Announced: The Roots Picnic in Philly

Wow. So Every weird Black person on the East Coast is gonna be at this event. Including me. More details as they come.

Facebook Music Stumbles Out of the Gate

Facebook, known to many as the “grown and sexy” version of MySpace, is slowly rolling out its music platform in order to compete with the dominant social networking giant. Although MySpace has twice as many members as Facebook, the smaller, scrappier site is actually adding subscribers at a faster rate, and many people in the [...]

Jack Davey vs. The Industry

Things aren’t going well with J*Davey and their deal with Warner Brothers records. Last week, Miss Jack Davey posted a manifesto on her personal blog:
this is intended for all of you lowly puppets who sit in your big offices in big buildings that will soon be out of business & thus, forced to hold vacant [...]

Update: RIP Pimp C

TMZ is reporting this as well as Concrete Loop. What the hell is going on??
Update: Got this in my inbox from UGK’s record label:
It is with great sadness that Jive Records announces the passing of Chad “Pimp C” Butler, a member of the celebrated rap duo UGK (Underground Kingz). Jive Records’ President and CEO [...]

Kick Out The Jams

http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/217/1061/28464.html
“The sixth release from the en fuego T&A Records comes courtesy of Baltimore’s own Dave Nada. If you don’t know Dave, he’s played in a bunch of hardcore bands around the Bmore/DC area, produced with one of the guys from Q & Not U under the name Rubber Bullets, and now holds it down as [...]

Miri Ben Ari, Your 15 Minutes of Fame Are Up.

Paul Dateh - Violin Sampler
I never got Miri Ben Ari. Sure she was attractive. Sure, she could play violin, but honestly her only real true claim to fame is being backup strings for Kanye West and Twista. As much as she wants to claim that she’s the “Hip-Hop Violinist”, the album that bears [...]

Music News: No Fugees Reunion, New Gnarls Album, Spank Rock

No Fugees Reunion
According to your by Pras, the new Fugees reunion album ain’t happening:
“We went in the studio and recorded a couple records that were incredible. But, to put it nicely, it’s dead,” says Pras. “Me and Clef, we on the same page, but Lauryn [Hill] is in her zone, and I’m fed [...]

Random Ish: Monday, July 9, 2007

Please give me a reason, as a grown man who is turning 27 next month, not to buy this.
And the Transformers movie is hands down the best movie I’ve seen all summer. If you’re an 80’s baby you owe it to yourself to go and see it.
Hope everybody had a good 4th of July cause [...]

Akon Dropped from Verizon, Issues Statement

I usually don’t talk about Akon on this blog cause I got sick and tired of his omnipresence a long time ago. Case in point: somehow my clock radio alarm got switched from buzz to radio mode this past week, so I hear this dude’s voice almost three times before I even get out of [...]

Walking While Black: Nas and Kells “treated like terrorists”

Another week, another rapper getting harrased by the authorities.
This time its Nas and Kelis who were rushed by security at a House of Blues in San Diego. Nas tells AllHipHop.com that:
We came to the club, all excited. Couldn’t wait to get here. [The tour venues] have been sold out every night. The energy [...]

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