Cortext - Smoking Weed With U (Featuring Greeley)

Check out this new one from Cortext and Greeley.

Champion Music - My Family (Video)

Hey all, check out this new video from Chekid & Cortext (Champion Music).

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Bitter Belief - The Tour Guide Mixtape

Hey all, check out Bitter Belief's new mixtape 'The Tour Guide' available for FREE from Bandcamp. Pretty solid release.

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Cortext - Doin' My Thing

Hey all, check this new one out from Cortext.

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Cortext - Chemtrails

Hey all, check out this new one from Cortext about Chemtrails. It is off his upcoming mixtape.

   Cortext - Chemtrails by Cerebral Cortext

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Perth Underground Awards 2011

Hey all, it has come to that time of the year where the Perth Underground Awards happen. I have replaced the trophy image from the weird naked dude to something a little more seriously.

Perth Underground Awards

Top Album: Various Artists - Australian Hip Hop Supports CanTeen

Various Artists - Australian Hip Hop Supports CanTeen. Not much really needs to be said about this, to get all these artists on one compilation supporting such a noble cause it is a winner. With great quality music from such a diverse group of people I have to give it the top album award.

Top Artist: Bitter Belief

Bitter Belief tops this one as he has been around the country repping for Perth. Many will forget that he had the release of his album 'Isolation' this year and it was also a serious contender for the Top Album award. He is working on new material and is releasing a mixtape for free very shortly.

Top Track: The Stoops - Free

The Stoops - Free. This track was HUGE and got quite a bit of radio play. These guys actually challenged Drapht's views for a while so have to give them props for that.

Top Group: Soma & Shroomz

Soma & Shroomz have proven themselves to be the top group in Perth. They took out the competition to support Jedi Mind Tricks and absolutely smashed it.

Top Beat Maker: Creed Birch

Creed Birch. This guy took out Beat Down 4 and has some crazy beats. He has also donated quite a bit of money towards the making of Hunter's documentary. Providing beats for a lot of local talent at a decent rate he deserves to take this one.

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Top Mixtape: Down South Crew - Ill Recognise Ill

Down South Crew - Ill Recognise Ill. This mixtape featured such a wide variety of artists in Perth and deserves the award for the top mixtape.

Top DJ: Rob Shaker

Rob Shaker gets this one as he had the oppurtunity to travel around the country and DJ for Drapht. He has filled in for many local artists, always has time for people and is willing to help out.

  Latest tracks by Rob Shaker BD4 BEATS

People's Champ: Javier Diaz

Javier Diaz works harder than anybody to put on events for the Perth Hip Hop scene. Without him a lot of these things wouldn't happen so when you get the chance buy him a beer. Rico of GGP got this last year and I didn't think it was fair to double up. He still runs Mixtape at The Newport every month and has time for nearly anybody. If you see him out buy him a beer as well. Lords.

Best Video: Big Tybes - Stoner Song

Big Tybes - The Stoner Song. It isn't often that I think a parody is better than the original but this one is an exception. Tybes killed it and this simple video suits the track. The views speak for themselves.

Best Battle: Cortext VS Azmatik

Cortext VS Azmatik was the best battle I have seen in PCB. Cortext came out on top but it was damn close.

Best Support: The New Breed

The New Breed take the award for the best support in the Perth Hip Hop scene as they put in so much effort for others. This group has been around for a little while now and has improved so much over. Next year they will be one to look out for and hopefully will be releasing some really dope material.

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Perth City Battles 12: Greeley VS Cortext

Hey all, check out this new video from Perth City Battles featuring local battle legend Cortext and Tasmanian Greeley.

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Perty City Battles 12

Hey all, this is the weekend for Perth City Battles 12.

Cortext Vs Greeley (Tas)
Azmatik Vs Planz (Melb)
Lethal Vs Vokal (Tas)
Baxter Vs Aero D (Promo Battle)
Spliffs Green Vs Runinmukz
Pafekt Vs Dazer
Ranga vs Richo Kidd

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"ill Recognise ill" Mixtape Launch

This event will showcase new releases from upcoming Denmark hip hop
act ‘Down South Crew’ and Beechboro new comers ‘Omac & Wish.’ Down South Crew will be performing songs from their debut release Ill Recognise Ill which features
collaborations with some of Western Australia’s most talented hip-hop artist. Omac & Wish bring their own brand of high-energy homegrown hip hop to rupture your craniums with their first mixtape release Role Models.

With a supporting lineup that reflects some of our cities most prolific and innovative talent, this night will surely be one for the local hip hop history books.

Date: Saturday 26th November 2011 8pm - 1am
Venue: Harry’s Bar, Northbridge
Support Acts: Pauly P, BYP and Complete
Sponsor: DIME and Captain of The Ship
Price: $10.00 on the door

The Down South Crew took their humble roots in Denmark, South West WA. Cortext and Aero.D have been friends since primary school but it was the shared love for hip-hop which has developed the two MC’s to form Down South Crew. Since their formation in 2005 the act have performed many gigs in the South West and Perth region, including support acts for Illy, M-Phazes, 360, Phrase, Drapht, Dazastah, Layla, The Waifs, Little Birdy, Salmonella Dub, Downsyde, Morganics and Diafrix.


Perth boys Omac and wish had spent many years working together as roof tilers since leaving school. After nearly a decade of half hearted attempts to write songs, and ‘freestyle’ rapping at parties, the two young men from Beechboro finally put their heads together and commenced writing and recording their debut mixtape ‘Role Models’. Featuring some of WA’s best emcees such as Bentman, Complete and Sever who will also be performing on the evening.

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Cortext - New World City

Hey all, check out this new video from Cortext for a track off his upcoming mixtape.

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Linburd Linney ft The Dexie Back All Stars - Dexie Back Remix

Hey all, check out this new video from Linburd Linney featuring The Dexie Back All Stars (too many to name one by one).

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Perth City Battles 11: Cortext VS Azmatik

Hey all, I can't say much about this one just watch it.

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Best 'N' The West - WA Hip Hop Convention

Hey all, HUGE event coming up at The Rosemount Hotel North Perth.

BASE101, KC WONDER & DRUM MEDIA PRESENTS……

BEST ‘N’ THE WEST > WA HIP HOP CONVENTION

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19

THE ROSEMOUNT HOTEL 

459 FITZGERALD ST, NORTH PERTH

2 STAGES > INDOOR/OUTDOOR ARENA'S

7PM – 1AM

ALL ELEMENTS RECOGNIZED & DEMONSTRATED TO THE FULLEST THIS IS THE EVENT WHEN WE UNITE ALL OF WA'S FINEST FOR ONE EXCLUSIVE NIGHT DEDICATED TO OZ & LOCAL HIP HOP!!

LIVE GRAFF & CANVAS BATTLE BY IDOL VS TOMAHAWK 

BBOY BATTLE’S

BITTER BELIEF (SBX)

MC HUNTER & DAZASTAH 

(DUN DL SET)

MORTAR

(CLANDESTEIN TRIBUTE SET)

PAULY P & ROCKSTEADY

DAZASTAH VS FDEL VS OATH

(LIVE MPC BEAT BATTLE) 

CORTEX (DSC) VS KING LEONIDAS

(MC BATTLE JAM)

COMPLETE VS SEVER

(MC BATTLE JAM)

XZAKT

(feat street life descendants Daniel Dawson, Chille, Bjah, D-loc)

SPEEK EASY

CREED BIRCH + R0B SHAKER

DIALEKT

SOMA 

OMAC

BROKEN ENGLISH

DJ’S ARMEE/LSTREET/DEFYRE/JAMU

ALL ROUND GOOD VIBES POLICY! FOR THE GOOD OF THE CULTURE PLEASE STOP VIOLENCE & ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AT HIP HOP EVENTS, THE TASK FORCE IS IN FULL EFFECT!

TICKETS

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$30 + B.FEE

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Perth City Battles 9: Cortext VS Spliffs Green

Hey all, check out this new video from Perth City Battles 9 featuring Cortext and Spliffs Green.

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Happy Birthday Launch!

Hey all, to celebrate 1 year since the start of Launch they are having a huge lineup tonight at The Rocket Room. Featuring performances from Optamus, LSD, Soma, Defyre, Paulie P, Emcee Red, Cortext, Trooth and Tektonik it is set to be a HUGE night.

Mark yourself as attending on the Facebook page.

Ill Recognise Ill - People Change

Hey all, a couple of tracks from the Down South Crew - Ill Recognise Ill have ended up on YouTube. Check them out below.

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Down South Crew - Ill Recognise Ill

Hey all, Ill Recognise Ill is finally around the corner and I have been given the chance to speak to Aero D and got a snippet of some of the tracks off the CD. Check out the Sampler below.

 DJ L-Street - Ill Recognise Ill Sampler by Cerebral Cortext 

DSC (Down South Crew) have been performing across the state for 6 years, but even with a prolific work rate and solid internet following, are yet to put out an official CD as a group. Finally the duo is ready to fire a warning shot to the other states and any other would-be lyricists with "Ill Recognise Ill - The Collab Mixtape Volume 1". 
 
We've chopped it up with the crew's Aero.D to get the word on the tape that has the biggest array of Perth MC's on a single collection, ever...

 
"To get straight to the point, what IS "IRI?"
Aero.D - it's a DSC collab mixtape. Your going to hear me and Cortext together on pretty much every track, but almost every track also has at least one feature. Basically we started the tape as a way to network and work with other artists in Perth, being from down south originally. But as well as that we wanted to prove to everyone, and ourselves, that we could match it with anyone in the city. It's a REAL mixtape. There's jacked beats as well as originals, and the entire thing is blended by Mr Rob Shaker. "Ill Recognise Ill' itself means acknowledging the skills of the rest of the scene, it's a real Perth thing and it was always intended on bringing everyone together aswell as a bit of friendly competition.
 
"So you've worked with a few people for this one, want to let us in on a few features before the tracklist goes up?"
A - theres 30 MC's, 2 DJ's, so yeah, just a couple. As far as production we've got the homie Creed Birch on a couple of bangers, MX Axis (SMA), Rights (DS Family), Sickadash (Transperth) and Leonidas playing a bit of live MPC on there. MC wise the features include Bitter Belief, Creed, Complete, Leonidas, Smiley, BYP, Soma, Aftershock, Rights & Paradox and nate Deezy from our crew DS Family and the big homie Chekid from the Sound Magnetiks fam... obviously it's only one CD, we couldn't get EVERYONE we wanted to work with on it... but it is only Volume 1. 
 
"Where did you guys record the majority of the tape?"
A - With Chekid at his Phat Rich studio, as well as the track "Escape from the Burdcage"   at Linburd's Burdcage studio. We did a whole bunch of recording at my own home studio last year as well, draft stuff that we mainly re-recorded. HUGE shoutouts to Chekid, he's off travelling the world now, but he put just as much if not more work than us into this one haha.

"Is there going to be a launch?"
A - Definately. We haven't set dates yet as we want the tracks to circulate around a bit before we do them all live, especially with so many people involved, but with so many features we've decided on doing a Northside and Southside launch so we can get everyone up, and get everyone's crews down to the shows whether their from north or south of the river.
 
"What's next for DSC?"
A - we're about 3 quarters of the way through writing our debut album which is entirely produced by the man Raiz. He approached us about doing an album and we were feeling his beats before we knew he was into our stuff aswell, so we jumped at the chance to work with him on an entire project. The album is going to be recorded at Dazastah's Lair with the legendary Daz, who's also going to work on all of the beats with Raiz. So I feel pretty fortunate and I know the finished product is going to be a monster, you should hear what we've got already...
 
"Finally, where can we get a copy of IRI?"
A - it's not QUITE out yet, keep checking out our Facebook page (Down South Crew) for updates but it will be out in the next  month. It's not an official release, hence not having a release date and it won't be in stores, but you can get it from us at show's, on the street or hit us up via the DS Facebook page or either of our personal ones... No stalkers.


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Perth City Battles 6: Cortext VS Baxter

Hey all, a new video up from Perth City Battles 6. This video features Cortext and Baxter so check it below.

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Soma - Microphone Fencing (Featuring Cortext & Bitter Belief)

Hey all, got a track here from Soma that features Cortext & Bitter Belief. It is off his new album "Heartcore" and is available for purchase now.

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Champion Music West Coast Documentary

Hey all, make sure you get some drinks for this one. An hour long Documentary from Champion Music. I haven't watched it properly yet but am about to so make sure you check it out.

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