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Droppin’ Knowledge: Jiyu Purp Creates Spiritual, Life Affirming Hip Hop on His Album Earth is Ours – Interview & Review

By MD Semel  / January 19, 2021
Last month, Dallas, Texas based hip hop artist Jiyu Purp released his first long player, Earth is Ours, an album…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Jiyu Purp Creates Spiritual, Life Affirming Hip Hop on His Album Earth is Ours – Interview & Review

Droppin’ Knowledge: A 10 Song Hopeful Playlist For A Time That Strains Hope

By MD Semel  / January 19, 2021
If you’re feeling a deficit of hope lately, don’t fret. You are not alone, Hope is an intrinsic human attribute…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: A 10 Song Hopeful Playlist For A Time That Strains Hope

Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Birmingham’s Grimy Sound Architect Hobgoblin

By MD Semel  / January 11, 2021
And we back… From the gritty depths of the UK’s second city, Birmingham, arose an anti-villain who plumbs the muck…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Birmingham’s Grimy Sound Architect Hobgoblin

Droppin’ Knowledge: Listening To Music During a Pandemic – 10 Hip Hop Songs To Help You Carry On

By MD Semel  / January 4, 2021
By October, music had failed me. In the beginning of the pandemic, music from my youth carried me through the…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Listening To Music During a Pandemic – 10 Hip Hop Songs To Help You Carry On

Droppin’ Knowledge: London Born Rap Legend MF DOOM Dead at 49

By MD Semel  / January 3, 2021
MF DOOM, the London born rap artist who grew up in the United States, has died at 49. The musician’s…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: London Born Rap Legend MF DOOM Dead at 49

Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Willie Green

By MD Semel  / October 19, 2020
Paul “Willie Green” Womack is a producer, musician and sound engineer who has worked with a wide variety of artists,…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Willie Green

Droppin’ Knowledge: The Songs of New York City Beatmaker Radicule Are Undiscovered Gems Of Hip Hop

By MD Semel  / October 16, 2020
With music proliferating at an explosive rate, it’s often difficult to wade through the morass and discover new artists, or…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: The Songs of New York City Beatmaker Radicule Are Undiscovered Gems Of Hip Hop

Droppin’ Knowledge: 11 Questions For 11Roots About Life & Their Excellent Debut Album

By MD Semel  / October 14, 2020
Brooklyn rap duo 11Roots recently released their self-titled, debut album, and it’s a compact, spiritually-rooted record, with no wasted space….
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Droppin’ Knowledge: 11 Questions For 11Roots About Life & Their Excellent Debut Album

Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Farma Beats

By MD Semel  / October 12, 2020
In 2018, Brooklyn spitter Rome Streetz released one of the best collections of hip hop that year, Street Pharmacy. The…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Behind The Boards With Farma Beats

Droppin’ Knowledge: As White Horse, Indy Hip Hop Heroes Gajah and Uncommon Nasa Discover America – Interview & Review

By MD Semel  / October 9, 2020
Uncommon Nasa, the legendary East Coast emcee, producer and overall sound whiz, likes to talk. He can talk and talk…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: As White Horse, Indy Hip Hop Heroes Gajah and Uncommon Nasa Discover America – Interview & Review

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