You Got Fact "Cowboy Hats"

Emperial Nation's "You Got Fact" of today:

Cowboy Hats:
The cowboy hat was first designed during the 1860's by a New Jersey man named John Batterson Stetson. Stetson saw a market for a broad-brimmed hat for ranch wear. He opened a shop in Philadelphia and began designing hats under the Stetson name in 1865. By 1906 Stetson employed approximately 3,500 workers, producing over two million hats a year

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Love Lockdown Remixes

This is one of the best Love LockDown Remixes I've heard on the net. Please listen and vote on this joint featuring Xavier Marquis.


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Hasan Salaam's New Video - 15 Minutes

Check out one of Encore Status's favorites, Hasan Salaam, in his new video "15 Minutes". What? You still sitting there? Take that mouse and click on the video NOW! Enjoy!

Outasight = Encore Status

By: The People Have Spoken!

Dear Hip Hop Nation, times have truly been tough. We are going through some of the worst economic times since the Great Depression, we have troops fighting a war of attrition in the Middle East, and on the music front, hip – hop music has been down right stale!! Well ladies and gentlemen, there is light at the end of the tunnel! That light goes by the name of Outasight!

The best way I can describe the music of Outasight is just straight fresh! Now I haven’t used the word fresh to describe anything non edible since 1988 but it’s an adjective that really describes Outasight. Outasight’s flow can best be described as a cross between Lupe Fiasco with a touch of Kanye! You take that mix and add a very unique and smooth singing voice and you have a possible future hip hop all star! Songs that are my personal faves are Employee of the Month, Fame or Fortune & Lights, Camera, Action. Did I forget to mention that the production on these tracks are incredibly tight! It’s going to be interesting to see how the mainstream music audience is going to react to this cat! He definitely has a real old school appeal! I hope that this cat signs to the right major and gets a creative A&R person to push him correctly. Too many good artists get screwed with unimaginative A&R’s trying to fit circles into squares! Please music industry, don’t f*#@k up this diamond in the rough!

-The People Have Spoken!

You Got Fact "Sultan's Harem"

Emperial Nation's "You Got Fact" of today:

Did you know??

Sultan's Harem:

The sultan's harem often contained several hundred women,, with different nationalities. Some were captured at wars, some volunteered to be at sultans harem for the purpose of living a luxurious life..

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WE WANT YOU!

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For the next few months, some of the featured artists on Encore Status will be picked to get a short interview on the philly based, WURD, 900AM- The Urban Round Table radio show w/Joe Idokogi. This show aires Fridays from 9-10pm. Sabrina Cuie will be interviewing indie or unsigned music artists during this show . From your submissions she'll be picking some of the most talented artists to holler at for a few minutes on the show. Some of her choices will also be interviewed and featured on our website. The interviews on EncoreStatus.com will be abotu 10-15 minutes long.

Please send the following to Reviews@encorestatus.com

* Short Bio
* LINKS to recent music (myspace, cdbaby, Reverbnation, last.fm, etc)
* Email/Cell contact


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Free Download: The Custodian of Records sampler

We love Jersey...Heres a sampler from The Custodian of Records

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Hailing from the muck that is Essex County, New Jerusalem (Home of Reggie Noble, Tame and El, Treach and Vinnie, LOTUG and The O.G Flavor Unit) comes The Custodian of Records. A self pro-claimed minimalist, once raised on the Radio, only began producing due to the mainstream of sewage and boring indie scene... Growing up on the four P's (Premier, Prince Paul and Extra P) among an almost endless list of other production greats, his journey begin when he was in the 7th grade and his folks bought him the rag tag Gemini start up kit (As seen in the back of The Source adds next to the gold teeth.) When he found out how "beats" were actually made, he booked time at a local studio and brought his own samples to the engineer to record into the Akai S950 and then dump into the classic SP-1200. Followed by that was a decent software program and weekly trips to local record spots (Yesterdays Books and Music!) and months later began hitting the pads on his trustee MPC 2000XL..

After years of self doubt, he started to step out with beat tapes and would even bring his sampler with him to Speak easy sounds open mics... Wasted money and a shitload of records and beats later, he feels his production is ready for the masses to hear and appreciate...

His production has featured reputable artists such as Pace Won, Thirston Howl III, Bully Mouth (of Mr Lens Dummy Smacks Ent), Reef The Lost Cauze, Doap Nixon (AOTP) and has recently been working with a numerous local Jersey mc's... one of which being Solzalez out of Newark, Brick City... The pair has had their tracks heard on such radio stations as "Coffee Break for Heroes and Villians" on WFMU with Noah Zark along with DJ Eclipse's legendary "Halftime Show" on NYU radio.

His current focus now is to push his first complete album "Burton Music" featuring a wide variety of skilled wordsmiths and of course, raw, straight-to-the-point beats! Slated for digital release in early 2009 via Domination Recordings, The Custodian promises to deliver (to put it bluntly) "that classic boom bap shit!"

Free Download: The Custodian of Records sampler MP3


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