Peace UV Mine Entertainment is pleased to announce the official debut of H.I.S.D.’s second single “Rockin” aka “Space Up”, from their upcoming album, “The Weakend”. The track is produced by King Midas for Peace Uv Mine Entertainment. Look for the video to drop in the next few weeks…

Download “Rockin” aka “Space Up” on Bandcamp: http://hisd.peaceuvmine.com/track/hisd-rockin-aka-space-up-single

An intimate conversation with one of the hardest working musicians today.

All hype aside, V-Zilla could honestly be the the most tenacious, driven person that i’ve ever met. He’s a virtual one-man street team. I met him (or rather, he approached me) years ago when he was in  the process of releasing his E.X.H.A.L.E. CD. I listened and liked it, and soon thereafter talk of his album started popping up all over the place. I thought – “Wow, this guy has a really good street team.” I would soon discover that he was the street team. I obviously wasn’t working hard enough.

In the years since, he’s released a number of projects and toured the world on his own merits, and is preparing to release a slew of projects later this year. Get To Know the one who calls himself The Monster, V-Zilla.

Performed at “The WOW” on March 14, 2010. From their upcoming project entitled “_____ _______”. This is Scottie Spitten’s (From HISD) favorite song this year. That’s a direct quote. That’s Scottie sticking his head thru the backstage curtain.

HISD shared the stage a few days ago with Madlib, and here’s some footage from that show. Includes a performance of “Break Of Dawn”

Footage from a recent show that finds us performing crowd-favorite “Untitled” from the Universal album. Tough crowd that night, but we still did our thing. Appearances by D Rose and The Niyat. Filmed by (DJ?) Remix.

D. Rose – “Revolution”

From the album Taster’s Choice

Written by: D. Rose

Produced by / Cuts by: DJ Cozmos

Directed by: Damien Randle

From Damien -

My wife burst into the room as I was touching up the final edits on the video. I immediately hit her with “What the hell is wrong with you?”

“Who’s doing the scratches on that song?”

“Coz.”

“Really? Coz?”

“Yes. Coz. He’s been a DJ all his life. He’s pretty good at doing cuts.”

“You don’t have to be an ass!”

“……….”

“Anyway, his scratches sound FABULOUS! I miss hip hop like that.”

Coming from my wife, that says a lot. If there’s one thing that’s indicative of hip hop, it’s the sound of a DJ moving the record back and forth in a rapid succession that creates the sound that we know as “the scratch”. And even though I was being an ass to my wife, I have to admit that there is something about the sound of some good cutting that puts me in a good place when it comes to listening to hip hop. It’s all but extinct in most music we hear today.

All of this brought back memories of the long days in my home studio where Tasters Choice was crafted. D Rose would make the 60 minute commute from the northside to write and record his vocals; Coz would lug his MPC into the room with a crate full of disks, disks that contained every track in his arsenal. I can’t even tell you how many we all listened to before they settled on the choice cuts that would become the album.

I also thought about the night that Coz came through with the mixer and turntable, and we listened to record upon record to find the right cuts for the right track. It’s funny, because what you hear on the final version of “Revolution” might have been the 5th or 6th set of cuts that they decided on. The others were equally as impressive, but this set just brought it home. And before you ask – no – there won’t be a leak of the alternate versions. You’re listening to the version that was meant to be heard.

I admire D Rose’s work ethic as much as one can admire anything. After a few false starts, he found the resolve to put together an album that I feel is timeless in its own right.It’s rare these days to see an MC and a producer helm an entire project together. Think of Gang Starr; Pete Rock & CL Smooth; Kool G Rap & Polo and so on. In today’s world of albums littered with scattered offerings from so many “super producers”, it’s refreshing to hear an album that has a consistency and warmth that can only be created under these settings. I’m saying that and I was in the room the whole time.

When D Rose hit me up for the video, he said that he wanted something “simple and elegant”. No frills, no bells & whistles. And that’s what you have here: a clean, vibrant look into the soul of a man who stands alone, but is always in the company of others. The city of Houston serves as a beautiful backdrop to his narrative. This was the one video that he had to do above and beyond any other on the album. It may be the song that best defines who he is.

I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed creating it.

-D-

What better way to start your weekend, than to listen to H.I.S.D.’s lead single from The Weakend, “Lando”?

From Peace Uv Mine:

Welcome to Space City…”
 
Questlove’s “group to watch…” H.I.S.D. returns with the first single ‘Lando’ from their forthcoming LP/Book project The Weakend.  Click the image on the left for your FREE DOWNLOAD or copy and paste the following link into your browser:

http://hisd.peaceuvmine.com

Get Ur Space Up!