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By the latter half of the 1980s, Soul II Soul had built a monstrous following as a sound system collective in the UK. Starting in 1982, Trevor “Jazzie B” Beresford Romeo, the sound system’s maestro began to develop and implement a plan of success for his musical outfit. After a series of single releases called [...]

I came across talk of Justin Bieber bigging up reggae artist J Boog (NOT the B2K guy) earlier this week in an interview by Reggie Yates [here is a radio rip on YouTube of the best part of the program at 3:30] as the Bieb’s plays a song from his phone that he could listen [...]

You may have heard his name. You might even follow him on Tumblr. But it’s time to really get with Robb Bank$’ savage life. Flying under the radar of mainstream music press, Robb Bank$ may appear to be just another teenage rapper building a hype off social networks but this is deeper than rap. [...]

Kendra Morris has been creating a pretty big buzz for herself with her breakout song “Concrete Waves” and latest single, “If He Didn’t Go.” Gearing up to release her highly anticipated album, Banshee, via Wax Poetics Records, the singer has already got the cosign of various artists notably legendary producer DJ Premier who made a [...]

We were first introduced to Teairra Marí in 2005 courtesy of Jay-Z and Roc-a-Fella Records/Def Jam. The then 16-year-old Detroit vocalist crooned about having “No Daddy”, and posed the immortal question, “Are there any boys around that know how to make a girl feel?” Eight years later, Mari has developed into a woman both mentally [...]

It may have been his former labelmate and longtime friend Eminem who asked the masses to “guess who’s back” with his 2002 hit single “Without Me“, but it’s Obie Trice who’s answering the question a decade later. Nearly six years had passed since one of Detroit’s foremost rappers delivered a studio album, the last being [...]

There’s an old saying that goes, “two heads are better than one.” This philosophy has translated pretty well in Hip-Hop over the years with multiple emcees and/or producers banding together – in what I have always liked to picture as some kick-ass Power Rangers-like ritual – in the quest to create some fine quality music. [...]

By the late 1980s, R&B music was at a crossroads with its aging audience and sound. The genre itself was looking to go into a more youthful direction. Fortunately, help was on the way in the form of a teenage prodigy from Harlem, New York. Building off of the successes from Johnny Kemp and Keith [...]

When Florida native Rick Ross first made his mark on the charts with his 2006 platinum hit single “Hustlin’,” one might’ve taken him for a one-hit wonder… [...]

Another Monday and another jam packed edition of our Monday Mixtape Round-Up bringing you enough audio fuel to keep you going for the rest of the week. Catch up on last week’s installment HERE and grab this week’s goodies after the jump. Enjoy! [...]