Seeing that Jay-Z was just announced as a top performer on Bonnaroo’s MySpace (remember that site?), I couldn’t help but wonder, who’s selling out more in this arrangement? The hippie jam band fest in cohorts with the Hip-Hop’s icon of individual capitalistic gain? Or the self-proclaimed...

If you weren’t stuck in a Stuper Bowl haze last year, you might remember Denny’s did the unthinkable and and ran advertisements for free Grand Slam breakfasts for one-day only, which – of course – were so successful the chain of family restaurants decided give the promo another...

Pill, Yela, Prynce, Ghet-O-Vision, Educated Villians, Greg Street and other parts of our extended ATL family will be holding it down @ Lenny’s Bar on 2.12.10. If you’re in the area and you’re not there, you just may very well be lame. And let me throw you this while we’re gathered...

For his first headlining gig in rap’s capital, Gangsta Gibbs didn’t play it safe. The vast majority of those in attendance at the Highline Ballroom two weeks ago were never going to be rapping along with Gibbs bar for bar with him still being new and all, so he took the opportunity to debut some...

Seems like we’ve been here before, Grammys. The award show is teetering on the edge of exploitation. Follow me here. The Grammy head honchos know where their bread is buttered. They know that Hip-Hop is at the forefront of the musical landscape, so their headline performance (for the second year in...

The last solo set delivered by Freddie Gibbs on a New York City stage was rudely cut short. Apparently, sparking an L while rockin’ the mic is a no-go downtown at SOBs. Hopefully (if Freddie hasn’t learned his lesson), the rules will be different some 20 blocks north at the Highline Ballroom....

Can I have your attention please. I try not to discuss things before they’re ready to come to fruition but I figure it’s only fair so you can get your ducks in a row. While I can’t reveal all the details just yet, I know a majority of you are working schmucks like myself (hell, I’m...

The rain drenched streets of New York didn’t stop the heads from coming to Illmind’s Blaps, Rhymes & Life IV event at Santos Party House last Wednesday. With the free beer providing my buzz, I ask Illmind who was hosting the event. He gives me one of those dude head nods in my direction....

The What: In honor of his latest digital compilation, Blaps, Rhymes & Life Vol. 4, music producer extraordinaire, Illmind is holding an event on Wednesday, December 2, 2009. This is the third installment of Illmind’s series of lifestyle parties spotlighting some of today’s hottest artists...

Without the deep pockets of a major label and promotional plugs that know no limits, the independent Hip-Hoppers of today are best compared to the bluesmen of the past: Packing into vans, sedans and caravans, taking their show on the road taking little with them but their instruments and the clothes...

At this point in my blogging career, there’s no need to describe situations as “surreal.” They aren’t, so using the word is hyperbole. Not to say that they aren’t unique and that doing this hasn’t afforded its share of opportunities that I know I wouldn’t have...

Remember those cops a few months back who were caught playing Nintendo Wii during a drug bust?  The one’s that spent nine hours of taxpayer’s money practicing for the PAL Bowling League?

I’m not sure if I have a true bucket list of performers I’d like to see, as I’ve seen the majority. KRS? Yep and it was amazing. The Roots? Baddest yet. The Wu, both as a whole, the solo sets and splinter groups? Yep, yep and yep. PE @ their peak. Cypress Hill when they first lit the...

Brett Farve did it. Jordan did it. Hell, even Jesus is supposed to do it. So doesn’t it make sense that Jesus’ older brother and idol, Ric Flair, is coming out of retirement too?

If my pockets could keep up with my thoughts, I’d enjoy life a whole lot more.