MC FRICTION Nominated For 2009 "Artist 2 Watch"

URBAN THRESHOLD ENTERPRISES INC.
PRESENTS
THE 7TH ANNUAL UNDERGROUND MUSIC AWARDS

(WE HONOR LEGENDS AND FUTURE STARS)

Direct 2009 "Artist To Watch" link to vote http://www.hiphoppalace.com/pages.cfm?ID=799&CFID=1090171&CFTOKEN=93056127

FINAL VOTING PHASE
The winners of the Underground Music Awards are determined via Online voting by the general public. A music clip and the name of each nominee within the individual categories will be placed on Urban Buzz Factor.com. On July 6th, 2009, the public will be able to vote for the winners of each category via online voting on Urban Buzz Factor.com. The voting process ends on August 6th 2009. The nominee who receives the most online votes will win for the category he/she is competing in.


(WE HONOR LEGENDS AND FUTURE STARS
NOMINEES FOR THE 2009 UNDERGROUND MUSIC AWARDS)
The UMA Male Artist of the Year

Drake
Talib Kweli
Asher Roth
Kid Cudi
Wale

The UMA Female Artist of the Year

Lil Momma
Jean Grae
Tiye Phoenix
Empire Isis
Nicki Minaj

Most Dynamic Rap Group or Duo

Slaughter House
Camp Lo
Dead Prez
Smif N Wesson
Tanya Morgan
Hueston Independent Spit District

Most Dynamic Solo Artist

Tech N9NE
Mickey Factz
Devin the Dude
Royce Da 5'9
Wiz Khalifa
Curren$y

West Coast Artist of the Year

Damani
Nipsey Hussle
Mistah Fab
Jay Rock
Crooked I

Indie Album of the Year

Alchemist - "Chemical Warfare"
Torae & Marco Polo - "Double Barrel"
Donny Goines - "The Breakfast Club"
Dead Prez & DJ Green Lantern - "Pulse of the People"
Grand Puba - "Retroactive"
Blaq Poet - "The Blaqprint"


Most Exciting Artist of the Year

Murs
Sean Price
Charles Hamilton
Immortal Technique
Black Milk
Ryhmefest

Producer of the Year

Statik Selektah
9th Wonder
Jake One
Hi-Tek
The BeatBanggahz
Illmind

Best Lyricist

Corey Gunz
Joel Ortiz
Pack FM
Pharoah Monch

Outstanding Dancehall Artist

Movado
Serani
Vybz Kartel

Outstanding Artist of the Year

Relik
Emilio Rojas
Termanology
Ruste Jux
Sic Osyrus
Skyzoo

Buzz Factor

Rain
Sinsay
Jon Famous
clap cognac
Ru1


The Underground's #1 Contender

Esso
Sinsay
Sho Zoe
Nickal Fieldz
Sav Kills
Kieth Gamble


Best Radio Show

Fusebox Radio
Hate Money Radio
The Roundtable
Build Sessions
The Ready Cee Show




The UMA Song of the Year

Trillogy - "The Future"
Kid Russell - "Dear Shooter"
Dex - 'Prophecy"
No Gimmick - "Time"


Best Male Rapper

Lexx 9 Eleven
Mike Millz
Sinsay
Mr. Harvey
John Sportin
JY

Best Female Rapper

Quintesence
Nina B
Kitana Blade
Queen Jez
Phya
Re Double D


Best Rap Group

Trillogy
Ride Out
Da Underdoggs
Money First
Wyld Stylaz

Best Rap Duo

Rebel Star
BlackSteelz
Family Comes First
Physha P
Kounty Boyz

Most Original Male Artist

City Scholar
No Mercy
Chris Smalls
Magg-1
Papa Doc
J-Didda
Choc Nitty

Best Underground Movement

Specialyst Entertainment
S.N.R.C. Entertainment
Real Music Global
Ru1 Records
Fammly Inc

Best MidWest Artist

Mr. 44
James "Slick" Watts
Torrio Jetson
A.G.
Redwell

(Best Emerging Producer) Award

BeatKnocka Productions
Geeked Out Productions
Sev Da Producer
Allstar Productions
DJ Pain 1

Best R&B Female

Trish
Jae Camillo
L'ren C
Nightingale
Shalea

Best R&B Male

Nathaniel
Ivan Brooks
MikeLyrik
Omar Wilson
Deon

Best Female R&B Group

Simplicity
Main Girl
Tre' zhur
Minxx

Best Male R&B Group

I15
Ju-Tuan
5ive L
Jackie Boyz

Artist to Watch

S.H.A.H CYPHA
Frank Ramz
City Scholar
MC Friction
Moss
Hunned Proof
Welches

Most Promising Male Rapper

Abel Remy
Rush Major
Al Boogs
Legit
Darq
KY

Best Live Performance

Mad Man
Simplicity
Black Steelz
MikeLyrik
Diogenes

Most original Group or Duo

NAN
Ashy Elbows
4 Wheel City
Cappitall Hill
Corner Boyz

Best Southern Rapper

Dirty Den
Sho Zoe
SparkDawg
Abel Remy

Best Underground Mixtape/Street Album

Mr. Focus - "Man From Mars" hosted by DJ Noodles
Abel Remy - "Stimulus Check 2" hosted by DJ Vlad &
Sha Stimuli & DJ Victorious - March On Washington (Mixtape)
Emilio Rojas - "Recession Proof" hosted by Legend & DJ Noodles
Hop - "Fight For NY" (Street Album)


Best Reggae/Dance Hall Artist

Black Sheep
Michael Sparkey Drakes
Shepard

The Pole Position(Mixtape) Trilogy

With The Blue Pill Project(Mixtape)Droppin' in July & My Debut Album "Fact or Friction" Slated for Sept. 9th 2009 ...There no better time then now to catch up on The Facts!!!

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Rewind : Friction & The A-Alikes @ Brooklyn College Radio 8-23-08

http://returntotheboomboxradio.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-09-12T20_22_03-07_00


September 12, 2008 07:41 PM PDT

Return To The BoomBox Radio Podcast 8/23/08 - Friction & A-Alikes Bring The Revolution To A Speaker Near You

Today's show brought together several artists from different locations with similar goals in mind: counteract the negative messages against oppressed minorities and feed people the truth of society's ills through music. Many topics were hit upon as emcees Friction, Ness & K and DJ Scan Elohem all sat together with each other for the first time and exchanged thoughts and facts. This first half focuses more on their music and how they view the Hip Hop genre currently, and there is a lot of food for thought here. The BoomBox crew also provided various tunes aside from the artist's music, as shown by the incomplete play list below:

Paris - Outta My Life
Ice Cube - Amerikkka's Most Wanted
Souls Of Mischief - Never No More
Hieroglyphics - You Never Knew
Medinah Starr - Hold Me Down
Maya Azucena feat Hasan Salam, Immortal Technique & Ness of A-Alikes - Rebel
Friction - Give It Up
Friction - Better Man

The 3rd Annual Rapathon

3rd Annual Rapathon
Get your energy drinks, sleeping bags, and hottest rhymes ready, the 3rd Annual Rapathon is finally here. With an extended 2 hours, H2C2 takes the art of an emcee to an all new high. A 26 hour non-stop cipher without profanity featuring 100 rappers may sound impossible, but we're here to prove it can be done. Over the past 3 years we've managed to gather a collective group of emcees with amazing freestyle/lyrical skills. Artists from the Tri-state area, Cuba, Sweden, and Lithuania have accompanied H2C2 in this incredible feat.

H2C2 is a facility that conducts Hip Hop centric education youth programs, sneaker battles, artist showcases & expos, art exhibitions, and corporate special events. Our most significant event of the year, the record-breaking Rapathon, has proven to be a great outlet for unsigned and upcoming artists to spread their message. Members of the Rapathon Alumni have performed at Summer Jam, been signed to major record labels, and have had a video directed and produced by Ralph McDaniels. The 3rd Annual Rapathon will include a new special attraction called the "The Real", a one hour segment dedicated to raising awareness of HIV/AIDS. There will also be pamphlets distributed during this segment to educate the audience of risks and prevention.

The Hip Hop experience begins Saturday, May 30th, 2009 at 6:00 pm and ends Sunday, May 31st, 2009 at 8:00 pm. The Rapathon is open to anyone with a love for Hip Hop and the ability to rhyme for 90 seconds straight without cursing. If you think you got what it takes, want to showcase your talent, or just want to be amongst your kind of folk', the Rapathon is the place to be. There will be no fee for emcees to participate, just space, opportunity, and cool prizes for the best performers. However, there will be a general admission fee for spectators. This year will be truly unique for H2C2 because the Guinness World Records is supporting us in our endeavors to document the 3rd Annual Rapathon as the "longest un-ending rap" category in history.

The Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem is located at 2309 Frederick Douglass Blvd., 2nd Floor of the Magic Johnson Theater in the heart of Harlem, along 125th Street shopping district. We are accessible by A, B, C, D, 2 and 3 trains.

The Pole Position Trilogy is now on I-Tunes !!!

I'll Be Rockin' New Jersey/NYC This Sunday May 17th Come out Show Support & Enjoy Yo Self !!!!

The Department of Homeland Security has sent out an alert to health care providers outlining how BATF, FBI, and U.S. Marshals will be called upon to impose mandatory quarantines in the event of a widespread swine flu outbreak in the U.S.According to the report, “DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. It says: “The Department of Justice has established legal federal authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has the authority to issue quarantines.”The memo states, “U.S. Customs and Coast Guard Officers assist in the enforcement of quarantine orders. Other DOJ law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Marshals, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may also enforce quarantines. Military personnel are not authorized to engage in enforcement.”However, a separate Defense Department planning document on dealing with pandemics states that the Pentagon will use the forces at its disposal to assist in “quarantining groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an influenza pandemic” and aid in “efforts to restore and maintain order.”As we reported yesterday, so-called “involuntary isolation” is already being enforced in certain areas of the United States. The state’s health director in North Carolina, Dr. Jeffrey Engel, said that authorities were already involuntarily isolating patients who may have the swine flu virus. He refused to divulge the location of where the victims were being quarantined.News reports such as this one from MSNBC are prevaricating around the contention that quarantines are a normal event that Americans should be comfortable with. In reality, there has only been one case of “involuntary quarantine” in the U.S. in the last 45 years.“In 2007, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta lawyer, was quarantined inside a hospital in Denver on suspicion of having extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. It turned out that the CDC was incorrect and Speaker had a milder form of the disease,” states the CBS report.The MSNBC report also falsely claims that quarantines will solely be handled on a state/local level, when in reality, Bush’s executive order 13375 outlines a federal response, and the DHS memo lists numerous federal authorities that will have powers of quarantine.In addition, the Bush administration’s National Strategy For Pandemic Influenza, released in November 2005, states that the federal government will impose “quarantines” and “limitations on gatherings”.With Time Magazine busy preparing Americans to accept enforced mass vaccination programs and telling them to “trust” the government and “forgive” them when the vaccines cause death and injuries, the prospect of mandatory quarantines will likely be the precursor for any such nationwide vaccination program. The vaccine to supposedly combat swine flu is being manufactured by Baxter International, who were caught red-handed last month attempting to release bird flu vaccines which were contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus itself.Swine flu has caused the death of one toddler in the U.S. and in fact only seven of the supposed 159 fatalities in Mexico have been confirmed as swine flu - meaning the other 152 could have been due to any number of infectious diseases that routinely kill Mexicans in the thousands on a yearly basis.The comparative threat of swine flu does not correlate with the feverish reaction of authorities, who in the initial stages of the outbreak refused to take any measures to contain it, such as closing the border with Mexico, but after the virus had already begun to spread, they were quick to prepare draconian control measures while hyping the inevitability of a pandemic.Meanwhile, the hysteria whipped up by the media has spread faster than the actual virus itself