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Tiye Phoenix has risen! She is back with an amazing new project! Tiye Phoenix first set trails on blaze with her self-produced mixtape titled Black Athena back in 2006. But when she dropped her solo project, Half Woman Half Amazing Amazin’, in 2009, I was floored. The album featured Phonte, Chip-Fu and Dynas. She truly showed that she could […]
Read More Firebird Rising: Tiye Phoenix Returns (Interview)The late Viro The Virus was known for his verbal sharpness, which will not be forgotten soon as his record “The Sharpest Blade” gets a new life from the German production crew Snowgoons. “The Sharpest Blade (Remix)” is the fifth of 5 remix projects from the original work of Viro The Virus. Caliph-NOW reached out to close friends, former producers of Viro, and some […]
Read More Viro The Virus’ “Sharpest Blade” Gets the Remix Treatment Courtesy of the Snowgoons (Music)TRIBECA-GRAND has been on a tear since their Colin Kaepernick-inspired single “Take A Knee” earlier this year. Not to be pigeonholed, the group returned in short order with “NY-PHI”. Member Grand Agent explains the concept of the song that samples Digable Planets’ “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like That)” and interpolates Boyz II Men’s “Motownphilly.” “We just […]
Read More Tribeca-Grand Aren’t Playing Any Games in This “Sport of the Gods” (Music)Chicago wordsmith Verbal Kent (Ugly Heroes) and Spanish-German beatmaker Superior release an animated video for “Go Get The Dank” off their collaboration album Half My Life. The track is featuring Vic Spencer and Sonnyjim, and the video is animated by Brandon Webb of Foxx Called Moon Films. Verbal Kent says: “I felt like Superior passed […]
Read More Verbal Kent & Superior “Go Get the Dank” with Vic Spencer & Sonnyjim (Music)Hip-Hop royalty, O.C., stopped by the NPR studios for an incredible Tiny Desk Concert featuring classic cuts from his catalogue accompanied by live instrumentation from jazz outfit Soul’d U Out and an appearance by fellow D.I.T.C. member Lord Finesse. It’s nothing but pure dopeness from there on as the audience gets chills from classic throwback cuts like “Return of […]
Read More NPR Brings the Legendary O.C. for an Engaging Jazz Infused Tiny Desk Concert (Music)There’s a new anthem for the fight and the search from the darkness. LA emcee 60 East brings you “The Light” featuring SoCal veteran Ariano. Warm, somber bass and hard-knocking drums set the stage for 60 East to take us on a lyrical journey laced with pain and longing of being in a relationship with […]
Read More 60 East & Ariano Bring Us Closer to “The Light” (Music)New music video from France’s production team, KaBé Prod, is the first official video off their newly released album, “Nocturne”, which is a two-part video. The first part “Slow Flow” features The CastOffz (Barbaric, Jae Nice, Alvarez Masterminded), which then transitions into “Just Have To Do” by Zagnif Nori from Noble Scity. 100 Limited Edition vinyl copies are […]
Read More KaBé Prod Presents “Slow Flow/Just Have to Do” Visuals off Their “Nocturne” Album (Music)“Find A Way”, produced by Almighty-Wise, is a song about being hopeless, going through life’s trials and tribulations, overcoming through hope, faith, and perseverance. We all have our own stories to tell. Here’s St. Ivan the Terrible’s. Listen to “Find A Way” now:
Read More St. Ivan the Terrible Is Back with a New Track in Hopes to “Find a Way” (Music)Los Angeles emcee Pawz One and Dutch producer Robin Da Landlord release the first single off their upcoming collaborative album Sell Me A Dream: Flowstalgia. The new single titled “Sucker Punch” is produced by Robin Da Landlord and cuts by DJ VR. Pawz One says that he would love to punch out internet trolls, but […]
Read More Pawz One & Robin Da Landlord “Sucker Punch” Internet Trolls (Music)“Life is a Sitcom” is the first single off of Realio’s Mahdi Musik project. And on this smooth laidback track he touches on real life issues with slick mentions of popular sitcom titles in his verses and his video is medley of those TV shows. Although “Life is a Sitcom”, enjoy each moment cause “it could all […]
Read More Grab the Popcorn for Realio Sparkzwell’s “Life Is a Sitcom” Video (Music)Crooked Takes A Walk On “Kane Street” is inspired by hip-hop icon Big Daddy Kane’s classic single “Smooth Operator” and it feels like its 1989 all over again. KXNG Crooked and Jonathan Hay assembled a big team for “Kane Street” which includes Mike Smith, Ranna Royce, Toon, The Visionary And The Architect, DJ Manipulator, Louie Gonz, […]
Read More Kxng Crooked’s “Kane Street” Is an Ode to Big Daddy Kane (Music)