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.
In 2012, hip-hop star Lecrae – who is a native of Houston – elevated the status of Christian rap with his mixtape Church Clothes. Downloaded more than 100,000 times in the first 48 hours, the mix was instrumental in cementing the rapper’s position in two genres: secular and gospel rap.
Fastforward to 2022, and a now established Lecrae, has just released part four of that initial compilation. Church Clothes 4 was published on November 4, 2022, via Reach Records, an imprint which is co-owned by Lecrae. It has a total of 13 songs with several noteworthy collaborations: PJ Morton, Andy Mineo, Nobigdyl, Jordan L’Oreal, Jon Keith, A.I. The Anomaly and WHATUPRG. Click here to check it out.
On Saturday, December 10th some of hip-hop’s greatest emcees will gather at the Foxwoods Resort Casino – 350 Trolley Line Blvd – in Ledyard, Connecticut, for the 2022 staging of Legends Of The Mic.
This year’s lineup includes: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, The Lox, Scarface, Onyx, M.O.P., MR Cheeks and AZ. The concert will be held in the Premier Theater, starting at 8pm local time. Get tickets here.
This coming Friday – November 4th – legendary girl group Salt-N-Pepa will get their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce made the announcement last week; adding that the ladies will receive recognition in the Recording category.
Two other female legends, MC Lyte and Roxanne Chante, are also confirmed as guest speakers at the upcoming event. The ceremony will stream live exclusively on walkoffame-dot-com.
Bryann Trejo (Bryann T), the man behind Kingdom Muzic, has just released his new album: All Things Kingdom. The hip-hop gospel record, which went live on streaming platforms at midnight (October 30), immediately shot to #1 on iTunes’ Top Christian and Gospel Albums chart.
All Things Kingdom has twenty-one tracks and features collaborations with Antwoine Hill, Monica Hill Trejo, Brandon Trejo, KG Santiago, Kurtis Hoppie, Lucky Luciano, Da Young Disciples, Jaeda Hill, Young Bro, Drew Ava and Reconcile. The visuals for Worth It, track #1, was also shared.
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