During this year’s SXSW Festival leading pro audio company Unique Squared, in partnership with Quality Control Marketing, parked a massive tour bus on Austin’s streets to serve as a state of the art recording studio. Throughout the festivities some of hip-hop’s most notable emcees stopped by the Mobile Studio to record exclusive songs over all-original production. The result is The Official SXSW Mixtape, a 30 track collection that captures the energy and creativity of SXSW.
On March 18th the dopehouse linked up with DJBooth and Last Rights Clothing to present the site’s very first unofficial SXSW showcase. With performances by the likes of Skeme, Shane Eli, El Da Sensei, Nikki Lynette, Tanya Morgan, King Mez, Emilio Rojas, El Prez, Skewby, Macklemore, ScHoolBoy Q, Big K.R.I.T., J.NiCS, REKS, Trae Tha Truth and Freeway, it was definitely a highlight in not only the dopehouse’s relatively short existence but for myself as well. Like, love or loathe us, if it weren’t for the people that visit, continue to frequent or hear about the site both Shake and I would have never progressed this far. For that we thank you.
1st off sxsw fuckin sucks, its a bunch of corporate people taking advantage of every act & pocketing all sponsorship money we will never do another official showcase again, anyway as always we still had a great time. The Pricks found a groupie & tatted her ass with their logo in their hotel room. We also had The whole Smokers Club in the house for our show & instore with Diamond Supply Co, Check out everyone discussing their characters on the T-shirt. There is some footage of Dom kennedy, Schoolboy Q & The Pricks performing @ our Smokers Club event. Aside from that i poured some cookie dough ice cream on dutch face while he was sleeping (pause) & we smoked out the hotel hallway as always GoodTalk – Jonnyshipes
Hit the jump for an interview with Big K.R.I.T., where he talk about his most meaningful verses.
Ah man, I’ve been waiting for this piece to come out. The homie Andreas over at TheWellVersed compiled a collection of some of the craziest moments from SXSW from the like of myself, Shake, Devi Dev, DJ Booth and more. Case in point:
We parked, got out the car and started walking the crowded block and one of the first things that happened is some half naked super skinny old white woman darts directly towards me and Von Pea and starts doing some karate kinda shit. – Donwill’s “Karate Crackheads”
You’ve already seen Black Milk’s, now here’s more footage of the showcase I was a part of. Easily one of the highlights of my trip to Texas. More footage down bottom.
The dopehouse is gearing up to have a couple shows we will either be presenting, sponsoring and/or appearing at for Texas’ SXSW Festival. Hit the jump for all the flyers and good stuff.
The dopehouse is gearing up to have a couple shows we will either be presenting, sponsoring and/or appearing at for Texas’ SXSW Festival. Hit the jump for all the flyers and good stuff.
The dopehouse is gearing up to have a couple shows we will either be presenting, sponsoring and/or appearing at for Texas’ SXSW Festival. Hit the jump for all the flyers and good stuff.
The dopehouse is gearing up to have a couple shows we will either be presenting, sponsoring and/or appearing at for both this weekend’s Winter Music Conference (me neither) in Miami and Texas’ SXSW Festival. Hit the jump for all the flyers and good stuff.
That’s right folks, the dopehouse is teaming up with DJBooth.net and Last Rights to bring you The Rising: SXSW Edition this year in Austin on Friday, March 18th. While we’re still locking down a few more surprise acts, you can expect Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Reks (w/ Statik Selektah), Tanya Morgan, El Prez, Big K.R.I.T., GhostWridah, Macklemore (w/ Ryan Lewis), Skeme, Yonas, El Da Sensei and many more to rock the stage. Hope to see you there.
