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DOWNLOAD: Beg Borrow Steal – RA Scion
Click image to D/L. RA Scion and his new hair dropped a fresh three-track EP and accompanying short film/music video. Beg Borrow Steal is available for download and viewing, here. I wrote about it in...
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NEW MUSIC: Phinisey – DJ Phinisey
Click album cover to download. DJ Phinisey is a name you might not be familiar with but should be. The man has done board work for a number of local artists (Tacoma compatriot, Rockwell Powers, being...
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VIDEO: “Guttersnipe Bridge”– RA Scion (prod. by Todd Sykes; dir. by Garrett...
RA Scion, the most professorial MC in Town, has a new full-length coming out soon called Adding to the Extra (March 19). It’s produced entirely by City Hall’s Todd Sykes and is a sample-based,...
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NEW MUSIC: Adding to the Extra – RA Scion & Todd Sykes
Click album cover to purchase. RA Scion and Todd Sykes ensure the grand tradition of sample-based boom-bap stays alive in a synth and EDM dominated landscape. Adding to the Extra is an example of...
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NEW MUSIC: “Radio”– Rockwell Powers & DJ Phinisey
Tacoma’s Rockwell Powers and DJ Phinisey are prepping for their upcoming release, Build, on October 12 at an album release party hosted by Grit City Grind House. Catch up with the 253 duo along with...
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NEW MUSIC: “Constant”– RA Scion (feat. Daniel Blue; prod. by Rodney Hazard)
RA Scion’s new album, Lumberjack Beard, is set to drop October 31. Jokes. The record is actually called The Sickle and The Sword and it’s produced entirely by New Yorker Rodney Hazard. Different...
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NEW MUSIC: The Sickle and The Sword – RA Scion
RA Scion promises a new sound on his latest LP, The Sickle and The Sword. It’s produced entirely by New York-based beatmaker Rodney Hazard. You may have already seen the video for the lead single,...
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206UP.COM YEAR END: The Best Seattle Hip Hop Albums of 2013 – The Top 10
Today concludes 206UP’s Year End feature on the Best Seattle Hip Hop Albums of 2013. Below the jump you’ll find the blog’s Top 10 Albums of the Year (including a master list of all the albums...
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VIDEO: “Fixed”– RA Scion & Vox Mod (feat. Daniel Blue)
Keep digging through the rough and you might find diamonds. That particular adage is applicable to the outcome of the drama RA Scion recently faced with former production partner turned fink Rodney...
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VIDEO: “Venus In Transit”– RA Scion & Vox Mod (feat. Blake Lewis; dir. by...
(Sorry, can’t get the embed code to work for the full video. Above is a preview clip. View the entire thing, here.) RA Scion’s new video for “Venus In Transit” — featuring production by Seattle...
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AUDIO: “America, The Funeral (Part One)”– RA Scion & Indica Jones
We are in a new era of protest: wars with nebulous “enemies” rage persistently in high-definition, immediately visible to anyone with a wi-fi enabled device; state-sanctioned murder of America’s own...
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