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Street Justice
Hip hop / Hip hop / Hip hop
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Street Justice Is Your Favorite Group
Inkster,MI
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| "History In The Making" Makes Top 15 |
| May 3, 2008 |
| the zone
by Origix
2007 was a big year in the development of the Detroit hip-hop scene. There were so many great releases that it's hard to narrow down the cream of the crop, but here are my favorite fifteen:
Paradime
Spill at Will
Buff 1
Pure
Street Justice
History In The Making
Black Milk
Popular Demand
DJ Young Mase
Detroit Take Over Vol. 3
Supa Emcee
Hood Hero
Bareda aka Mr. Wrong
Wrong Turn
Nick Speed
D-Tour
Octane & Illite
The Forgotten Chosen
Dante
Roaming Empire
The Regiment
The Come Up
Magestik Legend
Free Magestik Legend
Guilty Simpson
Stray Bullets
Phat Kat
Carte Blanche
Chief
Cold Turkey EP
If this is what 2007 brought us then you better get your iPods ready for 2008. | RDW
check article at: http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/article_3660.shtml |
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| Ketchphraze In Real Detroit Weekly |
| May 3, 2008 |
| The Zone
by Origix
From one of Michigan's hardest working groups, Street Justice, comes an Inkster MC, Ketchphraze, who just so happens to be the first in his crew to go for dolo. "It's not me wanting to do solo music," Ketch says. "It's just the amount of material that I've recorded when I'm zoning out myself and knowing that if I make this album right, my team will be straight. Any artist will tell you, once you're in that zone, nothing can take you out of it and good material is usually the outcome."
This is proven on his mixtapes Motown Is Back and What Happened? Make sure you digitally cop %u2018em at Dirtymitten.com. "We use the mixtapes as an outlet to get our voices heard, %u2018cuz honestly, if you're doing an album, you should shop it so you have a chance for more than Detroit to hear it," Ketch advises, as he's working on the Virus EP and his solo album, The Itius.
Ketchphraze is grindin' in the studio with Trick-Trick and Black Milk to get these hot rocks on the street. Check out myspace.com/Ketchphraze and myspace.com/StreetJustice2. | RDW
The Zone Radio with Origix & DC airs Saturday's 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. on 89.3 FM. Stream at whfr.fm or visit myspace.com/thezoneradio.
see the real article at: http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/article_4077.shtml |
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| History In The Making Review (8.5 out of 10 - RapReviews.com) |
| Dec 24, 2007 |
| Street Justice :: History in the Making :: myspace.com/streetjustice2
as reviewed by Jordan Selbo
Forget the established but stagnant Chi-town scene and the flash-in-the-pan output of the Lou; aside for my personal bias for the Twin Cities as the capital of Midwest Hip Hop, I think the D could have things on lock; especially if they have other acts of Street Justice's caliber floating under the radar. From the opening lines of their latest mixtape History of the Mixtape, the Detroit-area rhyme trio makes it clear who they're rolling with creatively. From the jazzy laidback but grimy boom bap soundscapes they favor to the effortless back-and-forth rhyme styles crisp with articulation while full of hidden rhythms and infectious humanism, these cats are squarely on the correct side of the love versus commerce schism currently pervasive in hip hop. Reminiscent of fellow tru-schoolers like Madlib, Little Brother and of course J Dilla but not derivative of any of them, Street Justice deserves to be known worldwide by all lovers of thoughtful, well-crafted rap music like their fellow left fielders.
A mixtape that's nearly as polished and cohesive as any official LP released this year, History overflows with uniformly dope beats (courtesy of inspired board work by Oddisee, from the acclaimed Low Budget collective) and topical song structures that prevents the mundanity of the typical braggadocio-filled mixtape. Trading 16 bars like a juggler on his grind, the three MCs seem to share a common creative and philosophic outlook, while keeping their vocal presentations just varied enough to be able to distinguish each one from the other. The occasional battle rap is mixed smoothly with self-depreciating wit and move-the-crowd exhortations ('cause like the Abstract Poet might've said, what are intelligent lyrics without ass-shaking party starters? Nada nada nada...), while a few tracks even attempt (and succeed at) genuine introspection and revelation, with a handful of clever similes thrown in like the cherry on top. Whether rocking machine-gun flows and wiser-than-their-years observations of "Sights That We Seen" or the straight-up heat of "80 Bars Dash," the trio masters many styles and never slips. This is Hip Hop for fans of real Hip Hop, music that is both dope and feel-good, both aware of its place in the history of classic rap yet also eager to further it. If this is just a mixtape, giving these dudes the time and money to record a proper full-length is a truly scary concept.
Unlikely to get major label or radio love due to uncompromised complexity and lack of ignant shit, fans of Street Justice (or good rap in general) can either bemoan the fact that a group of this caliber will never get the shine they deserve, or they can search them out and support them now, in effect becoming a vital part of the very ascension hoped for. As a weary but hopeful member of this here Hip Hop generation, I say the time for organizing around the things that matter is now. Let's start with quality rap music; who knows, maybe within my lifetime we can rally around issues of health care, decent housing and jobs as well as education and paint the muhphucking White House black (now that'd be some true 'street justice'). For now, I guess it's enough to support artists bringing the heat like this.
Music Vibes: 8.5 of 10 Lyric Vibes: 8.5 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 8.5 of 10
Originally posted: November 27, 2007
source: www.RapReviews.com
Original Link:
http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2007_11_historyinthemaking.html
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Listen To "History In The Making":
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| Download "The Coffee House" Mixtape |
| Nov 16, 2007 |
| "Coffee House" Mixtape
Mixed by DJ Exclusive
Tracklist
1. the best part of waking up
2. watch yo mouth feat. bango
3. I am hip hop (prod. RJD2)
4. coffee house skit
5. spit 4 da cause
6. gotta hurry (prod. MARVWON)
7. karma's a bitch (prod. 9TH WONDER)
8. coffee house skit
9. hide (prod. 9TH WONDER)
10. never forfeit
11. coffee house skit
12. luv us
13. swallow dat (prod. 9TH WONDER)
14. coffee house skit
15. me, you, and your sister
16. coffee house skit
17. geek down (prod. J DILLA)
18. real talk
19. coffee house skit
20. str8 to the point (prod. ODDISEE
21. I need your love
22. when I see you (prod. ODDISEE)
23. coffee house skit
24. world alone
25. the rain (prod. PC)
26. the music
27. coffee house outro
DOWNLOAD AT THIS LINK: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0notmmnoawo
"Hip hop's alive, nigga... Y'all died..." -Ketchphraze |
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| History In The Making Review! |
| Nov 16, 2007 |
| **** (4/5 stars)
Street Justice
History In The Making
Self-Released
"Street Justice adds to the history books with 21 tracks produced by Oddisee that make a perfect plateau for Katchphrase, Red and Jipsi to showcase their lyrics. They tear the beats apart word by word on cuts such as "80 Bars Dash" and "Do What It Takes." Street Justice is the future!" %u2014 Origix |
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