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via Deft Magazine The newest release from the Nomadic Wax team, Thawra, goes inside the global community of Arab hip-hop and its prevalence in grassroots political movements across the Arab world. Thawra is a 45-minute radio program that features as much music as it does insight. The team brings you the story from a global […]

via Deft Magazine Deft Magazine writer Mandee Macchia gives her take on the Lupe-Obama fiasco. I remember when I first heard about the Lupe Fiasco media mess. My initial reaction was dispassion. It was just another case in which the mass media zeros in on one detail, and blows it out of context. Talking to the homie and MC […]

via Deft Magazine Pop star 50 Cent announces that he is authoring a new semi-autobiographical novel aimed at promoting anti-bullying.Playground is slated to release in 2012 from Penguin Young Readers Group. The emcee has already released From Pieces to Weight (which got shaky reviews, at best), and self-help-to-success guide The 50th Law coauthored by Robert Greene. Bullying is on everybody’s mind these […]

Reviews Apollo Brown: Clouds Clouds is a deliciously versatile, play-while-you-work type of album. The record boasts a count of 27 tracks, all instrumental, all under three minutes. On Clouds, Apollo Brown creates a tangible sonic atmosphere of delicate, inviting beats, spotted with toasts to Hip-Hop’s classics. It’s anything but monotonous.  On the contrary, Brown’s new drop seems […]

Reviews Has-Lo: In Case I Don’t Make It Has-Lo’s new album, In Case I Don’t Make It, musters an eerie discontent.  It schemes to be touchy. As the emcee rhymes,  “This is nothing new. This is me running from the moon.” Carrying the the seal of a personal burden, In Case I Don’t Make It speaks of a […]