Yesterday I posted video footage of the event, now enjoy the pictures of Clipse x Pepsi Proper show I attended Saturday night under the cut.

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Last night I attended Pepsi Proper’s Pop Up Retail store and its accompanying show. The store itself was nothing to brag about, as when I got to the spot there were maybe 12 people inside tops, with a good seven of them being the vendors. They were all down-to-earth, however, and one of the promoters gave me a 12-pack of soda and some tees just for showing up. I returned later on that night – as another promoter suggested I show up by 8pm, even though the event started at 9pm – with two of my friends, where I ran into Picaso of Language Artz, bananaclipse, E-Dub, Convinced, their respective friends and a pair of cuties from Chicago who had just moved to Southern California (and were pissed when they found out Cali clubs shut down at 2am. So Cal lost) who came early also, only to be told to come back at 9pm. That’s the last time I come early/on time to an event. Eventually we returned and were let in; but unfortunately some were not because they weren’t 21, while ‘clipse forgot his ID. Ouch. While inside the DJ spun good music, I kicked it with U-N-I, Pacific Division, Dom Kennedy, El Prez, Ayomari, TiRon, eazee and many others, temporarily fell in love with a few of the curvy women that attended, wanted to gank Tyga for his chain and my inner fan boy came out and I shot a pair of pictures with Pusha T & Malice. All in all I had a good time, considering it was my first time seeing both Pac Div and Clipse perform. Above is the footage I got of Clipse doing “Keys Open Doors,” with Pacific Division’s “Mayor” and “Taste” under the cut. Shouts to everyone I met that night, and if I forgot to mention, my bad.

So after months of prodding and poking by people, I finally jumped the shark and joined Shake in having a Twitter page, which you can find by clicking under our email addresses to the right of your screen. Also, for those that want to subscribe and get notifications (I will never refer to them as “tweets” or “twits” or “twats” or whatever) when we update the site the official 2DB twitter is http://twitter.com/2dopeboyz.

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So here’s the deal, folks: both Shake and I receive tons of emails from aspiring artists wanting some shine, some really good, some all kinds of awful. So we thought we’d let the people decide which artists we should spend more time with here. How? Simple. listen to their music, and choose either “floss” or “toss” in their corresponding polls. Will that make a difference on who gets more shine? Maybe.

This isn’t even a movie than it is a genre-changing classic. This should definitely be in everybody’s video stash. And as always, if you’re digging this, hit up Gangstarr Girl for a fresh take on hip-hop, politics, fashion and other worldly and wordy things through the eyes of a New York-helmed around-the-way girl. Without further adeiu…

A while ago I posted my footage of this dope freestyle, now here’s the full version for everyone to enjoy. Props to Julien.

* dies from laughter *

What the hell were we thinking when we came up with this, people? And as always, if you’re digging this, hit up Gangstarr Girl for a fresh take on hip-hop, politics, fashion and other worldly and wordy things through the eyes of a New York-helmed around-the-way girl. Without further adeiu…

I’m kind of on my lazy game today. I’m still sort of in food coma but it dawned on me that when I did my blaxploitation horror series, I left out one flick that I specifically meant to include. It’s actually one of my favorites (*hides face in shame at B-Movie addiction*).

This is actually one of my favorite ever. I mean, just look at the poster’s tagline and tell me you wasn’t in for some grade-a fuckery. And as always, if you’re digging this, hit up Gangstarr Girl for a fresh take on hip-hop, politics, fashion and other worldly and wordy things through the eyes of a New York-helmed around-the-way girl. Without further adeiu…

Even though the blaxploitation genre was primarily a 70s thing, there were some flicks that slipped through the cracks and made it to the later years. So, in the spirit of all re-makes, I bring you…

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Here’s the impromptu freestyle session on the  streets of West Hollywood that went down after the BMI Conference, featuring some of my favorite listens right now. I caught one more person ripping it also, but my camera decided to act all Down’s Syndrome and that part of the footage fucked up. My bad. Here’s also a track off A.T.’s unPOPular, POPular series going on right now at the Language Artz site.

BONUS: A.T. – Single Ladies | Mediafire

I somehow forgot to toss this up last night. Oops. Especially when she did something on one of the GOAT of women? Sheeeit. And as always, if you’re digging this, hit up Gangstarr Girl for a fresh take on hip-hop, politics, fashion and other worldly and wordy things through the eyes of a New York-helmed around-the-way girl. Without further adeiu…

And two weeks later, I’m still on my Halloween high. The women from this genre inspired my costume (which I’m still too lazy to post) so I had to bring you another heroine.

Like what you see above? Well, for those who either are not in the New York area tonight or aren’t going, both Black Moon and Smif-N-Wessun will be performing their classic Enta Da Stage and Da Shinin‘ albums respectively with a live band and we can all watch online. Interested? Check out WWW.DUCKDOWN.COM or WWW.THATSHIPHOP.COM at 9PM Eastern (6PM Pacific) to catch a live stream. (2)Dopeness.

What better way to jump-start our one-year anniversary (crazy how it’s been that long) than with the latest entry in Charles Hamilton’s Hamiltization process. It’s only fitting that the cover happens to be based on one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all-time right?

Download link + Tracklist after the jump…