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Soul Mafia Epic Santos Release Show Friday @ 8pm

2010-04-27T09:33:00.000-07:00

APRIL 27, 2010

Soul Mafia Epic Santos Release Show Friday @ 8pm

In a career, or in a lifetime even, there are defining moments. Often we dont realize the significance of an event until far in the future with the benefit of hindsight. A chance encounter that leads to a marriage, a migraine that caused you not to go to work on 9/11, taking an interview casually referred by a friend that leads to life-long career. There is a spiritual magnitude that we dont always graspthe past sows karmic seeds of the future and in some quantum way the future may even change the past.

But sometimes, there are landmark moments that we see clearly as we move towards them. A title shot for an aspiring mixed martial artist, a speech at the Democratic National Convention, hell an audition for American Idol (just make sure you read the contract first lol). If we are lucky we can turn off the voices in our head for long enough to be one with our destiny for a minute. All the daily battles that culminate in this summit push. All the hours in the studio, shows at dive bars, grueling open mics all the banging doors, making calls, working shit day jobs, fighting to be heard sure it is a labor of love, but hard labor none the less.

This is one show of many in NYC this Friday. And one more potential event in your already crowded calendar. But to me and Prism, and Iam, and Lil Dee. Its the show weve been moving towards for the last four years and in a sense for our whole lives.

Soul Mafia MK Ultra Album Release Show

Santos Party House

Friday 4/30

Doors @ 7pm Show Starts @ 8pm SHARP

With friend and fellow soldier of the past 7 years Notar

Philly's own Dephonic and some surprise guests

$10 Advance Tickets Available @

www.santospartyhouse.com

All our guests will be welcome to stay and party with Soul Mafia at the Just Blaze afterparty. Your continued support means so much to us and we hope to share this victory with all of you.

Best,

-MK Ultra will be available 4/30 at: CDBaby and digitally at most major outlets including iTunes

-All I Need Remix featuring Joe Budden is available now: Click to Purchase on iTunes

-The long awaited video for the All I Need Remix featuring Joe Budden directed by Chris Le is coming this week

-Our guerrilla remix video of Soulja Boys All The Way Turned Up is out! (shout to Nunnie and Eric)

-the new www.soulmafia.net is up and running now (courtesy of the incredible Devin Guinn)

LIVE @ SANTOS & SM/Budden remix reaches 10k downloads in 1.5 days

2010-03-31T21:21:00.000-07:00

Peace, Shalom, Salaam, ShAnti…
Many thanks and congratulations to everyone that made Fund Art Now a (continuing) success. I also want to thank everyone who helped with the release of the “All I Need Remix” featuring Joe Budden. It made its way from nahright and 2dopeboyz to at least 30 other blogs and cumulatively reached 10,000 downloads in a day and a half. “All I Need Remix” mp3/wav and ringtone will be available for download on iTunes in mid-April as a precursor to the full MK Ultra album.
Official release date for MK Ultra has been pushed back to April 30^th to accommodate some last minute adjustments… we want our fighter to be in the best condition of his life before he gets in the ring. We are celebrating the release with a blowout show at Santos Party House with Notar,Dephonic , and some very special surprise guests and an after party with Just Blaze. This show is the focal point of two years of creation and I would love to celebrate with everyone who has been a part of the journey in any way.
Soul Mafia “MK Ultra” Album Release Show
Brought to you by Pursuance Records
Santos Party House
96 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013
Friday, April 30th

Doors at 7 pm

Show starts at 8 pm sharp

Visit www.santospartyhouse.com

for advance (discounted) tickets

After party with Just Blaze 11 pm

For those of you who haven’t been to Santos it is a guiding force in reviving old NYC aesthetics and has a system that looks (and sounds) like it came from Mad Maxx. As a rare treat, THIS SHOW WILL BE 18+… and it will be epic.

For our north east fans that missed our Rhode Island show last month… yes you missed a never again to be repeated experience of high octane chords and chaos BUT all is not lost because we are back on Friday 4.16, this time in Boston,

Church of Boston

69 Kilmarnock Street

Boston, MA 02215

Friday, April 16th

Doors 8 pm

SHOW 8:45 PM SHARP

Lastly, we are happy to announce a special video contest for the international collabo “Free 2 Go” featuring Joell Ortiz (Brooklyn), GC and Iam of Soul Mafia (Brooklyn/Indiana), and Krussia (Russia) produced by Tripmastaz (Russia). Whoever puts together the best video will be awarded a $500 prize and chance to chill with the artists. The track will be available on blogs next week or contactfree2govidcontest@gmail.com. Vimeo, youtube, etc. links should be sent to that same address.

That’s enough for now but MUCH more to come.

Ez,

DX News Bits: Danger Mouse, Soul Mafia | Get The Latest Hip Hop News, Rap News & Hip Hop Album Sales

2010-03-05T10:33:00.000-08:00

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Our Video Premier on 2DOPEBOYZ for “I Can’t Get Enough”

2010-02-12T05:48:00.000-08:00

Peace all, I hope 2010 is starting smoothly or with a bang or however you prefer. We have finally officially released the video for “I Can’t Get Enough” our lead single off of MK Ultra. And it is being premiered on 2DOPEBOYZ: http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2010/02/11/soul-mafia-i-cant-get-enough-video/

Thank you to everyone involved in the project… Rob Gilbert, Eric Martinez, Kyle Allen, Ryan Fitch (check the video credits for the rest of the amazing team).

ALSO: check out www.nikebasketball.com starting next month for our track “Dolla”.

AND THEN: for our north eastern campadres you will have two chances to check out Soul Mafia and hang with us after the show (we don’t plan on sleeping)

-3.15 at Gillary’s Tavern (198 Thames St Bristol, Rhode Island (401)253-2012)

doors 8 pm with Mike Petrone and Krussia

-3.27 at Collective Hardware (169 Bowery Manhattan New York, NY 10002)

Time tba in conjunction with Chair and the Maiden

-4.16 at Church of Boston (69 Kilmarnock Street Boston, MA 02215-4821(617)236-7600)

Doors 8 pm with The Re Up Band, The Phix, and Grow

Later for now…

Sneak peak at album tracks is up at www.myspace.com/soulmafiamusic or www.soulmafia.net

Carpe Diem,

MK Ultra "What's Controling You?"

2009-10-20T17:57:00.000-07:00

Mk Ultra is our new album slated for an early 2010 release. During the course of recording, mixing, and mastering we lost touch with you a bit. We apologize for the silence. Mk Ultra became a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy and I personally lost myself in the final stages of delivering it.
I hope that we can make up for our absence in the next few months. The album features artwork courtesy of Chiara Todero (thank you to David and John from Chair and The Maiden), graphic design by Summer Cipriano, mixing and mastering from Doc Harrill, Ariel Borujow, and Kevin Blackler and music that we poured our souls into for the last 500 days. We love you and we look forward to seeing many of you soon.
glen

Soul Mafia at Mercury Lounge Sat 7.11 w/Dujeous...

2009-06-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

Same city, same club, better night, bigger show, classic line up… Mercury Lounge Redeux Saturday July 11^th doors at 10:30 pm. For those of you who where in attendance at our last Lower East Side invasion, you can probably guess why we are doing it again. For those of you who missed it, get ready for the same experience with more new music, more people, and the legendary Dujeous (11 pm)www.myspace.com/dujeous Tickets are on sale for $10 at: http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/000042D1B2C1795B?artistid=1334509&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=3

Or www.mercuryloungenyc.com and hit the link for the July 11^th late show, or at Mercury Lounge (217 E. Houston St at Essex) on the day of the show until it sells out.

Also Soul Mafia will be doing an interview and live performance with Dj Maia on Break Thru Radio and an interview with Ms. Stacy on DTF Radio… more details to come (and our interview last month with Ms. Drama is still up at http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=7063 )

Also Dirty Souf Yankee got some great shots of the Hot 97 show with Drake at www.dirtysoufyankee.com (click on GC Soul Mafia tab) – good looking out fam!!

Finally, for any of you twitterers out there who would like to see Soul Mafia on Jimmy Fallon’s Show, send a message totwitter.com/jimmyfallon recommending us…

I want to wrap up with a thank you to everyone on the Soul Mafia team making things move… Kyle, Summer, Eric, Steezy, Krussia (congratulations on the Philly Filmfest victory), Ryan (congratulations on a beautiful wedding), Jason, Emiliano, Devin (congratulations on the NY1 coverage), and the rest of the camp.

Soul Mafia on Hot 97 w/ Lisa Evers and Break Thru Radio w/ Ms. Drama...

2009-06-05T23:15:00.000-07:00

How do you follow up a week where we performed in front of a sold out SOB’s crowd including Kanye West, Lyor Cohen, Bun B, Drake, Peter Rosenberg, etc. (and hung backstage with the same crowd) AND dropped a grimy LES rock set at Mercury Lounge with Krussia and C-Rayz Walz? How about with back to back interviews and a KILLER NEW TRACK (which, thanks to our postpone, will make the MK ULTRA cut). The first of our interviews comes courtesy of the lovely Ms. Drama (who lives up to her name lol…) and Break Thru Radio and can be heard at http://www.breakthruradio.com/index.php?show=7063 . The second is on Hot 97 (97.1 FM in the Tristate orwww.hot97.com) this Sunday at 9am on Lisa Evers’ ‘Street Soldiers’ along with Ron Browz, Dj Webstar, Dj Envy, Dj Enuff, and Chris Nadler.

The other way to follow up a great week of live music is by setting up another one. So for everyone who was out of town two weeks ago, Soul Mafia will be back at Mercury Lounge along with fellow NY live hip hop soldiers Dujeous, Saturday July 11^th (Dujeous 11pm, Soul Mafia 12am). This is a bill that has been four years in the making and will be redline from the time doors open til close.

Huge thank you to Peter Rosenberg, Ebro, all of the Hot 97 and SOB’s staff and of course Chris Nadler for making the show with Drake a classic. Huge thank you to Jason Negron, Krussia, and of course Kyle Allen and soulfyne for making Mercury Lounge one to remember.

Stay inspired,

Soul Mafia and Drake SOLD OUT…Mercury Lounge 1st come 1st serve!!!

2009-05-18T19:40:00.000-07:00

The good news or the bad news first? I always want the bad news so here goes… The SOB’s show with Soul Mafia and Drake presented by Hot 97 is sold out (as you probably guessed from the subject)… it happened fast so we didn’t get a chance to snatch up any extra tkts which means you probably won’t be seeing us on May 26^th unless you are my mom or Jimmy Iovine…(or you bought your tkts the second they went on sale…)

The good news is you still CAN see us at The Mercury Lounge on Sunday May 24^th. Tkts are NOT AVAILABLE AHEAD OF TIME (thank you to everyone who inquired) and will be 1^ST COME 1^st SERVE @ 9pm sharp:

May 24^th: Soulfyne presents Soul Mafia with special guest Krussia and the legendary C-Rayz Walz at The Mercury Lounge 217 E. Houston St. and Essex doors 9 pm, tkts $10 hosted by Che Guerilla… the show will be packed with brand new material as well as a crazy opening set from my brother Krussia… oh and if you come out and it’s not one of your top 5 shows of 2009- I will personally reimburse your tkt : )

Also a number of you told me that our last e mail went to bulk so it is included beneath sorry for the inconvenience…

Stay inspired!!

Soul Mafia @ Mercury Lounge NYC 5.24 & SOB's NYC with Drake 5.26...

2009-05-11T14:51:00.000-07:00

Soul Mafia…

So a wise man once told me that planning is priceless but plans are worthless… I sure as hell hope he’s right. The plan to drop our album MK Ultra by this summer is looking like a long shot. We whittled down to a lean 11 songs. We pored over the artwork (thnx 2 Summer Cipriano for the graphic design and Emiliano Brooks for the photography). We got the lead single “Live Forever” mixed and mastered (shout to Freak for the recommendation), went to the studio to check it out and then… our perfect plan got stomped on by a really big record. It wasn’t a new song (although I will come clean… we did take the opportunity to sneak at least one new song on the album). It was a song that suddenly sounded like it had taken more HGH than Rodriguez and Ramirez combined. After hearing “Live Forever” mixed by Ariel Borujow (TI, Puff Daddy, Just Blaze, The Black Eyed Peas, etc.)and mastered by Kevin Blakler (Billy Joel, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wallace Roney etc.), we immediately looked at each other and said “we have to get the entire album done the same way”. Our next thought was of course, how the hell are we going to afford that?

In the grand scheme of things this is great bad news. We discovered a missing link in our artistic search for the Holy Grail. I think when you get a chance to hear the final mixes you will understand. So here is the new plan until it gets discarded… Starting in June, Soul Mafia will be releasing 1 song at a time from MK Ultra for purchase digitally on I-Tunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc. When the song reaches 500 downloads, we will release the next song digitally. When 5 songs are released digitally, we will physically release the full album.

Now for another question which many of you are wondering about… when the hell are we playing New York City again? While we were planning on waiting for the physical album release, as I mentioned above, that would now mean us not playing a gig for another year… which is like telling a nymphomaniac to wait that long for sex so here it is:

May 24^th: Soulfyne presents Soul Mafia with special guest Krussia and the legendary C-Rayz Walz at The Mercury Lounge 217 E. Houston St. and Essex doors 9 pm, tkts $10

May 26^th: Hot 97 presents Soul Mafia with Folk & Stress and Drake at SOB’s 204 Varick St. and W. Houston 9:00 pm, tkts $20

Huge thanks to Chris at Emmis who has believed in us from the start. I want to send out a congratulations to Peter Mercurio, whose play "Two Spoons" is being snapped up by theaters nationally: much deserved success. Also congratulations to Jeff and Lauren, Psalmz and Liesel, and Eric and Lisa for their recent/ semi-recent new babies!!

Thank you for your patience… we have been working hard on new music and live material and I hope to see you soon.

Flyer for Mercury Lounge!!!

2009-05-05T14:11:00.001-07:00

Soul Mafia Events

2009-05-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

05/26/2009 09:00 PM - SOBs with Drake
204 Varick St at West Houston New York, New York US Cost:$20 Description:Hot 97 Who’s Next with Drake and Folk & Stress

05/24/2009 09:00 PM - The Mercury Lounge
217 E. Houston St. and Essex New York, New York US Cost:10 Description:Memorial Day Weekend show with Krussia, C-Rayz Walz, more...