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Phonte

    MIXTAPE: Zo! Just Visiting Too

    Download: Zo! Just Visiting Too
    Zo! – Perfect Angel Feat Yahzarah
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    If you were at any of The Foreign Exchange’s live shows, you would recognize Silver Spring Maryland’s ZO! manning the keys on their breakout performance. We all know that Zo has been on his grind for a while, working with [...]

    November 3, 2009 2 Comments

    Is Jazzanova’s Of All Things The Album of the Year?

    It’s not that I don’t like “street” hip-hop, or the pop music that plays on the radio, it’s just that I feel sorry that most of America won’t ever hear this new album from Jazzanova, and it’s my duty to spread the word. We already heard the collaboration with Phonte that I posted in October, [...]

    December 9, 2008 2 Comments

    Album Review: Foreign Exchange – Leave it All Behind

    Foreign Exchange
    Leave It All Behind

    Netherlands producer Nicolay, and MC, Phonte one half of Little Brother have come together for their second Foreign Exchange effort entitled Leave it All Behind. With Nicolay moving to North Carolina where Phonte is from and still resides, one would think studio sessions as opposed to the Internet and file sharing [...]

    November 12, 2008 2 Comments

    New Music: Jazzanova feat. Phonte: “Look What You’re Doin’ To Me”

    Jazzanova feat. Phonte – “Look What You’re Doin’ To Me”
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    Phonte is putting his singing skills to work…first with Zo! and his 80s joint, then with the excellent new Foreign Exchange album, and now with a new track from German beatmakers Jazzanova, which highlights his finest vocal work to date.
    The [...]

    October 14, 2008 4 Comments

    Album Preview: Foreign Exchange – Leave It All Behind

    Foreign Exchange – Leave It All Behind (Album Sampler)
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    I’ve been listening to this album sampler for a day now and I’m hooked. I will leave my final judgements for when the official copy slides my way, but so far, Leave It All Behind is making me excited for music [...]

    September 18, 2008 4 Comments

    Upcoming DC Shows: Mos Def, Chromeo, Kool Keith, Clipse, Wale

    Wow, the line-up of shows for September and October in this city is going to be insane. Mos Def is going to be in town this weekend at the Kennedy Center (don’t get mad if you didn’t buy tickets–I warned y’all) doing his rendition of hip-hop and jazz classics. Should be tight. Phonte rolls through [...]

    September 16, 2008 3 Comments

    As the Phonte Turns…

    More Phonte drama. Man, the dude can’t catch a break. Now, Eternia (whom we’ve featured a couple times on this site), is all upset because Phonte called her Tit-ernia in a joking matter and sent her off the deep end.
    According to her MySpace blog, after the “incident”, she ” I felt as small as…. as [...]

    July 27, 2006 3 Comments