Initially, I had this entire post mapped out about how Phonte’s “The Good Fight” describes my life and how it strikes a nerve that moves me to the point of chills each time I hear the record. Then I realized, doing so would be selfish. Read the rest of this entry »

The treacherous three of Rapsody x Eric. G. x Kenneth Price are back at it once again for some alphabet soup to keep For Everything on your radar. “C” is for consistency because that’s what the Carolina songbird is delving in on her quest to obtain the Queendom. Read the rest of this entry »

What better way to kick off Charity Starts At Home’s visual campaign than with “Dance In The Reign.” Peep game as Phonte puts on for his mortgage, bills and food, the same things that pull us out of bed everyday. Read the rest of this entry »

“All black everything, polo and socks/Symbolize we’re not defeated by the system and cops…”

With a clenched fist in the air and draped in the color of solitude and pride, Rapsody is representing the real without preaching from a pulpit. Eric G. supplies the type of versatile beat where you can just snap with lyrical flair and Raps doesn’t disappoint and it’s just not all black everything, it’s For Everything. Read the rest of this entry »

You can travel all across the globe but in time, you’ll find there’s no place like home. Rapsody isn’t exactly from Kansas; she hails from the top Carolina and is damn proud of it. Not since Bubba Sparxxx has a rapper kicked top notch game from a cornfield and Raps takes it back to her roots with her parents in tow for some heartfelt, down home cookin’. Read the rest of this entry »

MCing is becoming more fashionable as of late and Skyzoo That Dude makes sure he steps into the booth with the Nike Air Foamposites every time he wants to spaz on the track. Modeling his steez after Anfernee in his prime, the slept-on flavor of N*E*R*D’s “God Bless Us All” gets makeshifted into a tongue-twisting lecture for the second entry in The Penny Freestyle Series (“Otis” was the first). Read the rest of this entry »

The Tape Deckers are back on the road again in their continous conquest of championing Skyzoo That Dude as a chief commentator. If you think that was a lot of C’s, I have one more for you in: candy. Eye candy to be exact. Director Kenneth Price subtley makes Sky’s lucious lemon drop sidekick the primary focus of the clip, allowing the NYC platter of high grade lyricism to come in for the second course. Read the rest of this entry »

To make a video, all Skyzoo needs is a camera, a chair, a little bit of light and an assist from director Kenneth Price. No fancy locale, video vixens, or what not. For “The Definitive Prayer,” the first cut released from his upcoming mixtape The Great Debater, his lyrics take center stage. Read the rest of this entry »

King Mez drops a visual for “Something’s Missing,” one of the Khyrsis produced tracks from the co-op release, The King’s Khrysis EP. Read the rest of this entry »