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 »

“I wonder when you die do you hear harps and bagpipes
If you born on the other side of the crack pipe
Niggas learn math just to understand the crack price
Then dive in head first like a jack knife Read the rest of this entry »

Herman Cain’s Most Embarrassing Gaffes [News One]

Facebooking Juror Kicked Off Murder Trial [MSNBC]

Twitteranti Starring Phonte [GFM] Read the rest of this entry »

I refuse to listen to anything undun more than once, if that much. When December 6 comes, I want to experience it as a whole instead of sampling tracks in piecemeal. Read the rest of this entry »

In this month’s issue of The Source, cover boy Drake dished out his top five albums of all time. One “album” that made the list was Little Brother’s …And Justus For All mixtape. This marks yet another time that Drake has shouted out Little Brother and his love for the group. However, for some reason, all of the cosigning hasn’t led to a single collaboration since Drake’s gotten put on Read the rest of this entry »

Maturity and Hip-Hop go hand in hand like a hobo and an almond-shaped bar of Olay yet Phonte Coleman has made an earnest living from being that guy you revere as a professional artist–and turn around and get chummy with at your local pub. The past few years have been exciting for loyal disciples of the the former Little Brother’s congregation as he has walked the unbeaten path to musical lore with his rap and blues hybrid, the Grammy-nominated ensemble, The Foreign Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »

“My cousin hit me up and said he had to post bail again
‘Cuz my brother back in jail again
Back in that slave ship ‘cuz he tried to sell again
And all that’s going through my mind is ‘how the f*ck am I failing him?’
These young’ns want all of the spoils but none of the toils Read the rest of this entry »

Before the receipt is being printed for your purchase of Phonte’s Charity Starts At Home next Tuesday, two thirds of Little Brother link up to drop one last leak. Read the rest of this entry »

“If you thinkin’ bout quitting you should probably wait/Cause everybody gotta do a f*ckin’ job that they hate…”

As difficult as it is to explain, some songs come along at the right time and speak to you something serious. Read the rest of this entry »

“But what’s the deal with you and 9th on a solo?/I say we was homeboys before rap/n*gga we workin’ on it…” — Phonte from Median’s The Sender.

If there was anything more than a disagreement between Phontigallo and 9th, it isn’t evident in their chemistry in the studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Maybe one day you’ll meet that perfect someone. Then again, maybe you won’t. Regardless, Eric Roberson and Phonte The Great will make music about the proverbial “her” in the meantime. Read the rest of this entry »

Producer Trackademicks has been putting it down all year and he’s continuing the campaign with the release of Fresh Coastin’, a full length project with original creations by the East Bay Area soundman. Read the rest of this entry »

The 9th Wonder of the world has recently been taking heat for his opinions regarding Watch The Throne’s quality but come September 27th, 2011, the producer will have the opportunity to prove he can do much better. It’s The Wonder Years, starring 9th Wonder, in his 137th full-length feature presentation that will surely be an ultimate dream for followers of his movement. Read the rest of this entry »

Phonte knows you all love The Foreign Exchange. Phonte also knows you miss his humor, wit and lyrical dispositions hitting your eardrums on the regular. With that, there’s only one solution. Hit the studio and spill your guts out with your first studio solo album, you say? Read the rest of this entry »

Before Weezy tape dropped, Zo!’s Just Visiting Three was going to be my listening focus today and I think I’m going to stick with it. The latest release in his Just Visiting series of covers features the extended +FE Music family and comes fully produced by Zo! and Phonte for Chapter 3hree Verse 5ive Music/The Foreign Exchange Music. Read the rest of this entry »