Author: Nanci O Is Hip Hop

Glennisha Morgan, who runs The Fembassy.com and keeps her blog updated with news on female rappers from around the globe, just launched a weekly vlog where she’ll give the latest news, updates and events on women in hip hop not found on her website. Above is the first episode. If you’d like to learn more…

SUCKER FREE SUNDAYS returns again tonight February 13 to Shakedown Street Raleigh. DJ Flash of the world famous Justus League will be on the tables all night. Drique London is now the official host of every week’s event. If you’re ever in RDU on a Sunday night and looking for a spot to chill and…

My homie International Rope put me up on Tha Joker back in November of last year. He’s a rapper out of Jackson, Mississppi (the same hometown of David Banner) and had previously claimed that Soulja Boy stole his flow. Now before ya’ll start hollering that’s nothing to squawk about, check this dude’s material. Tha Joker…

I know everybody is all over Kendrick Lamar, Dom Kennedy and Nipsey Hussle for top West Coast artists but I gotta throw Vallejo, CA’s Moe Green in the high quality Cali emcee bucket too. His Rocky Maivia: Non Title Match album that dropped last year was kind of slept on. Moe Green’s Lionheart EP is…

Raleigh, NC’s Kooley High released the news early this morning that Fat Beats Distribution will put Eastern Standard Time, Kooley’s latest album, in stores around the globe. This is super major for the crew because they remain independent and unsigned. In late 2009 everyone in the group (with the exception of Rapsody and producer Sinopsis)…

Off Spitta’s upcoming Muscle Car Chronicles. Run That Back:Download Return To The Winner’s Circle (mixtape).

(L) Sadie Hawkins (R) LeLe AKA Bad Bad “Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best”–General George S. Patton “Woman Of Tha City”–LeLe AKA Bad Bad “Vouch For That”–Sadie Hawkins The Carolinas has a handful of independent female rappers that are really working…

Gospel rapper J. Prophet and Yale Divinity School student last seen thuggin’ in the name of Jesus while shooting a “Roger That” remix video in a church and dropping an actual Jesus centered Christmas track, is gearing up to drop a debut mixtape soon, V2. I’ve never been a fan of gospel rappers, not because…

Recently Common was a guest speaker at Illinois State University to give a talk on “The Effect of Hip Hop on American Society”. After the speech he dropped a couple of bars. Oh yeah, this is definitely the Common I miss, the one who drops thought provoking rhymes over dope beats.