
Billboard had a chance to sit down with the legendary hip-hop icons Public Enemy. But before we drop you some excerpts from their interview. We would just like to know can we ever get hip-hop like that back on the mainstream again? Read more below.
Fear Of A Black Planet: Public Enemy 20 Years Later
Usher: I Got To Get My Swagger Back

Usher is on this months cover of Billboard Magazine and he speaks on getting his swagger back. He admits he lost it. “I had checked out,” the singer acknowledges. “I went all the way into being super husband and super dad, thinking, ‘I’ve got to be serious all the time. I’ve got to be the man.’ I put my swagger down for a minute, but I didn’t throw it away. Now it’s time to get it back.” More below.
Lil Waynes Experience In Rikers So Far

Combat Jack of Ihiphop got the low down about how Wayne is holding up in Rikers Island so far since he has been inside. Apparently Jack has a direct connection to a prison guard who works for rikers and have gotten some serious exclusives on several rappers who ended up there. From DMX to others, because of his direct contact he decided to do a Wayne rikers diary on the website. From prison guards acting like groupies, to Wayne having limited security and also being placed in the general population, it would seem that Wayne has yet to get situated to real prison life read his report below.
Feature: Stanza – Lyrical Lovers

What can I say I think this artist has been slept on, in the musical blogosphere for far to long. Stanza has a new free album titled “Lyrical Lovers” appropriately titled. The album is hot from the beginning to the end. It’s first time that I was able to let a whole album play from front to back with out pausing it with the exception of Jay Electroninica’s victory mixtape. More below.
Baby Speaks On Cashing In On The Oil Industry

Just when you thought that rapping was all there was for Cash Money I suppose they don’t have that name for nothing. Besides the success that the label Cash Money has had over the years, with Lil Wayne, and now Young money with hot artist’s such as Drake, Nicki Minaj Baby now has a oil business.
Is Atlanta The New Sodom And Gomorrah Of The US?

Yep. According to The Advocate magazine, Atlanta rates as the nation’s gayest city, followed by Burlington, Vt., Iowa City, Bloomington and Madison, Wis. Don’t bother looking for San Francisco, New York or Los Angeles — those supposed gay meccas don’t even place in the rankings compiled by the nation’s oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender publication.
Video: Q-Tip Interview w/ NBC Talk Stoop
Mary J. Blige On Making ‘Color’ For ‘Precious’ Film

Since her entry into the music industry in the early 90s, Mary J. Blige has crafted lyrics about private struggles (i.e. drug abuse, unhealthy relationships). And though those days of self-deprecation are long behind her, it was the same tough themes that drew her to the upcoming Lions Gate film, “Precious,” which she co-produced and for which she performs the song “I Can See In Color.” Check out her video interview below.
Why Is Robert “Kaspa” Smith The Don of Promo In Atl Music?
By Isis Wisdom

If you live in the Atlanta Ga area and you are in the music scene chances are you have either done business with or at least ran in to Robert Smith AKA Kaspa Tha Don of The Hittmenn DJs. The Hittmenn DJs Organization was started by the CEO and V103 radio personality Greg Street and President/Founder Robert “Kaspa” Smith along with VP Bigga Rankin.





