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Blue Sky Black Death, the burgeoning young producer duo of Kingston
and Young God, have embarked upon a new leg of their sonic journey
with the indie-pop gem “Slow Burning Lights,” set for release on October 14th.

Fans and critics alike got an initial taste of the duo’s versatility
with early 2008’s fully instrumental release “Late Night Cinema.”
“Late Night Cinema” has been hailed as an accomplished blend of live
instrumentation, clever sampling, and inconspicuous ingenuity. The
result is a sonic soundscape that clearly demonstrates the duo’s
proclivities for genre-bending, as they claim influences from sources
as eclectic as Ennio Morricone, Stars of the Wind, Brian Eno, Goblin,
RZA, Mobb Deep, DJ Premier and more. With twinges of Folk, Funk,
Electro, Boom Bap hip-hop and their own inimitable style of
composition, “Late Night Cinema” set the stage for “Slow Burning
Lights’” broodingly nuanced sensibility.
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Phoenix-based MC, Gutta, talks about his debut album, “Heads Will
Roll,” which hits stores September 2nd, 2008. Gutta shares the
origins of his name and discusses how coming up in the AZ prison
system has shaped his life and his music.
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The fight to be a longstanding R&B singer is the battle of every singer who survives the one-hit wonder status whether they linger on urban music charts or make the Billboard 100. Joe’s emergence in the early ’90’s came at the end of New Jack Swing’s renaming into hip-hop soul, the beginning of so-called neo-soul and Luther’s focused forage into pop.A gospel music background, and the hip-hop and R&B sensibilities of a generation X, shaped his tenor into standard soul infrequently poised towards pop for the secular world. By ‘97 his second album established his first mass sing alongs with “All The Things (Your Man Won’t Do)” followed by the Big Pun “Still Not A Player”collaboration on the rapper’s debut album in ‘98.
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SAN DIEGO, CA, Aug.12 – Timz—aka Tommy Hanna, an American born rapper of Chaldean and Iraqi descent—continues to make heads turn across the world with his explosive, eye-opening anti-war music video Iraq. MTV has selected the politically charged video to be amongst the potential nominees for its ‘Video of the Year’ category in this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.

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A follow up to Dap’s recent webisode recalling his history with Biggie
and Guru, Lil Dap now speaks candidly about getting to know a young
and unknown Tupac Shakur (smoking trees before a Gang Starr/Digital
Underground show), the development of their relationship throughout
the tour and how Pac always had Dap’s back.
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Joe Budden has kept a relatively low profile since his self-titled debut album went gold in 2003, earning him a Grammy nomination for best male rap solo performance. Despite his successful debut, Budden’s sophomore album sat on the shelves at Def Jam for nearly four years.
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Heltah Skeltah is the legendary rap duo comprised of Rock and Sean Price, a.k.a Ruck. The duo is most know for their debut album, “Nocturnal,” which produced such hits as “Operation Lockdown,” “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka,” and “Therapy.” Heltah Skeltah is also an intricate part of the mighty Boot Camp Clik, who over the past several years have released projects such as “The Last Stand,” and “Casualties of War.”
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Vinnie Paz, emcee and figurehead of the legendary underground group
Jedi Mind Tricks, speaks candidly about fellow Army of the Pharaohs’
member King Syze, whose sophomore LP, “The Labor Union,” streets
August 5th.

Paz breaks down his history with Syze and his older brother Crypt (of
Outerspace), how Syze marches to the beat of his own drum, how and why
Paz got involved on the creative level & much more.
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With a flow often compared to that of a young Big Pun, core Army of
the Pharaohs’ member and Jedi Mind Tricks’ affiliate King Syze unveils
the first video in support of his August 5th streeting sophomore
album, “The Labor Union.”

Entitled “Sibling Rivalry Pt. 2,” the video finds Syze trading verses
with his older brother, Crypt of Outerspace, as well as fellow
Pharaohs member Planetary of Outerspace.

Featuring an introductory cosign by independent hip-hop icon Vinnie
Paz (of Jedi Mind Tricks), “Sibling Rivalry Pt. 2″ brings back the
raw, uncut boom-bap that has become synonymous with the Jedi Mind
Tricks/Army of the Pharaohs brand.
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LOS ANGELES, CA…Sen Dog (aka Senen Reyes), the notorious co-frontman of hip-hop legends Cypress Hill, has debuted the track “Capo” from his forthcoming solo album Diary of a Mad Dog online at www.myspace.com/sendog. The album will hit the streets on September 30, 2008 through Suburban Noize Records and marks the first solo album from one of hip-hop’s most influential artists.
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While hip-hoppers argue over tight pants, the relevance of femcees, hip-hop’s lifeforce, regionalism and realness Black Spade is in St.Louis making music he overheard someone call “ghetto clash.”The March release of his debut album To Sir With Love disclosed a style of hip-hop built on a Kurzweil keyboard, shower singing and steady verses at the center. Critics would be quick to put him into an obscure hipster box (The Cool Kids, Jay Electronica) but his honesty and love of the form has translated to myriads of traditional hip-hop fans. A longterm Sidney Poitier fan he named the CD after one of the actor’s biggest movie roles. When he is not attending shows and doing his own gigs he is working on the follow-up to Sir which he promises will not take nearly as long to finish. Spade spoke with Kickmag about the discovery of his art and how so many creative nobles have blessed his style that he refers to as “no style.”

There was a time period between the break-up of Soul Tyde and the release of your album were you making music or were these tracks done a while ago?

Some of those tracks were already made I broke up with Soul Tyde and got back with them and was able to still knock a few songs out and after that umm it’s really just making a gang of tracks and recording with a friend by the name of Kenautis uh still like putting it down that way as well.
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In the next chapter of the “Ruga Stories” webisode series, take a rare
glimpse behind the broadcast booth as the world renowned DJ Kay Slay &
co. interview Rell in connection with the release of “Black Mask Black
Gloves.”

Rell talks Dipset, the South and its supposed regional “unity” & sheds
some light on the business side of hip-hop music and culture.

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THE HIP HOP CAUCUS AND MULTI-PLATINUM, GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SUPERSTAR T.I. ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO CREATE MAJOR VOTER REGISTRATION AND GET OUT THE VOTE CAMPAIGN]

(New York, NY - July 28, 2008) - The Hip Hop Caucus,
www.hiphopcaucus.org, and Multi-Platinum, Grammy Award Winning Superstar
T.I. have joined forces to launch a powerful new voter registration and
Get Out the Vote campaign that combines the power of celebrity and media
with 21st century grassroots organizing tactics to mobilize and educate
young people between the ages of 18 and 29, who are not in college. The
campaign slogan, “Respect My Vote!” and t-shirts were unveiled today at
a press event in Washington, DC, with DJ Green Lantern, Dawn from Danity
Kane, Young Berg, Maino, Wale, Young Steff, Washington Wizard Etan
Thomas, Olympic Gold Medalist Anthony Killieberew, Immortal Technique,
Pleasure P, World Class Sprinter and Champion Michael Walton, BET
Executive Vice President Stephen Hill and many others turning out to
support.
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Q: What influenced you to get into Hip-hop?

A: my mother was always listening 2 music so i felt that it was a part
of my life, at a young age i would listen to luther or patty and then
when i would go out on the streets alot of rap music would be playing

Q: I am form up north, so for the people up north can you explain to us
what ” My Dougie” means?
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One of the most renowned and continually relevant hip-hop emcees of
all time, GZA returns with his long awaited fifth solo album,
“ProTools.” An original member of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan, GZA has
established himself as a perennial force in hip-hop over his 13+ year
solo career. Recently, GZA’s contributions have driven the phenomenal
success of the 2008 Wu-Tang Clan reunion album “8 Diagrams” as well as
two of independent hip-hop’s recent flagship releases: Think
Differently Music: “Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture” and the DJ
Muggs/GZA collaboration “Grandmasters.”
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