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The Hip-Hop Chronicle in the UK interviewed Jean Grae and Pharoahe Monch and we find out that Monch used to be called “The Human Mailbox.”

Faith Evans does Good Day LA to promote her album Something About Faith that’s in stores October 5th.

Someone had to make a song about the Bishop Eddie Long scandal and it’s Aisha Sekhmet. In keeping with her usual Black Nationalist Illuminati critique, Sekhmet chastises Long for being the ultimate sellout.

Here’s the video for the radio edit of “F*ck You.”

(September 28, 2010 – Brooklyn, NY) The wait is finally over. After a string of singles, a handful of visuals, and live performances alongside the likes of Talib Kweli, Big Sean, Mickey Factz, and more, the time has come for the official release of The Niceguys’ widely anticipated debut album, The Show. Releasing the album [...]

How cool is this? Carlos Santana’s version of AC/DC’s “Back In Black” is from his new album Guitar Heaven.

Video director Chris Cunningham and Gil Scott-Heron have done a good job of visualizing Heron’s dark relationship with New York City in this video. Is NYC really that dark for him?

Hollywood, CA – Sometimes we cross paths with others that seem pure accident, with others it seems pre-ordained. For Ruth Adkins Robinson, a call in 1976 for writing help on a live awards show from James Brown’s manager Charles Bobbitt was the first pavestone in the pathway that led to a New York production studio [...]

(Los Angeles, California – September 28, 2010) Nestled between Indiana and Pennsylvania, lies a state that has yet to be fully tapped of it’s musical capacity. In a region whose lineage reflects that of Babyface, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Tracy Chapman, Marilyn Manson, Gerald Levert, The O’Jays, Macy Gray, James Ingram, Roger Troutman and Zapp, The Gapp [...]