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One of the semi-unfortunate reactions to Kendrick Lamar’s monumental release To Pimp a Butterfly was hearing people praising the perceived return of “conscious” rap. Taking nothing away from Lamar’s vibrant masterpiece, it is nonetheless a disingenuous thing to say. There have been plenty of artists speaking on the kinds of issues Kendrick did, with their own […]

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The snappy DJ Premier-produced track featuring the legendary wordsmith Big Daddy Kane, is off of Saigon's next album, GSNT 3: The troubled times of Brian Carenard, due out September 30.

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Speaking on The NY Hip Hop Report radio show, Saigon touched on a variety of topics, including the next installment of his Greatest Story Never Told album series, to be largely produced by DJ Premier.

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Many of the music submissions and release notifications we received during the two weeks following Sandy, had to be flagged for review, and ignored, while we got things back to some semblance of normality. Here are ten notable items that came through to us during those crazy days after Sandy, for our NY-area friends who might have been, as we were, a bit distracted by the pressing matters at hand.

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Award-winning Australian producer/remixer M-Phazes teams up with plenty of MCs from the US of A, and dishes out a video for his reworking of the Brown Bag AllStars track "What It's All About," starring everyone's favorite brownbaggers.

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We're back with another installment of "10 Must See Videos by NY-area Hip Hop Artists," a semi-regular series where we take time to collect and deliver recently released, entertaining visual displays from hip hop artists and filmmakers in the New York City area.

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