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Don’t miss this years’ summit. Last year was great filled with tons of networking and learning opportunities. Check out the SMES website for more information.

Hope everyone had a safe holiday. Goodbye Summer, hello Fall. To kick things off and to celebrate cooler weather here’s some new material from Medusaville’s Frank Ramz, produced by Dax Miller. Download here. Run that back: Frank Ramz’ Make The Road By Walking (mixtape).

On some real talk this week on three very different occasions I heard or read the term “think outside the box.” Can you think outside the box? What does that mean?-To not be cookie cutter-To not do what everybody else is doing-To not run in somebody else’s lane. Create your own and blaze the hell…

For those who live out of Durham, NC let me tell you about The Know Bookstore. It’s a local institution, a black owned and black themed business that is a bookstore, restaurant and cultural gem. It’s the only spot in town where you can pick up a copy of Native Son, beautiful art (not the…

If more mixtapes came with this level of quality there would be less complaints about wack mixtapes and rappers copying other rappers. And It looks likeThe Anti-Mixtape Resistance Movement got the wind knocked out of it’s sails before it even hit the docks. Reservoir Dogs: Family Affair Download mixtape here. Spotted at 2DB.

Lil Ru is one name that’s coming out of everybody’s mouth between here and Florida. If you’ve been 100% out of the loop then you may have missed the fact that Lil Ru’s Def Jam debut 21 & Up dropped last Tuesday. Since that time it seems that Ru is a topic of discussion everywhere…

There’s an article from this past Sunday’s Raleigh News & Observer about the status of mixtapes in hip hop right now. Uncle Crizzle, the Triangle’s most hated journalist (you should hear the stories about death threats he’s received) reached out to Mister Flowers (aka Eric Tullis, journalist for The Independent) and yours truly to get…

This past Saturday night J. Khrist stopped by the studio to co-host part of the show and debut his new single for the first time in Fayetteville. It was another night of firsts as it was the first time an artist co-hosted the show at 104.5 with me. Some artists hound me about coming to…

Mr. Crown Royal is back with something new. Here’s a track off Royal-Tee’s new mixtape The Voice of Reason with DJ Skillz, dropping soon. Royal-Tee’s 2007 album Alumni was heavily slept on and featured collabs with Phonte and Jus K. Download ‘Thinking Outside The Box’ here.