The Next 400 Gala and We Buy Black Convention will be held on August 23rd, 24th and 25th at the Georgia International Convention Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
This year’s honorees are: Mo’Nique, Yusuf Salaam, Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon and Mahmoud Abdul-Raouf. The keynote speaker will be Basheer Jones, with Derrick Boazman carrying out hosting duties. There is a $100 entrance fee. Click here for tickets.
Koffee is giving two lucky fans, who were not able to buy tickets to her upcoming show in London, a chance to win a pair of tickets. Persons wanting to take advantage of this opportunity should head over to Koffee‘s Facebook and Instagram pages immediately and click on her story.
The London show will be held on Saturday, November 9th at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire.
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Join hip-hop ambassadors Questlove and DMC, alongside the CD Baby team and dozens of other industry experts this August 16th through the 18th in Austin, Texas. Both of these Hip-Hop ambassadors will be at the event to share their wisdom, meet the DIY artist community, and deliver inspiring keynotes!
Questlove (drummer and band leader of The Roots) will explore the tools and technology that can support a musician’s creativity and business goals. While Darryl McDaniels (aka DMC from pioneering hip-hop group Run-D.M.C.) will reveal some things you rarely see beneath celebrity success. He’ll talk about his struggles, triumphs and how he reconnected with the power and meaning of his own musical life.
One Love Festival Toronto and Rickey D. Events will be hosting Sizzla Kalonji at the L’Olympia (1004 St-Catherine Est) in Montréal, Quebec, on Monday, September 2nd. This is a live band show that’s scheduled to begin at 6:30 PM.
The Canadian National Exhibition will be hosting reggae great, Ken Boothe, on Wednesday, August 21st. This show will begin at 7:30 PM on the grounds of the EX (210 Princes’ Blvd) in Toronto, Ontario, and will run until 10 PM.
Ken Boothe is fresh off a successful run in Europe, where he was busy promoting his recently released album as well as the new reggae documentary Inna De Yard.
The Bay Area’s throw back station, Q102.1 FM, will be hosting a concert dubbed ‘Hot Summer Night’ on Sunday, September 1st. The event, which will be held at the Concord Pavilion (2000 Kirker Pass Rd) in Concord, California, will feature performances by Blackstreet, Ginuwine, SWV, Dru Hill, Guy, 112 and other popular R&B stars from back in the day.
The show will run from 4 PM to 10:30 PM and tickets, which start at $26 USD, can be purchased via livenation’s website.
Sometime ago Turbulence, who broke out on the reggae scene in the early 2000’s, got together with British / Canadian producer Demolition Man to lay vocals for a track with then emerging hip-hop artist Tha Vor. Both Turbulenceand Tha Vor were under the impression that the song, titled 
