zondag 29 april 2012

Vraag en Antwoord met Nikki D



1.   How are you doing Miss Nikki D?
A:   I'm great thanks for asking, sorry for the delay on the interview, but as promised I got you.


2.   You come from L.A how was it to grow up there & how did you end up in New York?
A:   Actually I'm from Newark Nj, home of Redman, Queen Latifah, Naughty by Nature and many more.  I started rapping in LA when I was moved out there in my early teens.  Ice T was my mentor and he introduced me to the business of Hip Hop.  I then got serious and left LA right after High school came to NY with the only intention of being Def Jam's first female rapper and I did it! :-)


3.   What was the first Hip Hop song or album that you heard?
A:   Well I think my first song like most my age was rappers delight.  It came out when I was young but it was the best song I had ever heard, considering I grew up on old school R&B which is what my mom played all the time in the house. 


4.   Who inspired you to start rappin?
A:   Ice T truly was the first person to inspire me because I used to sing everyone's songs word for word and he thought I should give a try, and I wrote my first rhyme for him, and he took me under his wing, and let me open up for his big shows, like Run DMC, Whodini, all the big dogs back then. I was and amazing time for me. 


5.   How did you come up with your name Nikki D & where stands the D for?
A:   LOL, Nikki is my nick name my mom gave me and the D, well it means nothing. LOL, I did it because everyone else had a D, Chuck D, Heavy D, so why not NIkki D? I know, that's not very creative but that's it.. 


6.   Before you was signed to DefJam you was rappin in L.A with Ice T how did you meet Ice T?
A:   I met Ice T at a mall with my sister and some friends, back then in LA the popular mall was Fox Hills Mall. That's where I met him because one of his friends was trying to date me and that's how we kept in touch. 


7.   In 1989 you was signed on Defjam & you was the first Female Mc on Defjam how was that for you?
A:   Being the first female rapper signed to Def Jam was truly and literally my dream come true at the time.  I hooked up with LA Posse, who produced LL Cool J's Bigger and Deffer album and they hooked up my demo for me during some downtime at a LL session.  We got the music to Russell and he loved it, signed me right away, we were all just tripping on how fast it happen. It was meant to be. 


8.   After you signed on Defjam it took 3 years before your debut album"Daddy's Little Girl" came out why took it so long?
A:   When I signed Russell thought I was the hardest female rapper he had heard. He thought  I could jump in any battle and take any rapper, but he didn't think I was ready for commercial radio.  So he sent me on tour with LL, Rakim, PE, just to get a idea of what the big dogs do to make big records.  Finally he and I came up with Daddy's Little Girl on the plane back from London, and it was on from there.  He felt like I had developed as an artist an I was ready for prime time.  But keep in mind I had  write it twice, that's why I love my era, it was about the real work back then. 


9.   The single "Daddy's little girl went to number 1 in the billboard rap single charts what was you reaction when you heard that it went number 1?
A:   When Daddy's Little Girl went #1, I was over excited, I felt like I had made it at that point.  It's beyond what words can describe just awesome!!


10. On the single "Lettin off steam you work with Flavor Flav how was it to work with him?
A:   I knew Flavor way before the single, he is just the nicest and coolest guy. What I loved about him most is what people didn't see on the Flavor of Love is that he was a solid family man, always had his kids with him.  He just a good guy!!  He was professional and gave his all, I love him!!


11. What is your favorite song from the album?
A:   My favorite song was Daddy's Little Girl, because it had so much meaning to it, but the runner up was Another man is beating my time, because no girls were thinking that crazy back then.  However today, there's so much of that life style going on today.. Crazy I was way ahead of my time. 


12. You only record one album why was that?
A:   Sadly enough I asked for a release after my second album was recorded because I didn't think Def Jam knew what to do with me, and I just switched lanes and went executive. I had a lot of press so people think I was larger than life, but it was press than marketing, and the label lost my number 1 single at radio, and that totally disappointed me. 


13. What do you think about female Rappers/Mc's in Hip Hop today?
A:   Well funny you ask, I have a mixtape called Female Kings that I put together with my partner Shaun Pynne of Team Strong my group.  There's not many in the main stream except for Nicki Minaj, and initially I didn't care for her, but once I started hearing her earlier music I thought she was hot rapper, but that's not what she does on album.  I love LIl Kim, wish Foxy Brown still was making records even though I can't stand her as a person she's a hot rapper, I mean I love Lady Luck she hotter all these chicks to me, but the industry is still funny about female rappers so she suffers the industry standard blues.  That's where Female Kings come in at. I found so many hot female rappers across the country that it's crazy it's releasing next week.!!


14. Who is your favorite Female & Male Mc's & why?
A:   My favorite male rapper is Jay Z by far.  I admire him all the way around, but I also love Jada Kiss, Kanye, Fabalous, I wish 50 had never stopped, I mean I still listen to Krs, Rakim all the old school stuff too.   For whatever it's worth I'm never inspired by the women even though I respect them, Lady Luck is the only one who sounds like a true rapper, and she writes all her own songs. 

 
15. Are you still working in the music industry?
A:   No I'm not working in the music biz as of now, but all my connects are still there, I'm working on my son, and new female rappers, so I'll e back soon.



16. Do you have any advice for the lady's who wants to start rappin?
A:   My advice to the ladies who want to do it, is be yourself.  Don't allow the men of your crew or team or label to convince you to not do you.  The true fans respect passion so love what you do, and be about your business because as much as you may love your voice and your songs and as hot as they may be that's only 5% of the game the rest is all business so don't play yourself short, you're a major corporation once you get out there, so you must perform and produce as if you want your brand (company) to grow.  It's all on you.  




17. Can people follow Nikki D?
A:   Follow me @ognikkid and on FB I'm Nikki Strong


18. Did you liked this Q & A?
A:   
Paul I loved the Q& A, you asked all the important things and I thank you for thinking of me.. I didn't spell check anything so there may be some typos.. lol... Hope to hear from you soon.


Paul - Nikki D thank you so very much for your time it was truly an Honor to do this with you thank you.









vrijdag 20 april 2012

Hannibal Stax Salutes Guru R.i.p

Hannibal Stax heeft een video gemaakt om zijn collega en vriend Guru ( Gangstarr ) te herdenken.Guru overleed 2 jaar geleden aan de gevolgen van kanker. Guru is net al velen andere overleden Mc's een groot gemis in Hip Hop.




The Nyg'z & Hannibal Stax Live 

dinsdag 17 april 2012

O.c bevestigd nieuw D.i.t.c album

O.c member van de legendarische groep D.i.t.c heeft bevestigd dat D.i.t.c bezig is met een nieuw album.O.c liet weten dat ze al aan zeven nummers hebben gewerkt en hebben besproken met elkaar dat de legacy van de groep niet zomaar in rook mag opgaan want zoals showbiz zegt het is al 15 jaar geleden dat Big L werd vermoord Big L zou zich omdraaien in zijn graf als wij dit zouden laten gebeuren.Waneer het album klaar moet zijn is niet bekend maar het is natuurlijk al wel goed nieuws dat de mannen bij elkaar zijn gekomen op een nieuw album te maken Stay Tuned Support Real Hip Hop.

D.i.t.c = Fat Joe, Diamond D, Big L ( R.i.p ), O.c, Showbiz & A.g, Buckwild, en Lord Finesse





                                     









vrijdag 13 april 2012

The Pharcyde "Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde" The singles Colletion Music Box Special



Pharcyde Fan's opgelet voor de viering van hun 20 jaar bestaan van hun debut album "Bizarre Ride 2 The Pharcyde" brengen de heren een special music box uit met daar in een puzzel van de hoes dubbel cd een poster zeven 7inch singels 5 niet eerder uitgekomen songs foto's enz.

 
Dus ben je een echte Pharcyde Fan dan is dit echt de moeite waar voor je collectie deze box zal 21 april te verkrijgen zijn via www.deliciousvinyl.com






Ice T "The Art Of Rap" Documentary Trailer


Hier heb je dan Ice T's eertse officiële trailer van zijn documentaire "The Art Of Rap" in deze film heeft Ice T interview's gehad met legendarische Mc's om te praten over Rap en Hip Hop 15 juni zal deze documentaire uit komen enjoy de trailer.

zaterdag 7 april 2012

nieuwe video Lord Jazz feat Mr Funke "Say Yeah"

Hier heb je de eerste nieuwe video van Lord Jazz zijn solo album "The Plain Dealer".Say Yeah is zijn eerste singel van het album die hij samen doet met Mr Funk enjoy de video Support Real Hip Hop.

woensdag 4 april 2012

Question & Answer with Tom Aelbrecht Hip Hop photographer & collector

Ik heb het genoegen gehad om met Hip Hop fotograaf Tom Aelbrecht ( Belgie ) een Q&A mogen doen over zijn passie voor Hip Hop enjoy het interview.
















1   How are you doing Tom?
All fine Paul, thanks for asking.

2   Where does your love for hip hop come from, what was your first hip hop single/album that you heard and what was your reaction?
Well it all started on the playground of my school back in the late 80’s when one of my best friends came to me with a cassette on which he recorded N.W.A. and Public Enemy. I put the cassette in my walkman and was directly hooked to it. It was something totally different from what I heard before.
Back in the days everything was still on cassettes, but I clearly remember buying the Beastie Boys’ “Licensed to Ill” as the first official hip hop album that I ever bought. 
Later on when I got a job working as a student it really started buying more and more, the cd area had arrived as well at that time. 
The collecting itself really started rolling when I met my later to be partner in crime Stijn Coppens who at the time had an enormous collection of hip hop cd’s at home. When entering his living room and listening to all his stuff I immediately knew I wanted all of them as well…And so I started collecting more and more.

3   So you’re the Hip Hop Collector and you got your own website www.hiphopcollector.com Can you tell us what it is that you collect?
Basically it’s very easy, everything that I come across and I don’t have I try to get in my collection. At the moment I have more than 7000 hip hop cd’s, records and cassettes and I’m pretty sure it will grow constantly. I know very well that’s impossible to have everything, but you won’t hear me complain. Also I have hundreds of hip hop magazines, DVDs, books & memorabilia… Some years ago I started thinking about making my own website to share it with the world…It took me some time to get everything online as I wanted to do everything myself and therefore I had to learn how all those web creating programs worked. But looking at al reactions I get I think I did a pretty good job. It can always be better, but the site is of course in constant evolution.

4   What is the goal of your website?
Main goal is to pay respect to all the hip hop pioneers. Without them hip hop would never have been what it became and sadly enough some people forget this. But you’ll see that quality hip hop from nowadays also gets a place on the site, because good hip hop is still out there. You just have to look for it…

5  What are your favorite albums and/or singles?
Good question…Of course I can sum up all the classics like Public Enemy, RUN DMC, Ice-T... But to be honest, for me it depends from day to day. By this I mean what mood I’m in, what the weather it is outside, etc… As music is a lot about emotions.
But too really pick one I really adore I have to go for Real Live – The Turnaround: A Long Awaited Drama album. All hip hop heads will probably know it. The album is simply amazing.
6  Do you have a favorite album from 2011?
Got that question as well a few weeks ago and I stay with my choice. Maybe not the most obvious choice but I really really loved “The Family Sign” album from Atmosphere released on Rhyme Sayers Entertainment. An album with a lot of emotions in it.

7  You’re also a photographer, where does that passion come from?
Again my partner in crime Stijn Coppens comes in the picture here. When going to concerts he was always the photographer and me the assistant. Call it carrying around all his stuff, haha…
Later on I got a camera for my birthday from my girlfriend and from than on I started making pictures myself as well…Together with Stijn we are now trying to capture each hip hop concert in our surroundings.

8  Do you only capture artists with your camera?
For now yes…The collecting, my website and these concerts take already a lot of my time. Need to spend some quality time with the family as well.

9    Who did you have in front of your lens, can you give some names?
It goes from Public Enemy to the Wu-Tang Clan, from Redman to Funkdoobiest…Naughthy By Nature, Rakim, you name ‘em…You can find the full list and all pictures on my website.

10  Who would you still like to capture with your camera?
I would really love to meet King T and Ice-T once, both some of my favorite rappers and getting them in front of my camera will be an awesome experience. Further also all members of the SPC, being the South Park Coalition. Maybe for the bigger public not so known, but they are pioneers from the South. Scarface and the other Geto Boys would be lovely as well. The list goes on and on actually…

11    Who are the upcoming artists you will meet?
It of course all depends on who is coming overseas to do some shows in Belgium or the Netherlands. And when they come it’s always still an adventure to get to them. I just did Dead Prez last week and for now the artists that are coming are The Coup, Public Enemy, The Beatnuts, RA The Rugged Man, The Roots, Slaughterhouse… 

12   Is it possible to buy the pictures you took?
For now it’s not yet possible, but I’m thinking of a master plan. To be continued I should say so…

13   Can people follow Tom Aelbrecht on Twitter and/or Facebook?
Tom Aelbrecht is indeed on Facebook, but due to the 5000 friends limit from Facebook I was obliged to create a fan page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hip-Hop-Collector/156995880983332
I recently discovered Twitter as well; you can follow me via @HHC_hiphop
All info can be found as well on www.hiphopcollector.com

14   What did you think of this interview?
Great fun, it’s always nice to reflect about the past and my project.

Tom, thank you very much for your time and hope to meet you soon one day.
Thank you for having me; it was a great pleasure doing this. Pretty sure we’ll meet one day.

dinsdag 3 april 2012

Nieuw Artifacts album op komst "European Tour Album"

Artifacts - "Easter" (prod. by Khrysis)


Hier is de cover van The Artifacts hun nieuwe singel "Easter" die afkomstig is van het aankomend album "European Tour Album".De singel is vanaf vandaag verkrijgbaar via itunes waneer het album moet uitkomen is nog niet bekend.Klik hier op de link boven de cover om hun nieuwe singel te beluisteren. Stay Tuned Support Real Hip Hop.