By now, everyone has heard about the tiny little Los Angeles health food cafe that held a weekly open mic event on Thursday nights back in the late 80's early 90s. That place was called the Goodlife Cafe and it was the undisputed home of Freestyle Fellowship - the dopest rap group to ever re-invent the wheel.
(l-r; Self Jupiter, DJ Kiilu, P.e.a.c.e., Aceyalone & Myka 9.)
What you haven't seen or heard in the documentaries (Freestyle the art of rhyme or This is the Life) is details on what happened after the Goodlife. And it's what happened from '95 on that makes what happened at The Goodlife still relevant and intriguing. Enter Project Blowed & Aceyalone...
Aceyalone, a founding member of FF, connected with Abstract Rude and his Mass Men, The Nonce & CVE with Afterlife among others to create the classic compilation tape Project Blowed. Upon critical acclaim for the compilation, both Acey & Ab signed brief solo deals in '94 with Capitol & Grand Royal Records respectively, mostly to funnel money back into the compilation to press vinyl & cds - from then on this whole underground independent nation was born. True there were others in LA like T-Love & Jurassic 5, as well as Bay Area mainstays Peanut Butter Wolf, Hieroglyphics & Living Legends who made great founding contributions to West Coast indie hip hop, but rest assured that that Project Blowed compilation gave every like minded rapper in every part of the world confidence that they could go make a pro-looking, pro-sounding record too and do it themselves. Enter Kaos Network & Ben Caldwell...
Professor Ben Caldwell has been our guiding light in tha hood. Since Acey approached Ben in late '94 about bringing an open mic workshop further south on Crenshaw to Ben's grant-operated youth center in Leimert Park, he has stuck by our side and kept his doors open for us for the last 15 years and counting!!! Ben has taken us on Hip Hop cultural exchange trips to Cuba, South Africa & different college Universities, and he continues to nurture our global interests in the arts.
The Last 10 years?
Have been spent mashing. We've spread out. Aceyalone has taken Project Blowed worldwide with his yearly releases on Project Blowed Recordings, including six solo lps, two Haiku d'etat lps, two A-Team lps and a few compilations & mixtapes. Abstract Rude consistently reps the Blowed on each of his projects and currently has a song on his new lp featuring Haiku & the Next Generation Blowedians. All the Blowed homies have followed suit through the years either releasing their own music or weaving in and out of indie deals, touring worldwide and serving MCs wherever we go of course. We don't mess around we keeps it underground...
2009 marks our 15 year anniversary - can u believe it?
Project Blowed carries on...It's not just about the OGs. The last 10 years have also seen new faces and voices step up and be heard in our collective.
Customer Service
Thirsty Fish
The (Sis)Tem
& Swim Team to name a few are the newest Blowedians who by now ain't even so new anymore, we talkin like 5+ years deep in the game. But that's what's so dope about what Project Blowed is; it's a constantly rejuvenated talent pool under which cats who are serious about their craft can grow and eventually blossom. It's a family. An art club. A league of extraordinary artists. No one tells you you are a Blowedian, but they'll sure tell you if you're not one - that's for sure.Project Blowed what's the code?
All sorts of shit poppin'
We now have multiple Blowedian dates posted in our above show listings.
Haiku d'etat Europe Tour poppin' this Nov. 25 - Dec. 5th!!!
MIKE, AARON & EDDIE w/DJ Drez joined by special guests:
Magic Heart Genies
- Jroz One and Dj Ethos' Beats n' Pieces link to buy
- Abstract Rude's Rejuvenation
IN STORES NOW link to BUYFEATURED VIDEOS
"Me Time" is the latest video from Busdriver'sJHELI BEAM lp.
"Thynk Eye Can" is the latest video from Abstract Rude's Rejuvenation lp guest starring Haiku d'etat members Aceyalone & Myka 9.
"A day in the life of our LA summer at Venice Beach, Watts Towers, LA River & the Coliseum with a few of our Blowedian crew, BMX buddies & skater friends."
- Otherwize's Point Of View
- DJ Drez's Jahta Beat: The Progression
- 2 Mex's THE RETURNERS(2MEX/DIE YOUNG/DEESKEE)BREAK UP YOUR MAKE UP
- Awol One's Owl Hours
Fake Four
- Busdriver's Jhelli Beam
Epitaph COOL NEW BUSDRIVER CLIP CLICK HERE! MORE INFO ON BUSDRIVER HERE!
- Pigeon John's ROOTBEER Pink Limousine
Cornerstone Ras
- Medusa's Gangsta Goddess
- Riddlore?'s Everything you need to know To make it big in Hip Hop
- NgaFsh's The Party CD
- Rifleman's LA STREETS PART 1
- Ellay Khule's HOLY SCRIPTURES
- Mister C-R's Real Hip Hop video
- Customer Service's Free Y-Not mix cd
- Nocando's Impatient ep
Debut lp Coming soon on Alphapup
- Gajah's Hair Off My Chest
- Thirsty Fish's Testing The Waters
- Dumbfoundead's Fun With Dumb lp
- Open Mike Eagle's Premeditated Folly Mixtape
- Kail's True Hollywood Squares
Alphapup
- Swim Team's Ocean's 11
- Alpha MC's Lovin Life
- Sahtyre's High Saht
- Lyraflip's My World in a Whrirlwind vol. 1
- VerBs' The Progress EP
- Intuition & VerBs' The Buzz ep
- J Natural's Sex, Lies & Sextape
- JRoz1 & DJ Ethos' Beats & Pieces
- DVS' Taste Of Power
- Kandi Cole's Happy Birthday Kandi Cole
- Aspect1's 2000 Now Music
- SP-83's L.A. Riots
- Subtitle's How2beat_the beat03
- Thavius Beck's 10 Years of Mush Records
- Rheteric Ramirez's L.A is for Motherfuckers
- (Sis)Tem's (Sis)Team-Addict Takeover 2
- (Sis)Tem's Female Perspective Vol.1
- Otherwize's Brown Baggin 08
- Omid's Afterwords 3
Alphapup
- Ava Duvernay's This Is The Life dvd
Stay tuned for Project Blowed's 15year anniversary Tour coming this Fall to a city near you!
VIDEOS
Meen Green, Self Jupiter, Ganjah-k, Aceyalone - Live @ The Goodlife performing as Project Blowed in 1993 - this was the session where the name for the movement was conceived. The story went like this: they hotboxed, got Blowed, then signed the list as Project Blowed - get it?
Get blowed with us in the IE @ the IE Blowed - back open now!!!
And of course @ 4343 Leimert Bl., L.A., CA 90008
Every Thursday 9p-1a
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