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Urban Umpires | |
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Also known as | Umpires |
Origin | Bay Area, California, US Brooklyn, New York, US |
Genres | Hip hop Trip hop Downtempo Latin hip hop World hip hop House Glitch IDM Dancehall Bhangra |
Years active | 2004-present |
Labels | Urban Umpires Hall of Fame Studios/Hall of Flames Studios |
Members | Just Jay (founder, CEO, MC, producer) DJ CrushDelight aka 2am (VP) RasCue (VP of Operations) Prince Poetry (Organized Confusion) Frizz B (Bola; producer, MC) Marc Stretch (Foreign Legion) Cold Showda (Chosen Few) Grand da Visitor (Homliss Derilex) Amad Jamal aka Tom Bradley DJ Coope D’ville Brisk-1 (producer) Turbin (MC) Mo Jo Swagger |
Website | UrbanUmpires.com |
Urban Umpires is a domestic private stock corporation working mainly in the realm of multimedia. It was founded in 2004 by Just Jay, who initiated Urban Umpires as a collection of entrepreneurs, DJs, producers, MCs, graffiti artists, videographers, instrumental artists, graphic designers, and the like, several years before its incorporation.
Urban Umpires is most widely known[ citation needed ] for its private hip hop organization, whose members have included:
Umpires:
Senior Umpires:
The Junior Umpires membership list is currently private. The only publicly known members are:
Urban Umpires Incorporated was established in 2006, but the Urban Umpires Organization itself dates back several years earlier, as Urban Umpires' structure is twofold.
There are members of the organization (Umpires) currently acting as CEO and VP, as well as some who sit on the board of directors of the corporation. However, the Umpires themselves are not all involved in the corporate aspect of Urban Umpires. The subsect – or original defining body – of Urban Umpires is the Umpires Organization.
The Umpires Organization consists of select Umpires who represent Urban Umpires' interests in Urban Umpires Inc. Unofficially, Urban Umpires also includes a select group of Urban Umpires affiliates, including Hieroglyphics, DAE Recordings, Marcus Aurelius, Chocolate Sound, The Solution, Santero, Tha Fruitbat, Cali Agents (Rasco and Planet Asia), Adisa Banjoko, Dilated Peoples, and Freddie Foxxx.[ citation needed ]
Urban Umpires established itself in radio with small independent online radio broadcaster btr in 2006. Urban Umpires' hip hop mix show The Third Rail's debut made it the seventh show airing on the station's seven-day rotation at the time.
By early 2007 Urban Umpires was the largest single content provider to the broadcaster, with a total of eight original multi-genre shows, as well as artist interviews and video content. In mid-2007, Urban Umpires provided 10% of the station's total music programming content, and Umpire Just Jay was officially titled the station's Urban Platform Programming Director.[ citation needed ]
Urban Platform:
At its peak the eight-show platform's audience reached over 40 million listeners weekly.[ citation needed ]
The original show, The Third Rail, aired 120 episodes, and the proceeding shows aired nearly 100 apiece. Afrika Bambatta, RZA from Wu Tang, Money B of Digital Underground, the Notorious Vic Black from the Gang Starr Foundation (who after over 20 years in the game made his DJing debut on The Third Rail) and countless others guest hosted, were interviewed for, and supported the platform of shows.
In early 2008 Just Jay collaborated with MC Opio (Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics) on the artist's Vultures Wisdom Vol.1 DVD via video content fabrication and production. The album was hailed as the year's hip hop standard for indie progressive urban videography and lyrical content.
Urban Umpires and MySpace both released authorized sneak peeks of the album. Myspace then released the cut version. Urban Umpires released the uncut vocal and unreleased tracks along with a personal artist interview with Opio.
The Umpires, the artists played on the platform of shows, and affiliates invested in the platform parted with the station in late 2008. The music library, the rights to play content of the library, and the entirety of the urban platform's related audio, visual and written content, remained property of Urban Umpires Inc.
Urban Umpires has moved the platform to MadMixRadio.com, which was scheduled to launch in the summer of 2010.[ citation needed ]
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