First Impressions: Kanye West - Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape

Kanye West - Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape (zip file)
So after getting multiple error messages from Rapdishare AND Megaupload (wtf?), I finally got my hands on the Kanye West Can’t Tell Me Nothing Mixtape. I’m providing a link from a contact on Myspace. I’m providing the link as a public service, but who knows how [...]

NYC People: Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festival

If you’re up in NYC, you should check out the fifth annual Hip-Hop Odyssey International Film Festival which officially starts tomorrow May 31st and runs through June 17th. The list of films being shown this year include Wu: The Story of the Wu-Tang, I Love Hip-Hop in Morocco, Guilty Or Innocent of Using the N [...]

The Top 5 Songs For The Summer

So the calendar says that Summer officially starts on June 22. Forget that…we all know that summer started this past weekend. And with another summer comes another summer anthem. The summer anthem is like the summer blockbuster. It’s mindless, and has no redeeming social value, but you know you’re gonna see it anyway (word to [...]

GET OFF YA BUTT AND BUY SOMETHING…..

The Couch Sessions store, Off the Couch, is now open for business.

Random Ish: Friday May 25th, 2007

First off, I’m taking a real short hiatus from the site. Its Memorial Day weekend people and the last thing I wanna do is sit in front of the computer. Unlike most people I know, I’ll actually be in town this weekend, but I’m gonna be incognegro until Tuesday. And seriously why would you be [...]

It Only Gets BETTER…

BETTER THAN YOURS presents….
HEADBANGER STEEZ
FRI May 25th
(and every 4th Friday of the month after)
@
Selam
1524 U ST. NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20009
DJs Jerome Baker and Doddie Fresh spin the absolute best in HIP HOP, R&B, REGGAE, INDIE, HOUSE, ETC. Super cheap drinks to help you dance your pain and rent checks away!
COME THRU AND MY NEPHEW WILL [...]

More New Common: Black Maybe and Misunderstood

Common - Misunderstood
Common - Black Maybe
I wasn’t going to post about these new Common tracks, but that’s before I heard them mainly because I’ve posted some stuff from Finding Forever before. However, these tracks are the best hip-hop songs I’ve heard this year. Period.
Black Maybe is being produced by your friend Kanye West who is [...]

New Music: Laura Izibor

www.myspace.com/lauraizibor
Laura Izibor - From My Heart to Yours (streaming)
Is it me, or has the US been severely lacking in the soul game lately? Yeah, we invented the genre, and we were riding high during the whole Neo Soul thing, but in the past couple of years, Europe has been kicking our a$$ like [...]

Random Ish - Friday May 18th, 2007

Culture jammin’ from Wooster Collective.
Good lawd, I haven’t done one of these in a long time. Time to get it started…
First up…GAS PRICES! WTF is up with this? Seriously, I filled my car up last week and it was $3.15 a gallon in Virgina. I guess i can’t complain too much cause I [...]

Events: UK Broken Beat, O-Dub’s Listening Party

Most people know that I’m a huge fan of the UK Broken Beat seen and have been for years now. Anyway, I’m pleased to see that London’s Co-Op party is making an appearance in DC tonight at Liv. Making an apparence is the one and only Daz-I-Kue from Bugz In The Attic and the Ill [...]

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