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Guest-Heavy Reflection Eternal Album Delayed Again
Guest-Heavy Reflection Eternal Album Delayed Again
Guest-Heavy Reflection Eternal Album Delayed Again
Fans who were expecting to pick up an official copy of Reflection Eternal's latest album 'Revolutions Per Minute,' on April 20, should prepare themselves for another delay. Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek's sophomore LP has now been pushed back to a May 18 release date...
Talib Kweli Won’t Drink Vodka at SXSW
Talib Kweli Won’t Drink Vodka at SXSW
Talib Kweli Won’t Drink Vodka at SXSW
People expecting to see Reflection Eternal perform tracks from their first album in a decade, 'Revolutions Per Minute' due April 20, only got one-half of the duo. Made up of producer/DJ Hi-Tek and Talib Kweli, only the latter showed up for their SXSW showcase at Austin's Aces Lounge late Thursday night (March 18)...
Reflection Eternal to Drop ‘RPM’ in April
Reflection Eternal to Drop ‘RPM’ in April
Reflection Eternal to Drop ‘RPM’ in April
Reflection Eternal -- rapper Talib Kweli and producer Hi-Tek -- have pushed back the release of their sophomore album, 'Revolutions Per Minute.' The long-awaited follow-up to their 2000 debut, Train of Thought,' will now hit stores on April 20, two weeks after the original street date of April 6...
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...
Gang Starr MC Offers Solo Album for Free
Gang Starr MC Offers Solo Album for Free
Gang Starr MC Offers Solo Album for Free
Legendary MC Guru -- half of the infamous duo Gang Starr -- is providing fans with a free download of his first solo album, 'Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures.' The 2005 album, which was originally released on Guru's newly founded label, 7 Grand Records, featured several hit singles including 'Step In the Arena 2' and 'Hood Dreamin...
Dr. Cornel West Scrutinizes Jay-Z’s Artistry
Dr. Cornel West Scrutinizes Jay-Z’s Artistry
Dr. Cornel West Scrutinizes Jay-Z’s Artistry
Disses and beef are so normalized in the day-to-day grind of hip-hop that they mostly just seem like hollow marketing ploys, yet now and then there's a criticism that's based in actual intellectual debate. In a recent interview with The Spectrum, civil rights activist Dr...
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...
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

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