Alexander Spit keeps parties rocking and moving like ships in the panama canal. Eloquent with

beats, turn tables and most of all on the microphone, his LA to SF and back again Cali work ethic is singed and sealed with molten gold. His arrival back in L.A couldn’t have been at a better time. If you didn’t catch him at “On The Rox” with Dom Kenddedy, Carter, and Freddie Gibbs in L.A last week, find him in Atlanta or Miami for the Winter Music Conference later this month. Get on magic.

24Karat Milkcrate has telling you about JBillion for a year. He’s clutch if you want a performer that does

the thing opposite of sleeping pills to people, if that thing were your name spelled out in cocaine on mirrored glass. He’s making more nose than jet engines echoing off skyscrapers. It’s time for him to be everywhere. He’s got music to make shows to rock and asses to kick. Trust us, he’s done it for 24Karat Milkcrate many times. It makes complete sense for these two to do a collaboration and for 24Karat MilkCrate to be presenting it to you. Get your new music monday fix on. Press the download button and listen to it if you’re at work, chilling, or have a pulse in your body at this moment.

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DOWNLOAD HERE: ALEXANDER SPIT “LONG AWAITED” Feat: JBILLION

DOWNLOAD HERE: ALEXANDER SPIT “LONG AWAITED” Feat: JBILLION

The Drop Trailer For 24Karat Milkcrate Presents: Alexander Spit “Long Awaited” Featuring J-Billion

Last Saturday Bambu rocked SIPA community center on Temple in Los Angeles to a packed house celebrating the release of his latest album “Paper Cuts” which is on sale now! If you’ve never caught a live show by Bambu you’re missing out on the good stuff. Not only is he a great orator but he knows how to keep a crowd involved in the down time. All marks of a seasoned veteran showman. I suggest you GET UP ON MAGIC!
film by: Jan Ferrer

YO it’s HOLLYWOOOOOOOD! It is almost impossible to understand how someone can be fresh at as many things as Chicago based artist Hollywood Holt. He’s a successful Emcee, dance floor rocking Dj, Break Dancer, pool shark, and business owner to name just a few. ( He also rocked one of our earliest parties in SF) Hollywood Holt has more irons in the fire than a Renaissance era blacksmith and he shuffles them all around with mastery. He’s also awesomely BLASSTED, living the supreme freedom of making his living off his creativity  and expressing himself in multiple mediums, even on the canvas of his skin. There are no limits to what home boy can do and whatever he does he’ll do it big and in style.  That’s why Hollywood Holt is the current  feature in the never ending lifestyle of the YUNG & BLASSTED. Stay tuned for more from 24kMilkCrate on Hollywood Holt in the next few days.

Shot’s by: Jan Ferrer

I know this was supposed to drop on March 1st. But the people wanted it sooner and you gotta give them what they want! There about twenty tracks on Stunnaman’s mixtape, a majority of which are straight up DOME SLAPPERS!
Get up on MAGIC! FOLKS!

DOWNLOAD: STUNNAMAN Presents “Legendary”
DOWNLOAD: STUNNAMAN Presents “Legendary”

Homeboy Sandman is a minimalist in his personal life, and he’s purposefully engineered it that way.

The same way Italian super car makers gut out a perfectly fine and fast luxury vehicle and reconstruct it without out the frills of A/C,  booming stereo equipment, or navigation. Leaving only a body with the fastest super engine fitted inside capable of producing power so intense it could only be created via the freest thinking of imaginations. Similarly absent from Homeboy Sandman are the material trappings, ideas of grandeur, egomania and vanity that are acceptable  de riguer for today’s emcee. No matter how tempting a case they present to achieve success, Homeboy only deals in the raw un-cut down to his food, to ensure only the most unpolluted rhymes reach your ears.

That philosophy of scribing the freshest quality raps constructable made him a prime candidate

for MTV Iggy’s/Subway Sandwiches “Fresh Buzz” campaign where he lent his good for you rhyme style persona to their $5 “Eat Fresh’ commercials. Even though he’s candid about not eating Subway’s because he’s a raw organic vegan he does say, “I appreciate the alternative that Subway represents in the hood where there’s a bunch of terrible food to eat.” That in a nutshell surmises Homeboy’s character. He’ll get involved for a good cause even if he’s not affected by it directly and he’s down to contribute his biggest asset. Rhymes powered by the cleanest energy source in the universe, the sun. GET UP ON MAGIC!

24kMilkcrate is a Bay Area birthed site and in the Bay Area we have a very strong D.I.Y work ethic. Personally we first found out about you through someone who discovered you through your guerrilla New York City subway train promotions campaign. What inspired you to attack the game that way?

Homeboy Sandman: For me I always knew it was much less a question of meeting the right people or wearing the right whatever, as it was for me to just get people to hear the music. If I could get people to hear the music I knew I’d be straight. The whole thing about the campaign was to get people to my website, HOMEBOYSANDMAN.COM which was one of the first things I bought when I started to emcee. And then we bombed every single line in New York at least once. A city as big as New York you can still take over, it just takes some out of the box thinking.

When I saw you in your MTV Iggy X Subway (Sandwiches) commercial spots, something Pharrell said in an interview at Midem really struck me as relatable to you. In it he described how an artist these days should approach marketing in hip hop. First through establishing their website to keep in contact with fans and then through collaborating with advertisers and brands way before they even approach record labels. Talk about that a bit and how the MTV/Subway  deal came about for you.

Homeboy Sandman: Big shout to the brother Jamie from MTV Iggy who found me for that. I didn’t see that Pharrell interview but it seems like what he was saying is you have to do things for yourself before anyone does them for you. The Subway sandwich thing was fantastic. I actually don’t even eat Subway sandwiches but I appreciate the alternative that Subway sandwiches is in the hood where there’s such a bunch of terrible food to eat. The reason I did get with Subway is because they have fresh vegetable ingredients.

You gave the homie Keelay & Zaire a shout out in the beginning of the Subway commercial. What was their involvement in the commercial?

Homeboy Sandman: Oh he’s the man! If you see the (Subway) feature I rhyme to his beat. That beat was slammin’. I love soulful production and Keelay is consistently making slammin’ cuts that’s why I shouted him out.

On the food topic. Are you a vegetarian or a vegan?

Homeboy Sandman: I’m actually a raw organic vegan.

That’s hard core. Eating a vegetarian Subway sandwich doesn’t really do anything for you!

Homeboy Sandman: (laughs) What is it? They put all the condiments on there right?

Yea jalapenos, onions and stuff but it’s mostly lettuce which is mostly water.

Homeboy Sandman: Lettuce actually gets a bad rap! Lettuce is water. And people act like it ain’t got nuthin’ in it but lettuce grows from the earth. So there’s energy and power there. It ain’t dead it’s alive. There’s mysticism going on there I’m big into that.

You started answering this, but has changing your diet to raw vegan changed your rhymes or outlook on life?

Homeboy Sandman: Nothing can take me out of my flow. If my arms and legs fell off I’d still rhyme. But there’s so many distractions these days. I was talking to my brother from Africa, he’s 55 years old. And he said to me, “I don’t know how you raise kids in America. All these distractions on the T.V, phone, Twitter, everything is a distraction.” People don’t get the opportunity to get involved with the essence. I try to be as close to the essence as I can. So eating the way that I do, it’s easier to be in a great mood and write stuff that’s slammin’ everyday. When you know that there’s no chance you won’t write something slammin’ because you didn’t eat something right, or watched T.V that put something bad in your head. As a spiritual person I believe that we’re rewarded for doing good. If I cut out everything that may be bad, my rhyme flows like a free flowing river.

If Picasso were to ask you, “Homeboy, artist to artist what new vision and style do you bring to your art form?” What would you say to him?

Homeboy Sandman: I’d say, “Picasso, maybe you’re the only brother in the world that can paint your way. Then you can understand how I’m the only cat in the world that can rhyme the way I do. Any artist worth his soul is never going to try to do something that’s already been done. You know the saying, ‘No idea is original?’ Well I believe that there are (original ideas) but they’re like prime numbers. The further up you go the more spread apart they become. And that’s what I have to bring. Original melodies, original concepts, nothing derivative.” I’d like to preface that by saying I know that I’m building on the shoulders of great musicians. But you have to take what’s there and go someplace that hasn’t been gone before.

Top 5 non-hip hop artists that you dig that everyone should be up on?

Homeboy Sandman: When it comes to lyricism

#1: Stevie Wonder

#2: Billy Joel who is so slept on.

#3: Al Jerreau

#4: The Beatles

#5: All the old Motown Stuff, Commodores etc…

When it comes to singers as opposed to emcees it’s really hard to tell if they write their own stuff.

If there was one thing you could change about your life right now what would it be?

Homeboy Sandman: I’m happy with my life. But the one thing I’m working on changing if I had to pick one is this. There are times in my life where God is everywhere and it’s so obvious and I want to remember that fact without the obvious things happening. One time I was getting evicted from my apartment, because I owed $5,000 in back rent. I went to court that morning and I was going to get evicted and I had given up. I had already been to court a couple of times . But for some reason the court clerk pulls me aside and is like, “Yo, look you have a one bedroom apartment right next to the train. You’ll figure something out. Just don’t give up.” What is a court clerk going to pull me aside and tell me that for? I go home and check the email and there’s a $5,000 Tag Records Competition in Harlem later on that day. I knew the minute I saw that email I was going to go win that! And stuff like that happens all the time. So I don’t want to ever be down. Why should I be down when God controls everything? So the only thing I’d change is to remember that everything is always good. Even when you can’t tell why it is.

There are many sayings that are thrown around that are easier said that done. One of them is “Carpe Diem”, or sezing the day. As someone who seems to live by that, how do you implement that philosophy in your own life?

Homeboy Sandman: It has to do discipline and looking to make every moment of your day productive. Sometimes you can lay in your bed and be productive if you’re thinking about something. Not falling into routine that has nothing to show for itself. You don’t need to have a plaque you don’t need to have a billion dollars. But (you need) growth, constant growth and progress.

Last thing. You have an album coming out called  ”The Good Sun”  don’t you?

Homeboy Sandman: Yes I do. It’s called, “The Good Sun” and its coming out on May 4th. The sun rises and signifies the new day, it illuminates, and is the source of all energy. I’ve got production by M Slago, Psycho L.E.S, Ski Beats, Dj Spinna. I feel good because there is a good mixture of people who are decorated on there as well as producers that are up and coming. The production is solid.

Fin

Check out Homeboy Sandman on HERE on his site: HomeboySandman.Com

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. I’m probably doing the least Valentines thing today. I don’t even want to talk about it. ANYWAY! THERE IS ABSOLOUTLY NOTHING YOU SHOULD BE DOING RIGHT NOW EXCEPT FOR WATCHING THIS KICK ASS MUSIC VIDEO FROM HOPIE SPITSHARD! GET UP ON MAGIC!

Flicks: Emmanuel Blackwell

Shane is a San Mateo graf legend and business man. Starting in the early 90’s he held it down as

San Mateo’s premier hip hop record store Below The Surface, which when times changed he flipped into a successful online business So Far West. He’s got a nose for successful new hustles like a fox smells water in the desert. He does it all. But lately you can find him at one of his two barbershops, San Mateo Zoo or Headshots holding it down with a straight edge razor and liners, with an all hitter cast of 10 barbers working his shop’s chairs ceaselessly 6 days a week. Appointments are a necessity.

With an acute business mind he’s always got two or three new projects in the works. Next on deck is the

expansion of his San Mateo Zoo location to incorporate a full fitted hat shop along with blue print plans for out of state projects that shall remain low key for now. Nothing is out of grasp for this humble dude who’s only comment on his success is “Anyone can do it”. Humility has gone a long long way for this yung entrepreneur. Oh and did we mention the  homie is BLASSTED! GET UP ON MAGIC!

San Mateo Zoo

Headshot Barbershop

Does Ohio have an export to New York City policy for it’s best and brightest hip hop talent? Sure, everyone

knows that Cleveland kid name Cudi. But how about the jazzy emcee from small and gritty Massillon, Ohio with the charcoal filtered voice named Stalley? Let’s talk about him for a spell.

Stalley’s voice creeps over beats with a crisp and understated rhythm. His lyrics though are brazen, tuned

and confident like when he spits, ”My melo my man/ my ace my friend/ you are now rockin’ with/ a non complacent man/ so I guess we’re not settlin’ then/ this beats so comfortable/ with out peddlin’/ G5 or fixed gear/ no ride is better than/ the one you on right now” He’s at ease with his sound and it’s one that you can knock full blast. But it sounds better beating in headphones or as a side dish to play along with good company.

Speaking further volumes about Stalley is his close affiliation and upcoming projects with online video

content producers Creative Control and their connected organizations. All of which have the involvement or fall under the umbrella of hip hop’s hypest entrepreneur Dame Dash. Dame who is now back into the indi hip hop game full force sees something in Stalley and for that fact alone Stalley is someone to keep a search light upon. Between his schedule of video shoots in Jamaica, collaborative projects with niche hip hop artists and working on a remix-tape to his last project “Mad Stalley” he’s punching in double shifts daily. This ex-basketball champ is off to a break out start in hip hop and he’s not giving up an inch. Not bad for a guy straight up out the Milq. So sit back and take a few minutes as 24KMilkCrate.Com helps you to GET UP ON MAGIC!

So you just came back from a vacation in Jamaica?

• Stalley: It wasn’t a vacation. There was a Jazz Festival. But I went out there to work with all my partners like Dame Dash, Curren$y, and Creative Control. We were recording. Shooting some music videos. It’s going through editing. But there’s some ILL stuff about to be released from this trip here.

People always bring up your beard in interviews.

• Stalley: Yeah it is it’s own character. (laughs)

Does the beard have a specific significance for you?

• Stalley: Well the beard has a lot of significance. I started to grow it as I started to grow and develop as a person. I let it grow with me. Also it’s part of my religion. I’m a Sunni Muslim so that plays a significant part in it too. To everybody else, it looks good on me so. I kept it.

Is there any other prominent celebrity beards that you have respect for? Because it’s tough to grow out a good beard.

• Stalley: Not to sound any type of way but I don’t think any body else got a beard like me. Rick Ross got a baby beard. Freeway has one too. But they ain’t really messin’ with mine.

Baron Davis was rockin’ a pretty good one for a minute.

• Stalley: Oh yeah, B Diddy had a good one. Drew Gooden used to have a nice one too. I respect both of their beards. (laughs) But mine is just (different). No disrespect to nobody.

Yeah they’re just beirdos.

• (laughs)

Being in the music business what’s one of the biggest lessons you’ve learned.

• Stalley: To be real to yourself. Don’t worry about the things around you because those things will hamper your life. Have the courage to say anything and don’t be afraid to be yourself.

I read that you’ve got a show coming up that will be produced by Creative Control called “The Milq” can you talk about that a little bit?

• Stalley: The show with Creative Control is coming soon. The Milq is actually a nick name for where I’m from, Massillon Ohio. And it’s a small blue collar, steel city where people work hard. So it’s like we’re milking the cow or people for what we can get. And the show is going to reflect that. We’re Showing you where I come from the best way I can. Going back home and getting some visuals, because a lot of people haven’t seen a place like I grew up in. And a lot of people from my area haven’t made it to where I’m at. I don’t think I’ve made it. But to them it is like I made it because that’s how real it is out there. So it’s going to be shot there and here in New York.

Recently the video for “We Can Do It Big” with the Cool Kids came out and it has a movie theater inspired theme  to it. What movie out there can you watch a 1,000 times and never get tired of it?

• Stalley: That’s a good question…can I name a few?

Sure

• Stalley: I would have to say Snatch. City of God, Do The Right Thing, and Troy.

“Mad Stalley: The Auto-biography” Your last project is doing well. What do you have planned next?

• Stalley: I’m all over the place. The next project coming I think is “24Hour Karate School” I’m all over that joint. I’m working on a project with Sa-Ra also. We’re about 5 songs in to that. And I’m also working on a project with Ski-Beats just me and him. Both the Ski Beats and the Sa-Ra projects will be about 10 tracks. And you’re the first person to know this now but I’m working on a remix project for “Mad Stalley” because I feel it hasen’t reached a lot of people it should of. So instead of re-releasing it, we’re doing a remix joint. I’ve got Shafiq of Sa-Ra, Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5…I’m still reaching out but those are some of the producers that have already started working on it.

Download: Stalley’s mixtape “Mad Stalley: The Autobiography”

Ok last question and it’s a survival question. What are the first 3 things you do if you were snow boarding and you found out you we’re lost completely in the woods.

• Stalley: #1 I’d disconnect myself from the snowboard so I could start walking.
• #2 Make sure I’m warm because it’s going to be awhile.
• #3 Try and re-trace my steps. See if I could recognize a hill I went down or a turn. Probably try to find tracks left by my snowboard.

So no slaying of a moose to stay alive?

• Stalley: (laughs) hopefully I don’t run into one. If I had a cellphone I’d just call someone but since I’m snowboarding I’m going to be falling all the time. So I probably wouldn’t have one. I’d probably be out there for a minute.

FIN

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Footage: Emmanuel Blackwell

Chace Infinite is a one of one, an individual that has no predecessors before him and none to follow.

A rare breed. Like the one off and dead stock kicks that encompass his less than modest collection which is large enough to submerge the car in his garage. As half of the Southern California duo Self Scientific with Dj Khalil, Chace carved out his cross continental underground following through out the mid 90’s and early thousands earning a rep that sits solid to this day.

Don’t be mistaken though. It’s not just rhymes, gear and limited quantity sneaks for this emcee. He’s got

an extremely observant eye for outlier information. Ask him about Obama and he’ll hit you back with the President’s support of H.A.A.R.P and the testing of tectonic weapons being the source of the recent series of massive quakes in Haiti. It’s way left field but the information is very easy to get access to if one was inclined to know things that will shatter reality and closely held world views. In Chace’s case destroying reality and rebuilding it is just another day at the office.  His esoteric knowledge and contribution to hip hop in the realms of music and street fashion at its nascency is as certified as VVS diamonds and it’s only proper that it doesn’t stop. He’s pushing into 2010 like high tide with Self Scientific’s conceptual “DESIGNER MUSIC”  Ep, the Self Scientific “Come in Peace, Prepare For War”  project, and guest appearances on albums like Bambu’s upcoming “Paper Cuts”.  Posted at Prohibit in NYC’s Lower East Side we popped through to see the man, where he was kind enough to roll up a blunt and let his thoughts fly. Get up on magic!

You’re stuck in the Amazon RainForest. What are the first three things that you do?

• Chace Infinite: What season is it?
• 
  

It’s Rainy season.

• • Chace: Ok…
  • (#1) Find a clean water source.
  • (#2) Find high ground and covering. To get a knowledge of the landscape
  • (And #3)…Can you Smoke ANY OF THESE MUTHA FUCKIN’ PLANTS!
  • (laughs) We’re in the Rain forest! I know there’s some kill in here somewhere.

You’ve had your pulse on fashion and the street wear movement for over 10 years. In your eyes,when did streetwear brand labels come to play such a big part in the music, and how folks these days perceive artists?

• • Chace: I’d say 2000/01 with the inception of Complex, then with Ebay with people re-selling gear that you couldn’t get in other parts of the country.  As the Internet became more prevalent, you could find out what was poppin’ (fashionable)  in Tokyo, L.A, or New York the same day. And Kanye came along and made it so it had to be part of your I.D or your make-up as an artist to get respect from certain people. So it was a combination of those three things happening all together. Which I think is kinda fucked up and weird.  But I guess it was always kinda like that. Except it was silk shirts and Bally’s shoes.

Download:Self Scientific Designer Music

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Did you rid yourself of your shoe collection?

• • Chace: I probably got about 300 pairs. Me and my girl went to see my parents and she was buggin’ out. You can’t even fit a car  in the garage no more, and a lot (of shoes) out of boxes. I’m not the type to get some shit and not wear it. I have some really rare kicks. The 1 of 15 low top EA Sports Air Force 2’s, beat the fuck up. All of ‘em beat the fuck up. I don’t even skateboard either.

So have you always been the ILL collecting type?

• Chace: I  started collecting when I  was in 8th grade playing basketball at Super Star Summer Camp in Santa Barbra. We’d trade for jerseys and shoes. Coaches would order out of the East Bay Catalogue and only get their team color ways. So we’d trade jerseys and Air Forces with kids from all across the nation at camp, Michigan, Jersey, everywhere. When I’d come back home and ni***s would see me in yellow and white Air Forces they’d ask, “Where did you get them at?” I traded for them.

What lasting legacy do u want to leave musically?

• Chace: Just a body of work man. Self Scientific means knowledge in self and we really write to explain shit to ourselves. The music comes from a really introspective place. I think we make really relevant thought provoking music. So people will see our growth and our contradictions, all of it is out there.  Ultimately we make hip hop for artists.

Let’s say you’re the head of a Record Label who are the top 5 artists you sign? You can pull anybody.

• Chace: (#1) I’m going to get Eminem first. Because he’s white and he raps better than anybody, and that’s a formula that’s going to make you alot of money.
• (#2 )I’d do a record with NAS produced all by Khalil (Producer/DJ Khalil)
• (#3) I’d do a rock project with cats that are respected but still sell. Like the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s or Kings Of Leon, T.V On The Radio. Some artsy rock shit I could take over Fader with.
• (#4) I’d sign some one like Lalah Hathaway just because I love her shit. I don’t care how much it sells.
• (#5) I’d sign Krondon. Who is an amazing artist. I just don’t think people have gotten the full spectrum of his talent yet.

Final question, one year into Obama’s presidency. What do you think?

• Same shit. As long as humans are emotion driven we’ll fall victim to to the hype. He’s a black dude, and from that perspective it’s amazing. Because regardless if Obama is part of the plot to control and kill us all. There’s kids out there that will be inspired by his story. And for indigenous people and minorities it’s a great thing to see. But in a way it’s like ni***s can never win. When it’s all said and done when people look at what his signature is on, which he really doesn’t have much control over. It will be some of the most detrimental things done in history. What he represents is the system that has been oppressing indigenous people for so long. He’s the president of United States of America Incorporated. And at the end of the day it’s like, “These ni***s can’t have anything. Give ‘em the Presidency. They bankrupt the country with their fake ass health care bill. Let the Chinese buy up everything. 151,000 people die in Haiti, and this ni***s signature in on the papers that authorized the development of HAAP to make tectonic weapons. What are they doing?”  I don’t know. But don’t think it’s that far fetched. Information is so available now, but people are just sheep. They believe it’s (the Haiti Earthquake) is an act of God because it plays into the whole end of days shit.

Speaking of the end of days. What are you going to be doing for 2012?

• Burning shit down man. (laughs)

Not spending with the family?

• Yeah chillin’ with the family, burnin’ it down. Because it’ll be the end of times as we know it. Not the end of the world. I think alot of shit will be revealed. The black man was on Saturn and Mars. They’re gonna find that shit out.

FIN.

24KMilkCrate X J.Davinci are right back @ you again with part 2 of our interview with the Fillmore emcee. This time we hop into the Fillmore streets he calls home and he sets things off with an a capella performance along with breaking down some of the science behind his creative writing process. GET UP ON MAGIC!

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