Best of 2006: City of the Year
Baltimore
“This is not a rich city in terms of money, so people become rich in spirit and soul.”
-Labtekwon
If Atlanta beat New York down to the ground to take the crown for City of the Year in ‘05, then Baltimore snuck in from the back to give the final lethal body blow in ‘06. B-more [...]
Random Ish Radio 016 - Jay-Z Banger, New Ghostface, Unreleased Nas
MP3 Download: The Couch Sessions Podcast - Random Ish Radio 016
Yes, I know that it’s been a while since I posted a Random Ish Radio for y’all, but of course, I have my default excuse: work. It’s the same excuse that I used for not going to the Lupe show on Tuesday, [...]
Straight Up Menace
UGK - Pocket Full of Stones
Has to be tied for one of the best songs on the Menace II Society soundtrack (which would be the best soundtrack ever if it weren’t for Above the Rim and Murder Was the Case) and definitely stood as a proper introduction for UGK to the west coast. Featured [...]
What Ever Happened To…Cool Breeze?
Cool Breeze feat Outkast and Goodie Mob - Watch for the Hook
With all of the praise and appreciation that’s given to the Dungeon Family, I consider the collective a sad case. Why? Well, for every platinum success (Outkast, Goodie Mob), there were platinum misses (Joi, Sleepy Brown, Killer Mike). And unfortunately, the “second generation” artists [...]
23 is back
Saturday(12/16) people. I’m pretty sure these will be a general release shoe, so check your local footlocker, finishline, etc. Don’t sleep though, make sure you are there EARLY ENOUGH cause they will go quickly.
Read More...The Coup/Mr Lif Injured in Bus Crash. Tour Postponed.
The Coup and Mr. Lif’s bus flipped over in California on route to San Diego on a leg of their tour. From OKP:
early this morning about 40 miles off sandiago the bus lif, metro, wiz and the coup were in flipped and burst into flames. there were varying degrees of injuries but everyone is alive [...]
Russell Simmons Fronts For DeBeers
Related: Check out our interview with Kareem Edouard, Director of “Bling: Consequences and Repercussions”
Clyde at Pro-Hip-Hop is reporting that Russell Simmons has been hired by the notorious DeBeers corporation to combat all the bad PR that is supposedly going to cripple the diamond industry after the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond opens in theaters.
The movie, [...]
DC People: Lupe Fiasco, Flex Matthews, Asheru
Asheru - Boondock’s Theme
Flex Matthews - For Yourself
This is downright crazy. Lupe Fisaco is finally doing a proper show in DC at the 9:30 club, and he has local MC’s Flex Matthews and Asheru taking the stage as openers. Since a lot of our readers aren’t from DC, I take it of you haven’t heard [...]
Review: K-OS - Atlantis
K-OS
Atlantis
Woe is the life of the suburban black kid. He’s always put in the position of being too “white” for the black mainstream, and too “black” to fully assimilate into white mainstream culture. Sure, suburban black kids have survived to create wonderful music (Pharrell is the best example of this), but unfortunately, it seems that [...]
Read More...You Would Say I Was The New Dre….
Game interview in Rolling Stone:
How many Beefs are you currently maintaining?
I’ve had more beefs than a f-ckin’ cattle farm. My last one was with G Unit, but then I started my G-U-Not campaign, so them guys are finished. Now I’m looking for someone to beef with
How do you like to relax?
I like [...]
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