Author: Nanci O Is Hip Hop

Newest single from SC native Jus Nice, who’s been steadily on the incline for the past couple of months. He’s now sponsored by Cavi Clothing and I’m hearing even more great things are on the horizon. Download ‘I Gotta Make It’. Run That Back: Jus Nice’s Karma mixtape. PS–Jah, I see you.

“Blue Collar Code is a tribute to the hard working people of the world. South Carolina born and Virginia bred Thadd Williams lives by that and concentrates on high quality and just working harder than everyone else. This mixtape has been a work in progress for over a year but the momentum really started to…

Tasha over at Shebloggin interviews DJ Chuck T for her new DJ Appreciation series. This is part one of three for the interview with Charlotte/Charleston’s Chuck T, who goes ham on the hate in the Carolina’s between himself and several artists. Part 2 is dropping tomorrow 4-19 and I’m trying to figure out what is…

My favorite emcee from Compton will be dropping a regular video series titled ‘The Heart’ and here’s the first installment. I tried to told ya’ll back in December that this dude is a serious problem. Stop sleeping. Props to The Dopehouse.

Dope Sandwhich is a hip hop collective out of Savannah, GA that consists of emcees, DJs, producers and graph artists. They’ve put out several albums and 4 mixtapes over the past few years; their newest LP The Union Of Sacred Monsters drops on April 20 and the fellas sent over an exclusive leak of the…

Newest release from Enfield’s (NC) Derty Den. Den made Beyond Race Magazine’s top 50 artists for 2009. How I miss that? Download ‘Hey Shawty’. PS–If you missed Den’s latest mixtape Carolina Ain’t Enough listen/download it here.

As I’ve mentioned before Erica Thompson is Charlie Smart’s (of Kooley High) little sister. She’s been putting in work over the past couple of months, including a feature alongside Khyrsis on Sean Boog’s ‘More Than OK’ so from this point forward round these parts she’ll be known as First Name, Last Name vs. little sister.…

I ran into Kevin (K. Hill to ya’ll) last week at the JAMLA/The Academy/IWWMG showcase. We chopped it up about the resurgence of the RDU hip hop scene (more on that later) and his newest project. While in the process of preparing to release new music, K-Hill decided to release an EP of his earlier…

… + a whole bunch of other NC artists, media folks, DJs (Ike G Da, I see you up in there) plus more. The video was filmed during the 2010 NCUMA’s 3 weeks ago.