By DJ Fusion
What’s up Planet Ill family?
Its that time of the week to hit heads with another round Indiesent Exposure, Planet Ill’s weekly music column where I drop some FREE quality music downloads & info …

By Malice Intended
Why We Laugh is a feature length documentary that chronicles the history of black comedy through the eyes of the comics that helped shape it.  Comprised of interview and performance footage from the …

By Odeisel
The ghost of Biggie Smalls has loomed large over the Hip-Hop landscape for the last decade and change. New York In particular has been missing that familial presence.  Jay-Z’s  cooler than you aesthetic, Nas’ …

By Odeisel
Game is at a crucial point of his career. The beef with G-Unit beef is old and uninteresting, and he’s either down or not down with DR. Dre, who’s in the middle of Detoxing…or …

By Odeisel
If you like sports then you probably know who Bill SImmons is. He’s the “Sports Guy” and his exploits can be read on ESPN, in his bestseller books, and on radio. Simmons, a Bostonian …

By DJ Fusion

** We had a few problems in with the studio computer for sending out this week’s most recent radio show (Geek Squad repair shop, here we come), but luckily we can keep it …

By shelz.
After the aggressive grudge fest that was Relapse:Refill, “Not Afraid” is a really interesting choice as first single.  Given his modus operandi has always been the shifting of his thought process and emotion.  He’s …

By Odeisel
The more things change, the more they stay the same and following his release from his baby bid, T. I. has been dropping “I’m Back”-type songs since he’s been back home. This particular version …

By Odeisel
yU is a softspoken young man but as an emcee, he is driven to paint pictures and deliver his art by any means necessary.  This time around he’s got comrade EyeQ along for the …

By shelz.
Crooked I featuring Kat Stacks?  Crooked I featuring Kat Stacks?!? Really? Lol. Some of y’all are mad about that huh?  I can’t say I’m feeling a certain way about this.  However, I don’t really …

By T. Love
Periodically, songs enter the public conscious and manage to stay there for seemingly inexplicable reasons.  If the artist from whence the song came is lucky, they parlay the notoriety into a semblance of …

By shelzp.
Everybody wants to be a rock star. Or they at least used to want that. Now in the digital age, cell phone cams killed the rock star and now everybody wants to be 3-D.  …

By Odeisel
As we near the midpoint of the second quarter we begin to see the labels line up the release dates for their important albums (read: non tax write-offs). One of those albums that are …

By Malice Intended
Franklin Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), William Roque (Idris Elba), Jake Jensen (Chris Evans), Linwood “Pooch” Porteous (Columbus Short), and Carlos “Cougar” Alvarez (Óscar Jaenada) are members of an elite special forces team who …

By Odeisel. Interview by Hot Rod! The Rowdy One
Stephen A. Smith is a long time veteran of the new guard of media. His distinctive style can be abrasive to some, but to many he’s like …

By Odeisel
Good morning. Due to an inordinately heavy workload, welcome to Manic Monday (A wayward Sick Sunday when time constraints rear their ugly heads.)It was a tough week last week as we lost Civil Rights …

By Odeisel
Goapele’s music is powerful. It stands out among her contemporaries in not only its freedom but its focus. Her latest song typifies this theme in both name and function. The track, entitled “Different” enlists …

By shelz.
Funk is best known by the Hip-Hop generation as the fuel that drove Dr. Dre to superstardom.  Rambunctious and groove driven, the music was R&B’s extra hype cousin and undeniable in its ability to …

By Odeisel
On her musical march back to the limelight, fully bathed in the seedy spotlight of a nasty divorce, Kelis drops a new single “Home.” It’s an unabashed club song, complete with the ambient noise, …

By shelz.
I have a question for you.  Does the game NEED anyone?  People say it all the time.  They are indispensable.  The culture we know as Hip-Hop would crumble and sink into the ocean like …