The 10-year anniversary of her glorious release “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” was last month. So we wonder, could this gem be a precursor to the greatest musical comeback this year?
Eight minutes of ear candy is great, but we want more. Stop teasing us, Lauryn, and replug yourself into our lives!
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Gabrielle Chua knows who Chris Berz is. Do you? (hint: 18-year-old hip-hopper with old-school flair)
With his latest album The 3RD World, Harlem-based independent hip-hop artist Immortal Technique takes no prisoners.
Words cannot describe this. (But if a perfectly assembled rap video using all o.g. Bert and Ernie footage and set to M.O.P.’s “Ante Up” doesn’t grab you, you gots issues.)
It’s an unprecedented era of cultural splicing and dicing we are in. Some editing software, a YouTube account, and a little dead time open the gates to [...]
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It’s no secret that the black church is more outspoken than say, my regular Sunday Catholic church service. I suppose we should give credit to the Rev. Wright controversy for that heightened realization (although I gather most people presumed this long before that YouTube clip hit every media outlet this side of the Milky [...]
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There just might be a (wonder)wall of racism in Britain against importing hip-hop.
The Amen Break: it’s the soul music stem cell to everything that’s hitting your ears today.
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Back around march, el-p put out a long-anticipated 3rd album, and i’ve been sleeping on that shit for three months. Shame on me! I finally picked it up this last week, and my mind is officially blown. A lot of mc/producers claim to be “pushing boundaries”, but mr. jaime meline, aka el-producto is one of [...]
el-p - drive: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download ceremony - you never stay: Play Now | Play in Popup | Downloadfor the inaugural installment of this column, i thought i’d start by mentioning a couple favorites from the town i call home: los angeles.
despite the fact that it’s 2007, i still get meatheads who call my radio show every week requesting (read: demanding) that i “play some punk rock”. man, am i tired of punk [...]
die princess die - the racer: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download pigeon john - the last sunshine (w/j-live & rjd2): Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadYo Fifty, how much to play us something nice, huh?
In North Carolina, some pro-market opinion scribbler asks: “Hey if you want socially conscious hip-hop, why not pay people to make it? Um, maybe… except songwriters aren’t corporations and paying artists to promote certain values and ideas—isn’t that propaganda? Also: what good stuff ever came out [...]
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KXLU’s Jean-Claude on El-P and Ceremony. Because good music is an inalienable right!
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So much effort is put into categorizing and analyzing hip-hop. Is underground better than mainstream hip-hop? Is gangsta rap teaching our youth violence and disrespect? Following from Byron Hurt’s documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which aired on PBS last week, CNN decided to do their own little special on the issue. The leading question [...]
Tonight the film “HipHop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” for which the banner ad is blinking up there at the top of the site, is airing on PBS. I guess it pretty much makes me a shill if I say it’s worth seeing. But it is. It’s well worth seeing!
Filmmaker and hip-hop lover Byron Hurt, after [...]
Smokin’ Aces is a most rare thing: a good movie released in January. Crazy! A Universal Pictures-Working Title Films product written and directed by Joe Carnahan, who brought audiences Narc (2002), this movie kills, it’s a “gotta see, no doubt” with enough action, suspense and violence to satisfy the entertainment masochist in all of us.
The [...]
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Two of the great non-stories of the year: “Bush To Consider Iraq Study Group Recommendations” and “No Rap Artists Among Grammy Nominees.” The second was the jumping off point for a thousand (gleeful) stories on the death of rap, all of which included, in the second-to-last paragraph, reference to the fact that, although evil rap [...]
Mark Evitt discusses this week’s resurgence of the good old liberal media bias at the RNC.
Tricia Romano has yet to find Bigfoot, alien life, or The Lochness Monster, but she did speak with a gay Republican.
Missed some of our DNC coverage? We corral every last post for you here, plus a heads-up on forthcoming RNC coverage.
Chapters 2 and 3 of P+P founder Farai Chideya’s book “Trust” now available; mash it up as you please under a Creative Commons license.
Tricia Romano remembers the failed mayoral bid of Mark Green.
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Previously on Lost…the musical version. Mark Evitt tells you how to feed your Lost addiction.
If you’ve ever been de-friended on Facebook, you can certainly identify with the depths of despair Chris Nelson experiences…
Tara Graham breaks down the new documentary “American Teen” and laments why it gets trounced at the box office by a bunny.
Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
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