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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.

Say’s J. Swiss: “When I realized that the 5th anniversary of Dilla’s death was approaching, I immediately took a temporary break from working on my mixtape to put together this short compilation of previous recorded and newly recorded tracks of myself over some of that legendary Dilla production, in honor of his life. I wanted…

Blues singer Marvin Sease made the type of music your parents didn’t want you to hear. You either had to sneak and listen to it or hear about it from your friends. Similar to The Ohio Players album covers, Marvin Sease’s music was not made for children. With song titles like “I Ate You For…

Aye, is that Morgan Freeman narrating at the beginning?

Well it looks like Maybach Music Group is starting to win some. Audra The Rapper’s No Such Thing Does Exist mixtape is set to drop this summer.

This artwork was one of the dopest Phonte non LB, non+FE affiliated projects so there. “Blessings” is reportedly off the never released Tigallo Must Die solo album from several years back. Phonte also shared his SwiftFM page on Twitter last night, so if you want to hear more of his unreleased material click here. “Blessings”–…

And in I can’t make this stuff up news, starting on February 22 Waka Flocka Flame will be the new face of PETA’s “Ink Not Mink” campaign. To give you an idea of how major this is, the type of folks who have done this in the past include Lady Gaga, Pink, and Mariah Carey.…

“Spittin’ what I’m living, never lying in my lines”–Curren$y, “Top Of The Money” off Nesby Phips’ The Phipstape. Is an artist’s image outside of music important to an artist’s career, or is it just the music? This week on Where Is Hip Hop?, Randy and I use this post about Rick Ross on Randy’s blog…

Broccoli City TV caught up with Phonte on the LA set of The Foreign Exchange’s video “Authenticity”, the 2nd single off their album of the same name. Run That Back:The Foreign Exchange Live At Cargo, their first London show.