More than a year ago, a staple for women in hip hop throughout Atlanta. Check out Boog Brown’s her new video that throughly expresses “this is real hip hop”.

As mentioned here before, A3C alum and beatmaker !llmind along with fellow future school emcee Skyzoo are both in the lab putting together a collab called Live from The Tape Deck. Frisbees is the first taste off of said project.

Diamond D and Collective Efforts w/ The5ive, Senor Kaos, Dillon, and Stanza. Hosted by Fort Knox w/ DJ Gee Supreme – 9pm July 23 at Apache Cafe

Art Beats & Lyrics is an exhibition that showcases art, multimedia and design from a variety of upcoming visual artists. The next event in ATL is coming up on Friday, July 30th @ the Compound. The event will feature photography, paintings, graffiti, live music and b-boys.

From his upcoming album W.A.R. (We Are Renegades), Pharoahe Monch gives us a taste with the Diamond D produced cut, Shine.

“i Heart” Black Spade from Drew Jordan on Vimeo.
MC, singer, and producer Black Spade aka Stoney Rock prefaces his upcoming Build & Destroy mixtape with a video for the song “I Heart” (shot by Flying Fish and Ryan).  Alongside fellow MC’s Simeon of The Primeridian & Vic Spencer of the Brainiac Society, the song, which samples the Beatles’ “All My Love” song, and video are CLASSIC!

Any producer who has been to the A3C in the past two years will know iStandard. They’ve put on outstanding producer showcases for us in both 2008 and 2009. Next week, they will be doing another performance at Vinyl. Details are below:

Featuring Common with full band — De La Soul — Goapele — Mick Boogie and over 20 additional acts and djs

Expect to see and hear: music on 2 stages (Rock, Hip-Hop, Funk & Alternative), over 20 djs, over 10 live music acts (more are being added everyday), festival games, food, fun, libations, give aways and over 5,000 of Atlanta’s progressive music lovers.

That boy Cee-lo gives up his first video off of his upcoming album, Cee-Lo Green is the Lady Killer. The song is a cover from Band Of Horses’ called ‘No One’s Gonna Love You’.

Here is the lead single from E Reece’s upcoming album on HiPNOTT Records, Concrete Steppin — “Fly Hi”. Concrete Steppin will be available via all online retailers July 27th.