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Interview with the Dynamix Duo Since hitting the scene three years ago, the group has continually expanded its horizons, gigging throughout the Northwest and West Coast. They frequently perform in area talent showcases including billing as featured artists at the Juneteenth Celebration, Alberta Street Fair, Fred Meyer Grand opening, opening for E-40, Jammin 95.5 Street team events, and they were favorites of the BuckHead Z100 morning show. They even had a promotional song in rotation for six weeks on Z100. [more] 
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Jay-Z Speaks Out On Racism, Violence & Hip Hop’s Decline Jay-Z Cover Story Stop Smiling Magazine 33 Interview by Michael A. Gonzales http://www.stopsmilingstore.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPRO D&ProdID=49 On October 2nd, veteran music journalist Michael A. Gonzales met with Jay-Z to discuss life, hip-hop and American Gangster for the cover of the second-annual 20 Interviews issue of STOP SMILING magazine. Below are excerpts from that interview. [more]
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LA Times Apologizes- Diddy Killed 2Pac http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-me-tupac27mar27,0,2043351.story?page=1 Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology Wednesday afternoon. The statements came after The Times took withering criticism for the Shakur article, which appeared on latimes.com last week and two days later in the paper's Calendar section. [more]
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80's Baby original Session of Rydaz Committee Pdxrap had a chance to sit down and talk with Session one of Portland's upcoming rappers and discuss his role as an emcee and his group the Rydaz Committee.Session, also know as Brandon Jones, was born on August 19th 1986 in Portland, Oregon. Living with his hard working single mother Kimberly, older sister Brandy, younger brother Chris and younger brother Alex, Session would soon learn that in life nothing is ever given to you, but those who thrive success must take it. [more]
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 Email us to get your music played on pdxrap radio. Go to send us an email on the menu.Make sure your song is a radio edited mp3 file.
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Still a Good Day - Ice Cube didn't have to use his AK By Thomas Fawcett Illustration by Nathan Jensen  Twenty years ago, O'Shea Jackson turned the rap world on its ear-hole with an eight-word lyrical missile announcing his arrival. "Straight outta Compton, crazy motherf****r named Ice Cube!" Nowadays, Cube, 38, spends more time a few miles and a world away in Hollywood, the same Hollywood he threatened to leave in ashes on Public Enemy's "Burn Hollywood Burn. [more]
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Russell Simmons Backs Barack Obama 3/2/2008, 3:57 p.m. PSTThe Associated Pres NEW YORK (AP) Russell Simmons has been pushing young people to vote, but for a while there, it was looking as if the music industry heavyweight would have trouble casting his own ballot. Not anymore! The hip-hop mogul said Sunday he is endorsing Barack Obama for president, inspired by the diversity among the Illinois senator's supporters. [more]
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Black History Month and Hip Hop Hip hop music has been influencing Black American history for over 30 years. PDXRap choose five songs that we feel strongly stood out. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five release "The Message" on Sugar Hill Records. The song peaked at #4 on the music charts. It was one of the first songs to describe the inner city life to mainstream America. Public Enemy releases their debut album "Yo! Bum Rush The Show" in 1987. [more]
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2008 Grammys Amy Winehouse grabs 5 Grammys, she may have been physically absent from the Grammy Awards on Sunday, but her presence was strong as the famously troubled singer won five trophies, including song and record of the year for her autobiographical hit "Rehab."Sprung from a rehabilitation clinic to perform via satellite from London, Winehouse delivered a stirring, defiant performance of the hit that has defined her recent fall from grace. [more]
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Heavy Rotation Rock The Spot Saturday Night!  B-boy Huy 'Jyant' Pham of Amplified Techniques Productions is excited about promoting Heavy Rotation, an event created out of his love for what he knows and lives: good music and dancing. Unlike most weekly events that feature the same deejay every time, Heavy Rotation has a pool of 20+ deejays that it picks from, showcasing 2 each Saturday. Besides local talent you can also expect deejays from other cities to stop by.
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AKRONEMS THE PROPHET, GODS SON His birth name Mikal Lee, born March fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixtyeight A.C. (After Christ). Mikal Lee formly known as the poet AKRONEMS THE PROPHET, GODS SON.AKRONEMS is a God given talent to the world who listens. AKRONEMS means, Aquiring Knowledge Rebuilding Our Nation Elevating Minds Spiritually has a true talent combined with the knowledge plus experience of our past, present and future on thoughts of the reconstruction on the minority culture.
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