Listen to all our favorite new music from Summer 2018!
#TBT – Matthew Africa – Best of DJ Quik
Posted: June 7, 2018 Filed under: TBT | Tags: Hip-Hop Movie Series, TBTDOWNLOAD (right click “save target as”)
TONIGHT, The Rub Movie Night is back at Alamo Drafthouse, with Menace II Society! Last month we recorded a mix inspired by our first movie, Belly, and we were all set to do it again this month but we realized we already have two mixes which are perfectly suited for the night, from DJ Eleven (last week) and our brother Matthew Africa (R.I.P.), which we share with you today.
About the movie:
Released 25 years ago in May of 1993, Menace II Society was the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers (twins Allen & Albert – directors of cult classic Dead Presidents). Set in it Watts, CA, Menace tells the story of Caine (Tyrin Turner) and O-Dog’s (Larenz Tate) struggles against the racism, drugs, and violence that gripped the LA area at the time. The film stars a pre-Fresh Prince Jada Pinkett and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as an amazing roster of West Coast rappers, including MC Eiht, Too $hort, and Saafir.
After the screening, join us for more music, dancing and drinking at the House of Wax!
The Rub with special guest Evil Dee
The Rub w/ Alamo Drafthouse Presents: Menace II Society
Posted: June 4, 2018 Filed under: History of Hip-Hop | Tags: Hip-Hop Movie Series, History Of Hip-Hop
A new film series comes to Alamo Drafthouse, presented in conjunction with us, The Rub! Having taken the party around the world, moved umpteen records, CDs, and mixes, and released hundreds of episodes of Rub Radio, we are building on our legendary mix series – The History of Hip-Hop – by curating some great hip hop films. We’ll be showing our next film on Thursday, June 7.
Released 25 years ago in May of 1993, Menace II Society was the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers (twins Allen & Albert – directors of cult classic Dead Presidents). Set in it Watts, CA, Menace tells the story of Caine (Tyrin Turner) and O-Dog’s (Larenz Tate) struggles against the racism, drugs, and violence that gripped the LA area at the time. The film stars a pre-Fresh Prince Jada PInkett and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as an amazing roster of West Coast rappers, including MC Eiht, Too $hort, and Saafir.
After the screening, join us for more music, dancing and drinking at the House of Wax!
We’re running around like chickens with our heads cut off this summer so it’s been a little hard to find the time to write about all the new music coming out, but here is a big old bouillabaisse for you!
Jubilee Presents: Magic City Vol 4
Jubilee’s Magic City series is all about Miami, a city of intersectionality, where dancehall meets freestyle, electro bass meets grime, and the lineups just get better and better. There is a song on here that sounds like The Prodigy and another that sounds like Drexciya, it’s really all over the place in the best way.
DL for free here: https://soundcloud.com/jubileedj/sets/jubilee-presents-magic-city
Black Thought – Streams of Thought Vol 1.
Just to get our bias out of the way: Black Thought has alway been the most skilled boring rapper, a very good performer who resonates with music fans who think rap flows peaked with the Juice Crew, and/or people who discovered hip-hop when they saw The Roots on tour supporting Dave Matthews. Imagine a version of The Roots that never collaborated with Rahzel, Scott Storch, Erykah Badu, Peedi Crakk, Jill Scott, Beenie Sigel… so yeah that’s kind of why we don’t normally check for Black Thought solo work, aside from that mind bending 11 minute freestyle he dropped on Funkmaster Flex last December. BUT you know what, this EP is pretty good and you’re not us so you might really love it! WTF do we know?
God, imagine being as effortlessly good at music as The Internet! We honestly love everything they do.
Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
Super minimal, experimental electronic music, like if Aphex Twin was drugs, this would be the come down. Super chill and interesting.
All this plus Tierra Whack, J Hus and new Drake on our TNN Q2 playlist:
Postscript:
If you’re wondering why Kanye West and Pusha T’s albums didn’t make it into TNN, there are a few reasons, primarily that the music would have to be banging as fuck to make up for all the nonsense Kanye’s been spouting for the last 6 weeks. There’s so much great music coming out right now, so there’s really no reason to feed into that TMZ Hollywood reality shitshow. Meaghan Garvey’s review on Pitchfork says it so much better than we can:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kanye-west-ye/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
#TBT – DJ Eleven – Gangsta Shit
Posted: June 1, 2018 Filed under: TBT | Tags: Hip-Hop Movie Series, TBTDOWNLOAD (right click “save target as”)
On June 7, The Rub Movie Night is back at Alamo Drafthouse, with Menace II Society! Last month we recorded a mix inspired by our first movie, Belly, and we were all set to do it again this month but we realized we already have two mixes which are perfectly suited for the night, from DJ Eleven (posted above!) and our brother Matthew Africa (R.I.P.), which we will share next week.
About the movie:
Released 25 years ago in May of 1993, Menace II Society was the directorial debut of the Hughes Brothers (twins Allen & Albert – directors of cult classic Dead Presidents). Set in it Watts, CA, Menace tells the story of Caine (Tyrin Turner) and O-Dog’s (Larenz Tate) struggles against the racism, drugs, and violence that gripped the LA area at the time. The film stars a pre-Fresh Prince Jada Pinkett and Samuel L. Jackson, as well as an amazing roster of West Coast rappers, including MC Eiht, Too $hort, and Saafir.
After the screening, join us for more music, dancing and drinking at the House of Wax!
5.26 – Skip-the-line Tickets
Posted: May 25, 2018 Filed under: The Rub | Tags: Skip-the-line Tickets, the rub
We’ve got 50 more skip-the-line tickets available now for tomorrow night’s party at The Bell House. $15 (all in…no fees) jumps you right past the line and straight through the door to the festivities. If you can’t get any of these tickets in time, don’t worry…there will be plenty of tickets at the door. Special guests this month are SZN SLT and Dirtyfinger. We hope to see you all tomorrow night!
GET YOUR SKIP-THE-LINE TICKETS HERE
FOTR: SZN SLT
Posted: May 24, 2018 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: Donwill, fotr, Meka, SZN SLT
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One of our special guests this month for The Rub is NY DJ Dirtyfinger. He’s one of the hardest working and most active folks in the Brooklyn DJ scene and seems to always be rocking somewhere extremely fun whether it’s House of Yes, Tender Trap, Mad Tropical, Bembe or even overseas backing up the one and only Zebra Katz. He’s guaranteed to be playing somewhere in BK every week. And this Saturday he’ll be rocking with us at The Bell House for the May edition of The Rub. Check his recent live radio mix for WHCR 90.3 FM below for some worldly flavors. And make sure to click some links and give him a follow on the socials as well.
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