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What has AFLAC done to my culture??? Not since MC Hammer danced for chicken in a KFC advertisement have I felt my culture so disrespected through advertising.  Beat boxing frogs, a duck spinning lily pads like turntables, a worm doing the “worm” and a Flavor Flav esque pigeon.  Not to mention the ad that preceded it in which a duck and a pigeon have a break dance battle (which I tried to ignore).   Who exactly thought that this ad was a good idea for one or appealing?  And who exactly was this ad geared towards? Read more…

Two of the biggest names in hip-hop, two stages, a thousand diamonds one city on one night.  The two names Jay-Z and Kanye West, the two stages a main stage and a mid crowd platform, the thousand diamonds the thousands in attendance, the city Washington DC the night November 3, 2011.  Read more…

Consumers loved him competitors feared him and record execs probably secretly hated him.   But Steve Jobs has had more influence on the business of music than any other single individual.  Under Jobs Apple made it easier to produce, record and distribute music than any other entity.  This holds especially true for independent artists even more for independent hip-hop artists.  Read more…

On this day in 1996 Lesane Parish Crooks a.k.a Tupac Shakur a.k.a 2 Pac left this earth (allegedly).  Controversy, poet, revolutionary, MC, actor, prophet, role model (fuck what anybody else says), genius 2 Pac was all of these things.  Pac brought a divine insight to this thing we call hip-hop. Son of Black Panther, raised by the streets, Baltimore School of the Arts attendee Pac was raised in a complexity that would define his life and his music. An interesting thing happened in the wake of the passing of both 2 Pac and Biggie…hip-hop matured for a brief moment in time thus making them martyrs of sorts.  Since then it seems we have lost that maturity that Pac always strived for us as a people to achieve (minus the Death Row years). Read more…

My addiction to hip-hop leads me to scour blogs and hip-hop news sites for new material on a daily basis like many of you.  Every day just like you I come across new content (music, videos, interviews, trailers) from new names pretty much every hour on the hour.  To be completely honest 80%-90% of which is totally disposable in my humble opinion (no O’Riley).  This on going frustration has led me to ask the following question: Are there too many rappers? Read more…

For those of you hitting me up asking why no posts lately….This is the reason I’m working on promoting my first show and its taking 110% out of me…So bear with me and I will get back to blogging soooooon….In the mean time if you are in the DMV area come out and support the show click here for tickets…. Industry Rule 1080

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11 All Black Everything

You know when you have a long work week and friday comes and you hit the happy hour spot or you get to the crib, and you take a sip of that first drink.  You know how that first sip just hits the spot and you just have that moment of clarity that feels sooooo good.  Thats how I feel when I get some new Lupe.  Shouts to Okayplayer

(Redman & Keith Murray Freestyle

Remember when mixtape DJ’s used to actually mix (I’ll give you a minute)………….Yeah its been a while I know but pre-DJ Clue mixtape DJing was an art.  Scratches, cuts, blends,beat juggling and transforming unfortunately are foreign concepts to todays “DJs” but in my golden age of hip-hop 92-98 they were common place on mixtapes.  Mixtapes were the way that DJs built there names in the streets and eventually that would drive them into the clubs some lucky enough to get on radio. Read more…

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There has been a rebirth in one of hip-hop’s original elements over the last few years.  This movement has been spawned by artists clothed in black hoodies that operate in the shadows of many cities around the world. Read more…

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