Hip Hop @ WPUB

New Music Pages

2007-05-23T20:05:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! Blogging to tell you about the new Music Pages over at www.wpub.org! The Hip Hop page is the first to go up and features new concerts, videos, new album releases, and anything else Hip Hop. Also for you rock fans, look to those pages to come up soon.
Think of it as you resource or directory to all things hip hop.
Also we can use your support!..Leave comments about anything..gossip, dates, celebrity sightings, etc. in the comment box

Hope to see you there
www.wpub.org/musicpages

Rap-Up

2007-05-14T10:50:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, I just wanted to thank everyone for such a sucessful year. Thanks to our Hip Hop DJs for charting and signing in everyweek as well as playing tracks in the Hip Hop Box...I promise next year we will get that together, with a new Hip Hop shelf. (Organization..yay!)This year has by far been one of the most sucessful with events like the Players' Ball which had 100 people in attendance as well as Cue Tips and Spooky Fly (our Halloween dance party).

Shout outs to Christina and Marie, Sydney P., Patrick Carney, Coco and Nicole, Daniel Gil for their charting consistancy. And Crack Distrubutors for everyweek having guests and work with the station to put on a event for the fall. Your efforts do not go unnoticed... Summer Broadcasting starts in June 4 so stayed tuned for more info on that. Hope to see you all again in the Fall.

Have a great summer!check out http://www.wpubhiphop.blogspot.com/ for summer updates, like concert and album reviews and much more. If ya'll have any questions don't be afraid to hit me up.

Peace

Come join us for CUE TIPS, next monday

2007-04-11T20:09:00.000-07:00

Cue Tips Take a break from class to preview the hottest new releases in Hip Hop. This week come join us for the Afro Samurai Soundtrack, featuring artists like Talib, RZA, Q-Tip, Big Daddy Kane and Suga Bang. 4-6pm. room 906 41 Park Row. Free to the Pace public and free pizza and soda!

Introducing WPUB Hip Hop Mixtape Vol. 1

2007-04-09T13:23:00.000-07:00

Coming tomorrow!

Featuring Beyonce, Musiq, Amy Winehouse, Three six Mafia, Outkast, Eve, T-Pain, LL Cool J, Outkast and more

Star Charters and Playlist for April 2nd

2007-04-02T17:10:00.000-07:00

Star Charters:
People who follow directions by charting music and signing in.

Christina and Marie

Daniel Gil/Gilatine

Sydney Proctor/ Brass Monkey

Nicole and Coco

Thanks guys for doing your part!

Playlist April 2nd:
The top 10 played Hip Hop songs at the station!
1 PRODIGY Return Of The Mac Infamous

2 DJ KHALED Grammy Family

3 AKON Don't Matter

4 JOELL ORTIZ Hip Hop Koch

5 CORMEGA Mad Clips

6 TESTIFY Styles P

7 JOSS STONE Introducing Joss Stone Virgin

8 AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black Universal

9 KANYE WEST, NAS, KRS-ONE AND RAKIM "Classic" [Single] INDEPENDENT PROJECT

10 JEAN GRAE This Girl

Pics from the Players Ball

2007-03-22T08:36:00.000-07:00

Roarrr.

Partyers

Stephanie walkin it out. She was also the Playette of the Year

Bridgette rippin the runway

Gio the MC

MC sydney gettin down

Player's Ball!

2007-03-01T09:36:00.000-08:00

Attention Pace Players!

Coming March 15th 2007, in the Student Union, is what promises to be the hottest Pace University party of the year. A night filled with music and contests, you can win prizes for just showing up!

Contests include:
(open to Pace students* only)

1. Player’s Call: The First Impression: One of the simpler contests, each contestant will demonstrate how to attract another individual who catches their interest. Everybody knows that the first impression is the most important, so it is important to make it count. The winner of this competition receives a $20 Gift Certificate for J&R Music World.

2.You Know My Style:This contest is to showcase participants’ sense of fashion. Participants will go up in front of the audience and be judged on their style of clothing. The winner of this contest will receive a mystery gift of a $35 value.

3. Freestyle to This:Contestants are given 20 seconds to freestyle to a situation given by our judges. Each contestant will get their own topic. The winner will receive a $50 J&R Music World Gift Card.

4. Dance Off: Contestants will be given the opportunity to show their craziest and most unique dance moves to the audience. The winner of this competition will receive a $50 J&R Music World Gift Card.

5. Sing your heart out:Contestants will be judged on their singing capabilities. The winner will receive a $50 J&R Music World Gift Card

6. Betcha Can’t Do It Like Me: This is for contestants that feel that they have something to show that is so unique, that nobody else can do it. The winner will receive a $50 MasterCard Gift Card.

7. Juice Award: We at WPUB feel that everybody in the Pace Community has worked hard to be where they are at now. With that in mind, everybody deserves to be recognized. With this known, during the show we will randomly pick a non-winner or audience member for this award. The award is actually symbolic. It will be a box of Tropicana orange juice. When somebody has done something to earn the respect of others, they are seen as having the “juice” just like in the movie Juice. Before the presentation of the award we will show a snippet of the movie which will explain what we mean by “juice” so everybody understands what we mean. ($5 for juice)

8. Player of the Year: This contest is special because the winners will be chosen by a ballot taken before the event. The Player of the Year is seen as an overall role model to the Pace Community who truly represents “Pace Self Expression”. The first place winners will each receive a crown, robe, trophy and $100 MasterCard Gift card. One second place winner will receive a VCR/DVD Player and a third place winner will receive a mystery gift of a $50 value

9. Raffle Drawing: Any Pace student present at the event can enter into a raffle for a special gift package of an iPod video, and iDog companion. Anybody who wishes to participate in the raffle must purchase a ticket for $2.

Best of all, there will be FREE FOOD!

consponsored by Sabor Latino and Sigma Lambda Beta

See you there.

*Members of WPUB e-board and staff are ineligible to win prizes

Happy 2007!

2007-01-02T19:52:00.001-08:00

Here are a few things to look forward to, for the new year!

CUE TIPS- weekly Hip Hop meetings/listening parties to discuss new releases, new adds and singles, and any new music we receive at the station!

Valentine's Day Concert- WPUB is consponsoring this event along with PACE Board. This concert features neo-soul artists Floetry along with R&B superstar Ne-Yo. Do not miss this event!!!!

Playa's Ball- A chance for all you Playas and Playettes to get your swirve on in your finest attire. This event has been 2 years in the making! We are excited to get this event on and poppin!

Attention NEW/Returning Hip Hop DJS-
We need Hip Hop DJS! Download an application { http://wpub.org/djapp06.doc } and send it to us at

WPUB Station Manager
41 Park Row room 906
New York, NY 10038

or email it to sm@wpub.org

Conflicts of the iPod: "...it cost a million dollars, Pam Anderson was in it, I was jumping over canyons & s**t..."- by VON B.

2006-11-07T08:34:00.000-08:00

My words are represented by ***

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2.../west-mtv.html

Kanye West, who earlier was named best hip-hop artist, stormed the stage to protest losing the best video award to Justice and Simian, who won for We Are Your Friends.

"Best video should have been mine. I should have won," West said in reference to his video for Touch the Sky, arguing it "cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons."

The 1970s-style video portrays West as a daredevil named Evil Kanyevel about to attempt a suicidal stunt, with Anderson playing West's girlfriend.
West protested because best video was the only award not chosen by MTV viewers.

"If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility," he said.

West's protest was similar to that of the Beastie Boys in 1994 after the video for Sabotage — directed by Spike Jonze and also an homage to the 1970s — lost to R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch took the stage dressed as Swiss alter ego Nathaniel Hornblower, and declared the awards show a farce.

West said in his case the award went to another band as a "spreading-the-wealth type thing."

***'Ye, 'Ye, 'Ye. Damn, am I conflicted. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a huge Kanye supporter, but I'm also a fan of bowing out gracefully- a trait that Kanye has proven he doesn't have. ****

Proof (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1554485,00.html )

• As this year's Grammys approached, he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone wearing a crown of thorns, and later said he'd "really have a problem" if he didn't win album of the year for Late Registration. (He lost to U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.) ***The crown of thorns was too damn much, but LR was greatness. F--- U2, 3, 4 & 5.***

• During last year's NBC celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims, he said on the live broadcast, "George Bush doesn't care about black people." He also attacked the news media, saying: "If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food." ***He was damn right to put that shit out there.***

• After losing the favorite breakthrough artist award to Gretchen Wilson at the 2004 American Music Awards, West told reporters, "I was robbed. ... I was the best new artist this year," and "I got 10 Grammy nominations, and won three – even if I should have won all 10." ***GANGSTA***

***Kanye can't do this every time things don't go his way. Next month, Kanye will probably go after Sacha Cohen saying, "Nah, f**k that s**t, man. I cain't believe ya'll let this nigga get away with this s**t...Borat was my idea!"

But, I'll say this about Kanye, & it's probably the biggest reason why I am a fan of his: the man believes in himself beyonfd the shadow of any doubt. While we live in a world where people will put you down before you even TRY to do something productive with youself, Kanye says "fuck the naysayers" before they can even begin to naysay. From there, not only does he back up what he says, we exceeds every expectation. That's something we should all aspire to do.

I can't side with Kanye in this sitation, however. Voicing your displeasure at losing a few times is one thing, but come on. To take things a bit further, he can't interrupt the winner's spotlight.

No matter how gangsta it was. Really, how funny is it that Kanye didn't even see these guys' video?

Keep touching the sky, homie, even if you don't win the award for it. Just, don't bitch about it all the time. Damn.***

***Peace, hairgrease, & 360 waves***
-Von B, the Esteemed.

DJ of WEEK: Annie Montes

2006-10-23T18:02:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Annie Montes! She is the Hip Hop DJ of the week and has won a 25 dollar gift card to J&R Music and Computer World. Keep doin your thing girl!

Cue Tip 2: Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor

2006-10-19T21:28:00.000-07:00

Hey, everyone Miss Anita here reporting on Cue tip numero 2, Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor. Thnaks to everyone who showed up.

Food and Liquor is Lupe Fiasco's first album, and after much anticipation (alledgedly the album was leaked twice), the album has gotten luke warm reviews from the Cue Tip crew.
Jia T says, "It's putting me to sleep, I want to be something I can dance to."
I said, "I'm feeling the influence of Jay-Z and Pharrell too much, he needs to step out on his own a little"
Catherine: "His hooks are annoying...too much singing."
I personally like this album, I feel its different and positive. There isn't a lot of cursing and he raps about different things. Favorite tracks on the album included, "Daydreaming" featuring Jill Scott, and "American Terrorist."

Overall the album gets 3.5 stars (out of 5)
Next week's Cue Tip will feature Diddy's new album, Play.

Cue Tip 1

2006-10-11T21:03:00.000-07:00

Click here to see pics from CUE TIP 1: The Game Theory by the Roots

Vol 1. Issue 1.

2006-10-10T19:36:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Hip Hop @ WPUB
Thank you for taking the time out to read our first newsletter, brought to you by the gorgeous ladies over at Hip Hop @ WPUB. We’re trying to make this a weekly thing, but as you know, we are all sleep deprived, overfed, confused and bewildered college students…nuff said.
Nominations for Show of the Bi-Week (LOL) are going in soon! We are looking for DJs who chart music, sign-in, leave the studio clean, and of course have fun and entertaining shows! Winning shows get a prize, a write up in The Spot section & their poster on B-level bulletin board! So get on your grind!
Wpub.org

Hip Hop Events
Cue Tip #1– October 11– 6pm. Come to listen to The Roots’ new album Game Theory. Meet fellow Hip Hop DJs and expose yourself to some good music! Free. 41 Park Row room 906 (WPUB offices).

The Juggaknots & OC– October 14- 10pm. Featuring Core Rhythm, The Coalescence, Rach-Lo, I.N.T., Baba Israel & Yako. $15 cover The Bowery Poetry Club. 308 Bowery St b/w Houston and 1st Street. 212-614-0505

Spooky Fly– October 31st from 8pm-12pm. Come dressed in your funkiest costumes for this Hip Hop Halloween event. Performances by Tah Phrum Da Bush, Core Rhythm, Sentence and DJ Spliff. Free. Pace Only. Student Union-Media Room

The Spot

Catherine Marte
Catherine the great, was born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens during the golden years of Hip Hop. Her older cousin sported a high top fade and listened to Slick Rick. She strayed away from Hip Hop for about six years, and even tried to learn to play classical piano. During the summer of 2005 she rekindled her love affair with Hip Hop and ventured to WPUB studios to get involved in any way she can. She immediately became the apprentice for Hip Hop managers working her way up to Hip Hop manager this year. Her favorite music artists are Core Rhythm, Pharaoh Monch and Digable Planets.

Anita Nixon
Anita was born and raised in the L.E.S. and Brooklyn. She discovered Hip Hop rather late in her years, but was raised on soul and jazz. She was named after her parents favorite music artists, Anita Baker, and Nina Simone (Anita Simone is her full name). The arts are in her blood, she attended prestigious LaGuardia High School for Arts and Performing Arts, graduating with an Arts Diploma. She also worked for two years at the Whitney Museum of American Art where she discovered her love for art history. She is an Sociology/Anthropology and Art History. Her favorite music artists include but are not limited to, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu and Curtis Mayfield.