The Kora Award winners for 2004 can be downloaded or viewed here (Microsoft Excel File) Size 56kb.

Free Hip Hop parties @ Orchard Bank 229, Long Street, Cape Town every Sunday starting at 21h00 on the 12, 19, and 26th December. Read on to view the flyer…

DJ / Producer SNICKA has announced his latest and greatest mixtape: Biggie Blendz which features 18 songs (released and unreleased) from the Notorious B.I.G. blended with today’s hottest beats from artists such as Fabolous, Kanye West, The Game, N.O.R.E., Ciara, Fat Joe, Juvenile, 50 Cent & G-Unit and many more.

For the International Ambassador of Hip Hop, worldwide innovation deserves worldwide respect.

Subtitles, depressing storylines and an “inner exploration of our humanity”, these are the ingredients for a foreign film. Well okay ordinarily that would be what makes a foreign film. So for those of us that want explosions, fighting and random gun play foreign films were the furthest things from our minds for a good time.

XARC Mastering, the world’s first Internet-centric mastering studio, is celebrating its first anniversary.

Lorenz Vauck, XARC’s founder, jokes: “We aren’t planning any extravagant parties — besides, we’re simply far too busy for that — but we’re certainly celebrating our successes!”

It looks like Lorenz has plenty of reasons to celebrate –- Autumn has proved to be yet another impressive season for XARC, which continues to experience explosive growth in its worldwide client base.

In Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop, Brooklyn actor, performance artist and Hip-Hop activist, Danny Hoch, masterfully brings to life eight distinct characters shocked by global Hip-Hop, the prison system and life in general. Moving in and out of characters while the camera cuts from film narrative to live performances, Hoch makes you look at cultural power in a new way that is hysterically funny, tragically sad and uplifting all at once.

Big Up is a photographic scrapbook of America’s raucous youth culture from 1989 to 2003, created by one of the brightest young photographers in the fashion industry. The book’s design preserves all of the qualities of a photo album and reflects the passion of his subjects and the feeling of their environments. The pages are fantastic collages of images, scribbled notes and bits and pieces (an airplane boarding pass, an entry ticket) from a decade of travel on assignment for magazines and advertising campaigns.

When it comes to rocking the turntables “so viciously”, nobody does it better than the hood legend himself, DJ Kool Kid. As one of hip hop’s upper echelon mixtape and club DJ’s, Kool Kid’s name has become synonymous with hot music and good times…

The City of Cape Town is buzzing with the excitement of the festive season and what better way to celebrate our unity and freedom than with music. The City leads the festivities with a free concert in the Company Gardens on 16th December, an opportunity for Cape Town and its visitors to join the nation in celebrating Reconciliation Day with an exciting line-up of artists such as Brasse Vannie Kaap, Letta Mbuli, Freshly Ground and afro jazz group Inkhoekeli.

DJ Ace has been one of NY’s top Hip-Hop/R&B, club/radio DJs’ ripping down thousands of events in every major nightclub in the tri-state and abroad over the last 15 years, ranging from the music & fashion industries, artist showcases, celebrity events to sports, TV & entertainment functions…

From Monday the 13th December until 17th December – Harambe on YFM will be dedicating a whole week to Le Club. We will have d.j’s and emcee’s coming through. Battles, hang out sessions too. Read on for more details…

Up To Scratch is a Hip Hop melting pot of Dj’s mixing, Live acts ,as well as Graffiti exhibitions that will be held on a weekly basis. Read on for the line up for Saturday the 11th Of December 2004…

A few years back we got a cd called “Ball’n, Play’n and Parlay’n” and ever since we been tracking Xtac. He recently appeared on the Murder Dog Kansas City compilation and they say he’s the “next big thing” in that area. We have no doubt about that. Read on for the full transcript…

Pvt Militant aka Alonzo W. Hill comes from (Hard Rock), Michigan. We ran an interview with him last year which you can find here. He released his album “One Man Against Many” and wanted to follow up with him. Check it out here…