We invite you all to check out the new website for the Heal the Hood Project at www.healthehood.org. We are hoping that we can get more people to work together globally in an attempt to create exchanges between youth globally and address various issues through these projects. We are planning to send South African Youth to Sweden before the end of this year and then in 2006/2007 we plan to host the international Heal the Hood Gathering in Cape Town.

Honoring Africans and descendants of Africa around the world who have excelled in their profession. Onzou Records announces Yaya Diallo as African People’s Intercontinental Awards recipient for the Entertainer of the Year Award to be presented at the Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C., June 4th, 2005…

Tom Silverman, founder and CEO of Tommy Boy announces the release of HIP HOP ROOTS on both CD and double vinyl. Personally selected and compiled by Silverman, this collection features twelve of the most sampled tracks that would become building blocks of Hip Hop music…

Since its inception in 1998, e.tv has commissioned and aired several high quality local documentaries. Most of these documentaries were produced in either the Western Cape or Gauteng, provinces that boast thriving film and tv production industries. Now, in the interest of developing production capacity in the other provinces and also to ensure diversity in our documentary programming, e.tv will be commissioning one half-hour documentary from producers in each province excluding Gauteng and the Western Cape…

The death of 2Pac in the mid 90’s ripped the heart out of West Coast Hip Hop. At the same time a young street poet named the Jacka was honing his skills in the Bay Area Rap game. Always open minded, he was influenced by b-boys and thugs, pimps and Imams. The Jacka has since developed into an established, well-rounded, well-versed emcee in the right place to bring the West Coast some serious attention…

Features 3 hip-hop crews from Gugulethu i.e. Black G Flow, Drie Maanskap and Unic, and 2 solo MCs i.e. DAT aka Dangerous African Tongue and Taycee aka Mikzillah. DAT and Taycee are currently working on their separate solo albums to be release at the end of year under Mad Vibe Clan Productions.

This event will be held on Saturday 04 June 2005 starting at 9pm at Zula Sound Bar (ex Lounge), 194 Long Street Cape Town. Cover charge is R20.  "Aluta Continua”.

Saw this ad on the ever resourceful Biz-Community website. They are looking for a graffiti style artist to do some freelance decor work for a short period. You can read more about this unique job at this link.

Hailing from Cookeville, in the US state Tennessee, actor, singer/songwriter, producer and photographer Brown, came to Cape Town for the first time in 1999 to work with Youth With A Mission. He worked with Cape Town street children and decided to come back to South Africa full time after spending three months in India with the same organization.

The Jozi based crew, Third World Riders, the Unemployed Alcoholics, have released their first single, "Hell is Home" from their debut album, Products of Circumstance which is scheduled to be released in June/July. The project will be released under the nascent and independent Panga Records which is co-owned by members of the crew. The crew was formed a year ago and originally consisted of five members. Read on for more details…

XARC Mastering, the world leader in on-line mastering, is proud to announce that several tracks, each truly representative of the diversity of the XARC’s mastering work, have recently garnered wide attention in the international music community. Although this latest news is focused in two otherwise very distinct locations – namely, Estonia and Manhattan – it is nonetheless connected together by a common thread: XARC Mastering.

Miami’s own, DJ GQ drops his new mixtape “Part Fourteen” hosted by the famed Pee Wee Kirkland and Mr. Cheeks. This is the first time Pee Wee Kirkland has ever hosted and co-signed any DJ mixtape. Exclusive material on the CD includes tracks by Kevin Lyttle, Mr. Cheeks, Pitbull, and heated track called “Million Dolla baby” by Mr. Vegas who recently won a copyright lawsuit against Pitbull. Host Mr. Cheeks describes this mixtape as “the hardest mixed tape heard in a minute, it’s [just] one of those thangs!”

The Red Bull Music Academy continues its wholly unique approach to modern music education and appreciation, building a free-wielding, groundbreaking curriculum composed of – in the words of Public Enemy – food for the brain, beats for the feet. Read on for details…

It amazes me how little the industry knows about the hip hop culture on the African continent. I came across “A tidal wave of success“, an article on the Biz-community website where it stated, “Tidal Wave Productions has produced the first hip-hop music video ever to be shot on the African continent“. This is unbelievable. Do they even know how many hip hop videos have been shot on this continent?  There are too many to list.  What of POC, Black Noise and the countless SA artists throughout the last decade?  I won’t even talk about the hundreds that have been released by those in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Senegal and other African countries.

The HIPHOCALYPSE Re-Mixtape is FINALLY out! This is the follow up to the HIPHOCALYPSE Mixtape (Volume 1) released in October 2004. Bringing the HEAT for your Winter Warz and occupying the anxious space somewhere between the Sequel to the original HIPHOCALYPSE Mixtape & the pre-quel to the forthcoming HIPHOCALYPSE Mixtape V2 this release features production from some of the industry’s hottest up & coming producers…

Rising hip-hop group, The Ill, to release new single “Magical Glo” and “Cold Cold World” featuring DavidBanner on Nu Element Recordings via Counterflow Group Distribution.