Sole Of The City Productions Presents 'The New Grind' (teaser) Starring Darren Harper, Directed by Mark D. Shelton

The New Grind Teaser from mrmarkshelton on Vimeo.

The music in this teaser is great, LOL (I'm biased because I'm from Uptown Philly like the rapper Cassidy plus the film is about a DC skater, and I've spent the majority of the past eight years in DC @ Howard U). Editor Sean Cullen is a PROBLEM, as we like to say in Philly; his cuts are on point like DJ TouchTone. Darren Harper's story is an intriguing one and the RFM fam can't wait for the full length film coming soon!

Nneka Sound Checka!!

Show the Nigerian/German singer/lyricist some love and lend an ear to her soundcheck via WNYC.org . Mike TV is all about imagery; when he laid eyes on the light brown Nneka, boxing gloved hands on hips, giving the camera a playfully fierce Ali-mug, he knew there was something strong and creative behind it. Feel free to harken back to our initial Nneka post for proof.



Below is the cover image for Nneka's debut album 'Concrete Jungle,' which is in stores now via Decon Records.

P!!

Sean Price is one of the emphatically sick rappers we have - in a hyperbolic yet literal kind of way; here are a few recently released videos from 'P!' including "Red Light Boogie" featuring a Puerto Rican dude from Amsterdam whose name I think is HeatRock (or Boogie). The red lighting used throughout the video is complimented by spliced in movie footage and Tarantino style graphics and texts.



"Figure Four" is classic mixtape video material that merges a street stage with theater style lighting during Sean P's soapbox rap scenes; only those making that "grown man rap" can be filmed doing their best air mistro renditions on an empty field while rapping "where was I? Oh yes, Shawn Carter is nice but Sean Price is the best," LOL. The director mixes in home video style footage of 'P!' rapping on the corner too! This is a hot video!