An Introduction to Chief69’s Way of the Bboy
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness Photos by Francisco Reyes / Mamboso.net The Bboy/Bgirl (Break/Bronx -boy/girl) is the pulse and heartbeat of Hip Hop as a viable and The post...
View ArticleBrother Ali on ‘The Hip Hop Battle: Cultural Catalyst vs. Colonial...
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness This is for the Hip Hop scholars out there. I came across this speech from the Chicago Ideas week and got sucked The post Brother Ali on ‘The...
View ArticleProminence to Producers: K-Def
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness An introduction I asked myself the question: There are so many dope producers on this earth, what is THE man people probably The post...
View ArticleThe Flip Side of BETs Banned Artist List: A Fine List to Get Your Hip Hop...
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness The post The Flip Side of BETs Banned Artist List: A Fine List to Get Your Hip Hop Music Collection Going, written by Nadia Piet and published...
View ArticleGathering Hiphop’s Hidden Gems #2
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness Welcome to the second installment of this ongoing musical excavation, in which I will present you some fine gems that I gathered The post...
View ArticleInside the Indie Label – Interview with Essenchill
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness In Inside the Indie Label we introduce a couple of really good, but lesser known in the world, record labels. Split into The post Inside the...
View ArticleKanye’s ‘New Testament’ Surprisingly Speaks Some Sense
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness I just caught myself rejecting this ‘New Testament’ project from the moment I heard about it; expecting a self-praising and ego-infused...
View ArticleProminence to Producers: All About Godfather Don
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness You got great producers, and you got superb producers, that can rap the hell out of any beat. Godfather Don was one The post Prominence to...
View ArticleDr. Becket Interview [Back2DaSource Records]
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness As a new collaboration project for TheTika, we decided to link up with Belgium based label Back2DaSource Records; a newly birthed record label...
View ArticleDefending the Sample: A Testimony of World Creators
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness “History repeats, so I loop beats” Even though I prefer the saying ‘History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes’, Thes One’s line has The post...
View ArticleInterview + Stream: Audible Doctor (Brown Bag AllStars) Talks New EP, Future...
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness DS: Before we begin I just want to say it’s always nice catching up with the Audible Doctor. Thank you for setting The post Interview + Stream:...
View ArticleHip Hop’s Hidden Gems #3
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness It’s that Hidden Gems time again, you dig? Time to dig deeper in the enormous tunnels of quality hiphop! In this episode The post Hip Hop’s...
View ArticleThe Artist is the Message? I: ‘Artmist’
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness Low and behold. It is I, the follower of Bokonon, the humble loopdigger who only leaves his existential crisis for a gram The post The Artist...
View ArticleNo Bone Tyrone – An Account from an OG Popper
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness If you call yourself a popper but you don’t know who this man is, it’s back to school time for you. Although The post No Bone Tyrone – An...
View ArticleJazz Addixx Interview [Back2DaSource Records]
The Tika | The Tika - Hip Hop Culture & Consciousness In a World where Hip Hop is usually looked down upon because of Rap musics image & misinterpretations shown in the media The post Jazz...
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