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Who knew Malice was a skate kid?Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked drops on Valentine’s Day. Run That Back:Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind & Naked Vignette #4 (Video)–Malice.

On the real who knew the larger hip hop blogs checked out the smaller blogs? Hof, the creator of On Smash (currently confiscated by Homeland Security; how a hip hop blog is a threat is beyond me) sits down with the legendary Buckshot of Duck Down Records. According to Hof the top hip hop sites…

Off the Charleston artist’s upcoming Underrated & Hated mixtape. Video shot and edited by 5 Dollaz. Shouts to Trapp.

Somebody recently hit me up on Twitter about Darien Brockington so I decided to make him this week’s Soulful Sundays post. D. Brock is a soul artist currently based in Durham, NC who’s done a lot of work with Little Brother, YahZarah and The Foreign Exchange. He has released three projects to date: 2005’s The…

UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper The Daily Tarheel did an article this week on the revival of the RDU hip hop scene. They included quotes from Pierce Freelon 1/4 of The Beast, Charlie Smarts of Kooley High’s and touched on The Foreign Exchanges’ Phonte. Read the full article here. Run That Back: The Independent Weekly’s article…

Raleigh emcee J. Swiss released an EP recently that I totally missed. Here’s your chance to check it out though; also be on the lookout for more visuals plus his Out of State Intuition mixtape dropping next month. Michael In The Middle– Download.

SUCKER FREE SUNDAYS returns again tomorrow night January 23 same time, same place. DJ Flash of the world famous Justus League will be on the tables all night. If you’re ever in RDU on a Sunday night and looking for a spot to chill and check out some good hip hop, slide thru. Information: SUCKER…

DJ Kraze is a well respected businessman in RDU. Besides running a business he’s a DJ/producer and has worked on tour with some of your favorite artists. DJ Kraze owns Ideas! Coffee House, a local institution that has been around since 2002. Ideas! is one of the best places in town to get some java,…

Soulfully Me is an emcee out of Richmond, VA (by way of Tennessee) that I had a chance to meet and chop it up with last night at SkyBlew’s BDay celebration for Ging Ging. Soulfully Me made the trip down to Chapel Hill with his entire team as well as hit the stage. He performed…