Author: Nanci O Is Hip Hop

Chapel Hill’s SkyBlew and Azon Blaze (collectively known as Blaze The Sky) are coming together once again to present an event featuring some of RDU’s finest emcees. Drique London, K. Hill, All I Can See Is, Bipp and Rudolph Lyrics are all set to hit the stage. If you love hip hop, dope emcees and…

This is that young grown people’s music. I think this song has been out for a minute because I remember hearing it on a soul mixtape back in summer 2010.Anthony David’s As Above, So Below is set to drop later this month.

This week marks the two year anniversary of Kosmic Kickz Rare & Exclusive Sneakers. Next Sunday February 20, 2011 the store will be celebrating it’s two year anniversary. In anniversary episode #2 follow “Kosmo” the Kosmic Kickz mascot as he gets ready for his 2nd birthday.You can also find pieces from the Nanci O Is…

Drive. Ambition. Passion. Do you have what it takes to be a “Game Changer”? Danyel Smith sits down with Janelle Monae, B.O.B., Estelle and Lupe Fiasco in part 2 of the Game Changers series to discusses what it means to be a game changer, a “person who comes into the industry and shifts the energy…

Off the North Carolina hip hop band’s debut album Silence Fiction. The Beast along with hip hop author MK Asante, Jr will also be featured on CNN. The news outlet will be on UNC’s campus tomorrow filming MK Asante’s Black History Month Lecture at The Sonja Hayes Stone Center. Later this month I’ll be sitting…

Man I can’t believe Chris Brown is rapping now. What times we’re living in these days. Oh yeah, and he sounds like J. Cole too. RR.

Shot during their European tour along with a story line about a relationship between Hollywood Cole and a young lady.

3rd leak off J. Swiss’s upcoming Out Of State Tuition mixtape, dropping March 2. “So Good”– Download. Run That Back:This 1 Is 4 Dilla!!! (EP)–J. Swiss.

More previously unreleased material from Carlitta Durand, this one was recorded circa 2008. “Monster”–Download. Run That Back:“HisStory”–Carlitta Durand.