This is a promotional song to hype up Imeem’s “Keys To The City” Event at the Independent in San Francisco on Dec 9th. For those that don’t know, “Keys To The City” is an Imeem video series in which different artists take a camera crew around their old stomping grounds to show the world where they came from. Listen, download, and come to the show…

“Keys To The City” feat. Fashawn, Richie Cunning & U-N-I (produced by Richie Cunning)

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Instrumental

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In case you didn’t already know, Richie Cunning is playing with Blu, UNI, and Fashawn at the Independent for the Imeem “Keys To The City” Launch Party. If you come to this site and don’t have the Grizzly Man Mixtape I don’t know what to think of you… but you may not have the Fashawn Mixtape “One Shot, One Kill”, and this is the last time you have an excuse. Get on your game and download them both right now.

Richie Cunning – “The Grizzly Man”
Fashawn – “One Shot, One Kill”

Thanks to Mr. Sayre and Imeem for all the hard work on the Keys To The City Launch… big thangs.

Sidenote: Happy Birthday to Grip Grand!

More thoughtless self-promotion. Deal with it. Grip Grand interview, excerpted from Wake Your Daughter Up (www.wydublog.com)…special thanks to author/good-deed-doer Travis.

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THE BEST MUSIC OF 2008

The following is an excerpt from the East Bay Express editors’ online series, “The Best Music of 2008″…the author lists a lot of cool bands, but I left the rest of them out. Pardon my self-promotion.

So the Rec-League instant classic “Disneyland” and the unreleased Grip Grand song “I Chose Rap” were featured on the Bomb Hip Hop Compilation Vol. 2 that was put out a few months back by Bomb Hip Hop. OkayPlayer and RapReviews.com both gave the Rec some special notice. The compilation as a whole is pretty damn good. Dave Paul over at Bomb Hip Hop knows his stuff. From the OKP review:

Grip Grand also does the compilation a huge favor with his hard hitting, feel good song, “I Chose Rap.” His flow is consistent and thoroughly developed, as he pontificates on his love for hip-hop music, cemented by a catchy hook made up of old school sound bytes, over a classic soul sample.

There are other dope tracks, such as the silly but honest “Manners” by Celsius 7, and Rec-League All-Stars’ “Disneyland.”

Rec-League… silly but honest.

OKP Review
RapReviews.Com Review

Holidays, holidays. Whoop-dee-do. This week is my birthday, and last week was Thanksgiving. Speaking of which, here’s what I’m not thankful for…comics are delayed this week. New-comic Thursday always seems wrong. It messes up the rhythm of your local shop, and it’s bad for business. You hear that, turkeys? Next year, Thanksgiving better fall on a different day. I don’t care what’s “possible”…make it so. Those last three words were me doing my Captain Picard impression. It works better in person.

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