Damon Dash

Interview: Billy Danze of M.O.P.

Steven Ortiz — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:09:42 +0000

Billy Danze of M.O.P. talks to Birthplace Magazine's Steve Ortiz, regarding M.O.P.'s history, current label situation, inspiration for continuing to make music, and how Danze almost let an armed robbery come in the way of M.O.P.'s "big break"

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Jim Jones, Cam’ron: Reunited and It Feels So Hood

Birthplace Magazine — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:14:58 +0000

New York hip hop, often accused of having a crabs-in-a-barrel mentality, took another step toward unity as an infamous Dipset fallout may now have been repaired

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BlakRoc ft. Mos Def, Q-Tip, RZA, Raekwon, The Black Keys Drops On Black Friday

Birthplace Magazine — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:20:20 +0000

Damon Dash's BlakRoc project, featuring many NY artists, releases full-length the day after Thanksgiving, aka "Blak" Friday.

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Blakroc ft. Mos Def – On The Vista

Birthplace Magazine — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:28:31 +0000

We enjoyed the previous Blakroc/Jim Jones/Mos Def drop, and think Mos is still one of the best who ever did it, so we jumped to share this with you

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Shot in the Dark

Manny Faces — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:30:48 +0000

We look at the story of the story behind biopic "Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip-Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez" which premiered at the 2009 Urbanworld Film Festival, producers Axel Ebermann and Daniel Frei, documenting many examples of the tenacity that fashioned Nunez’ hard-clawed ascension to HNIC of the hip-hop paparazzi.

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Jim Jones, Mos Def and others to release LP w/rockers The Black Keys

Birthplace Magazine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:40:35 +0000

Billboard.com reports that a rap/rock joint LP, spearheaded by Jim Jones, will feature the Black Keys with some of hip-hop's biggest names, to be titled Blakroc.

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