The film chronicles the diamond wars of Sierra Leone and how hip-hop’s ‘bling’ culture of wearing flashy jewellery has unknowingly fuelled such conflicts.

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A recent international hip-hop festival which brought together rap artists from around the world has raised the question of why non-US rap is so political - whereas mainstream American rap appears frivolous.

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A who’s who of hip-hop artists and business moguls championed financial independence for the hip-hop generation at a summit on financial empowerment Saturday at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

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In this day and age where the music industry actively promotes artists who happily celebrate narcotics, gun violence and misogyny as lyrical content to fuel billion dollar sales, there is one Hip Hop group willing to go in another direction for the community of people they represent. And now dead prez (M-1 and stic.man) will get its first televised concert special as Starz InBlack takes a bold step in spreading the group’s fiery cultural perspective to the masses.

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Dead Prez and Tupac protégés, The Outlawz, are preparing the release of a collaborative album this summer, titled Can’t Sell Dope Forever, through newly launched imprint, Affluent Records.

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Below is a speech I gave in Watsonville, CA on April 17th 2006. I was invited to come down and speak by the Watsonville Brown Berets. Fred Hampton Jr. of the P.O.C.C. and Immortal Technique also represented HARD that day.

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Two New York churches have been trying new things to draw in visitors and kids — mixing religion with old school hip-hop.

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