Feb 19, 2010

The Ghetto Blaster


Like mighty gatekeepers of sound long ago, Kinky Notti stands. Between us, we hold a symbol of what Lyle Owerko describes as "rebellion" and "a way to shout your message at the system..." We are standing for freedom of creative expression, using "audio ammunition" and loving every minute of it!

We can actually remember when cassette tapes came out. They came & went quickly, but to us they promoted the ideal listening-advantage for music at the time. This was of course before songs could be randomly skipped 20-seconds in... this was when the listener would actually ingest an artists' full music-project one at a time. Tapes might not've provided the best listening-quality overall... but at least they weren't severely distorted like the super crushed, overly-processed mp3 files we get today. We started wondering where are today's Radio Raheems... the muffoccurs known for blasting that new hot shit in the streets through nothing more than a couple of giant speakers? In the hood, they were like the first street-DJ's... the music gawds (or demons depending on which tapes they blasted, lol) but still, wouldn't it be dope to literally bring music back to the streets??

this dude reps hard, pointing the the left

Nas knows what it's better with

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At any rate, music is here to stay... and no matter what media-form is popular at the time, there will always be pioneers who wish to preserve its essence in the richest, most radical ways possible. And that, my friends is what Kinky Notti reps to the fullest!

*****PEACE TO THE BABIES*****

Feb 4, 2010

Double Door Blues

It was a Tuesday nite & it was snowing... so what did we expect? WE EXPECTED MUFFOCCURS TO COME OUT THE WOODWORKS TO SEE US ROCK DAMMIT! We thought "wtf is everybody doing?" With less than 100 people in a bigass spot like Double Door, all we could do was have fun & treat it like a full-on Kinky Notti 'dress rehearsal'.


Right after our show, Ansy our photographer showed up ((did u catch the RIGHT AFTER the show part??)) Like the rest of the world, he got caught up watching the premiere of Lost that nite, lol... Guess he felt bad about not getting any on-stage shots of us, because he looked around til he found a spot for us to do a quick shoot--> IN THE BATHROOM HALLWAY, LOL! But since we weren't on shit anyway, we thought why not? Funny how a simple blue lightbulb in a dark hallway really added some "coolness" to these photos. Thanks, Ansy :D




































*****PEACE TO THE BABIES*****

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