Video: Pill and Donnis Wreck NYC
- story Peter Macia
Having lived in both Atlanta and New York, it’s good to know a dude like Pill who by all appearances now splits time between the two cities while trying to score a record deal but definitely brings a specifically Atlantan southern hospitality up here regularly. He showed up during our Friday show on East Village Radio last week and chatted on the mic with our guest DJ Maga Bo, but really really showed up with fellow ATL upstart Donnis to the Baller’s Eve show on EVR last night. Watching these two shred Rich Kids’ “Partna Dem,” should put all of NY on warning: The A is not playing. For the full business, listen to the whole show here.
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posted on Aug 27, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Baller's Eve Radio, Donnis, East Village Radio, hip hop, Pill
Donnis, Diary of an Atlanta Brave Mixtape
- story Matthew Schnipper
The arc of Donnis‘ career could possibly be as notable as his rap. Mixtape for 10 Deep with DJ Benzi? Nothing wrong with that (ask Kid Cudi), but for a dude from Atlanta who was probably raised on LaFace album cuts, it’s a surprisingly hip internet/NYC twist. We would suggest linking him with Drama soon and probably getting Colin Munroe as far away as possible. Donnis’ storytelling cadence makes him sound like he is sitting on a porch with Bubba Sparxxx, and with a Dungeon Family reunion coming up soon, maybe he can show up and get a guest spot and no one will notice he isn’t Cee-Lo’s nephew. Check our premiere of his video “Clermont Lounge” in case you missed it and check the mixtape embedded after the jump or grab it below.
Download: Donnis Diary of an Atlanta Brave
Video Premiere: Donnis, “Clermont Lounge”
- story Felipe Delerme
We caught our first glimpse of Donnis about a year ago when he was tearing down this cruddy SoHo lounge from an impromptu stage of a couch cushion while a not-quite-famous-yet Ryan Leslie played hypeman. Then he kind of just disappeared off the rap radar. Well, before there was an actual Rap Radar anyway. But he’s back now. And apparently he’s spent the time out of the limelight handpicking under-appreciated Bubba Sparxxx jams and shooting treatments for them with breakout direction team, Motion Family. The Clermont Lounge looks seedy enough to be the ATL component to where we saw him perform in New York (apparently, one of its elder employees can crush beer cans between her breasts of strength), but “Clermont Lounge” is a pretty clean look from his upcoming Diary of an Atlanta Brave, one of those album before the album mixtape albums or some such. In the meantime you can download some newer Donnis material in the form of his “Snack Pack” here.
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