CHOICECUTS ARCHIVE - Culture

Raekwon Interview

Monday, March 14th 2011

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Chef Raekwon is set to perform his classic album ‘Only Built For Cuban Linx’ this week in The Button Factory as ChoiceCuts celebrate our 10 year anniversary as promoters. Ahead of his Dublin show he tells Siobhan…

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Hip Hop Documentaries

Monday, March 14th 2011

We sure do love a good hip-hop documentary. Check our favorite ones to date right here. This year we are set to see at least 4 more big movies drop from some of our favorite hip hop stars. Check out the trailers below…

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80 Blocks from Tiffanys on DVD

Friday, October 15th 2010

5 Day Weeekend are really pulling it out of the hat with this release. An official DVD launch of the incredible 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s by Gary Weis. I remember getting this on a bootleg DVD about 4 or 5 years ago from…

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Hip-Hop culture on film – 10 of the best

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In just over thirty years Hip Hop has established global influence. Creativity and passion for hip hop comes out though a rich variety of means of expression. This makes capturing it on film all the more difficult. Here is a selection of the best hip hop films, in no particular order.

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Bona fide Skills – Ghostpoet

Thursday, June 3rd 2010

While its sad to see hip-hop slowly decaying these days it is also great to be surprised when someone worth mentioning comes along out of the blue. Ghostpoet is certainly one of these people. He’s even ventured into…

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The Rza – Wu Tang vs The Golden Phoenix

Wednesday, March 3rd 2010

As promised here’s the second and final installment of RZA’s latest art project entitled the W.A.I.L project…Each of the 3 pieces are limited to 360 copies worldwide and are available to buy from Sway and King…

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When Art Imitates Life

Wednesday, February 10th 2010

Did you hear about this? The RZA’s latest project? Victory Vs Death?…..

Well Sway and Tech from the World famous Wake up Show have created this project entitled When Art Imitates Life to highlight some of the major…

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Mos Def’s The Ecstatic: The T-Shirt

Wednesday, June 24th 2009

After too many years without a strong album or the distraction of other ventures, Mos Def released his fourth The Ecstatic earlier this month. The rhymes are tight and the response has been generally strong. It is…

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Japanese Graffiti

Thursday, May 28th 2009

With obvious talent to burn, this time lapse video captures the artists as they create a constantly mutating graffiti piece. Fresh soundtrack too. If you like this kinda stuff you may want to check out the Rackgaki…

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Ubu Web

Tuesday, October 28th 2008

This is a great site. Run by volunteers, Ubu is a repository of art, articles, animation, film, podcasts and the impressive 365 project – a compendium of audio artifacts that ranges from the weird to the wonderful….

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