It's like Vegas fool. San Francisco and the Bay Area rappers, producers and DJs all get together for one good cause, to get drunk as fuck and make good music. Gurp City consists of hip hop pioneers such as DJ Quest and DJ Eddie Def to underground legends like Bored Stiff and Sacred Hoop to freestyle champions TopR and Conceit...pretty much every alcoholic rapper in the Bay Area of California. The Gurp Fam keeps growing and innovating rap music with artists like Trunk Drank, Z-Man, Fist Fam, Grand Invincible, Fay Dog, G-Pek, Eddie K, DJ Marz, Bullet Proof Space Travelers, Bullet Proof Scratch Hampsters, DJ Cue, Brandon B, Luke Sick, Iron Fist, Thuggy Fresh, 6 Feet Deep, DJ Mathew Africa, 4oneFunk, DJ Teeko, DJ Max Kane, DJ Mista-B, DJ B. Cause, DNAE Beats, Boac, The Makai, Third Sight, The AlterBoys, MC Oroville, Illsquad, Live Human, Lords Crew, Alex Pardee, Zero Friends, Big Sammy, DJ Raw B and Fatees.
Dregs One has a new project out entitled the STYLE tape to hold us over until his Mood Swings e.p. is ready. Check out the first leak below and order a hard copy for only $1. Don’t be a cheap bastard get one for your plug and favorite bartender as well.
http://dregs1.bandcamp.com/album/the-style-tape
OUTBOUND.
Al Lover just released this collection of remixes from Summer 2012 to Summer 2013.
Remixes by Al Lover
http://allover.bandcamp.com/
The debut 7″ single from Al Lover is now available for pre-order. It’s limited to 250 so act fast. You can peep the psychedelic goodness below. From the upcoming album, Space Magick.
Noisey did a cool little write up as well:
http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/read/yoneedtohearthis-al-lover-snake-hands
https://soundcloud.com/al-lover
https://twitter.com/coolallover
This is a classic GAMETIGHTELECTRO song from the vaults that was originally for the Paranormal Bar Stars album on Female Fun that was unable to be released. It popped up on a couple other releases as well:
http://www.discogs.com/Various-On-Top-Of-The-World/release/1243812
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Ssence-EP/release/879380
Thanks Ralph @flarb for the request!
Cop Origins of Gurp: Songs from 1999-2004 for more GAMETIGHTELECTRO classics………to gurped to get in.
The first single off the “Another Time / Another Place” EP. Free download.
Party On.
TOPR murders as usual. New album on the way. Buy you some. http://topr.bandcamp.com/
Gurp City, we really out here.
After dropping three full lengths in a years time Sick Steen is back with The Altered Beast Mixtape. Collecting some of his favorite joints from those projects and more into a cohesive listening experience.
Get it here:
SICK STEEN – The Altered Beast Mixtape
They gurpin’ tough in Canada.
Z-Dazzles new album California Brainwashed is being mastered right now. We finna slap you upside the head this summer. Shoutout to the 4 Trees Family for the footage.
Big Sammy is back with “Make Room”, the second leak from the upcoming Refrigerator Perry E.P.
mon$rock on the beat.
Deep in the gurp. 530.
https://twitter.com/bigsammy530
BOAC is unstoppable right now showing off a whole different side of his production talents. Dream. Believe. GO.
http://www.urb.com/2013/05/31/86571/#more-86571
SkyWalkers. Earthlings. Gurp City.
New joint from the Heart and Soul Trap Raps project coming soon:
https://twitter.com/MoMilLCM
@MoMilLCM
I was gonna write something up but Foul Mouth Jerk has a true gift with words:
“You know what seems to be happening a lot in recent years? Super Groups. Conversely you know what seems to be lost to the annals of history? Rapper/Producer albums. Not the Kanye West “a producer that raps” type, I mean one consistent, cohesive musical vision throughout an entire album done by 1 MC and his DJ/Producer or production team. Up until about 1993 it’s pretty much how all rap albums were made, these days not so much. Well you know who’s combining these two seemingly dynamically opposed concepts? No, you probably don’t because you don’t stay up on ill shit the way I do. But the answer is Grand Killa Con, a joint effort from Gurp City All Star Luke Sick, the lyricist behind projects like Sacred Hoop & Grand Invincible, and Brycon, a producer whose worked with everyone from Action Bronson to Living Legends to Masta Ace.
As a super group I’m gonna go ahead & rate them firmly right between The Hot Boys & The Traveling Wilburys. As a rapper/producer combo, I would put them somewhere in the neighborhood of a Marley Marl & Kane. Their first leak ”Hemmed pt.1″ is the beginning of their run up to this summer’s release of their full-length “Year of the Tre Bag” and is accompanied by a video that’s as grimy as the album title suggests.”
-Foul Mouth Jerk
Free Download here:
http://grandkillacon.bandcamp.com/
It’s a lifestyle not a gimmick, Gurp City.
The unofficial video shot during the Asheville Tattoo Fest 2013 directed by Andrew Anderson. “The Maze” can be found on The Powers That Be album.
Billy Jam sits down with DJ Quest for a great interview covering a range of topics, peep the video and the write up.
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2013/05/jamoeblog/dj-quest-may-2013-amoeblog-interview.html
“Something In The Water” is the latest video from Free Radio’s “The Powers That Be” album which you should already have. The rellies worked really hard and went in deep on this one so please share. Also look for a new album from Free Radio coming this summer.
And be sure to cop the album if you haven’t done so, name your price and hardcopies available:
http://freeradio.bandcamp.com/
Gurp City South. Snappy Toms. N.C.V.B.
Its been a while since the release of his YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK E.P. but MoMil aka MODE is back with the first single “Stunt Hard” from his upcoming project “Heart and Soul Trap Rap”. Here at Gurp City we really live this shit and Mode has been out there getting it from different avenues including his new clothing line Cool Moons.
Get the single here:
707.