Off Driftee’s Drift Chronicles mixtape, available now. Be sure to get her D.N.A. (link below) album with producer D.R.U.G.S. if you haven’t already. It’s totally jammin’. Check out the Adrift Da Belle’s video for "Raw" down below! Run That Back: Adrift Da Belle & D.R.U.G.S — D.N.A. (D.R.U.G.S.-N-Adrift): A Tribute To East Coast Hip-Hop (Album).
Raleigh, NC’s Napolean Wright II has one of the best and mellow voices around. Back in January 2011 he released HOME, an eleven track album that was luscious, laid back and full of beautiful vocals. Von Pean was featured on that project, so was King Mez plus Kooley High’s Charlie Smarts and Tab-One. Wright II is…
**Update: Thanks to all who tuned in!! There were 795 viewers of the live stream. We hoped you enjoyed the event and the interviews!!** The 5th annual 2012 South Carolina Music Awards weekend is finally here. Today the main event is taking place in Greenville. The Live stream begins at 3PM. Each year the SC Music Awards…
Righchus‘ Black Cradles drops July 25, 2012. Mark y’all’s calendars now! "Look Out Below"– Download. Run That Back: Sam King Ft. warrenJae, Righchus, Kodak & Lexa L’Terra — “Fever” (Million Dollar Militia).
Global Grind is reporting that groundbreaking female rapper and Boogie Down Productions crew member Ms. Melodie passed away earlier today. I have that "first the Fat Boys break up, now this" feeling on the news of Ms. Melodie’s death. Not that yesterday I was checking for her music or anything, but as a wee youngin’…
Prerna Gupta, CEO and co-owner of Khush (too easy so I won’t even touch it), has invented an app that turns speech into rap and corrects "bad rapping." To be clear, there are already "rap apps" on the market (LaDiDa), however AutoRap takes the words you speak into it, modifies the lyrics and adds a…
It’s the SC veteran emcee (Fat Rat) to SC new school emcee (Ben G) connect on Fat Rat’s "Be Strong", at cut of his Inglourious Basterd mixtape, which was released today. This track is produced by Midi Marc, a producer well known within the SC hip hop scene. Download Inglourious Basterd here and check out the…
The first cancer organization that uses Curtiss King’s "Fvck Cancer" track as their official campaign theme song will receive an extra 100 cool points in my book. Well, except the Susan G. Komen Foundation and their fugazi Buckets For The Cure campaign, because I’ve yet to figure out how you can fight breast cancer by…
RDU’s (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC) local Hip Hop Caucus committee returns with another great event this weekend. The latest is a concert and voter registration drive that will take place at Shakedown Street in Raleigh (across the street from NC State on Hillsborough Rd). There will be several performances plus we’re breaking out the grill. There will…