TOQUE!

This Thursday June 9

DJ Petra is on the wheels of steel all night, laying down a soul-lifting & booty-shakin mix of music from across the Afro-Latin diaspora..

Come celebrate summer
and bless our dance floor with your feet!

@ Bembe

81 South 6th @ Berry st.

Brooklyn, NY

www.bembe.us

FREE 10pm - 4am

kil ripkin-- "the balancing act" [leak]

Kil Ripkin, a leader and legend in the Brooklyn underground hip hop circuit, is coming out with a new album, The Balancing Act, produced by Mikal Evans (Deep Rooted) Raticus and Eric G. Kil Ripkin, called The General and The Ghetto Correspondant, is keeping alive hip hop's tradition of keeping it real, and mixing hot beats with heated political comentary. As Chuck D said almost 20 years ago, "Hip Hop is Black America's CNN" and Kil Ripkin puts this philosiphy into practice, speaking about issues we should see adressed on TV (but don't). His beats are fierce and his lyrics are on fire.

Check out the General's newest pre-release leak "Aftermath," off his upcoming album, The Balancing Act:

dj chela at "the rub" party-- brooklyn [live]

I went dancing with my friends at a monthly party called "The Rub." DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker were cool, but DJ Chela rocked the house.



She killed it, had everybody dancing and screaming all night, exactly how I like it. She had her finger on the pulse of the room, and took us on a ride. Mixing classics with newer hits, crossing genres like they don't matter, she had me dancing til 4am. I mean, really, I couldn't sit down.

I met DJ Chela last year, at a CMJ Panel (which I snuck into) with KRS-ONE and Immortal Technique. She was the first DJ I had ever heard speak about women in hip hop. She inspired me to get my turntables, so to see her play was really inspiring, motivating. She didn't come extra fru-fru or fancy, just the best of really really good music, with smooth transitions and creative mixing, perfectly in tune with the bodies in the room. Yea girl!

graff in greenpoint [pics]

(all pics by petra)