The Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicks off today, and Jerrry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg, is the guy to see. The man behind seminal 1970 soul/country/R&B/rock album Total Destruction To Your Mind (and 1971's Rat On!, infamous for its hilariously bad cover art, above), has kept it real for quite some time now; as Steve Kiviat writes [...]
Are you really surprised? We're being hit from all angles this weekend. HU Homecoming, Halloween, and rallies? So we'll make this brief, because I know darn well you have other things to do, like pick up your silken Cab Calloway Zoot Suit for the Cotton Club at Marvin or dust off your corduroy blazer [...]
Clipse (ft. Pharrell): "I'm Good"
Clipse has finally leaked a track from it's long-in-the-works follow up to Hell Hath No Fury and, surprisingly, it's a love song. But before you get down on the dour coke-rap duo for going gushy, keep in mind that that the object of Clipse's adoration on "I'm Good" is Clipse. Pusha [...]
Tickets go on sale today for the University of Maryland's Second Annual Fall Semester Sound-Off, featuring hip-hop heroes of the DMV, Clipse and Wale. The show is scheduled for September 25th at the Grand Ballroom of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, with openers Consequence and Southeast Slim kicking things off at 7:30pm. I'm not [...]
