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Save Hip Hop, Save the World Week: J-Live Multitasks

Catch his live performance at The Lounge on Elm St.,. Dallas, Saturday, July 11 featuring Homeboy Sandman, Deloach, & Sivion of Deepspace 5 with DJ Robviktum & DJ Fishr Pryce. Doors open at 9PM!

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d(-_-)b guerillamilk presents: Sore Losers

This isn’t going to be your typical music review or interview blog post. I’m not writing this to help promote an album, or because I’m a STan, to do some hard-core hating, or for any other reason than doesn’t revolve around my obsession with saving Dallas hip hop. In walks tweets the Sore Losers. [...]

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d(-_-)b: Haz Solo “Nice to Meet Me” Mixtape Edition

I “met” @HAZxTHEWORLD on Twitter forever ago, and before you know it he had snail mailed me several actual CD’s of his music. *Impressive* Aside from “Nice to Meet Me” having the album name of the effing century, this is one of those rare albums that I listen to from start to finish every single [...]

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A Sample Well Flipped :: Drake’s “So Far Gone”

Album cover art. Either you love it, or you don’t pay it any attention at all. Album cover art tends to be a passive art form that, for the most part, goes unnoticed unless you’re The Beatles, Pink Floyd, or Roy Ayers. People rarely care enough to inquire about the album cover artist or explore [...]

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Hot Dallas Graphic Designers

Graphic designers simply don’t get enough credit! The Young Agent is masterminding the J-Live hip hop show to be held at The Lounge on Elm on July 11, and will soon be releasing both of these crazy fliers for distribution. They are both 2 of the coolest fliers we’ve seen in a very long time! For [...]

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We all get the blues…

I attended “The Blues According to Lightnin Hopkins” video viewing at Project Row Houses in Houston’s historical 3rd ward community in part because I am a huge fan of the organization and what it stands for, but also because Lightnin Hopkins and this video truly capture a unique part of my family history that would [...]

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