Sorry for being a day late with the results, meant to get to it yesterday, but sometimes is life is unpredicatable (nahmean?). I’m actually surprised by both how many people entered and how many people got the answers wrong (I’d estimate 40% of you anyway), but here are the correct answers:
Question 1: Ian Bavitz’s moniker. Aesop Rock
Question 2: The title of Sean Daly & Anthony Davis’ 3rd LP. God Loves Ugly
Question 3: Wale track from 100 Miles & Runnin’ produced by Best Kept Secret. Ice Cream Girl
Question 4: Track seven from Non Phixion’s debut album. Rock Stars
Question 5: The middle name of DJ Subroc’s older brother (original moniker). Zev Love X
Question 6: Track three on the fifth LP from the in-house band on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. !!!!!!!
Answer to the big question and winners names after the jump. Continue reading »
Getting back in the swing of things like CTR’s days of yore, here’s a new music video by Tanya Morgan. We used to post music videos and singles on the regular and although I’m not sure how long we’ll keep this up for the second time around, but we’ll see. Peep this new Tanya Morgan joint for the single So Damn Down. The iPhone app in this video is hilarious. My youngest nephew is terrified of it.
Like a large amount of albums I discover to be brilliant, this one sat on my desk(top) for a few months until two days ago when I was high and picked a random track to listen to which happened to be an artist featured on this compilation, Memories Of M.A.W.S.L.O.T. I have no clue what M.A.W.S.L.O.T. actually stands for, but I do know it was once the moniker of K-Murdock (of Panacea & Restoring Poetry In Music fame), a truly brilliant and tragically underrated producer from Washington, D.C. I listened to this right before and after I peeped the new Tanya Morgan joint (which I’m certain will at least break my top 3 this year… seriously, from first track to last track Brooklynati is flawless) and it fit right in with Von Pea’s soulful and often rhythm and bluesque production and usage of samples. This is by no means a purely hip-hop album (although there’s many guest rap spots on this joint), but if you have a love for acts like Digable Planets, Panacea, Resotring Poetry in Music, Pete Philly & Perquisite or a soft spot for Neo-Soul artists such as Raheem DeVaughn, Erkyah Badu, John Legend, or Dwele this one is a must have. What’s more, this compilation (no, it’s not an album) is comprised of rare and unreleased tracks K-Murdock recorded between 2001 & 2004 under his aforementioned moniker. Don’t miss out.
Been waiting for this one for a minute. Shouts to Sniper for putting us on. Buy
Tanya Morgan was founded in 2003. Von Pea and Donwill, already regular collaborators after having met on the okayplayer.com message board, decided to work on a full-length album together. Ilyas, who along with Donwill comprised a hip-hop duo known as Ilwill, joined the project as a third member, and producer Brickbeats was brought in to work on the album as well. Since Von Pea lived in Brookyln and both Donwill and Ilyas lived in Cincinnati, the trio did much of the work on their first album by exchanging files across AOL Instant Messenger.
Prior to releasing their debut album Moonlighting, Tanya Morgan released an online mixtape, Sunlighting, and an EP of original material, Sunset. After Tanya Morgan was featured in XXL Magazine’s “Show and Prove” column [1], Moonlighting was released on Loud Minority Music. The album received 3.5 mics (out of 5) in The Source magazine, [2] an entry in the Chairman’s Choice column in XXL,[3] and coverage in Wax Poetics magazine [4] and several other publications and websites.
The group released the first MySpace-themed video for their single “We Be”, and it went on to win MTVu’s Freshman of the Week contest in July 2006. [5] The “We Be” video was resultantly aired on channels such as MTV Jams, Much Music and nyctv’s The Bridge.
Tanya Morgan has collaborated with hip-hop acts such as Nicolay, Fat Jon, 88 Keys. The group performed at Toronto’s NXNE Festival with Noveau Riche, and the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival with Ghostface Killah, Large Professor, Consequence, and others. Tanya Morgan is also a regular at New York’s annual CMJ Festival.
Tanya Morgan was voted the winner of the “Show Us What You Got” Hip-Hop Artist Competition, held on October 25, 2007 at the Power Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were also featured in XXL’s “Chairman’s Choice” in September of 2008, and named in XXLMag.com’s Top Ten Artists in July of the same year [6].[citation needed] 2008 also saw the release of their EP The Bridge. Most recently Tanya Morgan has recorded Brooklynati, an album and coinciding multi-media project set to be released May 12, 2009 on Interdependent Media. The group Tanya Morgan has also recently moved from their respective cities to the city of Brooklynati, a little-known American city whose history, attractions, shops and events can be viewed through the Brooklynati Chamber of Commerce website.
New interview over at www.wevegotthejazz.com. MC/Producer of Tanya Morgan drops info on his latest release, the creation of Tany Morgan, what’s next for Tanya Morgan and even lets us know his Top 5 MCs.
Name: Von Pea Affiliations: Tanya Morgan (is a rap group), The Lessondary Age: 27 Hood/Hometown: Brooklyn, Ny Most Recent Release: Tanya Morgan “The Bridge EP” and “The Further Adventures of Von Pea” Mixtape Record Label: Interdependent Media
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WGTJ: To begin with, for readers who aren’t familiar with your previous solo efforts or your work as a member of Tanya Morgan,can you tell readers who you are? What role do you play as a member of Tanya Morgan as well as in hip-hop in general?: Von Pea: Well im Von Pea of the rap group Tanya Morgan, im the mc/producer of the group, if we were the original slum village, for example, I guess I’m Jay Dee. I do some rapping and I push the buttons, Donwill is the lead role like T3 and Ilyas is the crazy one that’s secretly a genius like Baatin (haha) actually he’s Elzhi too. He stays in the cut and he’s dope as a motherfucker. our role in hip hop is just to play our part. hip hop is a team and we’re gonna be the small forward playing his role, but were gonna have more rings than anyone else in the end.
WGTJ:As a somewhat avid listener of Tanya Morgan records, I would personally group you with acts such as Danny!, Kenn Star, Median, Kidz in the Hall and of course Little Brother on a basis of lyrical content, production and overall vibe. With that stated, the majority of the aforementioned groups are from the South (Kidz in the Hall is a Midwestern act). Assuming the connection is there, what acts helped to mold the overall sound of Von Pea and Tanya Morgan?: VP:That’s funny you name those people because I’m either friends or genuinely cool with everyone you just named. That’s a great list to be apart of for me. Actually i think Double-O is from New Jersey or something. Ilyas and Don are Midwest too, and I think that all lends to people having an East Coast/90s influence but from the outside so they all appreciated it in a different way. For me I was the baby in the family for years so I thought I was older and I had all the late 80’s hip hop at the time yet I was born in 81. When I poke fun at myself that’s the Fresh Prince, when I’m boasting that’s Phife Dawg and Big Daddy Kane. When I’m introspective its Posdnuos, my desire to stand out is De La Soul, my wordplay is Common, my album orchestration/sequencing is Prince Paul and ?uestlove, and my production started by listening to the Ummah, so that’s how I ended up being Von Pea. Take all of that and add in the Geto Boys threat,Ice Cube etc. and you get the influence of Donwill and Ilyas. Me being the guy from New York when i was coming up, I only knew New York stuff and Death Row/Hieroglyphics/Outkast. I missed a lot of classic albums because NY was known for not showing outside love back then, unfortunately. I just checked for the radio stuff back then, luckily back then it was classic shit. I’m talking about early 90s.
WGTJ: One of my most thoroughly bumped track off of The Bridge EP (Interdependent Media) has to be Hip Hop Is Dead II. Towards the end of the track you state “They keep sayin’ hip-hop is dead, but I can’t believe it/ I just can’t see it”. It seems throughout the past 3 years or so a lot of cats have also been questioning the livelihood/current state of hip-hop. Although this sentiment is steadily turning around with the growing popularity of so-called “hipster” acts such as Wale, The Cool Kids, Kid CuDi, Jay Electronica etc., I’ve gotten the idea that a lot of East Coast cats are still not feeling like hip-hop is really back to where it should be. A Brooklynite yourself, why do you still have faith in the art? :
VP:I think hip-hop is fine personally. I could rant about this question for like 4 paragraphs but, I’ll keep it short. There’s so much good hip hop out there that’s current. The problem is everything else. Like I said I could be on this answer all day so I’ll just attack my latest beef (ha ha): The whole “hipster rap” label. Was “my Adidas” hipster rap? when Nas said “…and im a Nike head” or “suede Timbs on my feet make my cypher complete” was he on some hipster shit? Rappers have rapped about their clothes forever. Everybody had beef with Biggie for talking about his Coogis etc., but when he died everybody was in love with him. Have you stopped to look at what Black Thought wears? Or what De La soul Wears? These cats have better chains than mainstream rappers. If you stop to listen to some of the so called “hipster” rappers they’re nice as hell. Better yet, some even have more content than so called “conscious” rappers. We don’t really get that label, but I’m just standing up for those colleagues that unfairly do like Kidz in the Hall and Pacific Division.
Requested by my boy Ant, here low on the official mixtape series for the critically acclaimed anime series, Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks. Anybody who’s seen a few episodes of the show has probably caught onto many of the social undertones and themes of the show (many which have carried over from McGruder’s comic strip by the same title), and his same anti-mainstream society motif shows up in the majority of the musical features on the tapes. Skyzoo, Talib Kweli, Tanya Morgan, Pacific Division, Jean Grae, Mos Def, Little Brother, Blu, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Tribe, Cunninlynguists, AZ, Rakim, Quasimoto, Bishop Lamonot and so many more. Do yourself a favor and at least peep one of these.
So I’ve been talking about the release of this compilation for sometime now and it’s finally here along with two new members of the CTR team. As those who frequent the site know I did a search for somebody to help with the site since the original members (all of who are still affiliated with the site) have become rather busy with… well, life. Based on responses to several questions we sent out to everyone who showed interest in contributing, the two who’ve been chosen (as of right now) are LedD and Thedude… not familiar names now, but you’ll become accquainted with them in during the next few days, weeks, months and maybe years (If you were not chosen, but opted to participate in the new blog we’re planning on starting, you’ll recieve an email in the next few days… thanks to everyone else). Welcome them here and check the mixtape (pass it around if you like). Tracklist after the jump…
Check out this 88 Keys mixtape featuring Izza Kizza, Tanya Morgan, Kid Cudi, Guilty Simposn, Mr. Bentley, Grafh, Serius Jones, and more. 88 Keys first solo album should be coming out this Fall and is executive produced by Kanye West. Back cover and download links await you.
Check out this 88 Keys mixtape featuring Izza Kizza, Tanya Morgan, Kid Cudi, Guilty Simposn, Mr. Bentley, Grafh, Serius Jones, and more. 88 Keys first solo album should be coming out this Fall and is executive produced by Kanye West. Back cover and download links await you.
Check out this 88 Keys mixtape featuring Izza Kizza, Tanya Morgan, Kid Cudi, Guilty Simposn, Mr. Bentley, Grafh, Serius Jones, and more. 88 Keys first solo album should be coming out this Fall and is executive produced by Kanye West. Back cover and download links await you.
Check out this 88 Keys mixtape featuring Izza Kizza, Tanya Morgan, Kid Cudi, Guilty Simposn, Mr. Bentley, Grafh, Serius Jones, and more. 88 Keys first solo album should be coming out this Fall and is executive produced by Kanye West. Back cover and download links await you.
This release leaked some time ago as a webrip. Heres the grouprip. Tanya Morgan is dope! Dont sleep!
Label…………….: Interdependent Media
Genre…………….: Hip-Hop
StoreDate…………: Jun-17-2008
Source……………: CDDA
Size……………..: 39,3 MB
Total Playing Time…: 32:52
Release Notes:
out in stores june 17th, this is the CDDQ version….
Tracklisting
01. The Bridge (feat. Elucid) 03:47
02. We Doin’ Our… 03:37
03. Filthier Interlude aka Place 01:54
04. Got 2 Get Done 03:56
05. Be You (feat. Czelena) 03:44
06. Get Me Inside 04:03
07. ThreeMcees 03:27
08. Hip Hop Is Dead II 04:15
09. How Low (Bonus) 04:09
Got asked for some Qn5 a while back so I present you with Asterisk 4 (2007), Baby Blue For Pink EP (2008), & Extended F@mm’sHappy Fuck You Songs (2002). Even better, no RapidShare links this time (that’s Extended F@mm in the pic for the curious).
Weird name, weird album cover, nice album. Tanya Morgan is a 3 man group comprised of emcees from Brooklyn (Von Pea who is also the producer and dropped a nice LP last year) and Cinncinnati (Donwill & Illyas). Some joints are comical, some soulful, and there’s even a good few bangers. If you like Pacific Division, Little Brother & Strange Fruit Project check ’em out.
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