URB founder/publisher Raymond Roker is profiled in the new issue of American Jewish Life.
URB.com has an exclusive mix by Next 1000 artist Them Jeans in honor of Pimp C.
Tracklist:
UGK-”Swishas and Dosha”
UGK-”Let me see it”
UGK ft. Outkast-”International Players Anthem” (Dj Dstar Drum Edit)
Project Pat ft. Pimp C-”Talkin’ Smart to a Pimp”
UGK-”Cocaine in The Back of The Ride”
UGK-”Pocket Full of Stones”
UGK-”Diamonds and Wood”
Pimp C ft. Mike Jones & Bun B-”Pourin’ Up”
Jay-z ft. UGK-”Big Pimpin” (no Hova edit)
UGK-”Game Belong to Me”
England's No. 1 undersized rapper continues her assault on mainstream America's late night airwaves this Friday with an appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson . Coming hot on the heels of her New Year's Eve performance on MTV and stops on Letterman and Kimmel, Lady Sovereign is closing in on reaching every late night television viewer in the states. The firebrand MC had a high profile 2006 and seems set on being everywhere once again in '07. Savvy late night viewers can catch a double dose of high energy hip hop Friday if they catch Spank Rock on Kimmel and then flip to Ferguson for the S-O-V.
“GREEN BLUES may be the ultimate and most genuine artifact of what the media has proffered as “freak folk” as it not only makes manifest all that is desirous of said scene, but in true nature, goes well beyond any known parameters as such. An already classic legendary move” — Thurston Moore
We knew this, or Maybe we should have known this, but as the homie Gray Kid who passed us this official documentation said, it’s “rad that it’s getting into the official record.” St. John's University Professor of Legal Writing Akilah N. Folami spoke in front of the FCC in Nashville, TN, on the destructive effects of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on the black community.
With the acquisition of seemingly every local radio station after the act’s passing, conglomerates like Clear Channel and Cumulus strangled the diversity, local support and, according to Folami, the message out of what was once deemed the “Black CNN.” Hip-hop’s current penchant for advertising products and a gangsta mentality has taken precedence over political discourse and independent thought because of obvious economic advantages towards the …
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