Perhaps the last trickle before the dam breaks. Read the rest of this entry »

Mighty Mighty Mos back with another digital short. Check the promo for Read the rest of this entry »

Spring & summer need the appropriate colors to signify the change in season. Nike is celebrating SneakersBR’s 2nd anniversary with this Air Max 1 Premium Lanceiro in a Birch/White-Neon Turquoise-Comet Red colorway. The graphics & materials used make for a clean sneaker. I think I’ll dub these the Hawaiian Punch AM1′s.

Check Mita’s or at Nike Sportswear accounts in the coming weeks. More pics after the break. Read the rest of this entry »

247HH’s cameras caught up with Underground King Bun B @ a recent in-store appearance @ St. Alfred’s in Chicago. In the clip, Bun breaks down what used to be the recording process, finding Read the rest of this entry »

Charles is quite the abrasive character with others taking shots @ him left & right. At the end of the day and even barring my own personal indecision about how I feel about him as a person, as an entertainer, he’s still managing to create Read the rest of this entry »

At this point, I’ve seen live performances by the majority of XXL’s 10 Freshman. The only remaining one that I’ve yet to see is actually the first one that we predicted would be a musical noisemaker a couple of years ago. Coming full circle, I’ll be going to check out Wale on Saturday as his Attention Deficit tour makes its way through Nashville. Read the rest of this entry »

Mayer Hawthorne is a man of distinction — he wears argyle sweaters, neckties and sunglasses five days out of seven, and subsists on breakfast foods two of three square meals a day. Banana pancakes, well-done hash browns with the peppers and onions, turkey sausage, Clancy’s Fancy hot sauce, coffee, OJ and so on. He takes pictures of every plate in front of him that inspires a beat, whips up a quick Sidekick™ boom bap and forwards the food/beat pairing to anyone within range of a text message.

To ask Mayer Hawthorne to choose between music and food is to ask him to choose a limb to amputate. This is a man who won’t divulge his sources for rare vinyl and who posts blog entries when Wendy’s™ is having a sale on Frosties™. So we combined his loves — I asked him to pick his favorite five Motown® joints that inspired his upcoming Mayer Hawthorne and the County album, A Strange Arrangement, and to put the song with a favorite food dish. Like the freshest wine and cheese pairing of your life…

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Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – “Once I Got To Know You”

“Best enjoyed with a Double Double and Animal Style Fries from In-N-Out. I wasn’t really feeling In-N-Out at first, but once I got to know it, I couldn’t help but love it.” Read the rest of this entry »

Mike Jones is going out his way to give y’all the best experience possible with The Voice and it seems like you just don’t give a damn. Read the rest of this entry »

Words By Jesse H.

One of my lifelong goals after becoming a certified Hip-Hop head was to play an Ice Cube song during a classroom presentation and suffer no ramifications. I’m proud to say that I accomplished my goal Freshman year of college by weaving in “Endangered Species (Tales From the Dark Side)” during a presentation on “Shaft!” to illustrate the evolution of the militant Black voice found in blaxploitation films to a more contemporary example.

While having my professor tell me it was “the awesomest thing they’ve ever seen” (actual quote) was a rewarding moment, what I appreciated most about the assignment is how Read the rest of this entry »

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In my humble opinion, you can hang this mixtape up in the rafters alongside the greats. If I ever caught wind of the proposed Triangle Offense album ever dropping, you could keep Detox & OBC4L2. But only Read the rest of this entry »

New video from the Neezle, addressing all you fair weather rap fans who discriminate on looks alone. Read the rest of this entry »

I hate to swipe a whole post but I was literally laughin @ Info’s description of this clip. Read the rest of this entry »

Jade’s “Blessed Memory” made it to the inbox, only marked with the question “You like this?” To which I responded, “Of course I do. I love singing whiny white chicks. But she sounds like somebody I’ve heard before.” I Googled, found her MySpace and found her EP available for free. Why not?

After digging my mental memory bank, it finally occurred Read the rest of this entry »

In these tough economical situations, you’d expect Hip-Hop to follow suit and return to a more frugal viewpoint with the rhymes. While the majority of rappers rather perpetrate like they have a million dollars in pocket money, there’s still a select few who feel like keeping it real can do no wrong. Honesty is the best policy.

By way of Norfolk, Virginia, Mic Legacy Read the rest of this entry »