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Jesse Boykins III has recorded his version of Andre 3000′s “Prototype” but I still prefer Raheem Devaughn’s version.

(New York, NY) – Kelly Rowland and ?uestlove celebrate their love for Soul Train, the innovative, culturally influential and significant music show, by making promotional appearances to support the release of “The Best of Soul Train,” a 3 DVD set hitting retail August 31 for the first time via Time Life.

Bay Area Soul Singer Goapele to host I.S.I.S Science & Culture Festival on Sunday, September 5th at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California with NASA’s first ever holographic presentation featuring Rapper/Actor Mos Def & Astronaut Leland Melvin, encouraging the youth to embrace Science, Math & Discovery Location: Chabot Space & Science Center [...]

Check out BET’s pretty thorough documentary on women in rap. This piece is long overdue.

Listen to Lead Singles “Chicago Sunrise” & “The Strong Survive” (August 30, 2010 – Los Angeles, California) – When the zeitgeist of the day is hustle over talent, it’s increasingly rare to find an artist with the ingenuity to seamlessly intersect these seemingly uncorrelated criteria. But with a salacious flick of her tongue and a [...]

Here is the video for the first single from Jazmine’s second album Love Me Back.

(August 30, 2010 – Brooklyn, NY) After announcing the closing of their New York and Los Angeles locations, Fat Beats is excited to present a send-off worthy of their hip-hop legacy. A week-long series of in-store performances and music industry panels at both stores will allow the music community to not only learn about the [...]

Supernatural freestyles at Rock The Bells. He will never stop rhyming.

Fourteen month ago the magic and majesty known as Michael Jackson fled this earth in a chemically induced rest that was the climax to a longstanding downward spiral. The shock felt from his passing was an emotional blow that made the possibility of him ever returning to any kind of glory a definite no. However, [...]

Phonte and Nicolay talked with LAStereo about the politics of being independent artists. The Foreign Exchange’s Authenticity is coming out October 12th.