Well, I guess my theory that Dipset will be part of a new launch of Roc-a-fella is completely off. It looks likes rumors of Dipset on being on Interscope might be a reality?
Jim Jones tweeted today that they just got out of the studio with Dr. Dre?

interesting that appherently as rich as Dre is, he only owns one Nautica shirt, and wore it to both Jay-z and Dipset record sessions?

Pictures by Danielle Kline may vary due the fact that she took 423 of them. But they are all better then the ones I took on my cellphone camera


Johnny Cashola & Dave Espionage held down the patio.
Everyone I knew was kicking it out there because it was a nice night.
There were too many people I knew. Diplo in Columbus is something I personnally planned on enjoying. So I had to avoid the washed-up bittermen, and the sometimes heartfelt but energy draining hip hopharlots.
So I hunted down Schoolboy and asked him if there I could hide to avoid having a anxiety attack. All of Columbus was out.
It was kinda like a more attractive comfest.

I ran into Diplo in VIP. Turns out he is really close with RJD2. Which make sense because last time Diplo was in town dood was opening for RJ @ Little Brothers.
We discussed coming from a background of backpacker and ending up elsewhere due to liking music.
Diplo was pretty familar with Columbus, having heard of Blueprint, Times New Viking & Pyschedelic Horseshit.
He actually told me a story about the worst experience he had performing involving a show he did with Print & RJ in Cleveland.
Wasn’t Print’s fault. Just some of the Echo rocking ugly weren’t ready.
Diplo was also stoked on Adulture set who was slaying the crowd at the time.

I told Diplo that Adulture was mad young & was going to be grounded for staying out too late.

Diplo took the Skullys stage & immeadeatly lit it up with some classic house.


Diplo played dubstep. Diplo was recently aiding Lil Jon for the King of Krunks dubstep album.
I like dubstep but there is a strong fear I have of it ushering back in Drum N Bass.

Diplo played Baille Funk. And he played some of his own stuff like “Must Be A Devil”.

As some point all the moisture and mayhem shorted out a battery in Diplo’s equiptmen causing a brief stopage. It didn’t kill the mood. It added to the house party feeling.


At 2:00 am Diplo went “Get Right”, playing “Turn My Swag On” , Gucci Mane, Big Al “I Came Up” setting up……

SANTANA’S TOWN I had written an open letter to Diplo requesting he play Santana’s Town here on donewaiting. Diplo had read it. Much to the amusement of host CJ Townsend & Sweatin promoter Scotty Neimet.

Diplo played Santana’s Town for about 30 seconds. Most of the local’s that wanted the song were dancing on stage so it didn’t start riots it usually does.
He then dropped “Bigger than Hip Hop” which got a pretty good response from the college crowd.
Diplo eventually dropped “Papers Planes” & then did that thing that every dejay always does when MIA says “no one on the corner has swagger like us” which leads into a double-up of”Swagger Like Us” by TI and company. (only plus of scribble jam being canceled is not having to see to what beatboxers and turntablists would do with those two songs)
Diplo got a grammy for that one so who could blame him for dropping those joints.
And then he gave largely white alt female crowd their third orgasm by playing “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys.

Not all alt females were happy.Bridget here is really angry with Diplo for cutting “Santana’s Town” short. And was demanding to hear more Dipset or for “Santana’s Town” to be played again.

“What do you mean you can’t play it again. I don’t understand”-Bridget
“That song is like 5 years old & I don’t even play my own song twice”-Diplo
This moment ended up on Diplo’s Twitter.

Garret from Adulture tells Diplo that while Dipset is well requested in Columbus; it’s ok. We like fidget house too.

The soundman cuts Diplo off. Diplo requests another song.

The crowd demands another song. The locals on stage are screaming for “I Used to get it in Ohio”

Diplo drops some indie rock song I have never heard in my life. I am gonna go ahead and just sat it was Matt & Kim because CJ knew the words. But the crowd knew it and went nuts….

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And what happens in hipsterville when the doors are shut and everything is closed?

No cociane. Instead I strike up a convo with Diplo’s ace Cullen Stalin about Master Fard Muhammed.

We were both really amused at Malachi Z York’s depiction of Fard in a lot of Z. York’s scrolls.
(for those playing along at home. Master Fard Muhammed is the man that came from New Zealand to create the Nation of Islam in the wilderness of North America.
Of course Malachi Z. York is a household name for being wrongly incarcerated.

Diplo came up to me and was like “what the fuck man. I played your Santana’s Town. And that girl would stop yelling at me to play it again.”

This led to a series of girls argueing with Diplo about not playing Pac. Or the wrong Gucci Mane song.

I truelly loved Columbus at that moment.
It’s 330 am. Diplo is explaining why he didn’t play Pac.

Diplo & I had a discussion on how Cleveland’s Fat Al didn’t kill with that crowd. I told Diplo if it was downtown it would’ve. Schoolboy pointed out if with were between Summit Forth it would as well.

I felt liek Diplo kinda proved a point by dropping ‘bigger than hip hop” and then “Paper Planes”.

His movement goes beyond wanting to heard krunk or gangster shit these days. It’s truely about music. He is on his Afrika Bambatta, searching for the perfect break shit.

I mean those songs are old as dirt.

I accused Diplo of being friends with Jay-z for kicks. He said he likes both. He prolly is friends with Jay-z. I mean they did get a grammy together. Who could blame him.

Then he suggested we take photo’s throwing up Dipset so Columbus knows that even though he has never heard “I Used to Get It in Ohio” he has respect for the Dips.

Dood is cool as fuck. And Columbus is silly as hell.
In a good way.
The show that was 4 years in the making was perfect.

COP MAJER LAZERS WHEN IT DROPS!!

My friends & I greatly appreaceate you playing “Santana’s Town”. Gucci Mane and Fat Al were nice touches as well.

Thanks again,

Wes

(full review coming when its not the weekend. )

This is part 2 of Cam’ron’s interview with Miss Info. Cam claims that he stopped kicking it with Juelz because Santana was too into robo-tripping.

The rules of engagement:

1.Bring your  three best weed smoking friends. 2. Bring your best weed. 3. Juelz Santana and his Skullgang will smoke you under like it’s Bob Marley’s wake.

Here is what Juelz’  is bringing to the table:

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B-Real of Cypress Hill (who is on Duck Down Records now) has decided to throw his graffix hat in the ring. Here is the aging pothead’s video response…

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I am getting  an anxiety attack at just looking at the digital weed.

Juelz  Dip Dip. Santana Set Set.

Columbus rules because in one night Psychedelic Horseshit, Unholy Two, Blueprint, Envelope, The Catalyst, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones and Weedsteeler all partook in New Years Eve events.

After the jump it gets uncomfortable and self-indulgent.

I detest New Years. The combination of contrived partying on a scheduled mixed with a benchmark date that calls for reflection is usually fairly depressing and neurotic for me. I was already leary and then I heard about some truely gnarly news about someone that had been around the Columbus Hip Hop scene for sometime.
After talking to a couple folks on the phone that I knew were prolly going through some really fucked up emotions right now I decided that this was not gonna take me under.

What do the 5 Percenters say?
P.ositive
E.negry
A.ctivates
C.onstant
E.levation

SO…I was like whats the best thing about New Years Eve. Hella shows and parties.

I decided to start off at Bourbon Street where Psychedelic Horseshit, TV Ghost, Unholy Two and others were playing. My schedule only alotted for 15 minutes to eat a veggie dog from Extreme Wieners. It was mad early so no bands played when I was there.

I am still impressed with the idea of actually putting a real pickle on a hot dog instead of relish so this was a 15 minutes well-spent. In addition to enjoying Extreme Weiner’s culinary innovation ; I also took note of the beauty that a music community can possess. Just a quick glance at these year-end lists  and the C-O should be proud of  the impact that its  rock n rollerz  influence had this year. So after looking at the interwebs and then seeing all the Siltbreeze and CDR cats hanging out on a holiday; it was kinda affirming that internet hyped music movements have genuine roots complete with family members and friendships beyond the blogosphere.

I guess later in the evening a flood happened before TV Ghost performed. The Bobo crowd took an Ark to a house and the show went on.

But I still sag my jeans, and yell fuck the police at any given attempt. So I missed all that cause I wanted to hear raps

Bridget Eshbaugh took this photo.

Raps I heard. I made it to the Weightless NYE at about 11:30. Envelope and Blueprint were on stage. Envelope finished up “Motivations” and that segwayed into “Tramp” by Blueprint. Place was packed and bustling with excitement.

Envelope told me the next day that he dipped after the ball dropped. I guess he recruited a homeless man as his hypeman, and performed at a house party off an IPOD.

I had left before this occured to meet up with Johnny Cashola who was spinning at the Circus.  The balldropped and then him and I jetted off to Club Karma to see Young Buck and Juelz Santana. A text message later told me that one of the dejays at the Circus beat up a photographer.

But I didn’t see all that cause I was at Club Karma.

Young Buck was suprisingly dope. He did not perform off of an IPOD. He performed off of Serato which is a great innovation for a mainstream rappper. Usually these cats rap over their cd’s vocal version which never made much sense to me. How can you be rich enough to have like zillion dollar chain,but not afford to not buy a Mac, and computer program for your performance to be worth the 50 bucks or whatever people paid to get into the show?

But Buck had Serato. He came out to “Swagger like Us” but flipped it to Swagger like Buck. It was pretty hard. He then went into “Stomp”. That was gully too. The night took a weird turn though. He did some spoken word thing about how it was ok for real g’s to cry when they feel pain. He was referencing his much publicized incident in which Buck cried on the phone to 50 Cent.

Yah Yah. Men can cry. But no one wants to hear that shit at 2:30 am on NYE. So I hit the bar like; Buck cool for breaking format but yer breaking my heart over here.

Juelz Santana didn’t cry. He rocked  tons of hits. “Shottaz”, “Crunk Music”, “Hey Ma”, “Santana”, “Oh Boy”, “Make it Work” all got the crowd bumping. The first 8 rows were girls, me and Cashola. (Who took the photos with his I-Phone).

At this point I realized that there was something wrong with me. I am in a club full of girls on NYE and alls I care is hearing music. I am willing to bet Cashola and I were the only people this lame in the whole city of Columbus.

Yeah. I go to Club rap shows for, you know, art reasons.

I also believe that I maybe somewhat sexist or racist. Women were flirting with me. Rubbing my back and such. I was nice but kept it moving because I figured they were only trying talk to me because they wanted to get their boyfriends mad.

Which once again makes me corny as fuck for not trying to get on at NYE and being at a fucking club rap show because of art.

Besides this obvious flaw in my person, the show itself was awesome.

Juelz said it was Dipset for life. He did “Pop Champaign” in solidarity with Jim Jones who was playing at Club Ice on Long Street. Which made me think Columbus was real cool cause it had two different Dipset members playing at seperate clubs on NYE. Especially when the crew is not exactly as strong as they used to be.

After this we dipped to the Weedsteeler NYE party. But everyone was already coupled up. I ate some chips. Dipped them in humussss. And went home.

Juelz Santana has replaced Boosie on this show. So Saturday, February 9th will be the “Official Dipset Winter White Bash”. It says on the flyer that this is one event where you can wear your tall white tee, and not violate the dress code. Good to see the Dips are maintaining their Columbus presence.

“Justin Stager and Dana Murphy, white, young, and naive, move to Brooklyn to make a documentary about inner city life. The film takes a media-immersion approach: Dana follows inner city youths, Justin films NYPD officers on patrol, and John Healy, a hired cinematographer, documents the filmmakers.

The focus of Dana’s story is Thomas Coventry, a 15-year-old black youth trying to navigate his way through his strained family and social life. Thomas is poised to move up from the hardships of ghetto life, but his volatile friend, Nate, who is hell bent on stealing the spotlight, is keeping Thomas down.

Surrounded by violence and drugs, nothing comes easy to Thomas in the dangerous environment he calls home. On the flipside, Justin documents the everyday lives of NYPD officers Dan Masterson and his partner Alex Mora. Masterson is a seemingly good cop who puts his life on the line everyday.

However, it slowly becomes evident that views towards certain races get in the way of his duties. After performing a heroic act, Masterson granted some time off. He uses this time to uncover a plot, the origins of which, unmask the motives behind Masterson’s racist behavior.

As the filming progresses, violence and emotions get into the way of Justin and Dana’s objectivity. As the filmmakers grow apart their stories merge together, forcing them to become active participants in the underground world they hoped to observe through the lens. What was once considered an ambitious idea soon spirals out of control, with irreversible results. Written by SenArt Films”

No Word when Killa Season 2 is coming out but at least the Dips are back in the in the theatres.

Keep reading for the trailers.

Trailer #1

Trailer # 2