Kinky Notti Cameos

Always a bridesmaid, never the bride is kinda what it felt like... doing cameos on all our music-artist-homies' videos, wondering in the back of our mind when it would finally be our turn. Well, our time is now! We've been taping the video for our new single 'Ghetto Love' since last weekend & already we're like: OH YAYER, we can definitely get used to this! It's exciting seeing all the dope footage we've been getting... so yeah, definitely be on the lookout in the next few weeks for the 'Ghetto Love' premiere/release party. Promo will be all over so you won't forget who "told you it'll be off the chain", lol... Anyway, we thought it'd be fun in the meantime (just for shits & gigs) to take a look back at some of our 'video training days' lol (click image to peep the videos).

Chip Tha Ripper - Feel Good Video

Anacron - Get Stoked Video

Hot 2 Def - Walkin Around the Club Video

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

Succumb Album Art - Lil Known Facts

Dude, Havanah Maxie KILLED this album artwork... she's quite the designer beast! A lotta muffoccurs have been asking about the significance of the visuals, so we thought we'd give a lil insight/fun-facts about how it came to be...

1.) We all know how much Tshurhad Chivas LOVES his ties... the problem was that he wasn't happy with how the wind had twisted it all up on the original album photo. Not to worry! HavMax knew she could easily "photoshop" his tie into its proper position... lol, chuch!

2.) Our photoshoot took place at the homie Floyd The Fourth's backyard/courtyard. During the middle of the shoot, he pulls out this big dopeass boombox as a prop, just playing around... it ends up inspiring the whole concept behind our album theme/identity. Thanks Bud!

3.) The tie around HavMax's head was originally to be worn properly around her neck... but at the last-minute, she thought it would be dope to rock it bohemian-headband style. It just kinda worked... can u say new fashion trend?!

4.) The global figure in the background represents the Earth & the moon all in one... it's life & death while also representing the dual nature of man, yin & yang, conflict & balance, all that good stuff.

5.) The geometrical-circular pattern behind us is called the "Flower of Life". According to wikipedia and other sacred sources, it represents "a visual expression of the connections life weaves through all sentient beings." The intricate design possesses every-known shape or form within itself. So basically it represents everything universal... sorta like the sound of Kinky Notti.

6.) The boombox represents "audio ammunition" which we use to combat this world of turmoil. On it we've placed our one common wish: PEACE TO THE BABIES!

SXSW Blind-I Quality Showcase 2010

Yo SXSW was insane! Shouts to the homie Nolis for these tight shots ((video footage of our shows & more coming soon))... These stills are from our performance at the Blind-I Quality Showcase @ Soho Lounge in Austin. We kicked off the Chicago lineup with a short-n-sweet 10-min set. At first we were like 10 mins? Can u say A-D-H-D? but we found out that's how it goes down at south by. Gotta give em your hottest shit & keep it moving. Anyway, this set was dope, even tho most cats in the audience were from Chi & had never even seen us rock. You know we had to get it in & bless em all with the new CD, Kink Not?!

Dancing is crazy when u think about it... to stand up & start rhythmically contorting the body, rolling, flailing & pelvis-pumping around the room seems utterly ridiculous in theory. But in practice, dancing is the shit... it's expression like no other. It takes some to new spiritual heights & defines cultures, time, etc. which brought us to think: who was the first muffoccur to actually get up & choreograph some shit? Like, to the degree that different spots around the world started having their own dances, claiming their territory with moves... like we percolate over here!

ROTFLMFAO...OK, OK ALL JOKES ASIDE!
KINKY NOTTI IS SEEKING ACTORS, MODELS, DANCERS & EXTRAS to be a part in our new video, "Ghetto Love" We'll be holding auditions on the following dates:

FRIDAY March 26th, 2010 - 8PM
TUESDAY March 30th, 2010 - 7PM
FRIDAY April 2nd, 2010 -7PM

***OFFICIAL VIDEO SHOOT ON THE 2ND WEEKEND OF APRIL***

CASTING FOR THE ROLES OF:
Male Lead
Female Lead
Male Lead-DANCER
Female Lead-DANCER
Friends of Male Lead
Friends of Female Lead
Crew of Male Lead Dancer
Party-Goers

EMAIL info@kinkynotti.com TO RSVP & FOR MORE DETAILS

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

Kinky Notti SXSW Show Alert

YO YO... WHAT'S GOOD?
THIS YEAR AT SXSW
KINKY NOTTI IS ONNNNNNNN!
IT'S GOING DIDDOWN AT THE
Blind I QUALITY! Showcase
FRI. March 19th, 2010
AT Soho Lounge (217 East 6th Street)
SHOWCASE FROM 12PM to 6PM
FREE ADMISSION
SEE U IN AUSTIN !

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

pbbbb...

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*****

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*****