HOMEBOY SANDMAN GOES OFF OVER DUJEOUS BEATS

In case you didn't know, the Day In Day Out instrumental album dropped. One great thing about instrumentals: you can, like, rap on them. And if your name is Homeboy Sandman, you can rap amazing, retarded, ridonkulous freestyle bars over them. Which is exactly what happened in this dope freestyle session from WNYU's This Culture Never Dies, posted to 2DopeBoyz.com last week. The Queens MC—a former classmate of Rheturik's, a recent signee to Stones Throw Records and a good friend to the Duj—linked up with up-and-comer I Am Many to trade bars over the instrumental to "Research," and it was friggin' awesome. Click here to check it out.  

And don't forget what we said last week, MCs/poets/singers: If you send us a dope freestyle over a DIDO beat, we'll post it up here.

Be sure to cop Boysand's newest release, Chimera. Mega-daps to This Culture Never Dies, which hits 89.1 FM in NYC and wnyu.org online every Saturday from 11 pm to 1 am, and host Dharmic X for supporting the Duj and DIDO so tough. And of course, buy the DIDO instrumental LP over at iTunes in case you've been sleeping. 

Yours,
The Duj

The Duj on Your Radio Dial

Don't look now. Our new album, Day In Day Out, made a smash debut on the prestigious CMJ Hip-Hop college radio charts this week, bowing at No. 12. That's two spots above Odd Future. FIGHTING WORDS! We were listed as the "Top Debut" for the week. Awesome. But let's not stop there. Call your favorite DJ and radio station and request our music. Maybe even offer a little payola if you have to—just don't tell anyone we said that. DJs, if you need any drops or call-ins, hit us up. And thanks for all the love so far!

Yours, 
The Duj

"DAY IN DAY OUT" INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM ON SALE NOW!

We hope you've been enjoying our new album, Day In Day Out. Wanna enjoy it even more? Or maybe you love the music but hate those bum-ass rappers rapping on it? (Just kidding!) Well, then we have great news for you. The Day In Day Out instrumental album is on sale now! Click here to cop it on iTunes. 

And it gets even better. Attention rappers, singers, poets, orators, on-wax mumblers! A little contest for dat azz. Record your own freestyle/song/poem/melodic burping over one of the DIDO instrumentals, and send it us at info@dujeous.net. We'll post our favorites here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages. We're good like that. 

Yours, 

The Duj 

One day, we'll all be holograms.

If there's one thing that The Duj takes pride in, it's the strength of our live performance. But what will happen when we can't perform anymore? When we're old & grey senior citizens sitting on the stoop (of our mansion, no doubt), how will the kids know what it was like to experience a Dujeous show live? When we're six feet under the earth, or sprinkled off the shore of Manhattan, dust in the wind and all that, how will we be remembered? Through holograms... that's how.

Last night at Coachella, Snoop & Dre made an already classic performance even crazier by resurrecting Tupac in holographic form for a special guest appearance. Didn't believe Makaveli was coming back, huh?

One of these days, we'll all be holograms. The future is now.

Duj Out.

More Love for "Day In Day Out"

If you've been following us on Twitter or on Facebook, you already know about some of these. But we like sharing good news—sue us. Dujeous and "Pro Choice," our collabo with John Legend from Day In Day Out, got some awesome shine on Okayplayer recently. It's one of the reasons that the Soundcloud page for the album has over 20,000 plays! Check the review below:

Okayplayer is proud to host this collaboration between John Legend and Dujeous (that OTHER legendary live hip-hop band!) mixing it up and sorting out a “war of choice” of a very different kind (listen to the lyrics). As you might expect “Pro Choice” is an ill combination, with Legend’s falsetto setting off the evil groove of funk/rock foundation and alternating verses that keep you listening to the end, like a much grimier verison of “Two Princes.” I’m not sure why I picked that photo except that something about this groove just kinda sounds like, Yippy-kay-yay, motherf*ckers. Dujeous’ LP Day In Day Out is out now.

Having the Roots' site call us "that other legendary live band" is awesome to say the least. Also awesome is the pic of John and his wifey OKP used. Click here to check out the post.

We were also blown away the Twitter commentary on Day In Day Out from legendary journalist, activist and WBAI radio host Harry Allen, who any hip-hop head worth his salt will recognize as Public Enemy's one-time "media assassin." 

Blown away and flattered. (And Apex played the piano, by the way).

There's been a whole lot of other great reviews and posts around. Peace to Soulculture, The Neckie Revolution, RapReviews, Limité Magazine and all the other people giving love who we're forgetting.

Yours,

TheDuj