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Sha Stimuli ft. The Astronomical Kid – Hang On (Remix)

by Birthplace Magazine

in Audio, Brooklyn, Featured Stories

Sometimes, the behind-the-scenes grind of building BirthplaceMag.com to become the authoritative source for New York-area hip hop gets very chore-like. Site programming, emails to respond to, collecting incoming music, contacting writers, making deals for advertising… All necessary, but tedious.

The payoff, however, is finding good music. Or interesting stories. Or stumbling upon someone or something that, even though we don’t have a lot of time to delve into, we take note of, for future reference.

Sha Stimuli, is not one of those. We have covered him in the past, and have long been aware of his work and hustle. But we were pleasantly surprised by the latest drop from his Overtime project, a re-visitation of beats from his album, My Soul To Keep. On “Hang On (Remix)”, we are treated to a young MC, The Astronomical Kid. He’s 13, and got flow.

I’m not afraid to admit that I hadn’t heard of The Astronomical Kid before. We’ll definitely be checking him out in the future. But in the meantime, if you have been living under the same rocks as us, get to know him alongside Sha Stimuli.

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Download/Listen: Sha Stimuli ft. The Astronomical Kid – Hang On (Remix)

Purchase: Sha Stimuli – My Soul To Keep (Album)

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Fabolous at Amazura: The Hot 97 Metro PCS 5 Boro Takeover Tour

by Birthplace Magazine

in Brooklyn, Go Here, Queens

In case you didn’t know so, Fabolous graces the stage at Amazura tonight, as part of the Hot 97 Metro PCS 5 Boro Takeover Tour, in support of his new mixtape There Is No Competition 2, with DJ Drama. Previously, the tour presented the Wu Massacre album release party with Raekwon and Ghostface Killah (Method Man was not available for the event).

Amazura is located at 91-12 144th Pl., Jamaica , NY 11345. Doors open at 8pm.

Buy tickets for Fabolous at Amazura

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Jim Jones Speaks on the Ghost of Rich Porter Mixtape, Teaching School

Jim Jones is releasing a new mixtape, Ghost of Rich Porter, scheduled for a March 23 release, and spoke about the project. He also revealed that he will be teaching an 8-week music class for New York City schools.

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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony at Irving Plaza – 4/10/2010

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are launching a tour to support their reunion album, and New York area fans of the Midwest melodious rapid-fire spitters can them at the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza on April 6.

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DJ Envy To Host MTV2’s Sucker Free Daily and Sucker Free Countdown

DJ Envy, who raised radio eyebrows in late 2009 by migrating up the dial from Hot 97 to Power 105.1, has been tapped to host Sucker Free Daily and Sucker Free Countdown on MTV2.

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Kalil Kash – Bang [Video]

New Jersey’s Kalil Kash recently released the video for “Bang”, off of his album The Exit Method, an extremely solid performance, both sonically and visually.

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Jay-Z Brings BP3 Tour To Nassau Coliseum

Jay-Z and his tour supporting Blueprint 3 hits Long Island tomorrow, following powerful performances at Madison Square Garden (3/2) and New Jersey’s Izod Center (3/6). It will be the last New York area show before Jigga hits the road.

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Red Cafe – Beamer, Benz or Bentley

Red Cafe jumps on the the “Beamer, Benz or Bentley” bandwagon with his own short, but witty, entry. Man, every time we think some DJ needs to make a megamix, someone else jumps on this track.

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Donny Goines – No Apologies [Video]

Donny Goines recently dropped the video for “No Apologies” from his recent EP release 20X, presented by Rocksmith Tokyo, which we previously posted for your downloading pleasure.

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Hip Hop For Haiti Benefit Concert at SOBs

Styles P, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Immortal Technique, Bazaar Royale, Cormega, SF (Spark Flame), Mr Reo and Lord Finesse (DITC) will hit the stage at SOBs Friday, March 12 for a midnight show to continue to raise funds for Haitian relief efforts.

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The Soundcheck “March Madness Edition” at Santos Party House

Regular, ongoing showcases, performances and events in the NYC-area feature dozens of talented hip hop and R&B artists on any given day. One such series is “The Soundcheck”, which this month, goes down on Friday, March 12, at Santos Party House.

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Kalae All Day Album Release Party

Soulful spitting songstress Kalae All Day’s debut album *AFROMATIKNEOHIPPIEROCK*SOLEMUZIK* drops 3/17. But, even more cooler, if you want to see her do her thing, is that you can. At her lbum release party.

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Cam’ron ft. Vado “Amber Lamps”

The first leak from the Boss of All Bosses 2.5 mixtape from Cam’ron & DJ Drama. We don’t know if it’s good. We can’t listen to music at the moment. Mourning Corey Haim.

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Fabolous Speaks on There Is No Competition 2, Fashion, Nas and More

A pretty in-depth Q&A with Fabolous, by Karen Civil, discussing, among other things, his recent mixtape release with DJ Drama, There Is No Competition 2: The Funeral Service.

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Biggie Smalls Celebration: Live Video Stream From The Lab, Brooklyn

Live video feed from Diddy’s Notorious B.I.G. celebration at The Lab in Brooklyn

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B.I.G. Brooklyn Bash To Honor Biggie Smalls

Diddy hits up Brooklyn for the first time in years to head a huge celebration of the life, times and music, of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G.

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K. Sparks “A Day In The Life” – Album Release

We caught wind of K. Sparks “Manic Monday” a-new-song-per-week series, but hadn’t checked him out until now. Checking out a couple of past Manic Monday joints, plus a track or two from his album A Day In The Life (HiPNOTT Records), we can report that it’s not just gimmick.

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Playgirl Interview: Hip Hop Writer, Radio Host, Manager

Playgirl, a woman of influence in the music biz, writes for Rap Fanatic magazine, hosts a weekly internet radio show, and manages several signed & unsigned artists in the game.

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Reflection Eternal – In This World [Video]

If you didn’t catch “In This World”, the slow, rumbling, soulful head-nodder the FIRST time we posted it, we are giving you a second chance, with the added bonus of a video thrown in for good measure.

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Fabolous – There Is No Competition 2 [Mixtape]

In case you didn’t know so, you can download the new Fabolous mixtape, the DJ Drama/Gangsta Grillz-helmed mixtape “There Is No Competition 2 (The Funeral Service)”.

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