cypher

I just saw this video it has to go up tonight. At the BET Awards tonight they brought back some real hip-hop by having artists freestyle in a cypher together and this particular one caught my eye. Mos and Black Thought both spit some great lines and then Eminem kills it. The crowd reaction after the line that ends with “Dalai Lama” is awesome too, you know he killed it when you hear that. I haven’t watched the rest of the videos and maybe I’ll post some of them below later, but this one is a must watch. Good work BET on doing this too, next year I may just watch the show lol!

This past Sunday I got to attend the Deadstock sneaker convention and see some DMV and NYC artists perform so I grabbed my friend’s camera to tape part of it (shouts to JM). After some confusion and some artists not getting to do their sets, they let the artists do a 10 minute cypher passing the mic around but thanks to some editing I have narrowed it down to the artists I knew haha. Lyriciss, Nando, Emperess, Cayan and Pro’Verb all get on the mic and spit some great lines over instrumentals like “Shook Ones Pt. II” and “Lark On My Go-Kart”. Despite the craziness, it was a good event, everyone got to see some cool sneakers, some great performances (of the artists that had sets that I got to see, I was digging Cause and Emilio Rojas) and meet cool people. Sorry about the audio, but only had a picture camera (instead of a video camera) recording but it still is pretty good.

This crazy ass cypher went down last night at the Knitting Factory in NYC. K-Salaam was on the one’s and two’s and this cypher consists of Donny Goines, Mickey Factz, Skyzoo, Sha Stimuli, Torae, Panama, Melo X, Phase One, Mista Mista, Esso and Apinks. That was crazy to type and crazy to see. There are more videos of this insane show and cypher just click the jump.

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