Flashback: Lost Boyz - Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz

Shoutout to the ballars, nice cars, the ladies, people locked down, the world... everyone. The Lost Boyz track "Jeeps, Lex Coups, Bimaz & Benz" off their debut album Legal Drug Money. This video came out in 95, so you may never seen this before. Videos are not even the same anymore, These Boyz had the whole block out there. It wasn't too flashy, just out there having fun. 

 

Video: Nyck Newz Ft. Shaun The Hitman - Bad Girl

Where the Bad Girls at? it's a new anthem for you. Nyck Newz and Shaun the Hitman team up to show love for ladies in this new track, "Bad Girl". This hot sunny day visual was directed by the talented Head Graphix, with Raleigh's own Wade Banner with intro. 

So how I get to be a video vixen in a NyckNewz video? just let me know (lol)

Video: Dom Kennedy with Hip Hop Wire

Watch the video below as the "Get Home Safety" rapper Dom Kennedy talks about his album inspriation and also working with Nipsey Hussle in the future. 

Audio: YG & Jeezy - Birfday

Since Signing with CTE, YG is working on his debut album, My Krazy Life. The compton rapper hooks up with his new boss and releases this second single "Birfday". Now when my birthday comes, I have a new anthem. Trust me, you going to hear this in the club. 

Mixtape: Isaiah Rashad - Cilvia

Top Dawg Ent's newest artist, Isaiah Rashad announces he will be dropping his debut mixtape "Cilvia" in December.  Talking with Revolt TV, Isiah says he wants to give his audience a ride. The "I just got off work but I'm not going home " ride. I am excited for this project.

Article: Hip Hop and Prison as Profit

I read this really great article about Hip Hop and Prison together as profit. It links how the media markets "criminal" rap to our culture which causes the enrollment of prisoners to increase. I'm not a great paraphraser, so I will give the facts. You read the article yourself, don't be lazy like me.

• Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the biggest name in the private prison industry, contacted 48 states offering to buy their prisons. 
• Two months later, an anonymous email was sent out to various members of the music and publishing industries saying it determined that hip-hop music would be manipulated to drive up privatized prison profits. Some called it fraud because no name was listed. 
• Ninety percent of what Americans read, watch and listen to is controlled by only six media companies. #MESSAGE
• Last year 232 media executives were responsible for the intake of 277 million Americans, controlling all the avenues necessary to manufacture any celebrity and incite any trend. #MESSAGE
• The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons. 
• Likewise, the largest rise in incarceration that the US has ever seen is in the early-80′s. (Crime has decline since then) 
• "The vast majority of the prisoner increase in the United States has come from African-American and Latino citizen drug arrests.”
• The U.S. Sentencing Commission reported in March 2010 that in the federal prison system, even where convicted for the exact same crimes, people of color received prison sentences 10% longer. 
• Mainstream media continue to support hip-hop that glorifies criminality (drug trafficking and violence), and private prison interests. 

Make sure you read the article and get some knowledge. 

[ Via RapRehab ]

Ustream: Povic Nation's Hip Hop Show

Last Wednesday at the Povic Nation's First Hip Hop at the New Loft and Lounge, I record the underground artists' performances -- Liion Gamble, Rome Jeterr, Kizzy Krew, Wreck-N-Crew, and Sonyae. You catch my youtube version here and watch the ustream versions below.  Also follow my ustream page.

 Liion Gamble
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Rome Jeter featuring Madison Jay
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Kizzy Krew
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Sonyae


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