Four hip-hop acts: MC Magic, Baby Bash, Lil Rob and Warren G, will perform at The Novo – 800 W Olympic Blvd – in Los Angeles, California on Friday, December 2nd. This is an all ages event that will start at 8pm local time. Get tickets here.
This coming Monday, November 21st, Rakim will be live at Sony Hall – 235 West 46th Street – in New York, where he will perform songs from his 1987 hit album, Paid In Full. This is a live band show that will also feature DJ sets by Funkmaster Flex.
General admissions for this all ages event is going for $50. VIP is $100. Doors will open at 7:30pm and showtime is 9pm. Buy tickets here.
Now in its 9th year, Last Night on the Town is the biggest New Year’s Eve event in Virginia Beach, VA. As the organizers ready themselves for the 2022 staging, they’re inviting everyone to join them at the Countdown Stage on Columbus Street for a night of fun and live throwback music!
All Town Center activities and entertainment are free and open to the public; with food and adult beverages available for purchase. Chicago-born, Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco will be on the main stage to deliver a special New Year’s Eve performance. Get additional information here.
This past Friday, Limoblaze dropped the official video for Pull Up, track #1 on his new album, Sunday In Lagos. The LP was released at the end of October following his signing to the popular gospel-hip-hop label Reach Records.
If you have not yet seen the visuals, click here to check it out, and remember to like, comment and share.
One of the coolest hip-hop ensemble, the trio Digable Planets, will be having a New Year’s Eve Party and everyone is invited!
It’s an all ages event that will be held at the Crystal Ballroom – 1332 W Burnside Street – in Portland, Oregon. Doors will open at 7:30PM, but the show will not start until 9PM.
Digable Planets will be joined by Karma Rivera with DJ Spare Key on the 1s and 2s. Get tickets here.
For one night (Saturday, November 19), NJPAC’s City Verses program will unite the leading voices in jazz, hip-hop and poetry at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ.
The legendary lineup includes rap stars Rakim (Paid in Full), Speech (Arrested Development), Chuck D (Public Enemy), Black Thought (The Roots) and Dupré ‘DoItAll’ Kelly (Lords of The Underground); award-winning poets and spoken word performers Nikki Giovanni, Jessica Care Moore, Sean Battle, Mayor Ras Baraka and The Last Poets (Abiodun Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, Babadon Babatunde).
The program also includes jazz greats Ravi Coltrane and Javon Jackson; as well as musical director (and NJPAC jazz advisor) Christian McBride and A Christian McBride Situation. Get tickets here.
Famed producer 9th Wonder is back with Zion VII. He dropped the predominantly instrumental hip-hop album on Friday, November 4th via his very own Jamla Records. I say predominantly because the first seven tracks are regular songs with vocals by Swank & King Draft.
In addition to Swank & King Draft, the project also features The Jack Moves, Jalisa and Datsunn. As we’ve come to expect from 9th Wonder, he delivered an exceptional body of work; something that all true hip-hop lovers will appreciate. Download Zion VII here.
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