We international, baby!

This one's for all our brethren north of the Equator, in the USA and Canada.

As of October, we now have both 'The Soul Movement Volume 2' and 'World Domi-NoTiOn' mixtapes available in selected cities in both Canada and the USA! The prices range from something like $5 to $10, depending on the store, but check the list below for your nearest spot:

ATLANTA
Soul of Sisa - 504 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, Georgia, USA



BERKELEY
B-Side Records - 2128 Dwight Way, Berkeley, California, USA



TORONTO
Da Corner - 256A Queen St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (in the Black Market complex)



So if you're in any of these cities and wanna get your hands on a rare hard copy of the new projects (we only pressed a small amount for the international trip), roll through and cop 'em now!

For the folks Down Under (and everywhere else), we'll be pressing up a gang of copies of both mixtapes asap (plus a launch show), so we'll keep y'all posted.

Notion on Wake Your Daughter Up!

If y'all haven't peeped it already, check out the Notion interview on the WYDU blog.

There's a link to download World Domi-NoTiOn mixtape as well.

Much love to the homie Trav for lookin' out for The Fam, once again. Make sure y'all check out the WYDU blog, definitely one of the tightest blogs on the web, straight up.

Black Friday...AHHHHHH!!!!

Today was Black Friday in the US. Black Friday occurs the day after Thanksgiving, when folks are trying to get a jump on Christmas shopping. This year I decided to hit the stores early. I came home empty handed.....never again will I wake up to join the crazies.

Jager bombs...

I dare say a fair few of y'all would have seen this already, seeing as it has damn near 20 million views.

Shouts to the homies Craig and Scott in Toronto for putting us onto this. Cracked me the hell up when I first saw it. Heads in Melbourne will definitely relate lol. If you're bored, check the 'Related Videos' part on the YouTube page coz there's like seriously at least 20 other spin offs of this one. Funniest ones are the biker one (TURKEY BOMBS!) and the Asian one (SAKE BOMBS!). Gold.

Movin' Up From Down Under - Loud.com blog

The Movement Fam done moved up in the world. Thanks to the homie J. Master in NYC, we now have an official regular blog on www.Loud.com. That's right, folks.

'Movin' Up From Down Under' (Week #1) details the struggles, successes, trials, tribulations, thoughts, learnings, ponderings and blatant self-promotion of a bunch of Australian Soul/Hip Hop artists trying to crack North America.

This first post actually went up in early November but I only found out today! There's a couple more already written in the vaults so they shouldn't be too far behind.

Big L the Legend

Great MC That Died Way Before His Time


For those folks that do not know Big L, he was a rap legend whose life ended due to senseless violence. He had many memorable tracks with the likes of Jay-Z, Tupac, Biggie, Kool G Rap, and many other legends in the rap game. Many people may or may not know that before his untimely death he was set to sign with Roc-A-Fella Records, but he died the week before he was to sign. It is said that if his career would not have been cut so short he would have easily rivaled Jay-Z. His features with the Children of the Corn (Cam'ron, Mase, McGruff, Big L, and Bloodshed) and the DITC clique (O.C., Lord Finesse, Diamond D, Showbiz, A.G., Fat Joe, and Buckwild) are all classics. Big L is missed but his music and spirit lives on through all the music he left behind. R.I.P Big L (Lamont Coleman)

Big L and Jay-Z Freestyle

The Movement Fam on Kevin Nottingham.com...

Massive shouts to my man Kev. Dude has supported The Fam from the day he heard about us through the homie Sean Deez, and we can't thank him enough for everything.

Have a read of The Movement Fam article from Kev's site back in September, just before we left for the US/Canada/NZ trip.

Also, this week happens to be Kanye West week over at www.kevinnottingham.com, in celebration of the release of '808s & Heartbreak', which I happened to cop today. Like I said the other day, this album is incredible. I love it so much. Except 'Ye went and changed 'Welcome To Heartbreak' to a more minimal sound with strings on the retail album as opposed to the doper, more synthy leaked version. That alone caused me not to delete the leaked version from the iPod.

Kanye's 'Glow In The Dark' hits Melbourne in 2 weeks. Very excited over here.

George Bush At G20 Meeting....Sad

George Bush at the G20 Summit getting no love from other world leaders. This is terrible. No one will shake his hand due to the past eight years in the US....you be the judge on that.

BT the Rapper

This is a short video of my cousin BT (rapper, game announcer, sports show host, and student). BT is holding it down for Prep Extra, a weekly show that airs every Friday night on the local Knoxville news to highlight the high school football and basketball teams in Knoxville and the surrounding areas.

You also can catch him hosting the dopest college radio show in all the land The Edutainment Hip Hop Show every Saturday night from 9p.m. to 12a.m.EST (http://www.wutkradio.com). Also stay tuned for the weekly download for my news segment that I deliver every Saturday on the show.

This guy can be credited with helping me keep the faith in hip hop and keeping the grind going on this music ish.

Melbourne City Video

This is the beginning; there is much more to come.



'Melbourne City' was the first track I heard from Cee & Bekah after downloading the Soul Movement Vol. 1 mixtape off Planet Urban. I then hit up Cee and the rest......well that is history!!!

Shouts to the Kiwi brethren

I had to do it. Most of y'all have probably seen these, but they're absolute GOLD. I reckon I've seen 'Beached As' like 50 times and still find it hilarious. Shouts to the fam in Aotearoa.

Beached As



Sausaged As

The Movement Fam interview on Sunday Night Sound Sessions, Seattle, WA 14-09-08

The Movement Fam's US trip in September/October is gonna be featuring a fair bit on this blog, I dare say. So much came out of it, it's crazy. Still trying to finalise everything, but we'll keep y'all posted. Video blogs coming soon as well!

Anyway, we were lucky enough to be able to spend some time with an awesome cat by the name of DJ Hyphen in the wonderful city of Seattle, WA, and he invited us along to appear on his famous Sunday Night Sound Sessions show on KUBE 93 FM, the major 'urban' (for lack of a better word) station in Sea-Town. Hyph and co-host J. Moore had us in the studio all night, played a track from Notion's mixtape and interviewed us all. Check out the link below to Hyphen's blog with all the info, plus a download of the show.

DJ Hyphen & J. Moore's Sunday Sound Sessions - Sunday 14th September 2008 DOWNLOAD

Also, keep checking 'The Audacity Of Dope' as it's a mad interesting blog, with a lotta great music and cool shit. The image is a link to it, and we have a link to it to your right. Holla.

Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak

So, I copped the leaked version of 'Ye's new album the other day, and straight up, I've had it on repeat for the last couple days. This is one addictive album. I've read a lot of posts about how folks love it, and probably more about how folks hate it. I think it's something that dude needed to get out of his system, and he'll be back to the regular Kanye we all know and love for 'Good Ass Job' (if he kept that title).

Can't wait to cop the retail version on Monday (or is it Tuesday?). Will report back then. But I don't think I'll stop loving this joint. I so wanna try the vocoder lol. Just once, at least. Anyone got the plug in for Pro Tools on Mac?

Oh click on the image (by some cat called KAWS, I just liked it) and check out Kanye's blog. Always an interesting read.

Cee & Bekah interview on 'Wake Your Daughter Up!' blog

If y'all haven't peeped it already, check out the Cee & Bekah interview on the WYDU blog.



There's a link to download The Soul Movement Volume 2 mixtape as well.

Much love to the homie Trav for lookin' out for The Fam. Make sure y'all check out the WYDU blog, folks.

Holla.

More 'No Homo'...

Following on from DJ Grain's 'No Homo' post, here's the next in the 'No Homo Clip of the Week':



Classics.

The Movement Fam Remix Competition - KevinNottingham.com

Attention: Producers!



There's less than one month to go for The Movement Fam Remix Competition on www.kevinnottingham.com!

We've had a gang of dope submissions already, but keep 'em coming! This remix mixtape is finna be a heater.

Much love,
Cee.

No Homo (Lil Wayne A Milli Parody)

No Homo enough said!!!!

The Movement Fam is here...

Welcome to The Movement Fam.com!



Well, it's finally here. 'Bout damn time.

So, seeing as blogs are the way to go these days, we were all like 'fuck a website. Blogs, son.' And here it is.

Oh, for those who ain't already know, The Movement Fam is a Soul/Hip Hop collective predominantly from Melbourne, Australia. We are Cee & Bekah, a Soul Hop duo; Notion, MC/producer/engineer; Tommy Gunnz, MC/lawyer; and DJ Grain, disc jockey and The Movement Fam US Representative.



So on our blog, you'll find all the info on The Fam; shows, downloads, articles, updates, news, all of that. Currently, that info has been rolling through www.ceeandbekah.com, which will now be exclusively info on Cee & Bekah and their thoughts.

You'll also see more than just shit about us. Coz if it was, that'd be hella boring. So we'll bring you the funniest shit we find, random observations, YouTube clips, models, cool shit and basically anything we reckon the people will dig.

So stay tuned, check back regularly coz this lil bitch is finna be updated on the daily (well, it better be).

Much love,

Cee.
The Movement Fam.

PS. Shouts to the kid Jermiside for lacing us with the layout, and KidEight for the design! Much love, homies!