Sam Wicks gave me the heads up about a Savage feature he produced which documents his recent return to Samoa. No doubt an interesting listen and an awesome opportunity for Sam to head to sunny Samoa under the guise of “work” . The program airs this Saturday on Radio New Zealand at 4.10PM (repeat on Friday 22 May at 7.30PM). Hit up the RadioNZ website for your local frequency or streaming options.

Can you please give it up for Savage!

Samoans are a proud people, and a source of that pride in recent times has been the Stateside successes of South Auckland’s own, Savage.

His single ‘Swing’ has now clocked up 1.8 million sales and counting, and the upward trajectory of his career has brought his label Dawn Raid Entertainment back with a vengeance.

In ‘I Love the Islands’, Sam Wicks rolls with director Chris Graham and Samoan rap royalty to the islands, as they shoot the video to Savage’s new single ‘I Love the Islands’.

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Ok, we’ve all seen the photos – if you haven’t… your internets is pretty weak. I don’t really have anything to say on the matter, this is a matter of public opinion. Cast your votes and weigh in with the comments.

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“I used to roll exactly like a fulla, act like a fulla… and yeah, get down dirty like a fulla too”

Girls in the hood was a piece about girl gangs that ran on TV3′s 60 Minutes last night. It was full of gem’s like the above quote. For all its laughs though it is kinda sad that these girls feel that they have to play tough guy role to get by. The full piece has been uploaded to TV3′s TV On Demand and you can peep it here. Check it out, and discuss…

60 Minutes ‘Girls in the hood’ [TV On Demand]

*Oh yeah, Penfeezy, you know the deal, I want an audio rip of that quote immediately

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On behalf of the shotthen massive,  Merry Christmas to you and yours. This vid was the first thing that came to mind for a post, it’s a good reminder of what’s important round this time of year.  Show love to your family/friends, enjoy your time off, and stay safe over this holiday season.

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Yup, this Thursday ABC will be holding their Brothers exhibition which will feature artwork from the following mean dudes: Phat1, Lee Ralph, Rakai Karaitana, Glenn Smith, Levi Hawken, and Chey Ataria. There’s sneak peeks up here at the ABC website and it’s looking pretty mean bradas. If you’re into artwork or into being cool, this is probably the place you wanna be at.

ALSO they’ll be premiering Ninja vs Warrior the ABC/Expertise tour video at 9:30pm. It’s  gonna be mental, I can’t fucken wait. I had a sneak peek of some of Joe Whaanga’s footy and it was beyond good.

Catch you’s up there.

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Sam Wicks has hit us again with another cool hip hop feature on his radio show The Music Mix on Radio New Zealand National. This week is the 20th anniversary of the release of Aotearoa’s first hip hop record, Upper Hutt Posse‘s “E Tu”, to mark the occasion Wicks spoke to Te Kupu of UHP and key members of the local hip hop community about the importance of this record.

Twenty years ago, Upper Hutt Posse released the kaupapa-driven single ‘E Tu’, a release that has the distinction of being Aotearoa’s first rap record.

The Music Mix marks the anniversary of ‘E Tu’ by speaking to Te Kupu, the voice behind the Posse, and talks to key members of Aotearoa’s hip hop community about the impact and influence of the politically-charged track.

(Produced by Sam Wicks – interviews with Te Kupu, DJ Sirvere, Kerry Buchanan)

The Music Mix is broadcast on Radio New Zealand National on Thursday nights after the news at 11PM, hit up this link here to find your local frequency. The UHP programme will be broadcast this Thursday 27 November. Don’t sleep… literally!

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N.Z 34 – Australia 20

Kiwis = World Champs.

MEAN !

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I’m a bit of a geek for Young Sid shit, he is without a doubt one of my favourite rappers. Kirk has been posting a couple of freestyles from Sid on the MTC blog and yesterday announced that the freestyles are a teaser for a kiwi hip hop themed Young Sid mixtape titled “Domestic Disturbance” due to drop this year. There’s only 39 days left of 2008 so I’m assuming that that means it is coming out pretty soon, bring it on. Oh yeah, and he’s about to begin work on the follow-up to his album “The Truth”, most definitely looking forward to that

Young Sid “3.2.1 Freestyle” [zShare]

Young Sid “Keep On Calling Freestyle” [zShare]

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Speaking of Sam Wicks, he has put together a cool feature on world renowned dancer and musician Suga Pop which will be broadcast on The Music Mix on Thursday night. I remember, when I was a bit younger, my mates who were into b-boy shit were in total awe of Suga Pop (what’s up Cruchan!) because he’d apparently spent some of his youth in New Zealand before heading to the US and cracking it – consequently dude is a bit of a legend round these parts. Conveniently Dave is Pop’s cousin, so he did the interviewing.

It’s gonna be broadcast on Radio New Zealand National this Thursday night after the news at 11PM, peep this link here to find your local frequency.

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Laters to Mccain and his T-Rex arms.

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