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St.Joe Louis took Future’s “Same Damn Time” and put their lyrics over the track and created “CCSDT.”

Ice-T talks about materialistic rappers, New Jack City and what he did with the house he had on MTV Cribs in this clip for The LIFE.Files. Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap comes out June 15th.

Black Spade and Coultrain directed this video for “If You Were My Baby” from their Hawthorne Headhunter’s Myriad Of Now album.

“Vinnie Chase” is the latest single from 4th Pyramid but it’s not on his Pyramid Scheme project. He has help from Toronto native Rich Kidd who is the producer of this song about Hollywood moments in Pyramid’s career.

April 30th is International Jazz Day and various cultural workers, artists, educational institutions and fans will observe it with concerts, workshops, film-viewings and exhibitions. The Jazzday website will stream the Sunset and Sunrise concerts tomorrow live from their New Orleans and New York City locations. Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Ron Carter, [...]

Kimberly Nichole gave a concert April 23rd at The Rock Music Hall in New York City. “Johnny Come Lately” and her soulful cover of the White Stripes’s “Seven Nation Army” are from her Yellow Brick Journey and Rock Ballerina projects.

Sharon Brown is a singer from Harlem who sang back-up vocals on Aretha Franklin’s 1979 album La Diva. She wrote and sang “The Family Tree” that was an underground club hit in 1981. “I Specialize In Love” was released in 1982 and it is a timeless dance track that put Brown on the Billboard charts [...]

2. Why is Carmen Bryan angry with Nas for making the song “Daughters” about his irresponsibility as a father but she didn’t think it was wrong to write a book detailing her personal business that one day her child would be able to read?

Nas reminds everyone that he is “The Don” os New York rap before the July 17th release of Life Is Good.

Redman has made another song dedicated to his favorite activity with help from Ready Roc.