Paving The Way To Paid Dues 2012 - Self Scientific [Music Video + Tickets On-Sale]

Self Scientific: Bandcamp.

Chace Infinite: Official. Twitter. DJ Khalil: Official. Twitter.

Salute, Salutary, Salutations, Welcome to the 6th Edition of our series; Paving The Way to Paid Dues. For this edition we highlight artists who are the testament that, Good Things are Always Worth the Wait. The DJ and MCee Duo of Self Scientific have been grinding in the game since the 90's and to this day still persevere to be one of the hallmarks of underground hip hop heads everywhere. As stated in my previous posts, music, hip hop will forever be an evolutionary thing, where it will change and move with the time however Self-Scientific has always produced work from the Glory Days of progressive hip hop. I don't mean hip hop joints that have electro or house infused into them, I'm talking about the grimey, gritty, passion filled hip hop that was birthed in the late 80's early 90's and fought it's way to come up. Unlike most DJ and MCee duo's, both DJ Khlil and Chace Infinite have equal and even representation on their work, both entities combine to make music that both hits hard lyrically and musically, a delicate balance that many DJ's and MCee's have yet to master. Throughout the years Self Scientific has successfully fought against the mainstream, and have continued to make music for the people and not for the simple pursuit of the almighty dollar. Even in the work they have produced previously Infinite has always mentioned the dissolution of Hip Hop culture through monetary gain.

Paving The Way To Paid Dues 2012 - TiRon & Ayomari [Artist Feature + Tickets On Sale]

TiRon & Ayomari: Bandcamp. Facebook. Last.FM
TiRon: Twitter. Ayomari: Twitter. Tumblr.

Welcome to yet another addition to Paving the Way to Paid Dues, for our fourth edition we feature the hip hop duo TiRon & Ayomari. Both gentlemen are impressive independent artists in their own right however when you put two great minds together you get this impeccable duo. Hailing from the streets of Los Angeles, California Crenshaw and Slauson to be exact, these two are not to be slept on. Their collaboration began when Ayomari was featured on TiRon's first mixtape "Ketchup" in early 2009 and three years later this collaboration of musicianship, skill, and talent is set to hit the stage at this years Paid Dues Hip Hop Festival.

Paving The Way to Paid Dues 2012 - K.Flay [Music Video + Tickets On-Sale]

K.Flay Official. Twitter. Facebook. YouTube.

Greetings from The BAY AREA! In honor of my spring break spent up here I'd like to welcome you all to our 5th edition of Paving the Way to Paid Dues. For this edition of Paving the Way to Paid Dues we're going to switch it up a bit, we feature our first young woman in our series stationed in the Bay Area, Ms. Kristine Flaherty, more popularly known as K.Flay. You may have heard esoteric voice floating around on youtube or even on stage with some of the most iconic artists of the Hip Hop game such as Ludacris and Snoop Dogg. A one man act K.Flay has written and produced her own work as well as rap and play her guitar. An Illinois native and the proud owner of a double degree from Stanford University in California, no one including herself, anticipated her to fall into music. It was sort of a whim, what started off as her just writing lyrics for a friend down the hall has acclimated into a melding of music that speaks to her unique experience. Some may argue that she is strictly indie dipping into hip hop, or just an electric artist riding the trend wave, but her journey and music is not to be misconstrued as a passing phase. During her years in the Bay Area she became enthralled with Bay Area rap artist E-40 and dabbled around throwing versus out amongst friends, but it was in that exact creative outlet that K.Flay was able to infuse her musical influences of funk, soul, indie, electric and of course her new found fascination with the distinct hip hop sound of the Bay Area, and create eclectic music.