Was at MultiFest last night in Charleston...

MultiFest is the biggest festival in the state featuring Hip Hop/RnB and Classic Urban music by far... if you're not at the Capital complex every year for this event that draws 10-20,000 people per night you are missing out.

Anyways back to what I was here to talk about... the underground Hip Hop scene in the state right now is blooming. I personally picked up 6 NEW mixtapes or albums last night from artists out there grinding. Expect a lot of music from these guys who mostly have little to no internet presence coming up over the next week.

The afterparty hosted by Pleasure P put on by Say Uncle Ent and Big Muss with DJ's Woody Wood and Charlie Blac was off the chain by the way. Looks like Club VIP is making a run as the new hot spot considering the same promotion duo has another party tonight with LeToya Luckett.

I'll be back out there tonight for the Whispers and seeing what else is available, I know I didn't catch up with everybody with product in the streets.

DJ Crazy Chris speaks...

When one of the most respected DJ's on the planet right now resided in our state and he decides to drop some gems for us I think it's the DUTY of LiveFromTheDub to help get the word out... I know we have a lot of artists, producers and DJs who read this blog daily the number of emails bear it out. This is for you...

Words from DJ Crazy Chris

first off...lemme say...I KNOW IM NOT ALONE IN THIS...because i know many of the old heads round here lived it to....but in my lifetime...ive spent more money ON MUSIC than most people have just spent...PERIOD

i worked building houses and painting project apartments/hallways/fire escapes 50 hours a week to pay my rent and car payment....just so i could work in clubs at nite and spend all that dj money back on records and cds....

and although i wouldnt trade that experience for the world...i have to say... that you newer cats are some LUCKY sonofabitches with the ease of collecting free digital music these days...

MJ dies...your 18 and youve never owned one of his records in your life....and within 20 minutes youve got his entire discography ....and your dropping a best of....

i remember doing corporate gigs back in the early 90s and in advance theyd request some weird ass song to be played for the key speakers entrance to the stage.... and id spend 3 days going to all my local second hand record stores tryin desperately to find the album that song was on....and by the time i found it....id be willing to pay ANYTHING for it...just to stop the madness

nowadays....cats get annoyed when their thread requesting music isnt answered in 5 minutes....

im not gonna condemn anyone for that... its a beautiful thing...and i take part in it as well... but modern technology has made our lives sooooooooooo much easier..... so all im sayin is.... APRECIATE IT!!!.... go easy on the recycle bin.... cherish a song or a mixtape for a little while before making it evaporate into cyberspace wasteland

and GIVE BACK PEOPLE!!!!....

DJ's and PRODUCERS...take those FREE SONGS ...FREE ACAPELLAS...FREE INSTRUMENTALS...FREE CLASSIC SONGS TO SAMPLE...FREE FUCKIN DISCOGRAPHIES...and do something with them.... make something special.... make something you can be proud of for a long time.... make other people love music because of YOUR contribution...

MC's... take your time....make songs worth a shit...quality over quantity....make classics instead of lining the bottom of peoples recycle bins like a bird cage...

lets make music valueable again.... lets make it prescious.... its FREE...but that doesnt mean its worthless...

cc

I couldn't have said it better myself

In Honor of XXL's 10 Freshman for '09 cover...

Dub Vee's 5 Freshman for '09 Blog post...


In no particular order


- Nah Nitti - great mic presence
- A Teezy - radio hit potential
- City - his buzz was crazy in Charleston until he was locked up, he's out and ready to do damage
- Phyr Squad - big club record/crossover potential
- Mack Menace - talented MC who just needs to drop music, was the best member of Holla Boy


While some of these artists may have had a track here and a track there or in the case of the Phyr Squad just dropped their first CD (that got any kind of push at all because I had never heard of one of theirs before). These are the 5 artists that I expect to see get mentioned up with the most popular artists in WV this coming year. We'll see who grinds til they shine!



Paycheck Game chuckin the dueces... get familiar with this guy