It's Your Anniversary: Underground hip-hop Project Blowed 17 bi13250576 The hip-hop Project Blowed turns 17 -- parties at the House of Blues on the Strip and the HOB Anaheim. Also, Pop & Hiss looks back at some of the best projects released by Blowedians (almost all of whom be playing the anniversary shows)

Underground Wonder Bar: The Song Remains The Same bi13250576 The Wonder Bar entertained customers for twenty-one-years before being destroyed for urban renewal last year. It?s back a new River North location though and, despite a move, it?s holding up the same torch it?s always championed: a great, late night piano bar good music and good people. Why not celebrate grand re-opening Sunday, December 18th?..

Crazy Dave From Plants vs. Zombies? Drops First Hip-Hop Track Down the Chimne bi13250576 SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Crazy Dave AKA Cray-Z, the tin pot hat wearing, trunk-o-the-car shopkeeper from PopCap Games? best-selling videogame Plants vs. Zombies?, taking on the hip-hop world Christmas the release of first single Wabby Wabbo available exclusively on iTunes. PopCap be donating all PopCap® proceeds earned from the track sales between December 15th ..

Rap's New Underground: Meet Cities Aviv and Main Attrakionz bi13250576 In our December issue, contributing writer Brandon Soderberg explored dozens of acts that comprise hip-hop's new , including Cities Aviv, an arty loner from Memphis whose Digital Lows punctuated by experimental noise interludes, and Oakland weedheads Main Attrakionz, who have generated a web of producers manufacturing blissed-out "cloud rap." SPIN's video crew rode along both ..

11 releases that took ATL?s hip-hop underground deeper and higher 2011 bi13250576 11. 4-Ize, ?Rap Sucks? (self released) "Rap Sucks." As 2010 came to a close the title of one of 4-Ize's most poignant moments, ?Rap Sucks,? pretty much spoke for itself, and poke at clichés didn?t sink upon hearing the song, the cover art said the rest. 10.? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on story ]..

S&H Public Relations and Hip-Hop Wired Partner to Launch 2012 National MC Search bi13250576 Details After The Jump!!!! S&H Public Relations , who has been hard at work past summer representing some of the best up-and-coming Hip Hop artists, has partnered one of the nation's premier urban entertainment website, Hip-Hop Wired , to kick off the 2012 National MC Search

Stretch Armstrong on the Demise of FM Radio and the Inanity of Celebrity DJs bi13250576 ?One half of the Stretch and Bobbito Show on New York's WKCR through the '90s, DJ/producer Stretch Armstrong has played an essential part the integration of hip-hop mainstream radio. A f..

Rick Ross, Wale set to invade Webster Bank Arena bi13250576 Hip hop giants: Rick Ross, along Wale, Fabolous, Waka Flocka Flame and artists from Ross' Maybach Music Group, are set to invade the Webster Bank Arena for 2012 $tash Ba$h on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 8 p.m

French Montana: 'Teachers Call Me', Drake's Beef 'Happens' bi13250576 Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Exclusive Johnny Nunez, WireImage French Montana signing to Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy Records December 2011, was an eyebrow-raising yet worthy move. There were reported deals on the table for the Bronx, N.Y., MC to link up not only Jay-Z's Roc Nation, but Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music and Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. However, less than a decade ..

Introducing Garden State Greats: Treach, Doitall & Group Talk Formation, Upco bi13250576 Naughty By Nature first brought the Garden State Greats to everyone's attention a joint mixtape that dropped late 2010. Since then, there has been constant flows of videos, music and mixtapes from the Jersey group

Pardon My French bi13250576 Bronx MC French Montana talks Diddy, the Knicks and Kevin Durant

Rick Ross vs. Squadda B: Street Rap at the Breaking Point bi13250576 Two new mixtapes, Rick Ross' Rich Forever , and Squadda B's Back $elling Crack recently hit the Internet ? the former ostentatious and fantastical (still defined by 2010 mega-hit "B.M.F." ), the latter aggressively smooth and confessional (think: "cloud rap"). And they very pointedly pull street rap dramatically different directions. A stop-gap release between last year's Teflon Don and the ..

Big K.R.I.T.: 23 Songs for New LP, Industry Needs to 'Step Up' bi13250576 Filed under: Hip-Hop , Hip-Hop News , Exclusive Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images Big K.R.I.T. seems like he's been a part of the hip-hop scene for much longer than he has. His attention to detail has given the edge over a long list of up-and-coming artists who believe quantity over quality. The producer-rapper has never been one to "drop a mixtape" anyway. His first, 2009's 'K.R.I.T. Wuz ..

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