Seher SikanderLadybug Redux: HazeHey there hipsters! Checking for the latest and greatest in local hippity-hop? You up on 40 Love, son? This multiculti SF-based unit, consisting of emcees G-Off and Haze, producer/emcee Mikos, and producer/DJ the Whooligan have just released their latest album, Bangarang (OmHipHop). It's a solid entry in the boom bap/true school mold, which nonetheless has some "knocks" and "blaps" on it as well. We're particularly feeling the vaguely Easternish melodies of "Head
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EKAphotographyStanding in the Shadows of Funk: Bnai RebelfrontHaving just spent the past three nights at Yoshi's SF for the "We Got the Funk" series--featuring emerging neo-funksters Punk Funk Mob, Bnai Rebelfront, and Greg Scott--I've come to some realizations.
Funk is forever. While classic funk lives on via '70s reissues, old-school funk fests, and occasional KBLX play, there's a perception that hip-hop killed funk, or that the music died when platform shoes and two-story Afros went out of
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