According to former Synthesis hip-hop inspector turned freelance-scribe-for-hire (meaning, if you run a hip-hop mag you should drop him a line) C. Bloom’s blog, our friends One Block Radius have gotten themselves signed to Island / Def-Jam. Chico has known these dudes were on some shit for years, but soon the rest of the world will find out. If all goes as planned you’ll be seeing a Gurp City shirt on MTV sometime in the near future. Thug E Fresh better up his supply.

UPDATE: Forgot to add that like the man said if you want to check out some OBR you should definitely grab the Cut Some Static mixtape here. Shit is too much fame!

You’ve heard about Hyphy and Going Dumb and all that bullshit, but the REAL shit going down in the Bay is cats like Conceit, Z-man, Eddie K, TopR, MC Willows and all the rest of the Gurp City rellies. Check out this video for “Crumb of the Bay” off of the Z-man and Gpek collabo Don’t Forget to Brag, then go buy that shit at Gurp City and be the REALEST MOTHERFUCKER ON YO STREET!

Congratulations are in order to our homie Conceit, whose “Scissors and Glue” video was voted the winner of the On the Rise Rap Competition and is now featured on the front page of YouTube. To celebrate this stunning victory, the fine folks over at Gurp City are streaming Conceit’s Wasted Talent mixtape for the next three days absolutely free. Cop that shit here, and if you dig it, hit your boy up for a copy of the disc. Check the video below, and also be sure to download the video for “I Will Go” over at Synthesis Radio. Congrats Conceit and Gurp City. Now where’s the new MC Oroville mixtape?