What's going on

So Under Pressure went over like a leaf blower... or something.
The new issue of the magazine is out now and there were some nice New Era caps too.

















































































Budda was out of town last show and I walked in from an operation on my hand for a minute, so Orion was forced to hold it down by himself, despite the fact that he didn't get a chance to grab his records. Luckily Malicious came through; Mr.Malish's Myspace, check it.

We need better TV

The Bronx Bunny Show, 2 puppets that don't give a fuck.
Starz network, 15 minutes each episode.
We don't get this in Canada, somebody torrent it for me!




Some clips from the show, unfortunately bleeped versions.

Playlist for August 2 2007

It's Tricky - Run DMC

Be There - Havoc

TALK TALK

No Streets - Marvel (cancon)

Dope - Greyskull

Hour of Reprisal - Ill Bill ft. Killa Priest

Sharks - M.O.P.

I'll Walk Alone - Grand Analog(cancon)

Talk Talk & interview w/ Grand Analog (winnipeg) Check his Myspace

Low IQ - Terminology & Evidence

Some Get Back (Revenge) - Necro

Things Done Changed - FAMN (mtl)

Rap hour half hour freestyle hour

The Prowl - Heltah Skeltah

Don Smooth's Mix

I Used to Love H.E.R. - Common

Wrong Side of the Tracks - Artifacts

Come Clean - Jeru

Southern Playalistic - Outkast

Regulate - Warren G

Tonight - DJ Quik

Rebirth of Slick - Digable Planets

1nce Again - A.T.C.Q

Passin' Me By - The Pharcyde

Where have you been?

If you haven't noticed, we've been off the last couple of weeks. Off The Hook radio has been hosting some club shows the past 2 Wednesdays. First there was the Souls of Mischief/Masta Ace show and then there was the Ice-T show which saw Shades of Culture re-unite to perform a song during D-Shade's set.
The lovely Corrine hooked us up with an interview with comedian Robert Kelly during the Just For Laughs festival , Budda said he'd hook him up with some rez smokes and he called Flow a serial killer numerous times, you'll be hearing the no holds barred, chopped up version soon, he's a good guy, check him out; http://www.myspace.com/robertkellylive

We'll be back August 1st. Don't forget, Under Pressure on August 12th.

Guest and guests

This past week, we attended the Nasty Show at Just For Laughs here in MTL. On the bill were host Nick Dipaolo, Robert Kelly, Jim Jeffries, Dave Attell, and Louis CK.

Dave Attell came by the radio show after the club show, you may remember that he used to do a show called Insomniac on Comedy Central and he came by the radio show and put us on TV.

We also had Freestyle Love Supreme on the show, they're an improv freestyle troop, complete with beatboxer for sound effects. They'll be playing at Cabaret Juste Pour Rire during the festival.

On a side note, I was just listening to this guys Myspace page; mrkoichi beats and was liking what I was hearing.

Playlist for July 5

The Hunted Child - Ice-T
Cold Steel - Phat Kat
Talky Talk
O.C. - What I Need
Small Town Boys - Grand Analog
I Will Not Lose - D-Well & Woodman (MTL)
Good Clothes - Little Brother
Talking Part
Run For Ya Life - Keith Murray
No Place Like Home - FBI (Cancon)
Big Spender - Freeway & Jay Z
Cup on Full - Aristo (Cancon)
Rap Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Calm Yourself - Omni
Thin Line - Rasco
Well Know Asshole - Obie trice
Spit it Clearly - Dialated Peoples
3 Wisemen - Ill Bill with O.C. , Jeru
Nowhere, No More - Eternia (Cancon)
Let's Ride - Sean P & C.O.D.
20 - Dead Prez
Legion of Doom Renegades - Keith Murray

U.P. comes

Some event that's been goin' on for like 12 years or sumtin' is coming up apparently.

Shows coming up.

Go. Watch. Enjoy.

Playlists

None from tonight's show, too much going on, we suck, you know it.

June 21

Drop the Needle - Maestro Fresh Wes
Do This Like Me - Eternia
Talk talk
Dont Touch That Dial - Q Unique & Ill Bill
Play it - Big Shug
Knowledge God - Raekwon
Rollin' - Marco Polo
Talk talk
Die Already - Nyce & Mobb Deep
Fuck The Police - LOX
Play The Drum - Zeph & Azeem
We On - Gemini - Lupe Fiasco
Summer Time - Mos Def
rapp hour half hour hour
Abracadabra - Apani B Fly
Serious - NL5 (mtl)
Alphabetical Slaughter - Papoose
Rest In Beats - Oddeo
Welcome To The Terrordome - Pharoah Monche
Do It Again - Kool G Rapp
Go See The Doctor - Jazzy Jeff
Screwface Capitol - Bunz & Friday (TO)

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June 14

Rock This Funky Joint - Poor Righteous Teachers
A Serpent's Love - Lifesavas
Talk Talk
Novelas - Tony Touch
The People - Common
Vic Flaie - Rusty Juxx
Talk Talk - Sack Money interview
Sack Money track
Play it - Big Shug
Welcome to the Terrordome - Pharoah Monche
Keep Pace - Mr. J Medeiros
Death Is Forever - Tek
Where Da G's - Dizzee Rascal & UGK
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
FLOW'S OLD SCHOOL
King Tim III - Fatback
Do You Like That Funky Beat - Kool Kyle Starchild
New Rap Language - Spoonie Gee & The Treacherous 3
That's The Joint - Funky 4 Plus 1
Disco Dream - The Mean Machine
Do it Do it - The Disco 4
On The Radio - Crash Crew
It's magic - The fearless 4
Punk Rock Rapp - The Cold Crush Brothers
Fast Life - Dr. Jeckyl & Mr.Hyde
Get Tough - CD III
Starski Live @ The Fever - Lovebug Starski

Fixed gear fun in Japan

I'd love to re-score this video

Play lists for June 7th and May 31 '07

Can I get slack on this blog?

You bet your ass!!!

June 7

It's Nasty - Grand Master Melle Mel
Yah, yah, yah - Tony Touch & The Beatnuts
talk talk
Pussy Ol - Dizzee Rascal
Body Baby - Pharoah Monche
One Step Forward - Strong Arm Steady
Can't Tell Me Nothin' - Kanye West
talk talk
Things Done Changed - FAMN (mtl)
The People - Common
Angry Black Man in an Elevator - Rhyme Fest
Stories From Hell - Ransom
Rap Hour Half Hour Freesyle Hour
Rize - Median
Over 30 - KRS ONE / Marley Marl
Hood in the USA - Jurassic 5
Old Milwaukee - Dead Indians
Serious - NL5 (mtl)
Sleep - 9th uno
Blah, blah, blah - Brother Ali /Slug

MAY 31

How To Survive In South Central - Ice Cube
Brothers Ain't Brothers - Cilvaringz
Talk Talk
The Exorcist - Lil' Vic
Split Second - HD & Hi Tek
Plus One - Hyphen One
Old Shit - Doompasaga & Ill Bill
Talk Talk
The Game - Common
Can't Tell Me Nothin' - Kanye West
Heavy Metal Kings - Jedi Mind Tricks & Ill Bill
Hip-Hop Lives - KRS ONE / Marley Marl
Rap Hour Half Hour Freesyle Hour
Don Smooth's Slum Village/Jay Dee Mix

Playlist for May 24th 2007

Redman - Time 4 Sum Aksion
Big Shug - It Just Don't Stop
Talk talk
KRS ONE & Marley Marl - The Victory
Blaq Poet - Nigga, Bitch, Ho
Tek - Death is Forever
Sean P & C.O.D. - Let's Ride
Jazzy Jeff - Let Me Hear You Clap
Talk Talk & FAMN interview (mtl)
FAMN - Things Done Changed
Jurassic 5 - Hood In The USA
Common - The Game
Evidence & Parrish Smith - Mr. Slow Flow (remix)
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Ghostface Killah - The Champ
Little Vic - The Exorcist
Split Second - Free HipHop Now
Doompassage & Ill Bill - doompassage
Strong Arm Steady - Movement

We had FAMN roll through the studio; http://www.myspace.com/mdotodot

Be sure to check them out May 26th '07 at Les Minots 3812 St.Laurent, Montreal.
Video shoot, live performance, free crap, and our peoples Psynlangwage will be there too.
PSYN UP!!!

Playlist for May 17 '07

Ain't No Future in Frontin' - MC Breed
Click - SkyZoo
Talk talk
Gimme One - Red Man
I Was There - KRS One & Marley Marl
Hard as a rock - Joell Ortiz
Talk Talk
Saturday - Ludacris
The Game - Common
Back Home - Blue Scholars
New York, New York - Method Man
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Bottom Top - Lupe Fiasco
Stories From Hell - Ransom
Break Your Face - Psynlangwage(mtl)
Just A Child - Narcissist(mtl)
Breakfast - Malicious(mtl)
Growning Pains - DJ Manifest/Offsides/D Shade(mtl)
Voodoo Children - FBI (K-Town/mtl)











http://peopleagainstcensorship.org/

You're screwed, I'm screwed, she's screwed, he's screwed, we're screwed

Radio is not meant to be used as entertainment anymore. First Imus gets fired for saying "nappy headed hos", then 2 NYC jocks get fired for a prank phone call to a Chinese restaurant, then Opie & Anthony are suspended for 30 days(still under threat of being fired) because a homeless guy alluded to having violent sex with Condoleezza Rice, Laura Bush and Queen Elizabeth on an XM satellite radio channel that is branded 'XL' for 'explicit language' and you have the option of blocking that channel. Why is it OK for movies and TV to make jokes but radio has to be a serious medium? Why is it that a paid TV service, such as HBO or Showtime can air things that a paid radio service can't? If you hear any of these recent incidents out of context it's easy to jump to conclusions, but the Imus and O&A incidents were unscripted things that happened... things happen.

Link; Comedian Patrice O'Neal(regular guest on O&A) on Fox News(listen to the crew laugh;

Link; Story on CNN about PC special interests groups taking over your freedom to be entertained

Now given, all these jokes are not always funny, the hosts realize this but it is not against the law to offend somebody or bomb on a joke.

Further reading on JV & Elvis' career ending joke;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070515/ennew_afp/usmediaasiaracism_070515035242

More on O&A's current suspension;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_en_ot/shock_jocks_sex_comment;_ylt=AvNkM47upgnPrDrNhfDkBR1xFb8C


By the way, Imus was fired in the middle of a yearly telethon he does for sick children and he has a ranch for terminally ill children and kids with cancer, which will both be affected by a couple of words. But Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson continue to be 'black leaders'.. who voted these guys as leaders?
There was recently a rape case of a black woman accusing 3 white Duke students of rape, it continued for a year during which time Jesse Jackson said that no matter how it turned out, he'd pay for the stripper/accuser to get a university degree, well, the case just closed and it turned out she was lying.

And as for Al Sharpton, just research Tawana Brawley and you'll see what a piece of crap that guy is.

Video Time

D-Shade - More To Say

D-Shade clip "More to Say" ICM records

...featuring an angry white guy.

Playlist for May10 '07

Rappin' ain't no Thing - Boogie Boys
Giving Up - Red 1 (cancon)
talk talk
It Just Don't Stop - Big Shug
The Exorcist - Lil' Vic
Brooklyn Bullshit - Joell Ortiz
Brooklyn Remix - Joell Ortiz
talk talk
Luchini - Camp Lo
Mack 10 Handles - Prodigy
How You Like That - Redman
Hip-Hop Retrospective - Wordssmith & Jaz O
Under the Hook - Specifics (MTL)
Rapp Hour Half Hour Freestyle Hour
Uncle Sam Goddamn - Brother Ali
Live Hard, Die Harder - Showbiz n AG
The Paper - Skyzoo
Squeeze Your Ratchet - Termonoloy
The Hardest - Styles P & AZ
Feel the Bass - Sa-Ra
She Was So Fly - Jazzy Jeff & Kardinal Offishal(cancon)
Memory Lane 07' - Doo Wop

Playlist for last week; M.I.A.

It's votin' time

So the Montreal Mirror's "Best of Montreal" is coming up, show your support and vote for 'Off The Hook radio' for 'Best local radio show', also throw Budda Blaze and or Revolution for 'best local radio host' and 'best club DJ'. Also vote CKUT as 'best radio station' and of course you gots to put Under Pressure for 'Best Festival' .

http://www.hdot.net/BOM/bom_ballot.html

Off The Hook, LIVE and in the flesh!!!!!

What're you doing? You'd better be coming out on Wednesday April 25th, Off the Hook radio will be broadcasting live from Club Lambi, 4465 St-Laurent Blvd (corner Mont Royal), we're going to have live performances by Narcycist and Cracked Lips. We'll be on at our regular air time of midnight to 2am. We'll be giving away 2 tickets to the upcoming El-P show that is happening in Montreal on May 2, we'll also have various CDs and Under Pressure magazines to give away. Come by, you know you wanna!

2007 STYLUS DJ AWARDS

The Stylus DJ Awards are here, the public cab vote until April 23rd;

After a successful kick-off year, the Stylus Group returns with the 2007 Stylus DJ Awards. Once again, Stylus will unify DJs from across the country, awarding their achievements and celebrating their craft.

Canada's top urban DJs are some of the world’s most respected and recognized talents in the entertainment industry. These DJs are more than conveyers of music; they are tastemakers and trendsetters to thousands nationwide. They influence what people listen to, how people dress, and what people buy. They break new music and can influence the success of a new artist, fad, and even the latest technology. Their love of music is the lifeblood of this country’s thriving musical entertainment industry and vast club scene.

On June 4th, the most influential players in urban lifestyle will come together again for an evening of recognition and celebration of Canadian DJs and the Canadian Urban Music Industry. This annual event continues to increase public awareness of the dynamic urban music scene in Canada and sheds light on the significant contributions DJs have on pop culture.

So head over to http://www.stylusgroup.ca/home.php and vote... p.s., your mizzan Budda Blaze is in the running, so throw him a bone and vote for him. Malicious is also in there for single of the year, show your favorites some love.

Playlist for April 19 2007

Hashim - Al Nafayish
Jazzy Jeff / Big Daddy Kane - The Garden
talk talk
Terminology - I Did It
Planet Asia - Havin' Thangs
The Lox - We're Back
Brooklyn Academy - Work
Joell Ortiz - Block Royal
Grand Daddy I.U - Veteran
Shine - Bad Boy
Joell Ortiz - Modern Day Slavery
Royce 5'9 - Hit'em
J - Bru / Eternia - How r We Doin?
Rapp Hour Half Hour Hour
Northern Lights(mtl) / Brooklyn Ac - DWI
Hochii - That Sound
Prince Ali - I Miss 1994
Jazzy Jeff - Whatever You Want
Tango & Cash - Hip-Hop Ain't Dead
Royce 5'9 / Terminology - Whatcha Call That
Kanye West , Nas , Rakim - Classic remix