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.
Sorry about the late psting this one fell thru the cracks. Speaking of crack, hey Creighton you better be in the parking lot with a bottle of Cisco.
p.s chack back tomorrow there might be a new Eddie K track posted.
peace.
Here it is — The SUMMER JAMS edition of The 40 Oz Show for the first full week of June, a little something to get you in the summer mood.
For the record, this show was not as easy to put together as I had initially thought. There were three basic rules to determining what constitutes a summer jam:
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On top of that, the song had to have some resonance as a summer jam, something in the sound of the music that harkens to summer, and/or some history as a “classic” summer jam; there are plenty of songs that came out during the summer or have “summer” in the title that still aren’t the least bit summer-y.
Ultimately, I realized how subjective all this can be. I also realized that there are some great summer mixes out there on the internet — way better than this one — so I tried not to take it too seriously and just have fun with it.
In the end, for better or worse, here’s The 40 Oz Show’s Summer Jams Edition. Enjoy it with your favorite cold beverage…
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Hit up Madrone Lounge (500 Divisadero, SF) June 26th to catch Gurp City’s finest for FREE! Yes, you can spend that extra $10 you’re saving on some top shelf wine coolers. Make sure and pick up DNAE’s new album, First Hundred is the Hardest and your dirty hands will get bonus DNAE threads.
Get off work.
Go to Spindig for happy hour
Hit Zocalo for pupusas.
Hit up the Mishap/Topr’s birthday show for Gurp n Rap
Roll out to the Night of the Remix for Gurp n DJ’s
(Maybe) hit Farolito for late night grub
Go home and pass out.
wake up and repeat.
Holla if you wanna roll – thuggyfresh{at}gmail.com
TopR is turning 30 on Friday and is performing at the Mishap Science Fair. Mishap is on some shit with their mainey theme parties. Come out to 12 Galaxies in the Mission, SF and buy TopR a wine cooler for his birthday.
One of Gurp City’s finest artists, Aye Jay has been grooming a protoge for the past 6 years. His son Cohen has been collaborating with well known artists for a minute. His pieces were revealed at his first art show a few weeks ago in Chico, CA at Crux Gallery. Next up for 6 year old Cohen is his first visit to Minneapolis, Minnesota with his dad to open his next showing at First Amendment Arts gallery June 16th and 17th.
First Amendment Arts is proud to present “Dessert,†the collaborative art of
6-year-old Cohen Morano.Much like the title of the show, the art has no
grand illusions to be anything but a sweet feast, but for the
eyes rather than the taste buds. When asked about why he named the show as
such, he simply replied,“Dessert is really good.â€From the age of two (with a little help from dad, Gangsta Rap Coloring Book
artist Aye Jay), Cohen’s watercolor paintings have traveled the globe to a
“Who’s who†of modern art, spanning graffitists, fine artists, printmakers,
tattoo artists, as well as clothing and toy designers. Once in the artists’
possession, they have carte blanche to do whatever they wish to one of
Cohen’s watercolors before shipping it back to eager little hands.What has come back has been nothing short of stunning, from Barry McGee’s
intricate pen work, Shepard Fairey’s iconic stencils, Chris Ware’s animals
on parade, to Mark Ryden’s interpretive use of negative space. With the
number of pieces now well over one hundred, artist Jack Davis (of Mad
magazine fame) called Cohen “another Ralph Steadman.†Other artists involved
in the show include Juxtapoz regulars Bigfoot, Kaws, and Gary Taxali, Ego
Trip’s Brent Rollins, rappers Rammelzee and Z-Man, gig poster giants Art
Chantry and Frank Kozik, and Burlesque’s own Aaron Horkey, Todd Bratrud, and
Mike Davis. While these collaborative pieces will not be for sale, this is a
very rare opportunity for Twin Cities art enthusiasts to come see work from
all of these artists in the same place at the same time.
Topper took the stage after taking sake shots and drinking a few wine spritzers with Boac and the infamous DJ Quest at Mighty SF for the Versus magazine release party. As usual, the crowd rushed to the front and eventually a B-boy circle was created for everyone to act a fool. Best dancer by far was Pastime. Quest killed it on his solo scratches, prompting DJ Platurn to get on stage and get the crowd to give an encore of props and applause. Check this footage from “Topper’s in Town.”
I know a few fools were snapping pictures at the show. Check the comments for links to their flicks.
Tonight at Club 6, Conceit will be opening up for Tash from the Alkoholiks. Also on the bill are Styliztik Jones, Original Sin, Fameus, Savion, Pablo Scratch and the Local 1200s. The show is hosted by Fran Boogie.
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He heralded the use of the hallucigen on Retired’s “Burn Drunk Hours” but then back-peddled in his support of the drug on Brougham’s “Don’t Speak English” (“You don’t really trip, you just lose your shit”). Well, kids it looks like he’s back off that black pyramid gel again, or was it the liquid micro-dot. Maybe this track can serve as a good reason why it’s good that he’s just mostly off that purp these days. Can you see Gizzer Butler and Ozzy nodding in the background egging him on as you listen? Like all of Luke’s music it helps to get on gurp before you listen to enhance the sensation. Fucking loadies! Doug Surreal is relocating the Motel Crew to Reno, NV to undergo intense narcotic training and rap warping… the Motel thing is growing like that funky green stuff on the back of your neck from that flea market chain you be wearin’!
Beat Sauce Radio is throwing a show at Poleng on May 31st featuring Sacred Hoop. A lot of dope rappers and DJs will be preforming at this show, but the Hoopsters are guaranteed to steal the show. Zion I, Zeph & Azeem, Jern-Eye, Raw B, J-Boogie and DJ Diversify will have to keep up. Come out!
4OneFunk and Strangeface are back again and invading Poleng to make it Hurt So Good. If you haven’t seen 4OneFunk’s hyphy orchestra then you are sleeping. Rush One from Strangeface will host the show, which will also feature Bay vet Spank Pops. STRAAAANGE!
The bay has had ridiculously nice weather lately and MOP has had ridiculously nice raps for years. SergDun was probably on gurp one night and decided to put two and two together. Come out and take part in the chain-snatching contest. MOPITP will also have a guest appearance by the infamous pleather couch from No Respect Studios, in which everyone has passed out on at one time or another.
NOTICE: The 40 Oz Show will be taking next week (6/29) off for some much needed rest and relaxation in an undisclosed locale. Tune in to West Add Radio 93.7 FM SF, CA next Wednesday for a classic from The 40 Oz vaults; podcast subscribes are just gonna have to make this one last longer. It’ll be worth it — The 40 Oz Show SUMMER JAMS SHOW is on for Wednesday June 6, so be sure to check back for your soon-to-be favorite summer mix.
Until then… Same day service means it’s all piping hot freshness, and it’s always 100 percent dope. All new for May 23, 2007, it’s The 40 O Show. Get it while it’s hot…
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Do you have any live video of an old Gurp City Show? Have you made a video clip and used a Gurp City affiliated song as the soundtrack? Humped an ottoman with MC Oroville playing in the background? If you have, we’d like to feature it on Gurpcity.net. We aint payin for it but we’ll make sure you get the crdeit you deserve. Holla ej{at}gurpcity.net with your links and we’ll get them up. And if you cant get your video off of a tape we’ll do that for you too. Send us anything.
Check out the lil video I made a couple years back with an old G Pek beat.
R.I.P. No Respect Studios Oakland.
I can’t seem to find enough free time lately to do this every week, so again, here are the last two weeks’ shows.
Coming soon — THE SUMER JAMS SHOW!! Don’t get too far away kiddies…
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