Phonte

10 years ago Little Brother‘s lauded début album The Listening slid into my CD player and did not exit for more than a year. The refreshing sounds of two young but socially aware and proficient North Carolina emcees combined with a throwback producer with an amazing ear for a dope loop/sample and signature drum kicks [...]

The Foreign Exchange Music family is back at it with a release that features a who’s who of exceptionally talented male vocalists – Zo!, Eric Roberson, Darien Brockington and Phonte – with the Tall Black Guy remix of “This Could Be The Night”. The song features on the upcoming +FE Music: The Reworks. The track [...]

Whilst preparing for the release of their 4th LP Love In Flying Colors, The Foreign Exchange will deliver a two-disc compilation of remixed material from their back catalogue on February 26 titled +FE Music: The Reworks. [...]

Long time Big K.R.I.T. affiliate Big Sant has finally released his debut project MFxOG. Sant, who with K.R.I.T. makes up the duo The Alumni, has been raising his profile steadily since his appearance on K.R.I.T. Wuz Here in 2010, featuring on songs from Krizzle, Fiend and Smoke DZA among others, despite having rapped since many [...]

Don’t know how he’s managed to do it, but Robert Glasper has gone and made an already near perfect track even better. Linking up with former Little Brother groupmates Phonte and 9th Wonder to bring us this remix of one of the smoothest joints from The Robert Glasper Experiment‘s masterful jazz, soul and hip hop [...]

Yesterday we brought you Alicia Keys full iTunes festival performance at The Roundhouse in Camden, now for your Sunday morning/afternoon viewing pleasure we have acclaimed contemporary Jazz pianist and producer Robert Glasper‘s full iTunes festival performance. [...]

How would you like a chance to support lyrical, inventive, well-produced underground hip hop? Former hip hop duo The Procussions have re-united after seven years and are inviting fans to be their ‘partners’ in a new creative project. The ex-Rawkus Records pair, comprised of Mr. J Medeiros and Stro Elliot, will make and release a [...]

Rapper, singer and all-around smooth operator Phonte has just released a new set of visuals from his debut solo LP, Charity Starts At Home, as “Gonna Be A Beautiful Night” sees the North Carolina native renew his partnership with Carlitta Durand, a Minneapolis-born soul singer with a fantastic vocal range. [...]

The Idea of Beautiful. You could write an entire essay on such an intriguing matter. Snow Hill, North Carolina native Rapsody did write an essay on the topic but did it in the musical form. In her debut LP, Rap decided to take all that she learned from her previous three projects in which she [...]

Sure, Phonte‘s Charity Starts at Home album dropped all the way back September of ’11, but he has every reason to keep the visual material coming – it was an incredible record. After giving “The Good Fight” and “The Life of Kings” cuts their own footage in February and April, respectively, Tigallo places his 9th [...]