http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com Hip-Hop Linguistics Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:31:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The New York Times announced this morning that HipHopLinguistics.Com is the world's best hip-hop website! Well, not exactly. But why else would they show us love on page B5 of the Metro section in today's special Independence Day issue - unless they thought the site was good, clean and wholesome? ... http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/news/2008/07/new-york-times-shows-hhl-some-love Music video for Dammn!!, track two from Sunspot Jonz' latest release "Never Surrender." http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/videos/2008/07/sunspot-jonz-dammn-video Remix version of ScholarMan's "1 Man, 1 Soul Purpose," a track off his spectacular album "Soul Purpose." Click below to listen: [audio:2008/1-man-1-soul-purpose.mp3] http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/artists/scholarman/2008/07/audio-scholarman-1-man-1-soul-purpose-remix C-Rayz Walz has teamed up with Kosha Dillz to create hip-hop's first ever Jewish-African American collaboration album of it's kind. 10% of all proceeds from the album, titled "Freestyle vs. Written," will be donated to Netivot Israel Louna Terror Victim Fund and to the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, an organization ... http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/news/2008/07/preview-c-rayz-walz-kosha-dillz-charitable-album-freestyle-vs-written Heavy Metal was my favorite track off of Bisc1's "The Stay Up Project Mixtape." So I was definitely amped when he remixed it for his latest release "When Electric Night Falls." This is a new video for that remix. http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/videos/2008/07/bisc1-heavy-metal-remix-video Milwaukeeans may remember Speech for his community-conscious music as the founder and producer of the Grammy Award-winning, alternative hip-hop group Arrested Development. Speech, whose real name is Todd Thomas, never forgot his Milwaukee roots after finding musical success. That's good news for Summerfest-goers, who have come to depend on a ... http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/news/2008/07/arrested-developments-speech-keeps-family-corn-business-alive Just stumbled across this on YouTube this morning ... and thought it was tight. I guess kid got an album dropping today, so I might have to check it out. http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/videos/2008/07/alltruisms-nine-digit-number-video From UGHH. Features Craig G. http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/videos/2008/07/lidget-green-project-sick-day-video It's a world in which hundreds of hip-hop groups are forming across the island, inspired by not only the love of the beat, but of the forceful, often-political, empowerment that it brings. But unlike hip-hop in the United States, there's no promise of a better life in Cuba for rappers ... http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/news/2008/07/us-volunteers-bring-aid-and-hip-hop-to-cuba It’s just after 11 a.m. on a hazy Memorial Day in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. Outside Tillie’s of Brooklyn, a trendy café near the corner of DeKalb and Vanderbilt avenues, a multiracial group of a dozen young men and women arrange themselves in a semicircle to be briefed ... http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/news/2008/07/hip-hops-kevin-powell-running-for-congress