Check out the real deal Rico Pabon live in the flesh. Friday, March 23rd 9:30 PM @ La Pena Cultural Ctr. 3105 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley.

Whatup! I gotta give a shout to Hard Knock Records and Rico Pabon…Doin his thing for a while now, the buzz is finally starting to pick up. This is real hip hop, from the Bay…not hyphy, not necessarily conscious rap, it’s tough to pigeonhole him.

He’s got a release party THIS FRIDAY @ La Pena Cultural Ctr - 3105 Shattuck Ave in Berkeley! Try to make it out…and cop the free track here!

Download “I Am Resistance” (mp3)
from “Louder Than Fiction”
by Rico Pabón
Hard Knock Records

• Buy at iTunes Music Store
• Buy at Napster
• Buy at GroupieTunes

Go dumb and mack on jailbait (the best thing about it: I keep getting older and they stay the same age. Oh yeah).

Thizz DJ’s and whatnot gettin hyphy in Santa Rosa. And it’s St. Patty’s Day.

At the Oddfellows Hall.

The Clipse, who followed up a solid first album with their second boring-ass crack rock-themed critically acclaimed joint, play at the Mezz Wednesday, March 14.

Also on the bill: Random Baltimore Nu grime hollertronix club scene cats.

This site seems to be up and running…cool.

Welcome to animalhiphop.com - home of yours truly, DJ Animal, bay area hip hop DJ, fan, etc. etc. I plan to use this space for all good hip hop, with a bay-centric focus. I also wanna try to get all the hip hop events in the Bay on one page, so please Email me with any events that you got goin on.

Big ups to Samira for her patience with my extremely basic internet skills. Definitely get at her if you want to put a website together.