Talib Kweli ‘PRISONER OF CONSCIOUS’

Close to a year after the release of his “Attack The Block” mix­tape, Talib Kweli deliv­ers his per­son­al fifth stu­dio album, “Pris­on­er of Con­scious” orite hip-hop… Read more

Knowledge Session: Democracy is Hypocris...

Demo­cracy is Hypo­crisy Mal­colm X You don’t scare Negroes today with no badge or no white skin or no white sheet or no white any­thing… Read more

Knowledge Session: History of Prison Cam...

From the very early times, war­ring coun­tries have had pris­on­ers of war. From the early B.C. eras to middle ages and today, there’s a con­stant… Read more

Review: Breakin’ Convention Park Jam

So to cel­eb­rate 10 years in the game, Breakin’ Con­ven­tion put on their first free Park Jam. A out­door event cov­er­ing all aspects of hip… Read more

Avante Garde Hip Hop Constant Deviants (...

Q. What does your name “M.I.” stand for and what is your back­ground in terms of  who were your lyr­ic­al influ­ences, what made you start… Read more

Video: Angela Davis on Assata Shakur

One day after the exiled former Black Pan­ther Assata Shak­ur became the first woman named to the FBI’s Most Wanted Ter­ror­ist List, ‘Demo­cracy Now’ are… Read more

Lauryn Hill’s Open Letter

Lauryn Hill Writes A Let­ter Explain­ing Her Sony Deal & More Check out Lauryn Hill’s let­ter: “It has been repor­ted that I signed a new record deal, and that I… Read more

Review & Quotes: Assata: An Autobiog...

Assata Shakur’s auto­bi­o­graphy – first pub­lished in 1988 and newly repub­lished this year by Zed Books – has lost none of its rel­ev­ance. It remains… Read more

New Album: Zapatista by eMCee Killa &...

Zapatista – Sup­port­er of the Mex­ic­an revolu­tion­ary force work­ing for social and agrari­an reforms and which launched a pop­u­lar upris­ing in the state of Chiapas… Read more

Video: I Am Hip Hop Interview Dead Prez!...

We caught up with Dead Prez in Lon­don while they were on their European Tour to pro­mote their new album “Inform­a­tion Age”. In part one… Read more

Documentary: Hip Hop On The Front Line @...

Lon­don Hip Hop Artist Releases Anti-War Doc­u­ment­ary Fol­low­ing on from col­lab­or­a­tions with UK music legends Rebel MC and Alabama3; BRIT School gradu­ate Potent Whis­per con­tin­ues… Read more

Review: Hustlers Convention With Jalal O...

Pho­to­graphy By: Rae Smith  Chuck D once described the ground break­ing and genre-cre­at­ing but largely over­looked LP Hust­lers Con­ven­tion as “a verbal road-map for people… Read more