Jeru The Damaja / Major League - The Dunk XChange @ Studio A

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FEATURE EVENT:

The Dunk XChange @ Studio A, Miami, Florida

Florida Live Performance: Major League - Morning Sunrise
Having shot Major League before, and impressed with the recent amount of publicity they have been recieving in the South Floida area, We decided to get down to Studio A in Miami to catch Major League open up for hip-hop legen JERU THE DAMAJA. As Verbal Kush put it..."This is a dream come true." Major League rocks the crowd backed by up and coming DJ Trippin.

Florida Live Performance: Major League - Bills
Major League continues to rip the mic at the Dunk XChange. Studio A is packed and loving the awesome foursome of Lex One, Verbal Kush, Mike Beatz, and DJ Trippin. Check them out.

One of the top 50 MC's without a doubt, Jeru is a lyrical master. He is a phenomonal performer and street poet. Having been around since the 90's appearing with GangStarr, Jeru has blessed us with countless underground hits and many commercial that graced the MTV's playlist. We caught this Hip-Hop Legend at this Hip-Hop Clothing Event sponsored by Hi-Top Studio. Miami's Studio A was happy to see Jeru rock the crowd with Classic hits such as "Ya Playin Yourself", "Dirty Rotten Scoundrel", and "El Presidente".

He was interviewed by none other than South Florida Open Mic KING and Spoken Word Poet, Renda Writer ( http://www.rendathepoet.com ). Check this video out and if you also love Jeru the Damaja as much as the Underlab Crew does, buy his new Album "STILL RISING", which we believe maintains Jeru classic lyrical prowess. Jeru spits knowledge that YOU MUST HEAR. As Jeru says in the interview, "As Long as Jeru is still around, Hip-Hop is Still Alive." We agree.



ABOUT STILL RISING -

Jeru The Damaja (of Gang Starr Foundation) - Still Rising
Though both Jeru the Damaja and Nas released their debut LPs in 1994, the former hasn't had the same kind of success and name recognition that his fellow New Yorker enjoys. A big part of this is because Jeru has been nowhere near as prolific. While Nas continued to make albums throughout the '90s and 2000s, some of them with poppy enough hooks that he was able to cross over into new territory, Jeru ditched beatmaker-extraordinaire DJ Premier (which Nas didn't do until much later) after his second album, The Wrath of the Math, came out; he kept on criticizing commercial hip-hip (a move that generally doesn't help radio play), and completed only two albums between 1995 and 2005, neither of which were particularly impressive. Now, with the issuing of Still Rising, a clear allusion to his debut, The Sun Rises in the East, on his own Ashenafi Records, Jeru is trying to re-stake his claim as an East Coast force. With a couple of unknown but generally capable, producers, the MC presents a compelling enough case regarding his verbal authority, both directly ("How Ill," where he spits "Bring peace to the Gaza Strip 'cause I got so much clout/Mario owe me dope for knocking Donkey Kong out/Wolfgang Puck gave me paper to teach him to cook/J.K. Rowling asked me to write the next Harry Potter book") and indirectly, like in the provocative "Airplay," which takes a close, thoughtful look at society, commenting both on the way blacks have been treated and how they treat themselves, in a way that's not often heard in hip-hop ("Like the days of step-and-fetch-it we still acting like fools/We have the most expensive cars but oldest books in school"). There are some weak points on the record -- the boring closer "Streets," or "Quantum Leap," which is a little too close to Nas' mainstream breakout, "If I Ruled the World" -- and there's no real "standout" track, but, as the title implies, this is a process that isn't over, and Still Rising puts Jeru back on the path to MC venerability. ~ Marisa Brown, All Music Guide

Production Credits:
Camera / Editing: J.Vinazza
Host: Renda Writer

Performers:

Major League:
http://www.myspace.com/majorleaguetryouts
http://www.myspace.com/hitopstudio
http://www.hitopstudio.com

Jeru The Damaja:
http://www.thedamaja.com