North Carolina/Virgina emcee collective Alpha Male Society continue with their 2012 mission: the group of emcees and producers come together like Voltron to release an EP every month in order to showcase the variety of talent between the two states.
This month’s AMSoc offering celebrates April’s "national" weed holiday. Production comes courtesy of X3M, Leland Jones, L’Orange, Verbal, Poe Mack, JMProductions and more.
Super High 2 is also the follow up to Big Hop’s Super High mixtape, which was released almost exactly two years ago on, yep you guessed it, April 20, 2010.
Oh yeah, also shout out to Roanoke, VA’s Poe Mack, who was featured in the New York Times earlier this month. Nice!
Super High 2– Download. Alternate link.
Run That Back:
The Jake x AMSoc (Alpha Male Society) — I Believe In The Tears Of A Girl Named Hannah (EP).
Guest Column: Lamont Lilly (@LamontLilly) — Phonte Coleman, Hip Hop “Soul Man”
Durham, NC based activist, Lamont Lilly is a columnist for the African American Voice and contributing editor with the Triangle Free Press. Follow him on Twitter @LamontLilly.
It was two weeks ago and six months late that I finally purchased Phonte Coleman’s solo debut, “Charity Starts At Home,” one of three specialty releases marking North Carolina’s first official Hip Hop Day, September 27th 2011.
In lieu of such an admission, there’s no question that Duke University’s Hip Hop Studies curriculum will probably be studying this young man 10 years from now, “Mark Anthony Nealites” wisely declaring how great he was. What’s funny is that those of us who know him often say, “Oh that’s just Phonte.” How sad that right here at home we fail to hail our homegrown prominence.
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