The Native Tongues are celebrating 30 years with their own festival that will debut in July. The ’90s rap collective that comprises De La Soul, The Jungle Brothers and Monie Love among others is having a concert at The Anthem in D.C. with a full lineup. Leaders Of The NewContinue Reading
[youtube id=”httV17tXBePgfo”] The Roots On The Tonight Show The Roots showed everyone again why they are the hardest working hip-hop band with their consistent sweat as Jimmy Fallon’s house band. Whether it was Black Thought improving a rap about the Games Of Thrones or their recent appearance with Shigeru Miyamoto toContinue Reading
[youtube id=”-SJJ0076bx4″] Heresy is a new all woman rap crew founded by Native Tongue legend Monie Love and it includes Carolina Dirty, Dominique Larue and MyVerse. “Da Call Out” is their first single and video and it is a critique of police brutality, Worldstarhiphop and the objectification of women inContinue Reading
Monie Love had already mastered rhyming over the classic R&B sample when she reconfigured The Whispers’s “And The Beat Goes On” into her 1988 single “I Can Do This.” “It’s A Shame (My Sister)” was another rap song assisted by an obvious R&B instrumental this time from The Spinners’s “It’sContinue Reading