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What's the good word this Wednesday Morning to our BlackRadioIsBack.com and the FuseBox Radio Broadcast Roots Reggae Music Peoples (& just Black Music Lovers overall)!

We have the lastest Reggae Vault Classics podcast episode from Highlanda Sound System that's focusing on the music of Reggae legend Bob Marley.

Download and give a listen to the 30 minute long mix of some of Bob Marley's hits and album cuts by the Highlanda Sound System's selectors PEC, Kahlil Wonda and Crisis below representing some more of that true school Black Radio below and let us know what you think...enjoy! :)

Reggae Vault Classics Presents Bob Marley (Episode 22) (right click and "save as")

Tracklisting:

1. Roots Rock Reggae
2. Kinky Reggae
3. Slave Driver
4. Pimpers Paradise
5. Exodus
6. Rastaman Live Up
7. Natural Mystic
8. Roots Natty Roots
9. Easy Skanking
10. Natty Dread Rides Again
11. Buffalo Soldier
12. Jamming
13. Ambush In The Night
14. Redemption Song
15. We Don't Need No More Trouble
16. Coming In From The Cold
17. Revolution
18. War

Highlanda Sound System Official Website

Good Tuesday Afternoon BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast folks - hope things are going well so far...

Folks have been bombarded with a nicer than usual percentage of cool independent Hip-Hop mixtapes as of late, which is ALWAYS a plus over around this way - if anything, it's putting a sis to work a lot more in regards to posting music on the site to share with y'all. :)

NOTE: Trust, usually for every 1 mixtape that's great, there are about 5 that are meh/so-so and 10 that are just a hot mess of gunshots, yelling over a mic & imitation DJ Drama/DJ Kay Slay/DJ Clue/DJ Khaled yelling over 72% of the song, which could be an "exclusive" 1000000 DJs already have.

Anyway, the latest independent Hip-Hop mixtape that gets the FuseBox Radio/BlackRadioIsBack.com Seal of Black Music Approval is from California's own BlackSoultan.

This MC has performed & worked with dope Hip-Hop folks around his way in L.A. such as X-Clan, Slick Rick, Medusa, Acelyone, Soleternity (music producer for Young Buck, Bone Crusher, Lil Scrappy & Bizzy Bone), Trenseta, Madam Brown and Flawliss Victory. BlackSoultan's 2nd album, Nuclear Winter, will be dropping in the near future.

I'm definitely feeling BlackSoultan's flow and rhyme scheme (which matches up great with his production & beat selection), as well as the fact that the subject matter he rhymes about is diverse - no iCoonery lyrics allowed.

In the meantime, cop the free download of BlackSoultan's latest mixtape, Angels & Demons, below, give the project a listen and let us know what you think - hope you enjoy it!

STTS Entertainment Presents BlackSoultan: The Angels & Demons Mixtape (Mixed & Hosted by DJ Tommy Blak)
Download Link

Tracklisting:

1. I'm Back
2. Mr Git It Mane
3. His Name Is *
4. Act Up
5. Ready For More
6. Back Enough *
7. No One (But Me) *
8. Terrorist Cells feat. NoCanDo *
9. Island Boy From Yard *
10. Trunk feat. CP & Flawliss Victory
11. Suicide *
12. Take Ya Money
13. I Remember Love *
14. Everyone Tells Me (Tells Me) *
15. They Don't Move Me *
16. So Amazing feat. Anomolee *
17. Final Sin
18. Angels & Demons
19. I'm That Guy *

* personal favorite tracks

BlackSoultan Ad Infinitum Official Myspace Page
BlackSoultan Official Blog
BlackSoultan Official Twitter Page

What's good this morning BlackRadioIsBack.com & FuseBox Radio Broadcast peoples!

Much props are due to the sis La Blaxicana for creating the website Piss In The Wind (name sticks out, eh), that highlights a lot of dope female MCs doing it in Hip-Hop from the independent & major label circles.

The Piss In The Wind, Vol. 1 Mixtape is a project from La Blaxicana focusing on some dope independent label female MCs in the biz...grab the free download below and let us know what you think! :)

Piss In The Wind, Vol. 1 Mixtape
Download Link

Tracklisting:

1. I Spit – RE Double D
2. Interlude – Take Cover
3. Dun Eeze – Adrift Da Belle
4. Interlude – The Fembassy
5. Unstoppable – Emperess
6. Fly With Me – Kin 4 Life
7. Interlude – Lin Que aka Isis
8. Still Dope – Stahhr
9. Understand Me – Lady L.U.S.T.
10. Interlude – Reppin for the Ladies
11. What We Do – Kandi Cole
12. Interlude – Patty Dukes
13. I’m So Lebron, I’m So Kobe – RA the MC
14. Freestyle – Rita J
15. Dreamin’ – Rita J
16. Ain’t Nobody – Luxi
17. Interlude – Middle Finger Champ
18. The City is Mine – Naira
19. Freestyle – Boog Brown
20. Love – Miki Vale
21. Freestyle – Jay Mills
22. Watch It – Jay Mills
23. Encore – Deena Jonez

Offiicial Piss in the Wind Blog

Good Early Tuesday Morning to our folks here at BlackRadioIsBack.com and the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast! :)

This past Saturday, I hit up the Washington, D.C. stop of the Sneaker Pimps Tour in D.C. Star.

Here's a brief description from the official Sneaker Pimps website on what they're about:

Sneaker Pimps is the worlds largest touring sneaker hip-hop lifestyle exhibition featuring over 1500 pairs of rare, limited edition, vintage, celebrity signed, artists collaborated sneakers and a collection of sneaker inspired artwork, fashion and photography.
The tour also features live street art installations, live skateboarding demonstrations, street basketball competitions and live hip-hop and rock performances by some of the world's foremost recording artists.

The Sneaker Pimps Tour was founded in Sydney, Australia by Peter Fahey and has traveled to more than 60 cities world-wide and put on over 200 shows since 2003.

Over 500 of the worlds top and up & coming street artists have contributed original works to the Sneaker Pimps World Tour, including: Futura, Dave White, Stash, Mister Cartoon, Shepard Fairey, Tokidoki, Dave Kinsey, SBTG, Methamphibian, Doze, Bigfoot, Tkid, Cope2, London Police, Dalek, Claw Money, Lady Pink, Ghost and many more.

Pretty sweet sounding right? Worth dodging some hipsters, confused people (wearing a dress & stilletos at an event called SNEAKER PIMPS? Really? Looking lost as all get out) and MTV/BET/VH1 freaks (SMH at some folks not even grooving to folks like Wale & J. Cole until they threw up "The Roc" sign), so I thought.

After waiting over an hour for pre-paid tickets in line after arriving around 8:15 pm to a huge line of people (bleh at that madness), folks got in and got to check out a really great showcase of DMV (DC, Maryland and Virginia) Hip-Hop talent performing on stage, including Ra The MC, Phil Ade, X.O., Kingpen Slim, Wale (with his touring Go-Go Music band, Uncalled 4 Experience aka UCB) & the Clipse who deserve serious co-signage & respect.

The brother J. Cole (recent signee to Roc Nation who's latest mixtape has been killing it) also came through and rocked the house as well.

DJ Heat (dope lady DJ who spins on DC radio station WPGC & founder of the great DMV Music website DCMumboSauce.com) was doing her thing playing the old & new school Hip-Hop in between sets and bro DJ Alizay was rocking it as the host of the event in the area.

Here are some pics and video a sis was able to take of the enviornment of what was a really great night - hopefully it'll give you a taste of some of the Black Music goodness that went down...enjoy! :)

Yours Truly, DJ Fusion, In Attendance (was rocking the ill "Blue Note Records Edition" Adidas for the occasion as well)

The People & the Sneakers

The Performers

Ra The MC - unfortunately, my camera was acting wacky video wise when the show started & the sis opened as the 1st performer, so I got no video & this pic, but she tore it down; get her mixtape, "A Trip to Neptune" mixed by DJ M.A.F. here

Phil Ade - him, his hypeman & band KILLED it, high energy, good song transitions, etc....Raheem DeVaughn did a good look singing him to his independent label, 368 Music Group, check out his latest mixtape,"Starting on JV", here

Video: Phil Ade Performing Live at Sneaker Pimps, DC (Sat. July 28, 2009)

X.O. - Washington, DC MC, his vibe & music set was a little more subdued than the other performers during the night, but the put it in, especially lyrically; camera unfortunately was acting wonky again with the video when he was performing for the video; cop his latest mixtape, "Studio 43 Presents: X.O. - Monumental" here

Some pics of North Carolina Hip-Hop MC J. Cole - video function on the camera was acting wonky again during his performance, but copped these performance pics; check out his recent mixtape, "The Warm Up" here

Video: Kingpen Slim & The Beam Up Crew Performing Live at Sneaker Pimps, DC (Sat. July 28, 2009) (most recent mixtape, "Five Dollar High" here)

Video: Wale & UCB Performing Live at Sneaker Pimps, DC (Sat. July 28, 2009)

Wale & UCB Live - Sneaker Pimps DC - July 17, 2009 - BlackRadioIsBack.com Footage from Mary Nichols (DJ Fusion) on Vimeo.

Good Monday Morning to our BlackRadioIsBack.com and FuseBox Radio Broadcast Peoples!

Just wanted to share this dope mixtape from our peoples over at Cornerstone Promotion.

Each month, we get their latest mixtape of independent & mainstream music artists mixed by some of the worlds most famous DJs to rock and this one was more than worthy to share with our readers.

Check out the Cornerstone Mixtape # 117: Hillsborough Street Blues
Mixed by DJ Sandman (WBTP 95.7 The Beat/Bumsquad DJz/TampaHipHop.Com) & Hosted Young Deacon of TampaHipHop.com with it's focus on the Hip-Hop Music genre and let us know what you think - enjoy! :)

Cornerstone Mixtape # 117: Hillsborough Street Blues
Mixed by DJ Sandman (WBTP 95.7 The Beat/Bumsquad DJz/TampaHipHop.Com) & Hosted Young Deacon of TampaHipHop.com
Download Link

Tracklisting:

1. DJ Sandman/Acafool Intro
2. KRS One Freestyle (Exclusive)
3. Buckshot & KRS One – Robot (Duck Down Records)
4. Celph Titled – Mad As Fuck (Demigodz Enterprises)
5. Marco Polo & Torae – Party Crashers (Duck Down Records)
6. Blaq Poet feat. N.O.R.E. – Hate (Year Round Records)
7. Camp Lo feat. Styles P – On Smash (Exclusive)
8. J. Dilla feat. Havoc & Raekwon – 24k Rap (Nature Sounds)
9. Buckshot & Kardinal Offishall – I Got Cha Opin '09 (Smirnoff Signature Mix)
10. Reflection Eternal – Back Again (Sandman Blend) (Blacksmith)
11. Najee – Cold Outside (Kitchenware Rec.)
12. Nutrageous – Cruisin in NYC (Poor Pocket Muzik)
13. Dynasty – Femcee (Recordpushers Ent.)
14. Rapper Big Pooh feat. Darien Brockington –Move (Hall Of Justus)
15. The Villanz – Facedown (Substantial Records)
16. The Clipse feat. Kanye West – Kind Of Like A Big Deal (Columbia)
17. Funkghost – The Way I Rock My Clothes (Grand Extravagant Ent.)
18. Hydro feat. Busta Rhymes – Crowd Goes Wild (Exclusive)
19. Outro

DJ Sandman Official Website
Cornerstone Promotion Official Website

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This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of July 15, 2009 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary.

Our commentary this week focused on the current U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor and how race & class are coloring this situation, lessons that could be learned from the unfortunate situations and passing of sports legends Steve McNair & Arturo Gatti (R.I.P.), the Williams Sisters recent wins at Wimbelton & their continuing non-profit work for the community, and some other things here and there.

We had a great interview this week with up and coming independent singer and MC Raymond B of Black Magic Entertainment (http://www.myspace.com/raybeezy7).

Some of the topics we discussed was his background in Tennessee & how his family, friends and others got him involved in the love of music, his upcoming business and music projects, how life has been as a successful independent artist in the U.S. South and the work and grind it needs to make it, experiences in the music industry and other things!

This week we do have new Black Agenda Report segment. The Direct EFX segments will return at the end of the HBCU's college summer break period in September.

Feel free to check out some recent episodes of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast here on BlackRadioIsBack.com - all of the shows are clean/radio friendly.

FuseBox Radio Playlist for the Week of July 15, 2009 (in no particular order)

Ol' Dirty Bastard/Brooklyn Zoo RMX/Elektra
Large Professor feat. Nas/One Plus One/Paul Sea Productions
The Roots feat. Erykah Badu/I Wanna Be Where You Are/White Label
Freeway/Freeway's Beard/Free Money
Big Cakes/Soul/Kipling
Enoch 7th Prophet feat. Zay/Sick 'N Tired/Data Frequency
Raymond B/Supa'Man/Black Magic Ent. (http://www.myspace.com/raybeezy07)
John Legend/When It Rains/GOOD Music & Columbia
Raheem DeVaughn feat. Young Chris/Wanna Love You/368 Music Group
B.o.B. feat. Playboy Tre & Killer Mike/Say What You Want/White Label (http://www.myspace.com/bobatl)
Mista F.A.B./2010 'Til Infinity/Thizz Ent.
Dukes of DaVille/Superflycredible/DukesofDaville.com
Chico Debarge feat. Talib Kweli/Math/Universal Motown
Ashy L Bowz/Hood/ODS Management
Phil Ade/Going Off/368 Music Group
Trife Diesel feat. B.o.B. & Inspectah Deck/Speed of Life/White Label (http://www.myspace.com/trifediesel)
DJ Logic/Hope Road/Ropeadope Digital
Dead Prez feat. Johnny Polygon/NYDP/Boss Up Inc. & Invasion Music Group
Jay Electronica/Exhibit A (inst.)/Decon
Swazy Baby/Half of It (inst.)/Slip-N-Slide
American Yard/No You Didn't (inst.)/Konvict, SRC & Universal Motown
Jus Bleezy feat. T-Pain/I Gotta Tell Her (inst.)/JB Entertainment
Eyedea & Abilities/Burn Fetish (inst.)/Rhymesayers
Mista Mac feat. Flo Rida, Brisco & Ball Greezy/Drop That (inst.)/Poe Boy Music Group & E1
Lil' Jon feat. Swizz Baetz & Snoop Dogg/I Do (inst.)/Universal Republic
Black DaDa/I'm A Zoe (inst.)/Universal Republic
Arab feat. OJ Da Juiceman/Kitchen Musik (inst.)/Angry Chimp Music Group
Grand Agent & Raynge feat. Camp Lo/Minivan (inst.)/Interworld Agency Media (http://www.myspace.com/grandagentlivlraynge)

PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Classics and more MySpace.com Independent Music Finds

Current FuseBox Radio Broadcast Radio & Internet Affiliates (as of this week):

UrbanNetwork.com's The Mix Internet Radio Station - UN Power Jam Radio (owned by Urban Network Magazine) OKRP.com, ReeWineMusic.com/ReeWine Radio, Progressive Blend Radio, Sprint Radio Extra/mSpot (via the Worldwide Alpha Communications Network), SouthBound.FM, DeadBeat Radio, CrackAudio.com, TheBestJams.com/The Best Jams Radio, FlyTunes.FM/FlyCast ,Planet Urban (Austrailia)/PlanetUrban.com.au, AmalgamDigital.com, BlockJams.com, ConspiracyUK.com , FONYE Radio , VI Radio , DurdeeSouthRadio.com , Beyond.FM , MyBlockRadio.net, Rutgers University Radio, WRSU 88.7 FM, Stop Beefin' Start Eatin' Radio, Ceesiety Radio, Mixshow Blast Radio, Slip-N-Slide DJs Podcast, The Best Jams, ExtravaGangsta Radio, HipHopSoulRadio.com , Digiwaxx Presents: The Blast , White Folks Get Crunk for DJs, Legion Music & Media, UnderWorldMixRadio.com, MixLaWax Radio, Trunk Hustlers Online, 907 Jamz. The6.FM, Nilo Radio, 1.FM Jamz, Blayze University Radio, Blip.TV, iBlog126.com, Miro, WSOUF.com, True Fire Radio, StreetsD.com (Streets Mos Magazine Radio), Rock The Dub, Last Word Online, Soul Pitch Hustle, Black Soul Rhythms, Honey Magazine, i95.FM, The PRess Junkie, BlackCoffeeChannel.com (Coming Soon), Gutta Muzik (HD) Radio (Coming Soon)

** Most Stations/Outlets Tracked via RadioWave Monitor, Mediaguide & SoundExchange **

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