Got a great chance to record and share an inside look of the ¡MAYDAY! crew as they hit up Miami Beat Wave studios with legendary M1 of Dead Prez to cook up a new song called “Internal Wars” which will hopefully be featured on their Strange Music debut, Take Me To Your Leader. In any case, I am excited to hear the final version of this song and much more from all these guys.
Enjoying this new NO I.D. produced song from Common as he prepares his newest album The Dreamer, The Believer, slated for release on November 22nd. Excited to hear this baby soon!
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Happy to announce that Braille (Humble Beast) from the mighty Lightheaded crew out of Portland will be rocking a FREE set at Potential Church in Hallandale Beach this Sunday from 7-9pm! Don’t miss out on a chance to catch him Live as he rocks songs from his 7th album Native Lungs which is available for FREE off HumbleBeast.com.
When I started Hip Hop For Love it was nothing more than an idea to help those in my neighborhood stay above the water and bring some great music into their lives at the same time. In doing so, I’ve met some great people along the way who make some beautiful uplifting music, mentor youth in our neighborhood and even help feed and clothe the poor within our city. The journey so far has been a blessing, but I don’t want it to stop there. Over the last few months I’ve wanted to engage in a movement that would help change lives on a larger scale and after researching plenty of organizations I came across one movement that reflected that very thing.
The organization is called charity: water, and it was started only 5 years ago when a dedicated few saw how millions of people walked miles every day just to fetch a drink of water out of dirty waterholes and disease infested puddles. They saw children skip primary school to lug 40-pound Jerry cans on their backs and family members who tried to nurse their brothers and sisters back to health after a waterborne illness had infected them.
And though I still want to continue my efforts locally to improve my hometown, it pales in comparison to what millions of people do just to stay alive.
So Hip Hop For Love wants to help by dedicating the rest of this year to helping charity: water feed 80,000 more people by purchasing a new drilling rig so they can continue to bring clean drinking water to those who need it most. My mission is to raise $5,000 in the next three months. So I’m asking Hip Hop For Love followers to help me reach that goal by donating any little cash you can. It doesn’t have to be much, if $1 is all you have to give then that’s $1 closer to feeding 80,000 people clean drinking water! But if we can get 325 people to donate just $15 each we will have reached our goal in no time and hopefully surpass it instead. Every penny you give will go straight to building water projects in developing nations and changing lives.
And once we succeed, we’ll be able to see the community we impacted when the projects we funded are complete!
I want to thank you for tuning in and supporting Hip Hop For Love and the artists that we share. Now, I’m asking that you support people who need it more than us.
Please visit http://mycharitywater.org/HipHopForLove and help us change some lives.
For those not familiar, Stro has probably been making beats since he learned to shake his rattle in his infant crib. He was 1/3 of the Procussions and has been 100% producer on many of the Procussions and Mr. J Medeiros‘ projects. In any case, take a listen and download some of this man’s delicious beat stew, it’s sure to calm your craving for freshness. Visit his Bandcamp page to download and listen.
Braille will be dropping his latest album Native Lungs on August 30th, catch a glimpse of an average day in the studio with Braille as he pieces together parts of a song from his upcoming LP. Check out www.HumbleBeast.com for more info.
Braille – The Making of Native Lungs Day 4 from Humble Beast Records on Vimeo.
Check out this heartfelt video from Rhema Soul as they tackle father, teenage and abuse issues in their song “Fly Away”. For more updates on this group, please visit www.rhemasoul.com
