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Lion Babe’s reworking of Yasiin Bey’s “Umi Says” is a fun ride inspired by the duo’s admiration for NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Sherrilyn Ifill. The proceeds from the first two million streams of the song will go to the Legal Defense Fund. The duo made a statement about theirContinue Reading
Amerigo Gazaway releases the Aretha Franklin and Black Star project Young, Gifted & Black on what would have been Franklin’s 77th birthday. Gazaway took the title from Franklin’s 1972 album and the actual single and blended it with Black Star’s “Hip-Hop (Screamixx)” lyrics from The Boondocks official mixtape. Franklin passedContinue Reading