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Mic Coalition’s new album ‘The One’ is set to drop this fall. The soulful voices on the hook of ‘Enjoyaself’ is none other than Birmingham’s soul sisters Lyrisis, whose 2004 debut album ‘Ghetto Renaissance’ still gets rotation in my cd player. Mic Coalition Interview

Trailer for an upcoming documentary about the decline of black/black owned radio. M1 from Dead Prez and Chuck D both provide commentary. It’s bigger than hip hop ya’ll. I hope the full length feature shows in this area. The film is set to drop in June (Black Music Month). Learn more about this movement @…

Brand new track from one of my favorite up and coming femcees and producers out of Columbus, GA. Nikki McKnight formerly known as Ya Gyrl Terror hit me last week and said there were too many artists out here with ‘Terror’ in their name trying to get put on so she decided to go with…

New single from the NCUMA’s 2009 Lyricist of The Year. Honestly this track title is much better than Gorilla Zoe’s ‘Sh*t On Em’ so I’m all for it. Plus Dirty Den has one of the prettiest smiles you’ll ever want to see.**Pause** Download Dirty Den’s ‘Fly Sh*t’ here.

The first time I went to a release party for a mixtape I was like what’s next? A single release party? And wouldn’t you know it, I was reading an unnamed urban mag this weekend and saw an ad for an artist’s single release party. Hey, it’s a recession. If that’s what it takes to…

….hosted by Bonecrusher. I’d been wondering where he been since his appearance on ‘Celebrity Fit Club.’ There was a Bonecrusher site-ing this weekend @ CoreDJs #10 retreat in Atltanta. At the JMJ Awards Presentation at Club Dreamz Bonecrusher along with Goodie Mob (if you didn’t know Goodie is my second favorite hip hop group of…

New mixtape from the midwest’s favorite street rappers. Like I was telling the homie BradUn DeShay yesterday I wayyyyy behind on my mixtape listening game. I just got around to peeping Bran’s ‘Two For The Show’ and Frank Ramz’ ‘Falling Up’ from beginning to end (both pretty good tapes, I might add). Chicago and Medusaville,…

I’m still getting settled in from the A and CoreDJs retreat. Went down on Wednesday morning and checked out the dude R.E. at the Ozone mag offices. After that it was Alabama time to put in work down there until Friday afternoon then it was back to the A for Core. It was a good…

Congratulations to NC’s Shelly B: She just launched her own television show ‘Big Tyme TV’! Shelly has been on her grind super heavy and just won Female Artist of the Year at this weekend’s NCUMA’s (2nd time winner) & also performed at the Women of Hip Hop event last month. Big Tyme TV airs every…