I’m a writer and grad student in Minneapolis, working on a book and documentary about immigrant, refugeee, and diasporic hip-hop in Minnesota. I originally hail from the land of beer, cheese, and Speech, aka Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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- Review of M.anifest – “The Birds and the Beats”
- New Scholarship contest I’m judging for.
- Guante and Big Cats – An Unwelcome Guest
- Alphä – “Disneyland” (Live at The Lounge”)
- Videos from “Up in Arms”
- FranzDiego.com – Franz Diego (2009)
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To whom it may concern:
My name is Mike Herriges. I was just at a Atmosphere and Brother Ali concert in London, and I took some footage. I’ve been emailing blogs around the internet informing them that if they want to post that footage they should feel free to. It’s completely your choice. Here are some links where you can find the footage:
http://youtube.com/user/mherriges
http://midwestbroadcast.blogspot.com/2008/06/atmosphere-brother-ali-kidz-in-hall-in.html
Either of those sites has all the videos of the show that I took. It would be nice if you choose to post them, since your site is a Twin Cities blog . If you do, I’d really appreciate it if you gave a shout out to midwestbroadcast.blogspot.com, which is my (much smaller) blog. I hope you enjoy. Peace.
Mike Herriges
What up! I really enjoy reading your blog! Hype to hear your from Milwaukee, as I am too! I’ll be sure to keep checking back, especially I’m sure you’ll have alot to say with this whole Pirate/Somali thing that’s going down!
If you’re ever interested in covering a Milwaukee emcee, I’d love to send you one of my cds… you got my email…. … Peace to you! And keep up the great blog.
MC
Just read your hiphop history of Minnesota blog.
First off thank you for breifly mentioning my name as well as some of the others who were strictly about the the art and less about their own notarity with minimal contribution.
I was both deeply involved at street & club dj’ing as well as being a musician and thereafter a full time music producer. Many names like myself took our frustrations with the Mpls scene and simply migrated our vision and talents elsewhere.
I believe we all agree that talent is everywhere and lots of great talent is in Mpls.
However. The biggest thing that hurt the Mpls scene was the lack of understanding or fictious outlook on how the “real” music industry business actually worked. I believe more bands,singers,rappers & musicians could have been successful nationally and worldwide if they had a better understanding and was willing to work hard competitively to make the best records they could possibly make.
The discipline,work ethic,origonality and seriousness was the deciding factor on how far an artist or group could take it. Some people settled for being just locally famous and just did things good enough to apease their family and friends.I consider these people to be more into the hobby of hiphop or a weekend rapper.There was this narrow-minded vision to have yourself sound like someone else thats already out. Listeners would then judge your skills and songs by music they were already accustomed to. “I like your song..You sound just like Snoop Dogg”. lol
When origonality and the gamble to simply do something different began to default.
That made it even more difficult for something or someone new from Mpls to hit the scene and get that big break.
Being yourself and being origonal in whatever it is you do is what sets you apart from the rest. Sorry I drifted off subject. But that is what happened to many of the players that played a part of history in the Mpls Hiphop scene.
I can be reached for comment on my myspace page listed above.
Awesome blog! I’m excited to look through it.