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Hip Hop Still On Trial: Ra Diggs, Jerms Black, Casanova Kris

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Rappers going to jail is nothing new. Even infamous managers like James Rosemond a.k.a. Jimmy Henchmen is serving a life sentence. The Source Magazine released an issue in March 2004 titled Hip Hop Behind Bars highlighting the different artists who were incarcerated or facing incarceration at that time. Historically, some rappers who come from the […]

New Music: Prince Mojo feat. Devin Cruise

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Houston, Texas’s  Prince Mojo teams up with producer/songwriter Devin Cruise to release the first single titled “Twist it Up” off his first mixtape entitled “Innovation”. The song is an ode to Mojo’s favorite past time. Cruise is a singer signed to Universal and is about to start making a lot of noise after contributing beats […]

Wavey K: Leaning In with PMS Radio Reloaded

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PMS Radio Reloaded (Play My Shhh) can be heard on Tuesdays from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the online radio station DaMatrixStudios.com. The show has undergone many changes, but the one constant throughout all those changes has been Kristina Ramos a.k.a. Wavey K. Now with her sitting at the forefront, Wavey K hopes to […]

TheSource.com Talks to Bakari Pace about his book “Enough. For All, Forever”

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Bakari Pace is a soon to be published author whose first book “Enough. For All, Forever” attempts to tackle issues of scarcity, hunger, poverty and many other related issues that have plagued civilizations for centuries. Pace uses the attention grabbing title to hook the reader in, as he delves into his theory of why he […]

Seasteading: The World’s New Frontier

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Seasteading is a fairly new concept of having permanent communities living on the sea. Essentially, the seasteads would be floating nations in international waters beholden onto themselves. According to the Seasteading Institute, it will be needed to create what they call the next generation in governance. There are also benefits for the banking system, medical […]

Brooklyn Sky Elevates from Flatbush to the Mainstream

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Brooklyn Sky (BSKY Brand) is a clothing line conceived by a collective group of creatives from Brooklyn, New York. The five owners (Mike, Matt, Gabe, Vlad, and O) are all from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and are childhood friends. Since 2005, BSKY Brand has grown in popularity with hip hop luminaries like Prodigy of […]

Gentrification: From an East Harlem Perspective

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Traditionally, East Harlem has been an evolving community. Initially it was populated by German, Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants, but there are reports going back to the 1930s of a sizable Hispanic community in East Harlem predominantly Puerto Rican.  Now there is a booming Mexican and Salvadorean population, a growing number of Asians, and Caucasians […]

The Source Talks To Journalist/Comedienne Elahe Izadi

Elahe Izadi is journalist and comedian based in the Washington, D.C. area. While her 9 to 5 is covering the actions of our duly elected officials, her side hustle is doing stand-up comedy where she is starting to make some noise in that area. You can read her work in the National Journal, follow her […]