Somebody sent this over to me today knowing that I’m a big Luckyiam fan, but I posted it because I’m feeling the entire track. Mils and Eekwol are siblings representing Canada’s Mils Productions. From what I could gather, The Gauntlet was a track from the duo’s ‘07 album “The List,” and originally featured Stic.Man of Dead Prez. This new version features Luckyiam of the Living Legends crew.

Big ups to Jon at Vivid Imagery for sending this over. Kasha is a UK emcee and Black Rhyme is a track from his album “The Oracle.”

A little bit of that international shit for ya. The Afeeliated is a Norwegian hip-hop group. From their new album “Saving the City Vol 2.”

Super big ups for the homie BeatRoot for sending this over. I ain’t gonna lie though, when I saw that dude had just sent me a mixtape from some French hip-hop artists, I chuckled a little. But once I actually listened to the album, I realized that these cats got skillz. Fantastic Planet is a French hip-hop group who apparently teamed up with some U.S. emcees and turntablists to create this mixtape. Click below to download Fantastic Planet’s “Fantastic JJ Project” mixtape for FREE:

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The Maqusi Towers in Gaza City look a bit like US housing projects. The neighborhood consists of several tall apartment buildings grouped together in the northern part of town. It is also ground zero for Gaza’s growing Hip-Hop community. On a recent evening in one small but well-decorated apartment, a dozen rappers and their friends and families relaxed, danced, smoked flavored tobacco, and rapped the lyrics to some of their songs. (more…)

The United Nations has launched a trust fund to build a permanent memorial for victims of slavery, and appointed entrepreneur and hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons as a Goodwill Ambassador to promote the project.

A 2007 General Assembly resolution designated 25 March as an annual day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, and called for a permanent memorial to be erected at UN Headquarters to acknowledge the tragedy and consider the legacy of slavery. (more…)

Written by Gary Lapon, Northampton, MA – A few weeks ago, I saw DAM perform at Hampshire College, where they expressed solidarity with Hampshire Students for Justice in Palestine for pushing their college to divest from the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

The show was amazing, as DAM brought an energy and achieved a synthesis between MC and audience that gave weight to their statement: “Hip Hop is not dead. It is alive in Palestine.” (more…)

This is an interesting interview/performance from Cuban hip-hop group Anonimo Consejo, which was filmed for a Worldfocus news story “Social, economic change is in the air in post-Fidel Cuba.”

This is a video called “Word Wars,” part of a news report about hip-hop in Gaza, West Bank and Jerusalem put together by John Pendygraft of the St. Petersburg Times.

My bad, the scavengers at CBS News are going to make you watch an ad first.