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Tabi Bonney is still having fun promoting his Ski Beatz produced The Summer Years. This time it’s a sexy and confident video for “Beautiful Lover.”

Planet Asia helped jump-start the West Coast independent hip-hop movement, releasing a slew of popular 12-inch singles on upstarts like Stones Throw and ABB Records in the late 90s that established him as one of the leaders of a crop of talent that included the likes of Dilated Peoples, Madlib, Murs, and Jurassic 5. Now [...]

Los Angeles based R&B singer Brooke Taylor just released her video for “Dear Archer” from her L.O.V.E. debut. Download “Dear Archer” Download L.O.V.E.

“The Night” is the latest song from Stalley’s Lincoln Way Nights to get a video. He’s already working on Savage Journey to the American Dream that doesn’t have a release date yet.

After performing at the “Hip-Hop For Haiti” concert at S.O.B.’s in New York last year, hip-hop emcee, Cormega, is continuing to use his voice to make positive contributions to Haiti. Cormega and Papa Jube will co-host the “Kreyol Hip Hop 4 Haiti” event presented by S.O.B.s and Sak Pase Records to commemorate the lives of [...]

Diplo, one-half of the Major Lazer production duo, is releasing his first book in April. 128 Beats Per Minute is his personal diary of career travels from Russia to recording studios in Jamaica. Alexander Wang wrote the foreword and Shane Macauley, former assistant to Annie Leibowitz, did the photography.

Frank Ocean was interviewed by the BBC and he discussed his goals for the year ahead and his inspiration among other things.