I used to break-dance when I was in second, third grade, plus my uncles were all deejays, so I was familiar with groups like Newcleus and music like that. I’m in my mid-thirties so I remember hearing the Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” on the radio when I was a kid. What are your earliest recollections of Hip-Hop? Here, JW Hype discusses his reasons for wanting to pay homage to late-80s Hip-Hop, favourite rap videos and his thoughts on the music of today. Drawing heavily on his golden-era influences, the Chi-town producer-on-the-mic’s two recent EPs, 2012’s “Return Of The Hype Era” and 2013’s “Back 2 Work”, found JW flawlessly recreating the funky, uptempo feel of the classic records so many of us were doing the Running-Man or the Kick-Step to in 1989.Īlso available as a limited edition vinyl release on the Chopped Herring imprint, Hype’s two free downloadable EPs instantly take the listener back in time, with the rapper’s slick flow, quick wit and dope beats sounding authentic enough to make the uninitiated wonder if they’ve stumbled across a demo-tape from the First Priority vaults upon first listen. & Rakim and EPMD.įast-forward some twenty-five years later and Hype has gained himself something of a cult online following with his own brand of back-to-the-future throwback rap. Mesmerised as a youngster in the 80s by the seemingly endless flow of new styles and sounds pouring out of the then equally young culture of Hip-Hop, JW spent just as much time studying beats and rhymes as he did studying his school-books, immersing himself, like so many others of his generation, in music from the likes of Big Daddy Kane, Eric B. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.If you miss the days of high-top fades, James Brown loops, fat gold chains and matching sweatsuit / sneaker outfits, then Chicago’s JW Hype might just be the artist for you. If only the bathroom walls of Leo’s former pad could talk. Other board members include Bob Roth, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, politician Dick Gephardt, former secretary of the US Department of Veteran Affairs David Shulkin, SR Capital’s Scott Resnick and golfer Greg Norman. The kitchen is teched out for the veganist of vegans. (Delos developed the building.) Spirit guru Deepak Chopra also bought a unit and joined the board. Brown Harris StevensĭiCaprio was so into it that he even joined the board of Delos Living, a nonprofit promoting wellness in real estate. From a seller’s perspective, the home-turned-wellness nirvana is anything but healthy. If you’re wondering, they’re everything from vitamin C-infused showers to purified air and water, herbariums in the open chefs’ kitchens, posture-supportive floors, bio-based sound insulation, in-duct aromatherapy and “dawn simulation” from “proprietary” circadian lighting. 11th St., the Green Delos Building, which was once marketed as the city’s original “health and wellness” luxury condo, with more than 50 built-in wellness amenities. The three-bedroom, 2½-bathroom pad is 3,663 square feet. It once asked $50 million but last sold for $14 million.) (If that sounds bad, just think about the penthouse triplex. It’s now asking $7.5 million - far less than the $10 million DiCaprio paid for the sleek pad back in 2014. Leonardo DiCaprio’s former West Village bachelor pad just got another price chop. Warning: these prices might make you sick. Joe Pesci’s NJ home which he sold for $5M was demolished - 2 homes are taking its placeĭoes wellness hype sell New York City apartments? Apparently not. Jet exec Alireza Ittihadieh flips Fifth Ave. Johnny Depp’s $10M homes returned to him after facing foreclosure ‘Shark Tank’ star shows off $1M mobile home: ‘It’s my Taj Mahal’
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