The KnuX – Mirage [Stream]

Despite what the titles suggests you are not hearing a Mirage, but rather the world premiere of a new single from The Knux, a brotherly pair (Krispy Kream and Rah Al Millio) who haven’t been featured on our pages in over two years. The alternative hip hop duo’s latest self-produced single is a return to their signature, unpolished sound and the first release off of their upcoming third album, Eleven, set to drop April 28, via Rebel House Collective in partnership with INgrooves Music Group.

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Joe Budden – I’ll Name This Podcast Later (Episode 6) [Stream]

If you’ve been with us since Episode 2 you may remember Joe painfully discussing his childhood crush not giving him the time of day in 6th grade. Well, as usual, Twitter found her; so we reached out and brought her onto the podcast as our first guest to discuss her role in Joe’s path to relationship destruction! We’ll just name Episode 6, “OLS -1”.

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Fashawn On Getting A Nas Cosign, Being A Part Of Mass Appeal & Coming Up In Fresno, CA [Video]

Dart Adams sat down with Fashawn before his show at the Middle East in Cambridge to discuss his first album “Boy Meets World” and the part of his life he was in when he wrote and recorded it. Moving on Dart gets into the 5 year gap between the release of “Boy Meets World” and “The Ecology”. Moving on Dart gets into talking about “The Ode to Illmatic” and how Fashawn released his “Illmatic” inspired record before the Detroit rapper Elzhi. Fashawn also touches on his worries with rapping over the beats and what inspired him to do it in the first place. Fashawn goes on to talk about his hometown of Fresno and what it was like coming up in that city compared to other more notable locations for California hip hop. To close it out we hear about how he feels being acknowledged by Nas and his thoughts on being a part of Mass Appeal.

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