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A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang and Snoop Rocked the Bells

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Since I’ve been editing other projects the past couple of months I haven’t been able to do anything associated with Michael Rapaport’s doc on A Tribe Called Quest which we began editing last year. That all changed this past Saturday as I got to wild out with Tribe rocking the Rock the Bells show for their set primarily made up of joints off their legendary 1993 album Midnight Marauders.

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The meeting of the two five footers-Phife Dawg and me

Mike Rapaport briefly discusses our Tribe film with Sway, Ali, Phife and Julian

Following a rousing comeback performance by the seldom seen Lauryn Hill, the trio of Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad took the stage to tear up the capacity crowd of 45,000+ as they ripped through classics “Steve Biko”, “Sucka Nigga”, “Oh My God” and others before being joined on stage by fourth Quester Jarobi and honorary member Busta Rhymes with Spliff to perform “Electric Relaxation”, “Buggin’ Out”, “Scenario” and of course, “Award Tour” among many other hits.

Q-Tip, Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad take the stage

Tip and the Phifer

Busta Bus holds it up

The crew peaces out into the Southern Cali night

Needless to say, after seeing Tribe put on such an amazing show, I’m more than pumped to get back to cutting our A Tribe Called Quest film as we continue to get the film ready for the upcoming festival rounds.

Also…taking the San Bernardino stage by storm was the full Wu-Tang Clan unit with Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s son Boy Jones filling in for his late pops as they rumbled through their classic Enter the 36 Chambers (which coincidentally came out the same exact day as Tribe’s Midnight Marauders).

Ghostface Killah backed by Inspectah Deck, Method Man, Raekwon, the GZA and the RZA

M-E-T-H-O-D Man!

The Wu were then followed by West Coast’s resident don big Snoop Dogg as he closed out the night’s hip hop festivities with Tha Dogg Pound crew performing their own classics off of 1994’s Doggystyle.

Big Snoop D-O-double Gzy and Kurupt

Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Karen O & Fatlip Get “Strange Enough” for N.A.S.A.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Our favorite (and fellow) space cadets Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew, strike again with yet another mouth watering music video with “Strange Enough” from their debut album The Spirit of Apollo.

“Strange Enough” features the stylings of three musical geniuses with Wu Tang’s late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Fatlip (The Pharcyde) as well as the death defying art of Stephan Doitschinoff brought to life by Lorna T and Studio Giblets and once again guided to completion by creative director Syd Garon and producer by Susan Applegate.

Click here for more from N.A.S.A. ringleader Sam Speigel (Squeak E. Clean) from Boingboing.net’s exclusive coverage.

Operation Remix N.A.S.A.

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Our N.A.S.A. homeboys Squeak E. Clean (Sam Speigel) and DJ Zegon (Zé Gonzalez) have teamed up with Indaba music to give the musically inclined a chance to be included on the official remix album of N.A.S.A.’s critically acclaimed debut, The Spirit of Apollo (get it on iTunes now!). On the Indaba website contestants can take their own creative liberties by downloading the albums’ instrumental stems as well as the solo vocals featuring Kanye West, David Byrne, Chuck D, RZA, The Cool Kids, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Tom Waits, KRS-One, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Lykke Li, Santigold, George Clinton, Scarface, and M.I.A. among others. And in addition to being included on the remix album, the grand prize winner will also receive $1000 cash money for their work! Click here or read on below for entry and contest details.

Contest rules from Indaba music:

Remix the Gods of music. N.A.S.A., which stands for North America and South America, is an international collaboration between music aficionados Squeak E. Clean, DJ Zegon and their friends, family, and musical heroes. The Spirit of Apollo tastefully combines the sounds of Brazillian funk with soul, reggae, indie rock, old school hip hop and more, and includes superstar collaborations with some of the world’s best musicians.

Join this unbelievable all-star collaboration and land a spot on N.A.S.A.’s upcoming remix album! Download the acapellas and instrumentals from the entire album, including those from superstars like Kanye West and David Byrne. Mash ‘em up, remix, and record to create the hottest new N.A.S.A. track! You can submit up to 10 mixes for consideration by the judges!

Submissions are due by October 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM EDT

Voting starts October 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM EDT