Featuring guest introduction by Paradise Gray (X-Clan), jessica Care moore, Omari King Wise, Duminie DePorres and Khalid El-Hakim. “Center Of The Movement” music video was made in support of all of the individuals and businesses featured in the video, including the Black History 101 Mobile Museum, whose owner Khalid El-Hakim is publishing the new book [cont.]

Joey Bada$$ drops his XXL Freshmen 10 cover freestyle.

Over the last few months, Pro Era member, CJ Fly, was said to be preparing to release his debut solo mixtape, and today, he decided to give the fans a brand new song titled, “the error”, produced by Cookin Soul. “My pro Capital STEEZ considered the Progressive Era as an contradiction and since he was [cont.]

Today 19 year old rap phenom GrandeMarshall releases his sophomore mixtape Mugga Man for free download on Fool’s Gold. The anticipated follow up to Grande’s acclaimed debut 800 features 21 tracks of THC-powered beats and supremely confident rhymes from the young MC, an evocative and hypnotic chronicle of late nights and slow rolling Crown Vics [cont.]

Backstage at Paid Dues Hard Knock TV caught up with Immortal Technique. In this interview Immortal talks to Nick Huff Barili about early Hip Hop memories, being locked up in prison, Monsanto lobbying Obama, interactions with fans on twitter and the work he is doing with The Green Light Project. Oh yeah and his new [cont.]

Today, Columbus-based rapper Copywrite releases his free album Carbon Copy’s Phony Art Pub Scam through Man Bites Dog Records. The title of the album, which was premiered by OkayPlayer, is a play on The Beatles’ famous record Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and starting with the album cover, it’s a mix of honorary sampling [cont.]

Following yesterday’s fallout with Reebok, Rick Ross has released an official statement to the press, apologizing for a lyric glorifying rape on Rocko’s “O.U.E.N.O.” track. “Before I am an artist, I am a father, a son, and a brother to some of the most cherished women in the world. So for me to suggest in [cont.]

On the season premiere of Iyanla: Fix My Life, Iyanla travels to Yonkers, New York, to meet Earl Simmons—also known as multiplatinum hip-hop artist DMX. Watch what happens during their first meeting. This episode airs April 15th @ 9/8c on Oprah’s OWN channel. Meme incoming.

The work of collective Odd Future has a love-it-or-hate-it relationship with its audience. While Tyler has received his fair share of criticism and attention for his profane shock and horror lyrics and homophobia, the Odd Future sound isn’t really intended for anyone seeking an intelligent or even coherent thought. It’s most likely for high school [cont.]

Diplo and company appear as Major Lazer on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, backed by The Roots and members of Dirty Projects for a performance of “Get Free”. Free The Universe in stores this Tuesday.

Looks like Rick Ross’ corporate sponsors were none-too-happy with his controversial “rape lyrics”, as heard on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O.”: “Put molly all in her champagne/she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that/she ain’t even know it.”. The shoe brand has buckled to demands of women’s organizations such as UltraViolet, who have blasted [cont.]

From All The Wrong Things 2.

N.O.R.E. and company produce an official sequel to “Banned From TV”, for his new LP, Student Of The Game.

Soul Temple Records announces that, in conjunction with www.recordstoreday.com, they will release an alternate version of the Ghostface Killah/Adrian Younge album Twelve Reasons To Die, This version of the album, created by critically-acclaimed, detroit-based producer Apollo Brown, will be released as a limited edition cassette. These tapes will be given away, along with Issue One [cont.]

Here’s a track that didn’t make the final cut of I Am Not A Human Being 2. We would have taken this over “Hot Revolver” as a bonus track.

A few days prior to the release of Big Krit’s latest project “King Remembered In Time”, Krit held a Ustream chat to preview the project and answer questions from his fans. 3 Little Digs was on hand to capture the moment and give the perspective of what was actually happening in the room. Studio Life: [cont.]

Swizz Beatz to Hot 97 explains how he, Timbaland, Trey Songz, and Jay-Z came together to record “Open Letter”.

Paul Rosenberg releases this lost “Funky Cowboys” track from 1994 into the wild. R.I.P. Dilla, R.I.P. Proof.

This morning, Hot 97 revealed the line-up for Summer Jam XX’s Festival Village stage, which is the smaller stage for a lot of the underground acts. This is the infamous stage where Peter Rosenberg dissed “Starships” last year during Kendrick Lamar’s performance, resulting in Nicki Minaj’s boycott of the show. While we expect Kendrick to [cont.]

In part 2 of Kid Cudi’s sit down interview with the L.A. Leakers DJ sourMILK and Justin Credible, Cudi talks on why he was only featured on one record in Cruel Summer, and his reason for leaving G.O.O.D Music.