featuring San Francisco’s own: DAVINCI
plus: TANYA MORGAN
…
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 330 RITCH, San Francisco
Doors at 9, drink specials until 11
Limited $8 presale tickets available at
“Thanks to two stellar mix-tape releases, Gibbs has become an underground sensation beloved by hip-hop fans and indie rockers alike. Even more impressive, he’s done so during a time when gangsta rap has mostly fallen out of favor.
Gibbs has yet to deliver an official full-length disc, but after years of false starts he’s finally delivered a knockout one-two punch, releasing a 21-track, mind-bogglingly good mix tape, “Str8 Killa No Filla,” and an official debut EP, “Str8 Killa,” containing most of the mix tape’s best tracks.”
Allison Stewart, Washington Post Blog // www.freddiegibbs.com
DAVINCI
Voted one of the best new rappers in the Bay Area by urban station 106.1 KMEL, and the subject of magazine features in places like URB, XLR8R, The Fader, & Ozone, the 27-year-old Fillmore District native John DeVore, aka DaVinci, has garnered wide praise for 2010 debut LP, “The Day The Turf Stood Still.”
Written by DeVore and produced mostly by Al Jieh & Ammbush, “The Day The Turf Stood Still”, released on Bay Area upstart label SWTBRDS, features DaVinci confronting changes in the district that made him and taking responsibility for himself. It posits systemic violence like gentrification, financial market fraud and globalization as the trickle down source of war over turf. His slow, precise, clear delivery requires multiple rewinds to catch the dense rhyme scheme and layered meanings. The childhood poet pairs his flow with the visceral kick of heavy drums and bass and evocative, classic R&B instrumentals that he grew up on.
-David Downs, The Bay Citizen // www.swtbrds.com/davinci
TANYAMORGAN
Von Pea, Donwill and IIyas, aka Tanya Morgan, have collaborated with hip-hop acts such as Nicolay, Fat Jon, 88 Keys and Drake. The group performed at Toronto’s NXNE Festival with Nouveau Riche, and the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival with Ghostface Killah, Large Professor, Consequence, and others. Tanya Morgan is also a regular at New York’s annual CMJ Festival.
Tanya Morgan was voted the winner of the “Show Us What You Got” Hip-Hop Artist Competition, held on October 25, 2007 at the Power Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. They were also featured in XXL’s “Chairman’s Choice” in September 2008, and named in XXLMag.com’s Top Ten Artists in July of the same year. 2008 also saw the release of their EP The Bridge. Most recently Tanya Morgan has recorded Brooklynati, an album and coinciding multi-media project released May 12, 2009 on Interdependent.
www.brooklynati.com
Viva La Hip Hop 
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