Machine Head (VIDEO)

Black Hoodie Rap- Machine Head from Black Hoodie Rap on Vimeo.

It’s only the beginning for this video, but we’d like to thank everyone involved thus far. You all know who you are. We have really high hopes for this, and we don’t even want to pretend to hide that. We’ve sat around this past [...]

Machine Head: Eddie's Stoop-August Vincent Interview Part 2

This is the 2nd part of The Eddie’s Stoop interview. August Vincent comments on the rumors that Lo-Fi, aka Machine Head, is writing for him. Eddie Pages is hilarious in this one. He really channeled his inner MTV VJ, as he sounds exactly like Sway when he drops the “Some of the controversy line.” [...]

Machine Head: Eddie's Stoop- August Vincent Interview

More cleaning house before Machine Head drops.

Back story: August Vincent is the antagonist to Lo-Fi in the Machine Head video. (August Vincent is fictional if you couldn’t tell). He’s a satire.

In this video, August appears on some nobody blogger’s show called Eddie’s Stoop. We created the show Eddie’s Stoop to comment on bloggers [...]

Machine Head: Lo-Fi At The Diner

So, last night was the Machine Head premier and it was amazing! Thank you to everyone who came to check out, the culmination of over a month of hard work. Needless to say Machine Head is a video that we are extremely proud of and can’t wait to release. We will be releasing it on [...]

MachineHead Rough Cut Stills

So, everyone we are down to the final revision stage for Machine Head, the second music video off of For Rent. It’s looking good the story for the video is dope. I wish I could have you guys in the room for a sneak preview but alas. We will have to settle with stills from [...]

Machine Head Shooting: Day 2 (kinda)

So Day 2 of shooting for Machine Head: Mark and I shot some footage like 2 weeks ago or something and I’m figuring out exactly what look to go for. I think you will see this footage of us during the chorus. It’s supposed to have a crap tv type feel, so it will look [...]

Black Hoodie Rap Makes a “Cameo” in the Steve Garfield World

Earlier today, Steve Garfield stopped by one of my classes at Northeastern to give a presentation on his approach to video blogging.

During the presentation, he did a quick live-stream of the class. Since I was sitting in the front, you got a big ole’ dose of Mark. Check it out above. Nothing really happens, [...]

Cypher-ROB's Videoshoot

After ROB’s video shoot last weekend there was a nice cypher afterwards. It was filmed by the man Will Gehrman. The Mc’s were ROB , Chaz, Cypha, Teddy Grahams and of course BlackHoodieRap was well represented. I (Brandon Dottin) spit a mash up of verses from two songs Mark and I were working on a couple [...]

Our Feature in aboveGround Mag!

Tyler @ aboveGROUND Mag sat down with us last month to do this feature, and today (well, yesterday now), it’s done! Check it out, tell your friends.

We are truly grateful and thrilled at all the support we’ve been getting lately. Thank you all very much.

Click Here to read “A New Class of Rap”, our feature [...]

People Showing Us Love on Twitter Is Awesome

I know people tell you to act like you’ve been here before, but we ain’t too cool to show how excited we are when people say they like us. It’s been happening more lately (particularly on Twitter), in no small part because of the Take Witness article, among other things.

So all I wanted to say [...]