Initiative Radio Salutes Ralph McDaniels

Don’t miss this historic as we salute and celebrate one of the most important people in the history of Hip-Hop – BHF host, Bodega mentor and inspiration Uncle Ralph McDaniels.

Initiative Radio with Angela McKenzie Salutes Black History Maker Ralph McDaniels
Hosted by our own Wes Jackson

Friday February 19th
9pm
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
NYC

With: Homeboy Sandman, Children Of The Night, Prophit, Eric Sosa and more

For more info email amck83@hotmail.com
Or visit the Angela’s site

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Bodega Radio – Jan 22nd

TODAY on Bodega Radio

Friday, January 22nd, 1-4PM EST on www.pncradio.fm

*DONUTS ARE FOREVER

We sit down with Dee Phunk from Rare Form to talk about the upcoming Dilla tribute party – Donuts Are Forever

*Salute Uncle Ralph

Angela McKenzie comes to DUMBO to talk about her Black History Month Tribute to Uncle Ralph McDaniels

*FELA

Special mix from Bodega Fam DJ NessDigi. Ness will be rocking the best from the original Black President. Get your Afro Beat and Funk on this afternoon.

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Brooklyn Bodega Radio Hosted by Bodega Prez, Wes Jackson

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Brooklyn Bodega Radio Fridays 1-4pm EST on www.pncradio.fm

Bodega Approved – Jan 22nd

All For One Official After Party

The mission of Brooklyn Bodega and the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival is to move Hip-Hop culture, music and business forward. We do this by producing New York’s biggest Hip-Hop event, The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. 

For the official after party of our 5th Annual Festival we want to highlight the sense of cooperation and comraderie that we have fostered since 2005. Last year we brought Detroit to Brooklyn with PPP, House Shoes and Invincible.

This year’s theme is “All For One”

Live Jam Session and throwdown 

Hosted by and featuring the Legendary Buckshot (Black Moon, Duck Down)

Inspired by the classic Brand Nubian song and album and in particular these lines from Sadat X’s verse:

“Now come one, come all, we about to get hectic
If my crew don’t get in, then the X makes an exit
to the rear, I’m outta here, don’t front on my brothers
I take care of them before I take care of others
Read my book, it contains many pieces of verses
I took the time to delete all the curses
So moms reach deep in your purses
And buy me take me home and try me and do me well…”

On June 20th at Southpaw we will host a jam session with a whole crowd of up and coming MC’s from Brooklyn and beyond. 

Buckshot will play the role as elder statesman to the new class of rookies who will be taking the stage.

We chose Buckshot as he was once in the position that many rappers like Torae, Skyzoo, Pac Div, Mickey Factz and more find themselves in now. A hot rapper with a buzz, a great album, and a deal. He turned that into a legendary career and business. Now over 15 years later Buckshot leads the most relevant independent Hip-Hop label, Duck Down and is mentoring the next generation and ushering in a second Golden Era of Hip-Hop.

 

June 20th, 2009

SouthPaw 125 5th Ave Brooklyn, N.Y.

9pm-2am 
Entrance: $10, reduced with BHF ’09 ticket stub

Featuring: Buckshot, DJ JS-1, 8thw1, and more
Entire BHF ’09 artist lineup invited 

JUST ADDED: Tanya Morgan and Mr. Cheeks of The Lost Boyz. Bringing this full circle y’all!

Produced by Brooklyn Bodega, Savannah Boogie Music and Song, and Uncle Ralph McDaniels

Special guests added – Tanya Morgan, Kel Spencer, Chip Fu and Homeboy Sandman

Joining the Main Stage as special guest are Tanya Morgan fresh off the release of their album ‘Brooklynati”
The almighty Tanya Morgan will also be rocking the After Party along with Buckshot, Uncle Ralph McDaniels, 8thw1, JS-1 and the legendary Mr. Cheeks of The Lost Boyz.

Brooklyn Bodega also announced the addition of Homeboy Sandman as host of the second stage and DJ Brina Payne as the DJ for the second stage. Sandman performed at the 2008 Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival and had been a part of the Bodega Family ever since. After wowing crowds all over the city Sandman has become a staple of New York Hip-Hop. The rest of the country should get ready for Homeboy Sandman as he is set to hit the road this summer promoting his two albums, “Nourishment” and “Actual Factual Pterodactyl.”

Kel Spencer
Brooklyn native Kel Spencer has been displayed on dozens of mix-tapes, along with an unparalleled live stage presence with over 75 showcases including his own monthly ‘Secret Showcase.’ Kel most recently was featured on projects like DJ Grand Master Flash’s “The Bridge” alongside Q-tip on the single worthy Shine All Day. With an emerging international presence, and an undeniable Live Stage Show, Kel is focused on branding and building his buzz to snowball into his debut album, One Way.

Chip Fu
As a radical member of a platinum selling hip-hop group the Fuschnickens, his intricately interwoven flow left us all light-headed, exhausted and wheezing for more. Chips back with a breath of fresh air for the entire industry. The trials and tribulations of life, love and music helped Chip conceive his latest project titled M.A2.T.H. (Music, Appreciation, Art, Time and Healing) -The new curriculum. Though his style remains on the cutting-edge of hip-hop, as a solo artist Chip has much more room to be creative. Reggae music is evident throughout the entire work and Chips natural talent interblends both worlds instinctively.

BHF Top 10

Some Reasons Why You Should Attend the 5th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

1. $10 – that’s all it takes to get a ticket. The Black Star show at Nokia is like 50 beans. I love Kweli and Mos more than the next man but who can afford that?
2. You ever been to Empire Fulton Ferry at dusk? It’s like a postcard man.
3. Malt Beer. We always get funky fly premiums from Brooklyn Brewery. And there is no other event in State Parks where you can get an ice cold beer.
4. My pops and my uncle are coming to sell BBQ and fried fish.
5. Did I mention the cost? Come on…
6. Our event is 40% women. That’s a good stat for the guys and girls. Our staff is also about 90% women. That’s good no matter how you cut it.
7. Family Day – no Hip-Hop Harry or Parappa the Rapper. Real Hip-Hop for the little duns
8. Uncle Ralph McDaniels
9. I think I mentioned the cost already. You can’t get a deal like this in the City.
10. Hip-Hop. If you love the culture this is like a family reunion. Great artists, great energy.

Word Up

Dreams Come True

How Video Music Box elected the 1st Black President

Here is an idea we are cooking up for a panel discussion/seminar
Let me know your thoughts…

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On November 4th, 2009 The United States of America elected Barack Obama the first African American president in the country’s history. Much has been made about the country’s ability to look past hundreds of years of racial insensitivity to elect a Black president only four decades after the end of Jim Crow.

President Obama’s victory is credited with his ability to brand himself as a post racial candidate. He was able to galvanize the Black electorate while maintaining a broad appeal to a white, Latino and a broad swath of America.

How did he do this? Many claim that Barack is not the anomaly that he may be seem but rather a function of the times. A statement of the reality that this is a new America. An America that learned the lessons of the Civil Rights struggle. That each man or woman should be judged not by the color of his or her skin but by the nature of their character.

During the campaign several journalists and experts cited Hip-Hop as one of the unifying cultural factors that precipitated the breakdown of these racial barriers. Black and white people in the post Civil Rights Era grew up watching images and hearing the sounds of Black and Latinos. So much so that the presence of an African American running for president or serving as CEO or principal simply was not an alien concept.

“Video Music Box” one of the first Hip-Hop music video programs founded by Brooklyn cultural icon Ralph McDaniels is credited as one of the first to broadcast Hip-Hop culture to a wide audience. Broadcast via public access on WNYC “Video Music Box” was THE source of Hip-Hop and R&B videos in the New York Metropolitan Area. Artists such as the Notorious B.I.G. and Jay Z have praised Uncle Ralph, as he is known, as well as Video Music Box as giving them their first major exposure…