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Best Songs of 2010 (To Date)
Best Songs of 2010 (To Date)
Best Songs of 2010 (To Date)
Updated: See See Our Final List of the Top Songs of 2010 Despite the despairing reality that some of us may have just stopped writing "2009" on our checks, 2010 is here and some of our favorite artists have already delivered noteworthy tracks for our listening pleasure...
Mos Def Accuses Newspaper of False Reporting
Mos Def Accuses Newspaper of False Reporting
Mos Def Accuses Newspaper of False Reporting
Much has been made of Dame Dash's new recording studio/art commune/graphic design agency/all-around awesome hangout in New York City's TriBeCa neighborhood. A recent article in the New York Observer got some quality inside access to the compound and used Mos Def, apparently drinking a Rolling Rock and chilling, as a source...
MF Doom Disappoints Chicago Crowd With Another Imposter
MF Doom Disappoints Chicago Crowd With Another Imposter
MF Doom Disappoints Chicago Crowd With Another Imposter
Hip-hop's masked villain MF Doom pulled another concert no show this past Saturday night at the Congress Theater in Chicago. Billed as "MosDoom," with longtime supporter Mos Def also scheduled to perform, fans in attendance are claiming that Doom once again tricked them into thinking they would see him perform live...
Mos Def Photo Exhibit Opens in Los Angeles
Mos Def Photo Exhibit Opens in Los Angeles
Mos Def Photo Exhibit Opens in Los Angeles
Mos Def routinely blurs the lines between music and other artistic mediums, so it's no surprise that he's become the subject of a new photo exhibit. The show, which opened over the weekend at HVW8 Art & Design Gallery in Los Angeles, features images by a photographer named Cognito. He...
Understanding Hip-Hop’s Beef With the Grammys
Understanding Hip-Hop’s Beef With the Grammys
Understanding Hip-Hop’s Beef With the Grammys
"You think I give a damn about a Grammy?" Eminem spitefully rapped on 2000's 'The Real Slim Shady,' a surprisingly ironic quip from a rapper who's won (and accepted) nine Grammy Awards throughout his career. Such is the contradiction that underscores the uneasy relationship between hip-hop culture and the Grammys...
Hip-Hop Community Reacts to Obama’s State of the Union
Hip-Hop Community Reacts to Obama’s State of the Union
Hip-Hop Community Reacts to Obama’s State of the Union
President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night (Jan. 27) and some of the brightest (and most beloved) minds in the hip-hop community were ready to give their two cents on the speech. Most of the commentary was in agreement that Obama genuinely strove to strike a balance in the middle of the political spectrum by once again emphasizing the need for bipartis
Mos Def Urges President Obama to Go to Haiti
Mos Def Urges President Obama to Go to Haiti
Mos Def Urges President Obama to Go to Haiti
Mos Def isn't one of President's Obama's advisers, but that's not stopping him from giving his opinion on what the commander-in-chief should do in wake of the earthquake in Haiti. Mos told fans during a recent show at Manhattan's Highline Ballroom that he wants President Obama to head to the country, now in ruins since the natural disaster...
A Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kweli and Jay Electronica Perform at Diabetes Benefit
A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg assembled some of the illest emcees -- old school and new -- last night (Jan. 20) for the Mind Body Soul: A Benefit for Diabetes concert at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory. While much of the world are turning their attention toward the crisis created by last week's massive earthquake in Haiti, Phife, whose struggled with diabetes since being diagnosed in 1990, has bee
Jay Electronica, Diddy and Mos Def Perform ‘Exhibit C’ in NYC
If you felt a New York hip-hop renaissance might be on the way the first time you heard Jay Electronica's 'Exhibit C,' you wouldn't be alone. Last night, you got your proof. Mikey Fresh, the always on point blogger for Miss Info and The BoomBox among other outlets, taped and uploaded a highly-amped performance of the Just Blaze-produced track live from Manhattan's Highline Ballroom...

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