Bone Thugs To Record With K Fed

Bone Thugs N Harmony have recorded with many of the great rap pinoeers including Biggy and Tupac Shakur, but now they have decided to collaborate with a different level of hip hop artist, namely K...

Knaan Announces Concert Dates With Snoop Dogg

K'NAAN has announced that he will be joining SNOOP DOGG on the road as the opener for the southeast leg of the rapper's national tour. The run begins on May 4th in Little Rock, AR and ends on May...

Producers Spotlight

Super producer in the making, Cory Mo has been bringing heat to various Rap/Hip Hop albums as far back as 1999, after forming M.A.D. STUDIOZ with his brother Mike Mo in Houston, Texas and recently o...

Hip-hop singer Lauryn Hill to headline Stockholm Jazz Festival as part of European tour

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Organizers say former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill will be the headline act for the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July. ...

Featured Indie Artists

Quite Like Me

The debut release of the voice behind High School Musical 1,2 and 3, Cheetah Girls, Sasha and Jade of the Bratz and background singer behind such stars as...
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The Art of Being Alive

Mastered by Stephen Marsh, this unique hip-hop concept album showcases a multitude of styles & sounds, including original guitars, pianos, R&B/ja...
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Natasha Kmeto grew up in Sacramento, CA. Both of her parents are musicians, and there was always music on in the house. Motown, funk, jazz, latin jazz, po...
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Thee Adventures of a B-Boy D-Boy

The dichotomy between radical political thought and mainstream materialism is nothing new in hip-hop (indeed, Tupac based his whole career on it). However...
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Mr. Lif - I Heard It Today

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Mr. Lif is a rarity in Hip Hop. This isn’t speaking to the fact that he’s what many people would label as a “conscious emcee,” but rather that he strikes a nice balance that very few rappers (including ones falling into that category) seem to be capable of. Rather than be scathing to the point of exhaustion like Immortal Technique, Lif is calculating with his indignation, and expresses it without shoving it down your throat.

Mike Jones - The Voice

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Rewind back to 2005. Almost four years ago to the day, Houston’s Mike Jones released his debut, Who Is Mike Jones? And so began the year-long domination of Houston Hip Hop and Swisha House. The irony of Jones’ self-deprecating album title and debut is that he again has fallen into relative obscurity since. Between label politics downgrading his second album to an EP and the short attention span of fans, “who is Mike Jones” may be a legitimate question to some. With The Voice, Jones attempts to recapture the success of his debut.

Chris Brown And Rihanna Pull Out of the Grammy Awards

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Say it isn't so. Chris Brown and Rihanna both skipped the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. But it isn't because the two are on a honeymoon. The couple has some serious drama that is making major headlines.