Author: Nanci O Is Hip Hop

O.D., one of the most highly anticipated projects of the summer drops September 15. Peeped over at The Dope House.

The listeners love hearing fresh new music on feature night Thursdays and so do I. September 9 it all goes down once again. 9PM-12MN, WYXC 89.3 FM Chapel Hill, NC. Live streaming will be available on the stations’ website. The featured artist interviews for the night will be Greensboro, NC’s Flight School Music and Raleigh,…

Yes, I could have posted their mugshot. But surely by now you’ve already seen it and this is a much classier photo. Between T.I. getting arrested late last week for questionable illegal substances in his Maybach, Young Jeezy falling almost all the way off, 50 Cent playing on Twitter, and Fabulous going back and forth…

You may have seen West Covina, CA emcee Black Karma around these parts once or twice before, he did a track with fellow W.C artist Dice The Nicest earlier this summer, “Blow My Mind”. Anyway this time around Black Karma drops off a single from his upcoming project The Cover Up (not sure if it’s…

Flight School Musics’ Jones Andrews is back with week 8 of his 32 bars/32 beats/32 weeks series. Today he decided to go in over a Jake One beat. Jones Andrews and the entire FSM crew will be live in the studio for Feature Night Thursday on September 9 so be sure to tune in between…

Rah Digga is back and it’s good to see more female emcees with microphone skills returning to the booth and releasing hot fiya. Dirty Harriet’s new album Classic drops September 14. Listen/download ‘Straight Spittin’.

After several leaks courtesy of Jah The CEO, Jus Nice’s Karma 2 is finally here. Beyond the music, Jus Nice (and his team) are yet another example, beyond Travis Porter and Wiz Khalifa (before the inking of his major deal over the summer), of the power of the independent movement. Over the Labor Day weekend…

If you’ve never been to Winston Salem, North Carolina (aka The Tre-4), this video will give you a good idea of what the town is like. Oh yeah, Big Remo, Ricky Ruckus and 9th Wonder are all from The Tre-4. Plus I see the A.O.G’s (Army Of Gorillas), E. Jones, Mr. Ben Ready and more…

Something new from Raleigh’s K. Hill, who’s Memoirs Of A Premature Legend EP released back in April, was kinda slept on. ‘Millions’–K. Hill Download.