropping out of high school and his rise to
fame and notoriety, to his untimely, unsolved murder.
Download Part 1 HERE
Download Part 2 HERE
Friday, June 17, 2011
MIxtape Inc DVDRIP
2007 NR 113 minutes
Featuring Kanye West, Chuck D., Gnarls Barkley and many other red-hot hip-hoppers, director Walter Bell's documentary takes you behind the scenes of the illegal mixtape industry. From the music itself to the battles with major record labels, this exposé digs deep for a revealing look at the underground phenomenon. Other artists include Lil' Jon, G-Unit, Ed Lover, Dr. Dre, David Banner, Xzibit, DJ Red Alert, DJ Vlad and more.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
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