As most of you might have noticed by now, we are running a pair of contests with Seattle’s own Blue Scholars, brought to you by Rawkus and MASSLINE! As a huge Scholars fan, I am ridiculously excited to have this opportunity to help promote them here on Jamglue, and get them more of the national attention they deserve!
The song is “Fire for the People” off their recently released album Bayani:
All this amazing music comes from just two super-talented guys: Geologic, the emcee, and Sabzi, the deejay and producer. So to give a nod to this classic hip-hop format, we’ve got an MC Contest, where you add your guest verse to Geologic’s chorus, and a DJ Contest, where you show DJ Sabzi your mixing skills! Geo and Sabzi will be choosing the final winners.
In fact…
At the halfway point of the contest a few weeks ago, they picked their current favorites, just to keep things interesting! Here they are:
And wait - it gets better - we even turned them into ringtones, so that everyone can be ringing fresh this fall! Be sure to check out and download the ringtones, and stay tuned for more as the contest goes on!
The contest closes to entries on September 7th and the voting period will run until September 23rd.
Enter the contests and show your support for some amazing hip-hop, and for Jamglue’s home, the Pacific Northwest!
As promised, we launched a fresh new contest from Jive Records — and none other than everyone’s favorite: T-PAIN with his hit single Bartender!! (and you probably just got it out of your head, right?):
We are so excited about this contest, and have had an overwhelming response from fans so far, with over 450 entries started in just 2 weeks!
For this contest, though it is a standard remix contest, we are encouraging fans to record and include their own vocals in their remixes. After all the excitement of the R. Kelly “Double Up” contest, who can resist contributing a verse of their own?
So get out your microphones, put down your own beat, or chop up the existing tracks - but don’t miss this opportunity to mix your own version of Bartender! T-Pain is picking the winner himself, and in true T-Pain style, the winning remix will be turned into a ringtone by Jive Records, with CD’s and other great prizes for runners up.
It’s been a busy month here at Jamglue since I last posted, and there’s so much to tell!
Our first order of business: contest winners!
Our R. Kelly “Double Up” contest finally came to an end, with over 360 duets created! Here are the talented MC’s and singers who racked up some great prizes in a few different categories:
Grand Prize (determined by popular vote) went to star Jamglue user Samuel Victor! Not only was his rap fantastic, but he’s injected a lot of postiive creative energy into the Jamglue community! Check out his contest entry here:
The entry was also posted on R. Kelly’s MySpace, where you might still be able to check it out.
Professional’s Pick (hand-picked by Jive Records) goes to THEGHOST, an incredibly talented young MC/producer. His duet is featured on the Jamglue Homepage, or you can listen here:
And last but not least, an honorable mention goes out to our super-talented DJ smx (aka DJ Stray), who made a super hot remix, but was not eligible since it wasn’t technically a duet:
We’re really excited about the high participation in this contest! Thanks again to Jive Records for making it happen, and to all our fantastic users for making it so much fun.
(more news about new features and new contests to come in follow-up posts, stay tuned!)
Fire for the People - DJ Contest Mix by 
BlueScholars 
Fire for the People - DJ Contest Mix (SamuelVictor’s Drum’n'Bass Attempt) by 
samuelvictor 
werdna3523’s Blue Scholars Duet by 
werdna3523 
