“Does Anybody Care Anymore?” is an electrical melting pot of psychedelic …blues, jazz, and hip hop coupled with raw, aggressive, conscious lyrics. From start to finish, “Does Anybody Care Anymore?” goes through a musical spectrum, taking the listener on a lasting trip of emotion and leaving them salivating for more….

Using a style blended from his influences of Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Atmosphere & Sage Francis, Pawnshop de Vegas has become an eclectic melting pot of musical force. Since being introduced to blues music by his father when he was a young boy, Pawnshop de Vegas was infatuated with music. As he grew older his tastes expanded to Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Psychedelic Rock. “Once I heard Jimi Hendrix for the first time it was over. I needed a guitar,” said Pawn. Before his parents would ever buy him a guitar, Pawn would go to guitar shops and pawnshops and practice until they would kick him out. He would later be described in a local review as being a “Pawnshop guitarist…Someone who would go to pawnshops and play until they asked him to leave”, and the name was born from there.

Pawnshop began receiving accolades for his poetry as early as elementary school. He began performing live playing guitar at the age of 13 and by the age of 17 was a capable session guitarist and well known on the Las Vegas blues scene. From there, Pawnshop’s style grew to include more of a hip hop flavor, and Pawn began paying his dues in the Las Vegas hip-hop scene and battle circuit.

In 2003, Pawnshop won the first battle competition he ever entered the X-107.5 Xtreme Thing Emcee Battle. From there Pawn began to pave his way as a well-respected hip hop emcee using a witty, aggressive and angry tone that made him unique. It is this style and approach that has led Pawnshop to open up for such hip-hop and rock acts as: KRS-One, Bone Thugs and Harmony, Blueprint, Lucky I Am (Living Legends), Panic at the Disco, The Killers, Busdriver, Saab the Artist, and Q-Unique from the Arsonists. Pawns’ live performances have been regarded as being one of the best in Las Vegas. His showmanship has been seen on stages and clubs in Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and Denver. Pawnshop has been featured on several tracks and mix tapes for some of Las Vegas’ most respected and well known hip hop artists, and Pawn is also a member of Campfire Music -Las Vegas’ most respected and well known hip-hop crew.

All of Pawnshops experience and skills were finally culminated with the release of his debut album Does Anybody Care Anymore? in May of 2012. Taking pride in being a pioneer of sound, Pawnshop de Vegas ensures that there will be still be an original element found in music for years to come.

source: http://www.xsesmag.com/journal.php?id=11

Mikey V.I.P.
The Treatment (Never Satisfied/Campfire)
Right now, Campfire Music is to Vegas hip-hop what Judd Apatow’s crew is to dick jokes: With very few exceptions, they do no wrong. The same goes for Mikey V.I.P’s new album, The Treatment. The dude sounds like a combination of Rick Ross and Fat Joe, with beats running the gamut from good life to hood life (check out “V.I.P.” and “Boss”). While his only real fault is the well-done but misplaced “Cry By Myself” (emo-thug rap a la Diddy’s “I Need a Girl”), V.I.P. is applying to be the local version of Maybach Music’s big boss rappers, and The Treatment is his more than adequate resume. MAX PLENKE

source: http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2012/04/19/music/someone_sent/iq_52798168.txt

With little contestability, Campfire Music is one of the largest and most wide-spreading hip-hop crews in Las Vegas. They have hosts at “Sunday Skoolin’.” DJs at Insert Coin(s). Business operators at DaddyMac’s bar. It’s a long-time investment that’s mainly paid off with community cred, a family vibe and a recognizable logo. But the releases have been few and far between. Until now.

When Campfire started in 2001, Vegas hip-hop was in a musical Jurassic period. The originators of the scene were starting to wife up and disappear, leaving little more than tapes in their wake. Neither “Hip-Hop Roots” nor “Sunday Skoolin’” were even glimmers in the rap community’s eye. The veterans of today’s scene were minors then, trying to figure out how to make a mark when social networking meant handshakes at the Cooler Lounge.

For rapper Omino Jakku, it was the right landscape to breed something new. “My partner Synickle was the [mentee] of an engineer at Floyd Mayweather’s Philthy Rich Records,” Jakku says. “I came into the picture and said we should do our own thing.” Jakku recalls a time when most open mics were dominated by cliques, leaving the independents to their own devices. It was that sense of belonging that Jakku and Synickle lacked. So they started recruiting.

They picked up Samson, whom you might call Campfire’s prize fighter (“He’s had so many people want to put him out, but he’s always been Campfire,” Jakku says), and Mikey VIP, who now plays both performer and recruiter for the group. “Campfire Music, for artists in Vegas, is a hub for people who want to do music here,” Jakku says. “I tell these cats who are in Campfire now: Do the best you can do, and Campfire grows with you. If you think Campfire’s gonna do the fuckin’ work, you won’t do shit.”

And it’s that mentality that made Jakku reflect on his own inactivity — he stopped releasing music in 2005 to attend to family — and realize he needed to make a musical return to live what he preached. “It’s important we don’t let the image phase out,” he says. “We need to show and prove. We’re now building on the foundation of getting back to making sure everything’s legit.”

His example paid off. At least by his estimation, when Jakku started working on his latest mixtape, out now and available for free download online, most of Campfire followed suit and began shoving out releases of their own. They pressed Jakku’s Ominous, then Mikey VIP’s The Treatment, and now Pawnshop’s Does Anybody Care Anymore, released in early May, becoming the fifth Campfire record in the last three months. By the end of summer, Samson, Synickle and Prez will all have mixtapes and full-lengths to hock. They hold regular meetings. They have a bank account. They’re an official LLC. It’s like all of them just finished reading Jay-Z’s biography.

But Jakku just says it was time to get moving. “We’re just slimming down the engine,” he says. “I feel we have the best in Vegas. But there’s so much more we could do.”

source: http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2012/05/10/music/fear_and_lounging/iq_53342035.txt
by MAX PLENKE

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Las Vegas based artist Omino Jakku comes to the Hip Hop table with his musical inventory of Napalm and Molotov cocktails. Co-founder of Campfire Music, a longtime staple in the community and music scene in Las Vegas, created in 2001 with the intent of creating great independant music with his partner and band member Synickle, to which they have a group “POLY HYLO” which has gained much notoriety on its own with 2 retail albums out already.

He continues to make real music but this time on his own terms. As of late his music, which used to be likened to underground genre, is more of a street realism with real life woes and the social pressures mixed with international new age music while remaining true to his love of hip hop. He has worked with many local artists, as songwriter, producer, or feature.. but now is taking a serious role in promoting his POV of the world through melodies, hooks that resonate and lyrical content that gives you things to think about. Ominous.

01-CampfireMusic.com Intro
02-oN aggiN (Prod. by BlackJaxx)
03-Everything’s Fine (Duck’s Song)(Prod. by Sic Tha Blac Falcon – Campfire Music)
04-UFO (Prod. by J Dilla)(Cuts by DJ Yoshe – Cali Untouchables)
05-C.A.B. feat. Dubbler (Prod. by Dr. Dre)
06-Roomies (Prod. by Flying Lotus)
07-Bars & Blues Interlude feat. Kazi
08-Bumegetinmune (Prod. by Lord Quest)
09-Black Snake Lex Diamonds Interlude
10-Finish Line (Prod. by Vin Da Chin)
11-Full Circle (Prod. by Omino Jakku)
12-Sweet 2 Dem Belly feat. Phoenix Orion)(Prod. by Post Scripted – Campfire Music)
13-We Real (Prod. by J Dilla)
14-Rollin’ (Prod. by Harry Fraud)
15-Get Up feat. Samson & Tagz1 (Prod. by Omino Jakku & DBA)(Cuts by DJ Shanestream)
16-Spazz (Prod. by Pharrell)
17-To All The Girls… (Prod. by Scoop DeVille)
18-One Night (Visitourists)(Prod. by Styles Davis)
19-Gonna Do feat. Synickle (Prod. by Styles Davis)
20-The Matchstick (Joni)(Prod. by Phil A)
21-Smell The Flowers (Prod. by DJ Shanestream)
22-Numb (WDGAF)(Prod. by Noah 40)
23-Constellation Boy (Prod. by Omino Jakku)
24-The Breaks (Prod. by Styles Davis)

Official street album cover for “Ominous” available tuesday April 10th. Click Here for Release Party Info