Buckshot and 9th Wonder star in the 2nd video from their upcoming Formula album along with Talib Kweli. “Hold It Down” was directed by Rik Cordero & Dru Ha and portrays the different perspectives of 3 individuals who sharing the same environ. We see Buckshot’s story first, Kweli’s next and 9th Wonder presides over the final scenes:
Buckshot and 9th Wonder - “Hold It Down”:
Duck Down drops Formula on April 29th.
There are two brand new hip hop tracks on HearingTest today - one from 9th Wonder and one from Strong Arm Steady. ([More →])
California’s best kept hip hop secret is about to be let out of the bag! Strong Arm Steady have worked the mixtape circuit to the bone and are ready to step up their game. Their debut album, Deep Hearted, is expected to cause major traffic jams outside stores lucky enough to carry it on its release date - August 28th. The album is being dropped by Nature Sounds Music and features collaborations with Chamillionaire, Juvenile, Black Thought of The Roots, Xzibit, Talib Kweli, Dilated Peoples, Ras Kass and more! ([More →])
Dr. Cornel West will be releasing a new cd on June 19th. Dr. West has been previously famous as the author of two important books - Race Matters and Democracy Matters as well as another cd which came out in 2001 - Sketches of My Culture. According to his bio on Hidden Beach :
The grandson of a preacher, West marched as a young man in civil rights demonstrations and organized protests demanding black studies courses at his high school. West later wrote that, in his youth, he admired “the sincere black militancy of Malcolm X, the defiant rage of the Black Panther Party [...] and the livid black theology of James Cone”.
He is currently important to his students at Princeton University where he teaches religion. With this background, many are looking forward to his latest cd, which features KRS-One, Prince, Talib Kweli, Andre 3000, Black Thought (of Roots), M-1 (of Dead Prez), and Rah Digga. The new cd is called Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations, and is on a new imprint of Hidden Beach, called Hidden Beach Forum. Hidden Beach Forum claims to be “a label designed to prompt discussion, debate, and evaluation of the human condition.” Dr. West’s new cd is the first release on the new label.
01 Bushanomics [ft. Talib Kweli]
02 America [ft. Black Thought, Rah Digga, Iriz & Lucky Witherspoon]
03 Still Here
04 Dear Mr. Man [ft. Prince]
05 911
06 N Word [ft. Tavis Smiley & Michael Eric Dyson]
07 Welcome to Chi [ft. Rhymefest, Neo-Abassy & Malik Yusef]
08 Mr. President [ft. KRS-One & M-1]
09 Keep It PI [ft. Killer Mike, Doey, Roc & Lucky Witherspoon]
10 Chronometrophobia [ft. Andre 3000]
11 Gonne Be Alright [ft. Dave Hollister & Chuckii Booker]
12 Matter Of [ft. Lenny Williams]
13 Soul Sista [ft. Daryl Moore]
14 The Man’s Gonna Getcha [ft. Gerald Levert]
06/07/07 100 Black Men Conference Las Vegas, NV
Dr. Cornel West
06/13/07 WNBA All Star Week Washington DC, DC
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Dr. Cornel West’s artist page on Hidden Beach includes lots of info, audio, and video….
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