Author: Nanci O Is Hip Hop

Last week during September’s Feature Night Thursdays, both Greensboro’s FSM and Raleigh’s King Mez were live in the studio. The station was having technical difficulty that night so audio from their interviews are unavailable. Thankfully Wykia was on deck and caught this footage on her phone of the fellas freestyling over Biggie’s “Who Shot Ya”.…

Shot by Rex Arrow at Kooley High’s album release show at SOB’s in NYC. If you didn’t know, Raleigh, NC’s Kooley High is living in New York (Brooklyn to be exact, and with the exception of Rapsody and producer Sinopsis) for a year to get their buzz and fan base up even more. Run That…

Off the Raleigh emcee’s Not Your Average Joe mixtape.

This is a throwback track produced by 9th Wonder and from a group called The A.L.L.I.E.S.. They released an EP back in 2005 called 9th Wonder Presents The A.L.L.I.E.S. It came free with 9th Wonder & Buckshot’s Chemistry album, when you bought it from Hiphopsite.com. The A.L.L.I.E.S. was Big Remo and Novej’s two man group…

Off YahZarah’s latest album The Ballad Of Purple Saint James, available in stores now. It’s worth the $, trust.

I think ATL native (and current West Coast resident) Ayomari is one of those underground rappers folks had forgotten about. His debut mixtape The PB & J Solution dropped back in January and then that was it. Now I see he’s on the lineup for A3C and has this video out. Not sure if the…

Yet another one of my fav female emcees, New Orleans’ TheSeKondElement, has a new project coming soon. Metrical Komposition is the title and September 30 is the release date. Don’t sleep. Download ‘Who You Know?’.

Producer (ternt emcee) 9th Wonder has been teaching for a while now. First at North Carolina Central University, now at Duke University with Dr. Mark Anthony Neal and their ‘The Art Of Sampling Soul’ class. 9thmatic also has a class at Barber Scotia College. “In this episode follow Maestro and 9th Wonder to North Carolina’s…

J. Bully aka Professor Roberts just dropped a new street album. J. Bully is best known around Durham,NC for the hip hop classes he teaches at Duke University, going strong for the past couple of years. Download The Book Of Bully. Back cover and tracklisting after the jump.