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Phayde

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About Me

Female
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada

Last Login: 11/03/2008
.. Andrea Woo is a news and entertainment reporter based in Vancouver, B.C. To date, she has written for publications including the Source, XXL, Mass Appeal, the Seattle Stranger, Exclaim!, Metro, Word, Pound, the Province and the Georgia Straight. Andrea enjoys writing about herself in third person.

Contact: [email protected]

My Interests

Music:

2Pac, Aaliyah, Amerie, Anti-Flag, ATCQ, Big L, Blu and Exile, Brand Nubian, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Common, the Coup, Binary Star, Bobby Creekwater, CunninLynguists, De La Soul, dead prez, Raheem DeVaughn, Devin the Dude, Dion, the Donnas, Dropkick Murphys, Dwele, Bob Dylan, Erik B and Rakim, Eminem, Field Mob, Fresh Prince, Gang Starr, Ghostface, Goodie Mob, Anthony Hamilton, Heltah Skeltah, Hi-Tek, Hieroglyphics, K-OS, Lauryn Hill, DJ Hyphen, Inverse, J. Dilla, Etta James, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jay-Z, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Kenna, Alicia Keys, Kynfolk, Large Professor, Brenda Lee, John Legend, Kool G Rap, Talib Kweli, Little Brother, Lords of the Underground, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco, Bob Marley, Damian Marley, Stephen Marley, Masta Ace, Method Man, Metric, Kevin Michael, Mick Boogie, Janelle Monae, Mos Def, Keith Murray, Nas, N.E.R.D., Neptunes, Nice and Smooth, Notorious B.I.G., Outkast, PackFM, Paris, Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Pharoahe Monch, Phonte, Pennywise, the Pharcyde, DJ Premier, Public Enemy, DJ Quik, Rakim, Raekwon, Redman, Rhymefest, Mark Ronson, the Roots, Run DMC, Raphael Saadiq, Saukrates, Slick Rick, Slum Village, T.I., Robin Thicke, Timbaland, Tonedeff, UGK, Van Hunt, Tom Waits, Wale, Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, Wordsworth, Wu-Tang Clan... etc.

Books:

Anything and everything worth reading.

My Blog

"Obama changing perceptions"


Posted by Phayde on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:53:00 PST

D-A-double D-Y fat sacks

July 2008By Andrea WooThe battle of hip-hop is a bloody affair. Those who have survived this decades-long war have done so with tremendous agility and resilience, dodging and weaving through the cross...
Posted by Phayde on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:10:00 PST

N.E.R.D. Colour Your World

From the new issue of Pound (No. 42 - The A-Trak Summer Issue):June 2008By Andrea Woo It's the day before the kickoff of the much-hyped Glow in the Dark tour in Seattle, Wa., and the Emerald City i...
Posted by Phayde on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:52:00 PST

Travis Barker is a beast.

Doing Busta Rhymes' "Don't Touch Me" Soulja Boy's "Crank That" from a while back ...
Posted by Phayde on Fri, 30 May 2008 11:17:00 PST

Mr. Kanye to the

From the new issue of Pound (No. 41: The MC Issue):* * * Kanye West, the biggest star in the universe, on the first stop of the Glow in the Dark tour - Seattle, Washington, April 2008....
Posted by Phayde on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:33:00 PST

"If hip-hop was a woman, what would she look like?"

For the better part of six years, I’ve asked nearly all my (hip-hop related) interview subjects this question. In March, the month containing International Women’s Day, Word magazine ran t...
Posted by Phayde on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:43:00 PST

Misc. article: "The Return of the Magnificent"

I saw Will Smith's I Am Legend a little while ago and was reminded of an interview I did with DJ Jazzy Jeff back in April 2007 (a month before the release of The Return of the Magnificent) in which h...
Posted by Phayde on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:46:00 PST

"Northwest Passage"

The Seattle Stranger - Dec. 13-19, 2007 - Vol. 17, No. 14Northwest Passage The Other Two Factors in the Seattle/Vancouver/Portland Equation by Graham ...
Posted by Phayde on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:07:00 PST

Rock the Bells 2007

Pound - December 2007 - Issue 40 - "The Live Issue"...
Posted by Phayde on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:11:00 PST

Classic Raekwon quotable [AUDIO]

I was backing up all my work today and sidetracked horrendously when I started reading through old interview transcripts and listening to old recordings. One of these recordings was of an interview I ...
Posted by Phayde on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:08:00 PST