In an interview with Spinner, Roots’ drummer (and producer) ?uestlove, explained that it’s only a matter of time before a collaborative group consisting of himself, Raphael Saadiq and Amy Winehouse begin working together.
The drummer says that Winehouse, who has made headlines over the past years for her issues with drinking and drug abuse, is [...]

Taking after Will Smith’s painful Seven Pounds death, Brooklyn MC and producer P.So (The Earth Tone King) is preparing to release his new album, Suicide By Jellyfish, in which he enlists A-OK Collective compadre, 8THW1, to lace plenty of vocals.
The project, set to be released in it’s entirety on July 20, features experimental production techniques [...]

QN5 founder, MC and producer, Tonedeff, has announced that he will follow up his 2008 release, Deffinitions Vol. 1, with the second installment of his instrumental series, Deffinitions Vol. 2, on July 20.
The second album will pick up where the first one left off, featuring production joints from ‘Deff that have been largely unreleased until [...]

Duck Down Records yesterday released the track listing for their upcoming compilation album celebrating a decade and a half of making music, 15 Years of Duck Down Music.
The list, which includes songs from nearly the entire Duck Down roster over the last 15 years, is comprised of tracks that were voted most important by Duck [...]

One of the most prolific MCs in the underground game, Sapient, of the Portland hip hop collective Sandpeople announced this week that he will be releasing this first solo album of 2010 on August 31, an album called Barrels For Feathers.
“This album embodies the feeling that my music has given you in the past, with [...]

Addressing recent rumors surrounding the upcoming release of Slum Village’s new album, Villa Manifesto, one of Slum’s founding members, T3, tweeted that there are no additional members being added to the Slum Village roster and that Manifesto will be their final album as a group.
“There is no new members in Slum Village!” tweeted T3 on [...]

Get ‘em while they’re stocked! Stones Throw announced today that they’ve just upped their stock of previously-out-of-commission shirts from various Madlib collaborations.
Included in the new stockpile are the Madvillain “All Caps” tee, the Quasimoto tee and the Madlib and Parra collaboration that dropped a few months back. Various colorways and sizes available from the Stones [...]

According to various reports, the Queens-bred hip hop artist and musician, Rammellzee, passed away late last night. Details surrounding his death are still unclear, and as of early reports the cause of death remains undetermined.
Born in 1960, Rammellzee was a highly-regarded graffiti artist, musician, sculptor and otherwise all-around purveyor of the arts. He is said [...]

No, not the truck company either. A few good (young) men by the names of Nate Stout and Parker Worthington created and edited a thirty minute film based on what daily life is like. This is definitely a good scope into the reality of what street skateboarding really is, right down to the very core.

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In a rare occurrence after a nearly ten-year hiatus from the spotlight, MC and singer Lauryn Hill spoke to NPR recently about her time away from music, what motivated her actions and how she sees her own abilities.
“The support system that I needed wasn’t necessarily in place,” she recalled, when asked by Zoe Chace about [...]