The Coventry Kids Blog

Ay yo, this has been tossed around the office and twitter non-stop for the past few hours.  Our mans Pease of Keyel put out this flow dedicated to the art of lamping.  So relax, twist something up, and get ta lampin!

Big up yourselves on another beautiful Sunday afternoon.  This week Im bringing it back to 2004/2005 with Madlib: Blunted in the Bombshelter Mix. Kyle first brought this to my attention on a road trip to a music festival.  At the time I only exclusively listened to hip-hop, and this mix alone converted me into the dub loving, indie-electro kid I am today.  Madlib smashes through a collection of rare Trojan Records, coupling old school reverberated basslines with new school sound effects and computerized voice-overs.  Featuring songs from King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Gregory Isaacs, Barrington Levy, Roots Radics, The Upsetters, and several other legends of dub music and reggae culture.  The mix is available for purchase and I recomend owning it, but here is a few selections of my favorites from the mix.

This is a hot track from Edit off Certified Air Raid Material.

Big Ups to 6BLOCC and the whole RAGGASTEP movement. This is some of the illest dubstep ever made.

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Happy Rasta Day everyone. We, The Coventry Kids, take this day to relax and recover from the events through out the week. However, every Sunday night we rage out in Cleveland, OH at The Grog Shop and B-side. So, technically we rest about 12 hours on rasta day and rage the night away. Coincidently, at the stroke of midnight a radical change takes place and rasta day dies and dubstep monday is born. We love this transition / celebration of death and birth. Celebrate your life and rock out with us every Sunday at The Grog Shop or The B-side. See you tonight.

Check Out Below For What Is In Store For Tonights Transition
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Ocean City Maryland is home to a bar that imagines itself a Jamaican hidaway right on the east coast of the United States. This past RASTA ROWDY HO-LIDAY I gots down to bumpin DANCEHALL while lookin at boobs!

and dont forget the Red Stripe dude!!?

what a GANSTA

HOORAY BEER!!!

G31 is a new dubstep/raggastep artist from Glasgow, UK that has been creating some buzz around the internet throughout this year. The rest of 2010 is set to be a big year for this dude. This one is one of his biggest tunes, CHECK IT!

Das Racist is a Brooklyn based group that specializes in a minimalistic and almost childish style of rap, as a cover for their highly intelligent, and collegiate artistic vision. Basically, theyre masters of sounding like dumb-asses, while dropping straight gems on your bitch ass. They slow things down for a tribute to one of our favorite products, the one dollar can of Arizona iced tea. So hit the Coventry Mart for your favorite flavor, and keep it irie.

Damn, the Black Keys step it up a notch with this project.

Thanks to my dude Nick in Jersey. Once again passin along the good news about the freshest flavor in the hip-hop universe.

ONE LOVE

As you will read below over the last month in the midst of  the hayness disaster in the gulf coast, congress has been scrambling to pass one of the most unethical bills this country has ever witnessed. The Internet kill switch bill would give the president complete power to turn off all of the information aka freedom we experience at the push of a button. This bill is the cyder equivalent of an atom bomb. I felt it was appropriate to post this on the anniversary of this nations independence so that we can overview how far we have fallen as a nation because of lack of knowledge and more importantly lack of concern. Only if we demand our rights as free Americans will we earn them. Happy 4th of July.

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A few days ago a collaboration by Heroes n Villains, Diplo and Lil Jon dropped called U Dont Like Me. Here is the first drop of this new song by DJMEGANFOXXX debuts the brand new collaboration at his event HEAVY at Graveyard in Atlanta Ga.

Visit lil jons youtube page to check out a song from Cleveland Heights/Toronto Artist Doxx

U Dont Like Me – Heroes n Villains, Diplo and Lil Jon

Today our country celebrates Independence Day and the birth of this great nation. This year I will watch fireworks over the New York skyline from a Brooklyn rooftop while a balmy breeze brushes my neck as my body shivers with the thoughts of freedom… And of those whose enslavement and genocide paved the way for our free american ideal. But despite the appalling history of my forefathers, I am thankful. I am fortunate for my friends and family… and freedom. So as I gaze at the fire that lights the sky this evening, I give thanks to the gods, the stars and planets, our earth, and all that is set before me. Thank you brothers and sisters that laid down in the wake the american ideal.

But from those that are less fortunate has sprung something beautiful and that is music. When spending the 4th in Brooklyn, there is no better soundtrack than the soulful lyrics of Mos Def and Talib Kweli laid ever so elegantly over the heart throbbing rhythms of DJ Hi-Tek. Tonight is a night to count the stars.

I bring to you Blackstar – Astronomy

photo courtesy of Sunset Park Stills Blog

Happy 4th of July everyone! Also, happy Rastaday!  Two of my favorite days combined into the ultimate day of relaxation, good ganja, and celebration of our wonderful nation.