Sometimes good music makes everything better. That was the case this rainy Saturday in Brooklyn's Empire Fulton Ferry State Park. Hip-Hop might have started in the Bronx, but there's never been a more vibrant ...

When it comes to HIV/AIDs within the black community it is kind of a sleeping giant, or the 700lbs gorrilla in the corner. Something that is publicly discussed, while privately neglected. A high level of atte...

What does a college education mean to you? For me, it was an opportunity to get closer to a dream not a career, a job, but a dream. That dream wasn’t based on anything sufficient like a 5-year plan rather...

From the first incursion into the Spanish territory of Mexico in 1806 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, America has employed the the use of military force, hundreds of times-deposing hostile regimes, instigatin...

By: Oscar Black Jay-z, despite sounding the death knell, has given new life to the debate surrounding the autotune where functionality and plurality are concerned in hip hop.For one, D.O.A. (Death of Autot...

I'm the type of person who primarily listens to independent hip-hop, feeling strongly that once MC's are signed to major record labels, contracts force them to lessen the intensity of their lyrics, in order ...

38 years ago today on June 16th, 1971 arguably the greatest rapper ever was born TuPac Shakur. So being that this site is about the music just as much as the politics we've got a special treat for the 2Pac fans...

Late night talk show host and comedian, David Letterman, used Sarah Palin's recent trip to New York as inspiration for a top ten list in which he described her look as "slutty flight attendant." Fans of the...

As I watch The Dream and Rick Ross dance, sing and rap in the streets of Colombia it seems to me that Mr. M-I-YAYO is still standing and going strong in spite of the various online slings and arrows fired his...

Do you Myspace? Do you Facebook? Do you blog, Instant Message or Twitter? Do you do all of the above? If you can answer yes to all of these then you may be part of the growing trend of easy access socializing. ...