Duck Down Records

Random Axe released LP on Duck Down (stream it), playing shows w/ Smif N Wessun & Black Moon & more

Sean Price at Southpaw (more by BBG)”I like no female rappers. Not like I don’t like them personally; they don’t hold my interest. Except MC Lyte,” he told Vlad TV…

upcoming hip hop shows & tours -- CMJ, Duck Down & more

Ghostface Killah at Rock The Bells (more by Andrew St. Clair) CMJ is almost here, and as usual hip hop is well represented with appearances from the greats as well as those on the upswing…

Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest 2010 in pics & video (De La Soul, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Black Moon, Black Milk & more)

“Wht a fckin day! Was a 90s hipHop reunion backstge DAMN! Nice & smooth, dela soul, group home, primo, pete rck& cl smooth, large prof, craig g” –MastaAce “Damn Pete Rock and CL Smooth rockin under the Brooklyn Bridge…

Hip Hop Fest continues w/ Black Milk, a PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH REUNION (and a salute to the DJ @ MHOW tonight)

DOWNLOAD: Black Milk – “Welcome (Gotta Go)” (Mediafire) Black Milk at SXSW (more here) The new LP is called Album Of The Year. That’s bold talk from the great Black Milk, but if there is one man who can get that head nodding, it’s him…

Duck Down, Nappy Roots, Cage & more upcoming hip hop

DOWNLOAD: Nappy Roots – Nappy University Mixtape (Zipped MP3s) Buckshot and General Steele at Red 7 (more by Samantha Marble) Memorial day weekend begins with two turntables and a mic…

Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest 2010 lineup w/ De La Soul, Duck Down Records celebrates there & @ BB King's w/ Pharoahe Monch

De La Soul at Coachella (more by Rachel Carr) Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest 2009 was a blast (with one notable exception) and so far 2010 is turning out to be similarly interesting with the addition of the great De La Soul to headline the shindig on July 10th alongside Buckshot, Evil Dee and Smif-N-Wessun…

Black Milk played SXSW (pics), playing Culture Shock (today) & Fat Beats (w/ Duckdown artists & others) on Record Store Day

words and Duck Down Records (meaning Buckshot, Smif N Wessun, Torae, Ruste Juxx, Marco Polo, “and more”) will showcase their infinite rhymes with a show at NYC record store Fat Beats along with Black Milk (with a live band), AG (of DITC and Showbiz & AG fame), Von Pea (of Tanya Morgan), 88 Keys, Soul Khan, and DeeJay Element in celebration of Record Store Day Saturday (4/17)…

What's going on Tuesday?

Andrew WK & Ted Leo in 2008 (more by Ryan Muir) tonight in NYC * No Bra, Blush Response @ Glasslands * Neighbors, Milly Beau @ Mercury Lounge * Allman Brothers Band @ United Palace Theatre * FIXED w/ Aeroplane, Blondes @ Santos Party House * Peter Evans Quintet, Craig Taborn @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * International Contemporary Ensemble @ (Le) Poisson Rouge * The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Apache Beat @ Bowery Ballroom * Andrew WK, The Dirty Pearls, Chainsaw Trio @ Irving Plaza * Emanuel And The Fear, Sunflower & The Seeds, Peasant @ Maxwell’s * Sean Bonnette, Bomb the Music Industry…

Sean Price had a daughter (everyone's invited to the shower)

DOWNLOAD: Random Axe – “Monster Babies” Sean Price aka Ruck of Heltah Skeltah Congrats to the clown prince of Duck Down Records and the king of Ruck Down Records, Sean Price, who is celebrating a major milestone…

the BV Guide to Hip Hop at CMJ 2009

DOWNLOAD: Wiz Kalifa – Flight School Mixtape (Yousendit, Zipped MP3) DOWNLOAD: Souls of Mischief – “LaLaLa” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Souls of Mischief – “Tour Stories” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tanya Morgan – “So Damn Down” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Tanya Morgan – “Bang N Boogie” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: KRS-One & Buckshot – “Survival Skills” (MP3) Saul Williams at Afropunk 2009 (more by Tim Griffin) NYC invented HIP HOP, so CMJ would be nowhere if it didn’t rep the art form to the fullest…
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