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Feb 14, 20223 min read

Interview: Grammy Nominated Producer Nabeyin

Nabeyin is a Ghanaian producer born and raised in San Bernardino, California. He has a mass array of producing credits for the likes of...

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Interview: Roc-A-Fella Alum Kenny Burns & Singer PRIME Talk of N9N23 Movement

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Feb 11, 20226 min read

Interview: Roc-A-Fella Alum Kenny Burns & Singer PRIME Talk of N9N23 Movement

PRIME is an Atlanta-based singer with origins in Richmond, Virginia. His prior music background derives from rapping and producing but...

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Interview: Chanel Rae Pettaway Is A Public Relations Treasure

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Jan 28, 20228 min read

Interview: Chanel Rae Pettaway Is A Public Relations Treasure

Chanel Rae Pettaway is a woman of many names: The Red Carpet Hero (via BET), The Culture Princess, and one of The Baddest Publicist Baes...

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Beats Bars & Basketball: Why Lil Baby is the Ja Morant of Rap

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Jan 25, 20224 min read

Beats Bars & Basketball: Why Lil Baby is the Ja Morant of Rap

It's been a long time...shouldn'ta left you... without a rapper/hooper comparison to sink your teeth into. "Beats Bars and Basketball" is...

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Editorial: The Growing Relationship Between Anime And Rap

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Jan 25, 20224 min read

Editorial: The Growing Relationship Between Anime And Rap

Within the past decade, two different avenues of culture have risen exponentially in popularity: anime and rap. In 2018, USA Today wrote...

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StayAtHomeDad And Producer Rasneek Releases "Sweet" Debut Album

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Jan 24, 20222 min read

StayAtHomeDad And Producer Rasneek Releases "Sweet" Debut Album

Stayathomedyad (formerly known as Awkward Shaman) was born in El Paso, Texas, and grew up traveling all around the United States. He...

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Jan 23, 20224 min read

Interview: Dizzy Wunda

Dizzy Wunda is a familiar face from Richmond, Virginia. Over a decade ago, he was rocking the club scene in Richmond with his singing and...

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Mitch Felito Pours His Heart Out On "No More Drama"

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Jan 23, 20221 min read

Mitch Felito Pours His Heart Out On "No More Drama"

In No More Drama, Mitch Felito displays his versatile flows to captivate listeners as he shares some pain-felt stories. Some of the...

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Jan 17, 20224 min read

Interview: ryderoncrack

ryderoncrack is a Los Angeles producer with an otherworldly soundscape. Just three months ago he released his debut album, Die Hippie...

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JuJuRulezMan Gives Us A Hard-Knocks Education With New Single "HBU"

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Jan 12, 20221 min read

JuJuRulezMan Gives Us A Hard-Knocks Education With New Single "HBU"

JuJuRulezMan, a singer/songwriter from Richmond, VA has graced us with yet another lovelorn ballad, HBU. The song thematically revolves...

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LNF Tone puts his heart into "Talk 2'Em Tone"

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Jan 7, 20221 min read

LNF Tone puts his heart into "Talk 2'Em Tone"

If I could describe this project in one word it would be PASSION. Tone is ready for the music industry and that is clear from the first...

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Traphouse Koda Bucks And Bangs Heads With New Visual For "Rodeo"

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Jan 5, 20221 min read

Traphouse Koda Bucks And Bangs Heads With New Visual For "Rodeo"

VA Beach spitter Traphouse Koda, fresh off his 2021 hits Old Silverado & Dirt Road Lullaby, and his performance at Kanye's Monster Ball,...

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Mad Skillz Wraps Up His Annual "Rap Up" Series

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Jan 1, 20222 min read

Mad Skillz Wraps Up His Annual "Rap Up" Series

For two decades, Mad Skillz released a Rap-Up track covering the events that transpired throughout the year. In two decades, the...

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Pgbrenegade's New Music Proves He Cannot Miss

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Nov 29, 20212 min read

Pgbrenegade's New Music Proves He Cannot Miss

Pgbrenegade, the artist, engineer, and CEO of PGB Productions has been on a roll closing out 2021. In September, he released his...

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Nathaniel Essayas Does What He "Wanna" On Latest Single!

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Nov 21, 20211 min read

Nathaniel Essayas Does What He "Wanna" On Latest Single!

Nathaniel Essayas is a twenty-one-year-old R&B artist who was born in Ethiopia but raised in Canada. Nathaniel recently released a new...

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ryderoncrack Releases Psychedelic Hyper-rap Project With "Die Hippie Scum"

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Nov 19, 20212 min read

ryderoncrack Releases Psychedelic Hyper-rap Project With "Die Hippie Scum"

ryderoncrack is an LA-based genre-melding producer that you absolutely need to hear to fully understand. We writers can only do so much...

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Nov 10, 20216 min read

Interview: HoodxBuddha

HoodxBuddha, formerly known as Prop, is a Richmond-raised, Los Angeles-based artist. She is the total package when it comes to a rapper....

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Editorial: The Undeniable Rap Renaissance In Virginia

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Nov 6, 20215 min read

Editorial: The Undeniable Rap Renaissance In Virginia

Virginia has always been a hip-hop and R&B music hub. Whether people know about the commonwealth state through Something In The Water via...

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Oct 25, 20216 min read

Editorial: In Defense Of Autotune

If you’ve been even slightly aware of anything hip hop in the last fifteen years, you’ve heard auto-tune. But do you really know...

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Oct 21, 20216 min read

Editorial: TheMSQShop Internship Program

TheMSQShop launched in early 2021 to become a pillar for indie artists through entertainment, events, education, engagement, and...

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