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The Detroit Experiment was a collaborative album helmed by techno maestro Carl Craig as a follow-up to Rope A Dope Records’s Philadelphia Experiment. Craig and various cross-generational Detroit artists crafted techno, jazz, hip-hop and R&B into a unique fusion representing the city’s past, present and future in sound. Donald Byrd’s “Think Twice” is reworked and set to a torrid house groove that gets hotter with each note from Marcus Belgrave’s trumpet. Byrd was also a native Detroiter and his version of Larry Mizell’s composition kept with the album’s theme. The Detroit Experiment’s inventive sound produced by some of Detroit’s best musicians made the album an instant artifact reflecting Craig and company’s longstanding innovation in each genre.

World Hip Hop Women: From The Sound Up by Mixed by DJ LaJedi

World Hip-Hop Women:From The Sound Up is a mixtape of various female rappers from around the globe. Nomadic Wax put this mix together to showcase the underrated voices of women in hip-hop.

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The Fembassy is presenting Turn Me Up a film about underground female emcees being directed by Glennisha Morgan. The project is still in the production phase and you can contribute to its completion by visiting their Indie Go Go page.

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Invincible and Waajeed have delivered a community-oriented video and it’s good! Detroit can use all the morale boosting it can get.