I am glad that I have been invited to be part of this battle. Red Bull has done an awesome thing and took DJ battle to a different level. Instead of the DMC battles you’re use to this is more of a Party Rock battle. here is Their explanation of it.

What is Red Bull Thre3Style?
- An international DJ competition to crown the most versatile Party-Rock DJ
- 8 Local DJ’s will perform for 15 minutes each (2 DJ rigs set up on stage and they alternate)
- There is one simple rule: Play at least 3 genres of music
- There is one simple objective: Rock the house
- Hosted by credible media personality Rock T.
- 3-4 Judges are comprised of local music writers, promoters, and headlining DJ‘s.
- The judges evaluate each performer based on creativity, track selection, skills, stage presence, and audience response.

There will be 8 regional U.S. qualifiers. Each regional winner will be awarded a $1,000 PRIZE and will represent their region in the national qualifiers held in Denver in October 2010. The winner from the national contest will then win a cash prize and a trip to compete and represent the USA in the International Red Bull Thre3 Style competition held in Paris 2010.
For 2010 the following twelve countries are all holding Red Bull Thre3Style events, with local qualifiers and then country finals: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA.

Here is my homey Skratch Bastid talking bout it as well

Red Bull Thre3Style: The ‘OC’ – Originality & Creativity from Red Bull Thre3Style on Vimeo.

Red Bull Thre3Style: Skills from Red Bull Thre3Style on Vimeo.

Red Bull Thre3Style: Stage Presence & Crowd Response from Red Bull Thre3Style on Vimeo.

Here are some pics from the LA battle. Congrats Shout out to DJ Morse Code for taking the LA Battle

Here are a few pics from Denver’s Battle, and Shout out to DJ Magmanimous for winning. (I hear that is an alter-ego of a very dope DJ?????)

I really hope I do well, or at least show people in Dallas who have never heard of me that I can infact rock a party.

For a parting shot I will post a few sets from Canadian Battle winners.

DJ FLIPOUT

Red Bull Thre3 Style Vancouver Dj Flipout winning set from Fokus Productions on Vimeo.

DJ Fordinho

Red Bull Thre3 Style Calgary DJ Fordinho winning set from Fokus Productions on Vimeo.

Official Invite:  Jordan Brand’s 23/25 Energy Space @ NBA All-Star 2010

Location: 2350 Victory Park Lane, Dallas, TX 75219 (adjacent to W Hotel Victory Park)
Dates: Thursday February 11th – Sunday February 14th, 2010
Times: 11am to 12am midnight

ID23 Customization: Be the first to customize your AJ2010’s!

AJ2010 Shoe Laser Etching: Get your favorite pair of kicks customized using the latest in laser etching technology
Jordan Shoe Gallery: Witness the evolution of Air Jordan with a visual retrospective of each Jordan shoe spanning from 1 to 24
Michael Jordan Hall of Fame: Take a peek at relics from “the vault” that helped define Jordan’s historic milestones and championship moments
Live Social Mosaic: Share your favorite MJ moment(s) with your friends! logon to (www.jumpman23.com) for a sneak peek.
Interactive Wall: Multi touch experience that lets users explore the 25 years of Air Jordan
Microsoft Surface Technology: Microsoft Surface tables deliver an engaging experience focusing on the Air Jordan 2010’s design and development.
Appearances by athletes including: Many of your favorite Jordan athletes, list is too long to name!
Meet and Greet: with AJ2010’s designer – Mark Smith
Musical Entertainment: DJ’s Bobbito Garcia, Rich Medina, MC Lyte, FishrPryce, A1, Bizi, Big Bink (97.9 The Beat)
Special Live Performances:  Wale, Bun B, Jadakiss and many more
Premium Giveaways:  Supplies won’t last (first come, first serve)

Tomorrow My homey’s Theodore and Cool Dundee, better known as Damaged Good$ will be part of a free charity concert at Fallout Lounge. All you need to get in is one Can Good, and you get to hear DMG$, Tony Schwa, DJ Genova, and BDS. Damaged Good$ will be donating the food to the North Texas Food Bank, so don’t be afraid to take more than one can. Also You need to peep their newest single, Dopest Flyest, which can be heard HERE.

Shout out to Marcus(Reason Why) for the link.

Rocko’s Hip Hop Mix
The homey and Fellow Bum, DJ Rocko linked me to his blog, and I was lucky enough to get to jam it on my flight back home from St. Louis. Rocko’s mix made 43 min of my flight fly by nicely. Starting with Raekwon’s Ice Cream this mix just cruises through classic East Coast hip hop. I enjoyed this mix; it was filled with great songs, good transitions except for a few echo outs that I feel were a lil bumpy. I encourage you my reader to check the mix for yourself, and shout out to DJ Rocko for hitting me with the Link.

Marvel’s Club Demo – Your Girl Will Love

Marvel brings the heat one more time with his latest Club Demo. This mix starts hard and fast and just bangs for 30 min. This mix shows why Marvel is starting to get the respect he deserves. He Just recently wrapped up his first 10 day club tour, and by the sounds of it he will not be stopping anytime soon.

Words from Rob Viktum

is snack pack is done in the spirit of Halloween. I used a bunch of joints from Gore flicks, and shitty to classic horror flicks…hope you like, its quite a bit darker than I usually provide…

Enjoy

I know its been a while, but the homey Headkrack is a busy dude, so shut your damned mouths and enjoy.

Had another pretty cool weekend. Friday wasn’t much of anything, just DJed at Kenichi like always, and the highlight was getting a call from the Homey Event Joe. He called to inform me that he was going to be in town the next day on tour working with Blackbery on U2’s 360 Tour and he wanted to meet up like we always do when he is in town. Sat Addiel G picked me up and we headed to North Park Mall so that he could meet up with ex-coworkers for lunch. (he was late) I also got to spend some lunch time fun with Rob Viktum; I hadn’t spent much time hanging out with him in a while so it was good catching up. I got a call around 7pm from Joe and we decided that we would scoop him from his hotel to grab a bite of Dinner.

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We ended up at TGIFridays where we had the strangest waiter ever!!! We found out that he was an out of work Welder who owned many welding helmets with graphics varying from Eagles and flags to skulls and cross bones. We told him Joe was the tour manager for Mini Kiss, Addiel was their photographer, and that I was their DJ. He totally bought it and was trying to hint around for free tickets to our show. We had to get Joe back to his hotel early because he had a long day of work ahead of him. Sunday there was a birthday cook out for my grandmother who turned 89 yrs old, and I kicked it with my fam eating, joking, and talking bout the Dallas Cowboy’s game. Addiel picked me up to take me to Ra where I filled in for the Homey DJ Marvel, who is currently on a 10 day tour. (peep his facebook to see where he will be next) Ra was pretty cool it was raining very hard so a lot of people stayed longer than they wanted and kept them dancing; of course Addiel was bored out of his mind. Whats dope about Ra is they have a few regulars like: Popeye Jones, Spud Webb, Eric Dampier, and random Dallas Cowboys. This Sunday was Andre Gurode. I know Monday is not the weekend but Hot dammit Monday was awesome. On Sat Joe had invited us to the U2 Concert, and by us I mean me, NVS, Addiel and my brother Ed. We show up at the Jerry’s Deathstar, and since we weren’t paying for tickets we decided to just bite the bullet and pay for parking at the stadium. Being hood savy we got choice parking in Permit parking for 40 dollars under the table. HOLY SHIT WERE WE CLOSE TO THE SHOW. check out this vid and a lot of pics I took from my phone. Since we had all access passes we made it to the front of the stage, and Addiel and myself both got a lil bono sweat on us. Also at the show that night were Jason Witten, Jerry Jones, Tiger Woods, Tony Romo, and Tony Parker. I’ve thanked Joe 25 times already, but I want to thank him one more time for a dope night. Another fun part of the night was packing 6 people in a golf cart and driving half way across the stadium to get back to our ride from the tour bus area.

I don’t know why I have not been doing this, but from here on out Monday will be know as Weekend Review day. Luckily I had a pretty awesome weekend to tell you all about.

Friday I started off at Kenichi with the homey Addiel G and when I started playing guess who showed up, well don’t guess cause you’d never get it. My Fam DJ Marvel and NVS stopped by with Case from Distraction Ent, and DJ White Shadow who they had brought down from Chicago to play at Joyce that night and Vice in Ft Worth on Sat. Friday was very slow for everyone so lets just pretend like it didn’t happen. Just to take your minds off of Friday look at this Dancing Bear

Sat. started pretty early, White Shadow hit me up pretty early and we decided that it was in the world’s best interest that we go to lunch and hang out. I woke NVS up at 10:30 which was probably 15 hours too early for him and he said he needed an hour to get ready; we were without Marvel because he was in route to Cedar Rapids, Ia where he had landed a last min gig. We picked WS up at the Joule and made a quick stop at one of my favorite stores, Kid Robot, where I picked up 2 new Dunnies, Captian Coco, and WS copped two Choop plush toys for his boys.

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coco

Lunch went down at Cheesecake Factory, and it was the shit. Since we had a whole day a head of us we went to North Park Mall to show WS how Dallas spends their money. After walking around explaining the different games that us DJs play with our other DJ buddies WS has the brilliant idea that he needs a new bottom grill. Being hood savy my first thought was Big T, but we first had to call that dude Reasonwhy to see if Big T offered same day grill service. Reason Why would know these kinda things, knotalmbot? We get to Big T and WS is amazed at how hood it gets as we were pulling into the parking lot there were there was the stereotypical dudes selling pittbulls, and lil girl doing the latest D Town Boogie moves outside of a Tahoe.

We got inside Big T and the first spot could not offer same day service, so we kept it moving until we stumbled upon this place Now who could pass on this place? Prices were negotiated, and WS reluctantly handed over his cash not being 100% sure he would ever see his grill. He ordered a Gold bottom and a white gold Diamond Cutt grill. See him getting his fit on

With 5 hours to kill before the Grills would be ready we set off towards my crib to 1. stop by NVS’ to get his bag (he was djing that night) and to just kick it at my crib. I’m pretty sure its safe to say that White Shadow loved my house. While he was there we watched football, Rode 4 wheelers, checked out our horses, and talked to my pops. If you haven’t met Pops Trippin yet you are surely missing out. Highlight was my dad saying, “White Shadow, ain’t that the fucking basketball player?”

We pick up the grillz and head to the club, and had dinner. During dinner I had a very dope in depth conversation with WS about DJing and the whole game. He dropped many gems on me and I thank him for that and for picking up the check.

All I can say is that if you’re a promoter and you haven’t booked White Shadow you’ve got problems, if you enjoy DJs and you haven’t heard White Shadow’s mixes you’re failing, and if you’re a DJ and you don’t respect his mustache you are lame. This dude can fucking mix well, he plays what needs to be played at the club, and he is not afraid to throw you a curve ball. I fucking lost it when he dropped Solider Boy by the Shirelles right before going into a Soulja boy track. Then to top that he dropped Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks, and the place went shit nuts. I’m talking white, black, brown, prep, thug, and douche all singing and dancing to that shit. He ended that night with some crunkness. Paul Wall, Tela, UGK, and boy did he get Crunkuponya. He went as far as to wyld out with a bottle of beer and give me a beer bath. I went home smelling like a drunk tank. Watch him get Crunk

All-in-All I had a great weekend met some new folks and kicked it with a awesome DJ and heck of a dude. Be prepared for many more weekend up dates.

This was the third mixtape that Los Hip Hop Guys put out, and it came to be after a long discussion with the homey Z Trip. we were talking mixtapes, and he was telling us how so many DJs kept using the same lame ass tracks over and over. You know the Jams I’m talmbot lame DJs always play them at hip hop shows because they didn’t have deep crates and now they just don’t have knowledge. The tracks are shit like The Choice is yours, T.R.O.Y., DWYCK etc….. Z said to us we need more people playing that B Side cut that jams the fuck out but doesn’t get the shine that the main single does. After that we set out to dig through out collection and do that. Now for the first time ever this mix is available for free download. Enjoy and please leave feedback JERKS.

DOWNLOAD HERE

So I don’t listen to the radio much, but when I do I always try to be up early enough to catch the homey Headkrack on the Rickey Smiley Morning Show There has not been a time that I am listening to the show where Krack either says something that has me damn near wrecking laughing, Doing a spot on DMX impersonation, or he says something on some undertone you don’t get that I’m clowning you steeze. The more I hang out with Krack the more I have realized just how funny dude is, and now that he should have his own Radio show. Nothing against Rickey, but man I’d love to hear Krack go off on his own. Of course taking me on as his DJ ;) Also be on the look out for Krack with a Improv Group, Fourtwall Comedy Also look for him to be in more movies in the future.

For more Headkrack updates go to Krackblog.com
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Last lets not forget how dope of an emcee he is.