Subject: Conscious Rap

• D Does Dilla

  July 11, 2006

• Today in Music News: KRS-One's Still Anti-Violence, Kurt Cobain's Still Worth It, Stereogum's Got The Goods And Wayne Coyne's Feeling The Spirit...

  Your top national music stories for Wednesday, December 24, 2008: Remember back in '89 when no one knew we were in the midst of Hip-Hop's "golden age" and KRS-One schooled us on why non-violence is good with the ditty "Self Destruction?" Well, now the young pups of today can have their own version: KRS-One, along with David Banner, Talib Kweli, The Game, 50 Cent and others have recorded "Self Destruction 2009." See? It's not just Natalie Maines, Eddie Vedder and Steve Earle who are p

  December 24, 2008

• Distant Gig Alert: KRS-One To Perform In Dallas, And This Time It's Official

  Minc Lounge in Exposition Park is following up on its Halloween Kool Herc performance by bringing another old-school hip hop icon to Dallas. KRS-One will perform at minc Thursday, January 22, along with Channel Live, according to Vigilante Music Group's Greg Barrett. The January 22 show is not the first time KRS-One was supposed to perform at minc. Earlier this year, Vigilante peppered the Internet with bulletins about a December 5 appearance that eventually fell through. But Barrett is certain

  December 30, 2008

• The Roots

  Tuesday, June 17, at House of Blues

  June 12, 2008

• Get Down With Dave

  Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

  March 2, 2006

• De La Soul isn't dead

  Rumors of De La Soul's imminent demise are proved untrue with the Art Official Intelligence series

  August 3, 2000

• KRS-One and Marley Marl

  Hip Hop Lives (Koch)

  June 21, 2007

• Verbal Seed

  Friday, February 23, at Gypsy Tea Room

  February 22, 2007

• It's All in the Music

  The evolutionary ?uest of the Roots

  February 22, 2007

• Cut Chemist

  The Audience's Listening (Warner Bros.)

  July 27, 2006

• Blackalicious

  Wednesday, September 21, at Hailey's

  September 15, 2005

• Little Brother

  Thursday, August 25, at the Gypsy Tea Room's Ballroom

  August 25, 2005

• Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra

  Saturday, September 18

  September 16, 2004

• Brand Nubian

  Fire in the Hole (Babygrande)

  August 26, 2004

• Steal These Albums

  The 10 most radical hip-hop albums of all time, featuring Public Enemy, NWA and...Mos Def?

  July 8, 2004

• Okay, Player

  Rap has always been about community. Now the community is online.

  May 20, 2004

• Wake Up!

  A year-end rant or rave for the rap music industry

  January 1, 2004

• Fade to Black

  Jay-Z previews his latest opus, The Black Album

  November 20, 2003

• Bad Rap

  Prince Paul's latest concept record attacks lame commercial hip-hop--by co-opting it

  June 19, 2003

• Hip-Hop Hooray

  Final Friday's growing fan base sends showcase to a larger venue

  January 16, 2003

• The Thin Line

  Jurassic 5 knows the difference between hip-hop and rap

  November 7, 2002

• Slugging It Out

  Atmosphere's MC Slug speaks to everyone by talking about himself

  October 3, 2002

• Best Live Music Venue

  Gypsy Tea Room

  September 26, 2002

• Nowhere Fast

  Blackalicious takes its sweet time moving from underground to overground

  April 18, 2002

• Pop is Dead

  Hip-huh? Antipop Consortium doesn't expect you to get it at first.

  April 11, 2002

• Foxy Brown

  Broken Silence (Def Jam)

  July 26, 2001

• KRS-One

  The Sneak Attack (Koch Records)

  May 3, 2001

• Way Out

  For Hydroponic Sound System, mixing hip-hop with everything else is just Routine Insanity

  March 8, 2001

• Various Artists

  Lyricist Lounge, Vol. 2 (Rawkus Records)

  January 18, 2001

• Open to All

  Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

  January 11, 2001

• They got it like that

  Rap music, electronic music -- no matter what it is, the Jungle Brothers can do it

  March 2, 2000

• Tell me when it's over

  The world might not be coming to an end, but maybe it should be

  December 30, 1999

• Roy Ayers

  June 17, 1999

• Letters

  February 1, 1996