hip hop

James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan. According to his obituary at NPR.org, he “was one of the music industry’s most influential hip-hop artists, working [...]

  “Listen up, you’re in a priviledged position to learn a thing or two so kee….” Oh… you came back again. Thanks… We can practice our Denzel later, but right now this is the highly anticipated second & final installment of our ( Spit x DJ Nastee Naj  & Mr. Blair ) in-depth interview with Antwan Davis & Wes Manchild… Enjoy! YOU CAN NOW SUBSCRIBE TO #PODCASTWEDNESDAYS ON iTUNES!!! [...]

Devon Thompson is a Philadelphia born and raised artist/emcee that delivers the love, struggle, life, sound and hustle of Philly unlike any other artist before him.  Imagine if Bill Withers, Bob Marley and Tupac Shakur were born into this new age of music, this new era of hip hop!  Would they be today’s hip hop [...]

Create a MySpace Music Playlist at MixPod.com The Dungeon Family is a hip hop/R&B/soul musical collective, based in Atlanta, Georgia and specializing in Southern hip hop with heavy funk and soul influences. The group derives its name from “The Dungeon”, the name given to record producer Rico Wade‘s basement studio where many of the early [...]

 Legendary producer/host Don Cornelius was found dead early this morning and his Los Angeles home. According to reports, Don Cornelius allegedly took his life from a self-inflicted gunshot. In recent years, the 75-year-old was in failing health and according to various sources, he suffered from dementia. Don Cornelius helped revolutionize black music when he created [...]

Music Playlist at MixPod.com The New York-based Native Tongues crew was a collective of like-minded hip hop artists who would help bring abstract and open-minded lyricism that addressed a range of topics, from spirituality and modern living to race, sex, and just having fun – to the mainstream. Together with the use of eclectic samples [...]

Music Playlist at MixPod.com Dante Terrell Smith is more commonly known as Mos Def also known as Yasin Bey aka Black Dante aka Pretty Flaco aka Flaco Bey aka The Mighty Mos Def aka Bezé Regarded as one of hip-hop’s most introspective and insightful artists, Mos Def has shaped a career that transcends music genres and artistic medium. A child of [...]

Within moments of hearing the pop-pop-pop of gunshots outside her Brewerytown rowhouse just past midnight on May 2, 2010, a sickening feeling hit Vonda Bowser in her gut. “Wood!” she screamed, running out the door. There’d been a confrontation across the street, where her 20-year-old son, Linwood, had been hanging out with a couple friends. Someone had fired a bullet [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com On 12/9/2011  Lana Adams,andLatiaynna Tabb, hosted (and planned) a community panel discussion at Saint Joseph‘s University on The Portrayal of the African American Woman in the Entertainment Industry. The panel was moderated by Philadelphia’s WRNB midday radio host, Moshay Laren and hip-hop scholar and Lehigh University professor, Dr. James Peterson. There [...]

Music Playlist at MixPod.com UGK (short for Underground Kingz) was an American hip hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas formed in 1987 by the late Chad “Pimp C” Butler . He then joined with Bernard “Bun B” Freeman, who became his longtime partner. They released their first major label album, Too Hard to Swallow, in [...]

Dosage is back (finally) with a new offering of hip-hop. Heard most recently on  Lupe Fiasco’s “Friend OF The People” Mixtape, Dosage drops 3D11 just before the end of the year on christmas day.   Dosage – #3D11 (Mixtape)   [...]

The U.S. government seized the domain of a small but influential music blog a year ago under charges that look pretty bogus, then kept it under lock and key for more than a year, according to this completely outrageous story by Mike Masnick at Techdirt. Around Thanksgiving 2010, the Department of Homeland Security seized more [...]