Creative Loafing Co-Hosts Listening/Release Party

Creative Loafing Co-Hosts Listening/Release Party

We are excited that our favorite local news paper is Co-Hosting the Release Party and Listening Session. When SMKA dropped The 808 Experiment Vol. 1 nearly a year ago, it gave a pulse to Atlanta’s undefined and unrefined slice of the underground. Stuck halfway between the hipsters and the hood, the range covered was due [...]

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The 808 Experiment: Vol 1 [Blac Waldo Remix]

The 808 Experiment: Vol 1 [Blac Waldo Remix]

The 808 Experiment: Vol 1 [Blac Waldo Remix] dropped while the site was down… SO PEEP IT NOW!!! BY A DJ FOR A DJ Blac Waldo took 10 tracks of Vol 1 and put an electo twist on it…So far the project has been VERY VERY well received. The project is presented by Nomad MGMT, [...]

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Shaka interview with Creative Loafing // The End of Supreeme

IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING THE SUPREEME break-up…HERE IS THE LATEST from CREATIVE LOAFING. Big ups to Rodney Carmichael. But if they somehow led to the recent demise of Atlanta rap trio Supreeme, as de facto leader/producer/MC Shaka Girvan (aka Dope Pope, aka Tom Cruz) suggested in our phone interview a week and a half ago, [...]

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Creative Loafing Article “The End of Supreeme”

This is the piece Rodney Carmichael just wrote up for Creative Loafing…PEEP it. Supreeme is no more. “I had an epic phone interview today with Shaka Girvan (aka Dope Pope aka Tom Cruz) of Supreeme. Wish I could just post the audio flat-out because not even a full transcription is going to do it justice, [...]

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Music Monday // “So What” in Creative Loafing

Our latest track leaked this past Friday on 2dopeboyz.com. “So What” features Atlanta greats Hollyweerd and A.leon Craft. The track will be on The 808 Experiment: Vol 2 and you can expect to get that in full in January. Those weerdos are at it again. Apparently this is what you get when you combine two [...]

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Liftoff with Brittany Bosco: Follow Bosco on her European Tour

I remember my last European Tour. I spent a month in Spain, France and Italy with one of my best friends, Master Sato, after graduating from USC (the real USC, in LA). I fell in love…twice! One of them didn’t speak English. The other one told me “out of everyone here…I like you the best,” [...]

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“Atlanta production team readies The 808 Experiment: Vol. 2″ // New Creative Loafing Article

“SMKA travels at the speed of sound” A new Creative Loafing article on SMKA on stands now throughout Atlanta. photo by Dustin Chambers A lot can happen in a year. Just ask production duo SMKA. That’s just about how long it’s taken for them to bogart Atlanta’s other-ground rap scene. And they’ve got the schedule [...]

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(CREATIVE LOAFING) Best Local Mixtape 2009: The 808 Experiment: Vol. 1

THANK YOU to everyone who voted The 808 Experiment: Vol 1 the best local mixtape of 2009. And to the critics who also voted the mixtape, the best local mixtape of 2009… that’s right, SMKA won both reader’s and critics vote. READ FULL ARTICLE HERE Critics Pick Best local mixtape: The 808 Experiment: Vol. 1 [...]

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Creative Loafing – “Best Local Mixtape of 2009″

Creative Loafing – “Best Local Mixtape of 2009″

Critics Pick Best local mixtape: The 808 Experiment: vol. 1 Who knew that when SMKA Productions released its debut mixtape, THE 808 EXPERIMENT: VOL. 1, in December ’08 that it would mark the first wave of the crew’s aural assault on Atlanta. Maybe their moniker, Super Market Knife Attack, should’ve been a dead giveaway. Executive-produced [...]

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SMKA X Dope Couture X Illroots X CL = SMKA’s Dope Give Away

CONTEST ENDS OCT 1st!!!…only a couple more weeks to get your submissions in!! “If you noticed this t-shirt is from the recent Drake & Trey Songz video its from our friends Dope Couture. If your song is chosen to be on SMKA’s The 808 Experiment Vol. 2 then Dope Couture will lace you up with [...]

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A3C Festival – Interview w/ Creative Loafing

Here is an interview with Brian Knott (Founder of A3C Festival) from Creative Loafing. SMKA and Comeupkids.com is hosting “A3C’s Perfect Attendance”…A 3 Nights Stage presented by The Smoking Section and a gang of other sponsors @ the 5 Spot. What to Expect: We will be featuring the best up-and-coming artists from around the US. [...]

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4 More days to VOTE for (The 808 Experiment: Vol 1) Best Local Mixtape

Every year Creative Loafing has a “Best of..” for everything from “Best Cougar Den” to “Best Violist”… Though we don’t anticipate to win either of those categories, we would like to win the BEST LOCAL MIXTAPE category. Which is confusingly placed under the AFTER DARK section. If you have already voted, then VOTE AGAIN. If [...]

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SMKA’s DOPE GIVE AWAY

So here is the deal…We get hit up a lot by ppl trying to get on VOl 2 and “Back in My Younger Days”… so we did the math, hooked up with DOPE Couture decided to do a contest… THE BEST SONG gets on VOL 2 and wins a free hat and shirt from DOPE [...]

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Mixt A: An Atlanta Compilation Vol. 1

Mixt A: An Atlanta Compilation Vol. 1

SMKA Produced Track 4 & 22: Track 4) A. Leon Craft – “Spaced Out” Track 22) Supreeme – “I’m On Fire” Creative Loafing & Criminal Records Presents Mixt A: An Atlanta Compilation Vol. 1 DOWNLOAD HERE (Limited Edition Vinyl Records) MIXTAPE TRACK LIST 1. Predator – “You” 2. Grip Plyaz – “Fuck Dat Hipster Shit” [...]

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