Fillmore San Francisco hip-hop crew Bored Stiff  who came on the Bay Area scene in the early nineties but who had been out of action for some years return with this new video with lots of shots of SF and a song that addresses the issue of media. What has always made this Frisco crew unique is that they always blurred the line between so-called "rap" and "hip-hop" - meaning that they are street/gangsta but simultaneously distinctly  hip-hop in that they love all the elements such as graffiti - just the way it should be. Look for Bored Stiff's releases including their new one From The Ground Up -as well ones by individual members (inc. Equipto) at Amoeba Music. 

Meantime below check out Fillmore, SF rappers JT the Bigga Figga and Rappin 4-Tay along with Master P, Dangerous Dame, Ray Luv, Lil Ric, King George and the rest of the West Coast Bad Boyz mob in  a video shot in Richmond, CA for the posse single "Peace 2 Da Streets" from the compilation album "West Coast Bad Boyz: Anotha Level of the Game" (No Limit 1994).

New Orleans emcee Mia X is from the old school and has been making hip-hop for twenty plus years. She is probably best known by most rap fans for the period she was signed to and associated with Master P's No Limit label but her rich rap history goes back long before that.  However to go online and do a search under the artist's early rap years will  inevitably yield inaccurate results - whether searching on the  AOL.music,  All Music Guide, Yahoo, VH1 websites or on the Wikipedia bio on her which erroneously states "Although born in New Orleans, Mia began her rapping career in Queens, New York as part of New York Incorporated, which disbanded after only four years. She then returned to New Orleans and met with Master P, an aspiring rapper and producer who signed her to his record label, No Limit.".   "That's not correct and I am tired of people telling me that I used to live in New York and started my career there," Mia X said by phone recently noting that she never lived in New York - always in New Orleans. So how did this misinformation get out there in the first place?  "I think it was someone at VH1 who first got it wrong in a story about me," Mia X said. It turns out it was John Bush - writer for All Music Guide who got it wrong but then all the other websites listed above (Yahoo, AOL, VH1) plus many others, including whoever entered the artist's Wikipedia information, all copied the erroneous bio.  The original mistake came about apparently based on the fact that one of the members (Denny D) of New York Inc. was from New York - but he lived in New Orleans before returning to New York - according to Mia X.   So for the record here is the updated, accurate bio on Mia X c/o the AMOEBLOG.: