#NewMusic: Asher Roth x Hassani Kwess x Kenny Keys “Pabst & Jazz”

Asher’s Pabst & Jazz Sessions are a collection of tracks with features from Chuck Inglish of the Cool Kids and production duo Blended Babies. As far as I know, one track will leak from the sessions each day beginning this week on Asher’s social media outlets, with Pabst and Jazz Sessions being unleashed in full on December 20th.

Word to the homie Terrell – Asher’s proceeds from the tour will go to The Philadelphia Hunger Coalition.

[LISTEN] Asher Roth & Friends

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Twitterview: @TheLeague99 Chops it up w/ @SoFowL

I got the privilege to hold a Twitter conversation with our friend and featured artist for the #UnFuckDetroit project we’re releasing on 1.2.12. With all the focus being on the issues in Detroit, who better to describe the climate better than the homie FowL?

[JUMP] for Twitterview

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[WATCH] Milwaukee Rapper Gets Indicted Because of YouTube Video

“Teach you how to Jack” is a local YouTube hit produced by Milwaukee rap artist Eastside LBoog. If you’re actively DJing in Milwaukee and happen to be working a party that consists of urban youth, this song is highly requested. Or at least it once was. I’ve been out the city for a year.

If you’re wondering, “Jacking” is to Milwaukee youth what “Stuntin” was to Cash Money Millionaires in 1998. However, for a person to even be compared to Cash Money Millionaires, they’d have to have, what YC calls, “Racks on top of Racks.” How these racks are acquired is up to the artist that endorses them. Most of the racks are said to come from “hustlin” on the corners from the wee hours of the morning. Very blatantly, in Eastside LBoog’s last video, “Trap House Money,” he claims to prosper from the cash accumulated in his dope house. This could all be very real or entertaining fiction. The FEDS are taking it very serious. Haven’t you guys learned?

It’s very hard to believe that drug dealers are selling drugs and making music about it. Wesley Snipes played the hell out of the Nino Brown role but when the director yelled cut, he was non-tax paying Wesley again. Are these young artists that eager for attention that they’d jeopardize their freedom in return for a few Facebook likes and YouTube shares?

[WATCH] TMJ 4 Has The Full Report & 411 on the Trap House

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India Arie Hangs w/ Fans in LA [Video]

India Arie is still touring w/ Idan Raichel, who happens to be one of the biggest artists in Israel. Their joint project, “Open Door” is set to release this spring. While performing the album at Luckman Fine Arts Complex @ Cal State, she revisited the crowd favorites like “Brown Skin,” “Video,” and “Ready 4 Love.” If that wasn’t enough, she allowed fans to hang with her after the show.

Hell, I’m a fan. I’m just lucky enough to have the inside connect that allowed me to be in the midst of this amazing musical happening that occurred last night after the show!

Peep The Video After The Jump!

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Political Quick Hits: September 30th Edition

Here’s your weekly quick look at few developing stories in the political arena:

• On Thursday, the House approved a short-term funding bill that will avoid a partial government shutdown.  The government is now funded through October 4, then the House will have to consider bigger measures to keep the government funded through November 18. This bipartisan short-term funding bill also included an additional $2.65 billion in disaster relief needed by FEMA to help with the hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires that have happened across the country this year. (CNN)

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Justin Burkhardt