?uestlove from The Roots talks about when he first discovered Fela Kuti’s music, and walks us through Fela’s influence in yesterday and today’s hip-hop — including works by Mos Def, Macy Grey, D’Angelo, X-Clan, and Leader of the New School. Via: Read more...
Letters to the Editor: they're fun. But the New York Observer doesn't run many of them online! If they did, people would know how unhappy Mos Def is with the New York Observer. But the voice of the people... ...is the voice of blog, and now, the very pissed off letter Mos Def wrote to the Observe... Read more...
This is the first single from Aziz & Dave Sitek’s RAAAAAAAANDY mixtape. Pure genius! We posted a rough version yesterday that Kanye accidentally leaked on his blog. We were asked to take that down until they send a final, which they just did. You’ll notice this has a few different ... Read more...
The song that the internets are dying to hear off that Ski Beatz mixtape. Ski Beatz feat. Jean Grae, Jay Electronica, Joell Ortiz & Mos Def - Prowler 2 (Radio Rip) | Mediafire Props to Senor Kaos for getting this rip from last Thursday’s Squeeze Radio. Read more...
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16/02/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in .zip,
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Click to enlarge So last night 24hourkarateschool.com dropped a .zip with 13min of snippets & an 11min “visual mixtape” (after the jump) of snippets mixed in with in-studio/karate footage. Bad news, at the end of the video trailer, they announce that the tape will be “available March... Read more...
The trailer to Ski Beatz’ mixtape featuring Jay Electronica, Curren$y, Mos Def, Jim Jones, The Cool Kids, Dame Dash, Nikki Wray, Jean Grae, dropping on Monday, February 15th Tomorrow. Shot at DD172 aka “The Dojo.” Directed by Creative Control. Via: Read more...
They wanted to hear Exhibit B, so BMUSE put together the footage of Jay doing Exhibit A and Mos’ verse from the remix. Via: Read more...
Mos Def had a show in San Francisco with Jay Electronica last night and he lashed out on a fan demanding Exhibit B, to which Mos replied that it didn’t exist. Jay Elec explained that they were referring to the Exhibit A remix. Maybe if these guys would be even less clear we wouldn’t have... Read more...
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02/02/2010,
by IAmNotARapperiSpit.com in Artwork,
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While penning an upcoming book, photographer and filmmaker Cognito will display some rare images he captured of Mos while creating The Ecstatic. The week long exhibition presented by HVW8 Art & Design Gallery, Union LA and Frolab kicked off yesterday in L.A. and will be held until Februa... Read more...