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U.K. Phenoms OMA Blow Up The Bay With Shing02 & Spin Master A-1 For Nujabes Tribute [B.Getz on L4LM]

August 22, 2024August 30, 2024 B.Getz boom-bap, G-Funk, hip hop, instrumental hip-hop, live hip-hop, nujabes, OMA, OMA live hip-hop, OMA UK, OMA US tour, shing02, spinmaster a-1

U.K. live hip-hop phenoms OMA are currently barnstorming through America, unleashing a torrent of blazing instrumental re-imaginations of iconic rap anthems from coast to coast.

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Previewing Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa 2023 [B.Getz on L4LM]

June 26, 2023July 31, 2023 B.Getz BAM, Blue Note, blue note jazz festival napa, dave chappelle, de la soul, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DOMi and JD Beck, funk, jazz, live hip-hop, mary j. blige, Napa Valley, nas, old-school hip-hop, Rakim, robert glasper, Soulive

What’s on offer at Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa is the creme de la creme of contemporary Black American music, past, present, and future across three stages, all of it delivered in the breathtaking environs of Napa Valley.

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But The Shogun Was Scared Of Him: GZA Brings Shaolin Styles To Yoshi’s Oakland [B.Getz on L4LM]

January 30, 2023February 1, 2023 B.Getz DJ Symphony, GZA, gza/genius, hip hop, live hip-hop, wu-tang, wu-tang clan, yoshi's, yoshi's oakland

The Yoshi’s audience was treated to a first-class demonstration of GZA’s murderous rhyme styles and genuine craft in the cozy confines of the renowned jazz haunt.

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DOWN BY LAW: In Memoriam – Rest In Beats, Leonardo Del Hubrio. Longtime Bassist of The Roots [Leonard ‘Hub’ Hubbard 1959-2021]

December 16, 2021December 18, 2021 B.Getz ahmir "questlove" thompson, bassist, Black Thought, hip hop, hub, Hub The Roots, Illadelph, legendary roots crew, leonard "hub" hubbard, leonard hubbard, live hip-hop, okayplayer, Questlove, RIP Hub The ROots, tarik trotter, the roots

Just wanted to take a few minutes to pay tribute to Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, of the Legendary Roots Crew, who passed away yesterday at 62 years young;

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Inside Josh Blake’s Hip-Hop LP, ‘Unemployment Benefits’ [B.Getz on L4LM]

November 11, 2020December 2, 2020 B.Getz asheville, echo mountain, gfe, granola funk express, hip hop, iamavl, josh blake, live hip-hop, rap, rap producer, Unemployment Benefits

GFE’s Josh Blake drives the lane with the just-released Unemployment Benefits, a 13-track studio album that’s a piping platter of heatrocks, brimming with banger after banger of boom-bap rap songs.