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Artists including Pharoahe Monch & Mystic along with various Athletes Inspire and Empower Fans to Help Plant Seven Billion Trees by the End of 2009 more…

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Leela James: Let’s Do It Again (Shanachie)

Jay $tay Paid – New Album from the Late, Great J Dilla. Possibly the best posthumous rap record since the final releases of 2Pac and Biggie.” – Rolling Stone Magazine. Executively produced by Dilla’s mother, Ms. Yancey AKA “Ma Dukes” more…

Scratch’s long awaited Loss 4 Wordz album from the groundbreaking beatbox artist and member of the world famous Roots crew, featured on the album along with Kanye West, MOP, Musiq Soulchild, Peedi Crakk, Talib Kweli, Damon Albarn and more: Video Interview

COMING SOON:

Dillanthology 2: Dilla’s Remixes for Various Artists out June 23rd, Rapster Records more…

RELEASE DELAYED: For those gearing up for Mos Def’s big come back album The Ecstatic, which was supposed to be released this upcoming Tuesday, you’ll have to wait a few months longer. Def recently announced that his fourth full length album, featuring Madlib, has been pushed back and will not hit stores until August 24th. Pre-Order

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“Change My Style” ft. Truth Universal + Produced by Natural Born, Originally from the unreleased album “Decolonization” which appears on “Hard Truth Soldiers Vol. 2.” with an added verse by Paris.more…

SPECIAL EVENTS

Philly June 6: The Roots Picnic

NYC June 18 – 20: Fifth Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival

Atlanta Sept 24 – 27: Int’l Soul Music Summit

Atlanta October 1 – 3: 2009 A3C Festival

NYC Oct 20 – 24: CMJ Music & Film Festival

NYC Nov 16 – 19: Web 2.0 Expo

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Rock The Bells
Foreign Exchange
Amadou & Mariam
Leela James
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Anthony Hamilton & Musiq Soulchild
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Femi Kuti

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