Substantial chats with Nene Wallace Reed about his new album “Home Is Where The Art Is”, working with Oddisee and more.

As Substantial’s Mello Music Group debut Home Is Where The Art Is nears release, the DMV MC can’t contain his excitement. In anticipation of the release, Substantial joins indie powerhouse Homeboy Sandman and up-and-coming DMV wordsmith Javier Starks for the high-energy track “ReLOADED”. The track doesn’t appear on Substantial’s own album but is instead a [cont.]

Substantial takes time out to update the world on his recent trip to Tokyo for the Nujabes tribute event, Bop Alloy’s album cover and more. In Part 2, Substantial takes time to interview Cise Star of CYNE during their recent trip to Tokyo for the Nujabes tribute event. They talk about the Event/Nujabes, How to [cont.]

HHS: What’s up Stan? What’ve you been up to the last few months? Substantial: Doing a lot of spot dates in the D.M.V.(DC,Maryland, Virginia) and New York. But now I’m just getting ready to head over to Seattle to do a performance with my partner Marcus D, who won the Red Bull Beat Battle in [cont.]

What do we have here? Our first co-branded mixtape since the relaunch. Of course longtime followers know we’ve been doing this kind of thing since around 2001, however as you can see from our discography, we don’t attach our name to just anything. Basically, Red Planet Music are throwing a show tonight (!) in Philly [cont.]

The label with no rich relatives, QN5 Music, released this tantalizing image today, stating QK10, announcing a list of projected releases scheduled for release this year. No dates have been attached, but the list reads like this: PackFM & Domingo – I F*cking Hate Rappers Substantial – Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood Tonedeff & Kno – Chico [cont.]

  On the fourth track off his new album Sacrifice, Prince George County bred MC Substantial takes a sec to quote the backbone of broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow:     "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined [cont.]