Pac Div: Shut Up
New video from Pac Div. Love the heavy bass line on this song, Pac Div really stays true to the bass heavy synth sound of LA hip hop.
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LA Restaurant Week 2010
I just remembered that its Restaurant Week, or I would have shared this much earlier! LA Restaurant week is going until tomorrow, Feb 5, 2010, giving us the opportunity to dine at the hottest restaurants at the city on a prix fixe deal.
Enjoy a three course lunch or dinner at spots like Dakota, Boa Steakhouse, The Palm, and more! The most you will spend is $16-$44 per person, you can’t beat that with a stick.
Visit DiscoverLos Angeles.com for the full list of participating restaurants.
Image: Discover Los Angeles
Mobile Food: Kogi BBQ’s Scion mobile kitchen
This is some ultimate hustler ish here…making food out the back of the car! The mobile food thing is super popular here in LA, with Korean taco trucks, Peruvian food trucks, breakfast-brunch trucks, and my homegirl running around town selling cupcakes and cookies around town (shouts out to Grufeete! Vandalizing your tastebuds!)
To be fair, mobile food isn’t new. It’s one of those things that’s come full circle and trendy again, like plaid shirts and color skinny jeans. I remember growing up in Compton, the ice cream truck would come around several times a day. We also had a donut truck make his rounds, along with the neighborhood hustle man selling meat out the back of his truck. Porterhouse steak, lobster, crab. Sure, you need a permit to sell food. And it’s probably more trustworthy (maybe, maybe not) if you buy it from the grocer. There was a sense of convenience and community involved in buying from an individual off the street. It’s almost like saying fuck you to the system and relying on your fellow man to help feed you and your fam. They came to you, you didn’t have to go to them. Back in the day we didn’t even have decent grocery stores in the hood, we had to go outside our immediate area to get fresh, quality food. Only in the past decade or so has the quality of grocers in Compton improved.
I went off on a tangent there; the whole point was to share this video where the Kogi truck dudes pimped out a Scion and made it into a mobile food unit. It’s killer when they hit a button and the grill pops out the back of the trunk. That shit is ingenious, they need to copyright it.
Hustling food on the streets like a rapper selling mixtapes is so hip hop. Follow the homies selling sweets on the streets! @Grufeete
Source: Huffington Post
West Coast Wednesday: Real LA hip hop at The Spliff, Friday Dec 4th
It’s the last Spliff of the year…and the decade! Support my peeps! Shouts out to Val the Vandle, Printz Paul, & VerBs!
New Video from Snoop Dogg “I Wanna Rock”
Posted under: Hip Hop, Hip Hop, West Coastin'
Snoop’s new song and video are hot fire. Snoop has such longevity as an artist, who else can drop hits consistently since 1993? I believe this song samples Luke’s “I Wanna Rock” but screws up the hook; the original “I Wanna Rock” has a BPM of 200 or something crazy fast like that. Any of my DJ homies out there could give me a more exact BPM.
Peep the vid, my favorite parts are the dance sequences. I couldn’t tell if the kids in the skinny jeans were Jerking or Crip Walking, which I now see are pretty similar in nature. If I could shake it like homegirl around the 2:14 mark, I could quit my career in online media and go work at the Barbary Coast. Or the Spearmint Rhino, coz I’m classy 
West Coast Wednesday: New Video from Pac Div “Whiplash/Young Black Male”
Posted under: Hip Hop, Hip Hop, West Coastin'
West Coast Wednesday – Too Short performing at Key Club THIS Thurs, 11/12/09
LA peeps! Bay area legend Too Short will be gracing the stage at Key Club this Thursday, 11/12. If you can make it, check it out! I would die a happy woman to see Too Short perform “Freaky Tales” live. I know, nasty. Don’t act like you don’t know.
Key Club
9039 W. Sunst Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310.274.5800
Image: Fusicology
Diz Gibran- "Truly Yours" Ft. BJ The Chicago Kid
Posted under: Hip Hop, Hip Hop, West Coastin'
Check out the new video from LA's own Diz Gibran.
Diz Gibran- “Truly Yours” Ft. BJ The Chicago Kid from The Brolly Group on Vimeo.
Thoughts on the LA hip hop scene
Posted under: West Coastin'
I ran across this video on The Spliff blog, I think it gives thoughtful insight on the current state of the LA hip hop scene. LA hip hop isn’t just gangster rap, its much more diverse than people realize.
Shouts out to LA Stereo TV!
West Coast Wednesdays are now in effect
Posted under: West Coastin'
I’m taking inspiration from Power 106 and instituting “West Coast Wednesdays” on HipHopMuse. People always have slick shit to say about Los Angeles, so I’m gonna use my site as a platform to hold it down for my city. I won’t put down anyone else’s city to biggup LA. LA holds its own, and I’m gonna bring it to you, real and raw.
West up!
