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  Motivated by the recent Esther Baxter vs. Joe Budden fiasco, Mr. Shadeed focuses this Hip Hop Bytes segment on key areas of consideration regarding ethics and integrity in covering local, national, and international celebs on your personal blogs. Highlights in the segment include information for local bloggers too, but the key points are applicable…

  GotHaze.com talks with Rain about his relationship with former group member Cory Gunz, Rain’s new street album The Magic Hour II, gets feedback from some of his associates on the Fayetteville native’s movement, plus more. Run That Back: "Works For Me" (Video)–Rain.

AlLindstrom.com returns with part two of a sit down with Gangsta Gibbs and his co-manager Archie Bonkers.   During the talk, Freddie and Archie talk about the role Slick Pulla played in helping Gibbs get noticed by CTE, how the marketing plan for Young Jeezy’s album The Recession mirrored plans for Freddie’s upcoming projects and…

Off the upcoming Lionheart EP, is set to drop later this summer. Download Moe Green’s Extra, Extra. Run That Back: "Cruise Control" (Video)–Moe Green.

My SC connects put me up on Oxymoron a couple of weeks ago. Besides the fact that they kinda ripped off Drique London’s "The Cyper" single artwork, these kids has some really dope music. Oxymoron is composed of Tony London, Pedro English and Ment; they’re straight up out of Florence, South Carolina and are all…

This week for his New Music Mondays series, JSWISS takes the “Waken Baken Freestyle” on a little different style than usual. Heads up, there’s no rapping about smoking weed. Also be on the look out for JSWISS’ All For Us mixtape presented by Not Quite Millionaires, dropping June 13th. ‘Waken Baken Freestyle’– Download. Run That…

Roanoke, Virginia’s Poe Mack and Case Jones aka DJ VanGundy (collectively known as Mack Jones Media) have been presenting the Middle East Micfest Tours since 2004. Roanoke, VA is not an area known for hip hop, so they started the tour with their own money and used it as a way to spread their music…

Ursula Burns is my favorite female CEO and top five business inspirations. As the chairwoman of the Xerox Corporation, she’s the first African-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company.   Tonight Ursula Burns will be on CNN and interviewed by Soledad O’Brien as part of her documentary, "Don’t Fail Me: Education in America".…