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Audio Submission - The Beatfonics Courtesy TBC. The Beatfonics crew is proud to present "Beats Amore", this fifth release is out exactly one year after the first one. Taking inspiration from the vast array of Italian songwriters, composers and performers, The Beatfonics Crew wanted to celebrate their own country putting new flavour in some classic expressions of what Italy used to be back in the days.

Video: JNaturaL - "Ain't Nothing Sacred" (prod. Sly) Courtesy JNaturaL. Check out the newest single off JNATURAL's upcoming album BAD WOMAN RISING. The track is called AINT NOTHING SACRED, produced by SLY. The song deals with sexual freedom and the right to love who you want to love. ENJOY!

Hard-working West London R&B star Jay Sean prepares to unveil Neon, his second album to be released Stateside through Cash Money Records, this summer – enlisting Maybach Music bawse Rick Ross to join him on the new single, “Mars.” Whether the “let me take you to Mars, girl, we’ll make love on a star, girl” [...]

Google have announced a newly redesigned desktop version of their popular mapping service Google Maps, set for release later this year. With Maps having launched eight years ago, the redesign is one of the service’s most significant. Rebuilt from the ground up, most of the user interface features have been removed and the new Maps [...]

Scarlett Johansson is set to make her directorial debut with a feature film adaptation of Truman Capote’s long-lost first novel Summer Crossing. Speaking on the adaption the Lost in Translation actress divulged, “Several years ago I began working alongside the Capote estate and writer Tristine Skylar to adapt Summer Crossing, an inspired early work of [...]

Innovative Hip-Hop star Kanye West premieres his latest track “New Slaves” in unique fashion through a series of audiovisual projections on buildings at 66 locations around the globe. A close-up projection of Kanye, literally standing head and shoulders above the rest, shines in the dark staring sternly to camera as he raps an incensed critique [...]

Audio: Vaunfe - "Alter Ego" (prod. DopameanBrick) Courtesy Mark S. I am reaching out to you again to post our latest track entitled "Alter-Ego" by Vaunfe. It is a sick track with new age flow, beat and lyrics. Just as the name suggests this track is sure to bring the heat with crazy vocals.

This is a beat tape I came across a while back and I wasn’t sure how to approach it. This struck me as something very different, very experimental and emotional as well. The suspect Lord Faz made this beat tape for his late significant other and while empathizing with him, I would like to also add that this is a befitting tribute. After a couple of more spins, I started to appreciate the off kilter approach taken on this project. combining live drum programming, surreal dreamy sound textures, engaging  and sometimes obscure samples resulting in a off beat, retro-futuristic set of beats. This is definitely something to vibe to. Get with the program. Repose En Paix : Virginie “Vee One” Malet The post Lord Faz – LoVEE beat tape (France) appeared first on Word Is Bond.

Wrapping up their performance for the Billboard Music Awards in Vegas yesterday, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis flew to Alabama to perform an hour-long set at the Hangout Festival in Alabama. Check the performance of “Thrift Shop” up top and their marriage equality anthem “Same Love” downn bottom (which was preceded by a heart-felt speech from the Seattle rapper. “We are in a very special time in American history right now. In fact, I would say we are in the middle of the biggest civil rights movement of our generation. I don’t know how you feel, but me personally, I believe that no government, no state, no institution, no religion, no other human being can tell you who you love in your heart is right or wrong. That is up to you. Finally in 2013 we are starting to have discussion and dialogue about the issue of marriage equality. The fear and the hatred that has been passed on from generation to generation to generation is finally starting to cease and love is prevailing all over the world. I believe in tolerance, I believe in compassion and I believe in equality.”

New EP From Brooklyn's A-Alikes Available June 11th, 2013! Courtesy Hanif S. Consisting of rappers Ness and K, A-Alikes formed in Tallahassee, Florida in the late nineties. In those heady days of the underground hip hop movement they banged out beats, rhymes and progressive ideology in ?The Attic?, a spot where they?d build on everything from the future of hip-hop to fanning the flames of hope for Black and Brown youth. It was there that they connected with their Peoples Army/R.B.G. comrades Stic.man and M-1 of dead prez.