Just got word that Snoop Dogg is in the studio workin on Doggstyle II. How crazy is it gonna be?!?!!? Below is a video of Snoop & Swizz Beatz saying they recorded 18 tracks!!! Wow!

Can't wait for Kasey to post some of his pics from Snoop Dogg's performance at Rock The Bells!

Here's the 1st single from our friends the Foreign Exchange.

It is enitlted "Maybe She'll Dream Of Me"

This track is produced by Phonte & Nicolay with Zo! on the piano.

You can defintely hear the progression in their sound style & songwriting - hearing Phonte switch back forth from singing to rapping reminds me of the glorious Connected days - haha!

DOWNLOAD - Maybe She'll Dream of Me

Authenticity drops October 12th!

Happy Born Day MJ. Here's a remix by our own favorite producer Vann Clayton check out the webisode we did with him and some of his other remixes here. His birthday is tomorrow if you see him holler

Take a look at the video for one of the stand out songs from the album "Darling It's Alright".... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcUV8ygIjo

Our friends from North Carolina dropped their first video to go with their mixtape "Eastern Standard Time". Enjoy

Bouncing Cats Trailer from Bouncing Cats on Vimeo.

Bouncing Cats shares the perspective of Breakdance Project Uganda's founder Abraham "Abramz" Tekya who uses hip hop dance and music to inspire youth. The film is narrated by Common and features interviews with Mos Def K'Naan and Will.i.am.  Check out the trailer of this very powerful film then visit BouncingCats.com for more information.

Watch this! Get hip to these fresh musicians!

Nicole put me on game to this group and after checking out there tracks I've taken a liking to them.

DJ cornBREEZE released this mixtape not too long ago. It's full of sonically appeasing tracks.

Some features include Rapper Big Pooh J DILLA Erykah Badu Dibiae Noa James & Exile.

Take a minute to download this project and bless your ears with some fresh soulful tunes!

DJ cornBRREZE: She Loves Her Cornbread Vol. 2

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Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble "Someday We'll All Be Free" feat Bilal from MIguel Atwood-Ferguson on Vimeo.

Greg Ponstingl aka Greg The Dude directed and edited this excerpt of Miguel Atwood-Ferguson's grand performance on the California Plaza in July featuring here Bilal: "Someday We'll All Be Free". Great piece of work.

Exile - Your Summer Song Remix Ft. J. Mitchell from Dirty Science on Vimeo.

A dope video directed by Jerome D featuring the remix of “Your Summer Song” features J Mitchell on vocals and is part of Exile’s Radio Remix project "AM/FM" which is scheduled to drop August 31st. Another soul banger.

I met J Mitchell a few months ago at Bananas we were meant to go to Cuba together. Holler at me!

Inception x Just a Dreamer from LAStereotv on Vimeo.

Spotted on Facebook a cool little mashup of Inception on Ayomari's "Just a Dreamer" Ft. Tiron & Tunji. Shout out to Andrew Quesada whose photography work you can check out at www.andrewquesada.com . While you're at it go check also Ayomari & Tiron's Cafeteria Line for some tasty music.

Versis just released this track in an effort to promote his upcoming project iLLCANDESCENT dropping 8/9/10. This track is real reminiscent of some vintage 9th Wonder productions. However this track is produced by BMB aka Beat Maker Beat All the way out in GERMANY. Versis flow is the perfect addition to the beat. His debut album is shaping up to be something people will remember for a long time...Check out the song- Here's the stream!

H.O.P.E.- Bliss from itscalmatic on Vimeo.

That video is DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE

Shout out to Spliff Alumni H.O.P.E yeah you know the name Ft. Y-O U-N-I Production by Ro-BLVD. Shout out to Calmatic for a great video I loved the way "reality" was weaved into the song and how he took his time to set up the premisses of the "action".

Here's some new music for yall to get familiar with...Versis hit me up via Facebook and hipped me to a new joint he's pushing entitled "The Journey 4U". He linked up with Dibiae for a very smooth & hypnotizing track. The sound is real reminiscent of Pharcyde records. There's something about Versis that makes me gravitates towards his music. Maybe its the fact that he spits from the soul heart & is completely honest in all that he does. Take a listen to this song to get a vibe for his upcoming project "iLLCANDESCENT" that will be released on 8.9.10

http://versis.bandcamp.com/track/the-journey-4u-prod-by-dibia-e

Self-described "dissident feminist" Camille Paglia wrote an op-ed in this past weekend's New York Times. I agree with some of her sentiments; in fact, her succinct assessment of the office environment is right on. But the piece is so misguided and out-of-touch it only makes sense the NYT would run it. 

She's sniffed something out with men's dress, but gets thrown slightly off course. I'd attribute "bulky t-shirts and loose shorts" to middle America's obesity problem; the real issue is grown men dressing like twentysomethings, not preschoolers - fiftysomethings in suits with Converse sneakers, for instance. Has the American masculine mentality (cultivated by pop culture or-if Naomi Wolf is to be believed- terrified men intent on maintaining a patriarchal society) of desiring young(er and er) girls scared men into subscribing to that belief towards themselves?  

Again, she aims in the right direction, but as opposed to Hollywood's "sci-fi androids," she should hit the advent of free and easy access to internet porn as the culprit both of turning women into "fantasy figures without psychological complexity and erotic needs of real women" AND of draining sex of the mystery that makes it so intoxicating. Indeed, it's a serious disservice to young developing minds both male and female to have the available porn on the internet act as sex ed.  Instead of burying their heads in the sand, parents should purchase Anaïs Nin for their teens and censor internet porn.  

Yet what I take issue with is this startlingly racist line masked as being congratulatory: "Contrast that with Latino and African-American taste, which runs toward the healthy silhouette of the bootylicious Beyoncé."

First of all, can we stop using Beyoncé as the poster girl for voluptuousness and body normalcy? I'm stealing from someone, but I overheard recently: "Beyoncé almost has a real girl's body- if that girl worked out like a fiend and had a personal chef." I don't deny that she's healthIER-looking than most of the starlet fawns stumbling around Hollywood, but STOP.  She works out more than all of us combined.  Or is this just the only black female celebrity that a certain demographic knows? 

Furthermore, where's the acknowledgement of how that "taste" has morphed through the years, as well the effect of that change on young black girls?  The women in early rap videos are dramatically different than the video vixens of today, who are just as altered (surgically, digitally, and aerobically) as "American actresses," albeit for an entirely different purpose.  They, too, aspire to be efficient machines; but instead of desexualized ones, overly sexed robots existing solely to arouse men.  

But here's the rub- once again, an upper-class intellectual issues a cursory, patronizing "great job, black folks!" without examining the complex issues that are just as egregious as these other issues, the least of which is not why she's tagged a blonde, light-skinned, highly-aerobicized woman as the blanket object of African-American lust. 

Shout out o M-Boogie for the great interview on an astonshing international artist!

Below is the link to download the trrack:

Nneka - Heartbeat (Remix Ft. Nas) - http://www.mediafire.com/?tm2yyjm2yj4