Urban Umpires
| Urban Umpires | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Umpires |
| Origin |
Bay Area, California, USA Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Genres | Real Hip Hop Trip Hop Downtempo Latin Hip Hop World Hip Hop House Glitch I.D.M. Dancehall Bhangra |
| Years active | 2004-Present |
| Labels | Urban Umpires Hall of Fame Studios/Hall of Flames Studios |
| Associated acts | DAE Recordings, The Solution, Various Blends, Hieroglyphics, Santero, Souls of Mischief, Brisk 1, DJ Premier, Rasco, Planet Asia, Bored Stiff, Bash Bros, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Dilated Peoples, Defari, Superstar Quamallah, Lunar Heights, Freddie Foxxx, King Solomon, [The Greens Crew, Tha Fruitbat, Chocolate Sound & G Wizski |
| Website | UrbanUmpires.com |
| Members |
Just Jay (Founder C.E.O.) MC/Producer DJ CrushDelight aka 2am (V.P.) RasCue (V.P. of Operations) Prince Poetry (Organized Confusion) Frizz B (Bola) Producer/MC Marc Stretch (Foreign Legion) Cold Showda (Chosen Few) Grand da Visitor (Homliss Derilex) Amad Jamal aka Tom Bradley DJ Coope D’ville Brisk-1 (Producer) Turbin (MC) Mo Jo Swagger |
Urban Umpires is a domestic private stock corporation working mainly in the realm of multimedia. It was founded in 2004 by Just Jay who initiated Urban Umpires as a collection of entrepreneurs, DJ’s, Producers, MC’s, Graffiti Artists, Videographers, Instrumental Artists, Graphic Designers, and the like several years before its incorporation.
Urban Umpires is most widely known for its private hip hop organization whose members have included:
Umpires
Amad Jamal Aka Tom Bradley
Marc Stretch of Foreign Legion
Cold Showda (MC)
B-Smoove (MC)
MoJo Swagger (MC)
Brisk-1 (Producer)
Concise Kilgore
Senior Umpires
DJ Coop D’ville
Various Blends
Ras Cue Aka Black Burgandy/EBF (V.P. of Operations)
Friz B (Bola)
CrushDelight (V.P.)
Just Jay (C.E.O. Founder)
The Junior Umpires membership list is currently private. The only publicly known members are:
Urban Umpires Incorporated was established in 2006 however the Urban Umpires Organization itself dates back several years earlier as Urban Umpires structure is twofold.
There are members of the organization (Umpires) currently acting as C.E.O. and V.P., as well as some whom sit on the Board of Directors of the corporation itself. However the Umpires themselves are not all involved in the corporate aspect of Urban Umpires. The subsect – or original defining body – of Urban Umpires is the Umpires Organization.
The Umpires Organization consists of select Umpires who represent Urban Umpires interests in Urban Umpires Inc.. Unofficially Urban Umpires also includes select group of Urban Umpires affiliates including Hieroglyphics, DAE Recordings, Marcus Aurelius, Chocolate Sound, The Solution, Santero, Tha Fruitbat, Cali Agents (Rasco and Planet Asia), Adisa Banjoko, Dilated Peoples, & Freddie Foxxx to name a few.
Urban Umpires established itself in radio with small independent online radio broadcaster btr in 2006. Urban Umpires hip hop mix show The Third Rail’s debut made it the 7th show in total airing on the stations 7 day rotation at the time.
In an 2006 (June 22) interview Umpire Just Jay stated "Anyone who knows and loves hip hop music is tired of how image is everything in the genre," said DJ Just Jay. "
Our (Urban Umpires)show is dedicated to preserving the true foundation of urban culture where the only thing that matters is the skill of the artists. Listeners will be treated to artists who remember the fundamentals of the old school while providing innovative audio stimulation for the new school.
By early 2007 Urban Umpires was the largest single content provider to the broadcaster with a total of 8 original multi-genre shows, as well as artist interviews and video content. Mid 2007 Urban Umpires provided 10% of the stations total music programming content and Umpire Just Jay was officially titled the stations Urban Platform Programming Director.
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