Eyezon was recently chosen as a breaking artist on URB Magazine’s Next 1000. Every year URB scours the globe to bring music fans 20 breaking artists per week for a whole year as part of their NEXT 1,000. URB had this to say about Eyezon’s upcoming album A People Like Us: “The album is brimming [...]

eLZhi – “Fire” Featuring Black Milk, Guilty Simpson, Fatt Father, Danny Brown and Fat Ray
Buy eLZhi’s The Preface here.
Related:
Interview with eLZhi
eLZhi – “Transitional Joint”
eLZhi – “Talkin In My Sleep”

The Hip Hop Live Tour features Talib Kweli, David Banner, Little Brother, B.O.B., and live instrumentation. Only four dates remain so if you’re in DC, Philly, Foxborough, MA, or New York, NY, get your tickets now (dates below).
Each act hits the stage backed by the 10-piece Rhythm Roots All Stars band, and [...]

Wax Poetics recently interviewed MF DOOM, and you can read it here. He also speaks on his beat making processes, but you’ll need to pick up the magazine for that.

Today is Blog Action Day, and bloggers all over the world have been writing with one focus: poverty. As we mentioned before, we intend to participate in the dialog on poverty all week. We hope you’ll join us in the conversation, and in the effort to fight global poverty.
An ongoing effort here at [...]

Every year Americans spend $15 billion on bottled water. Did you know that $1 can provide clean drinking water for an African person for an entire year? The Luxury Fund asks people to use some of their “luxury money” to help change the lives of those around the world who suffer from great poverty, disease, [...]

The ONE Campaign seeks to raise public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in developing countries. The organization is currently asking people to sign a petition that will send a clear message to Barack Obama and John McCain “that we expect them to keep their commitments [...]