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Every now and then Randy and I will focus a Where Is Hip Hop? segment on the Carolinas. He’s from Charleston, SC and I’m from High Point, NC; although neither of us live there now we keep our fingers on the pulse of what’s going on in our respective home base. This week on Where…

The “Look Easy” video has a Super Mario theme. LOL @ “Super J. Swiss” jumping on hip hop at the 00:54 mark. All you Chapel Hill folks will appreciate “Warp Zone” with the P2p Express and the Tortilla Grill from Franklin Street. This is a dope video. “Look Easy” is the first single off J.…

I meant to post up last week’s episode but didn’t, my bad. Anyway on Episode 71 of Where Is Hip Hop?, Randy and I break down rap super group Slaughterhouse as well as Yelawolf getting signed to Shady Records. Beast microphone skills aside, I have a hard time seeing a group like Slaughterhouse having mass…

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.