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  TALK LIKE SEX is a monthly column on desire, lust, love, and non-traditional partnerships with host Walasia Shabazz. This is your disclaimer that adult content and themes are included each and every month - so young children and teens aren’t the audience for this fare. Adults 18+, please join us for this intimate conversation. Visit noorscience.medium.com for the #TalkLikeSex column with additional, adult-themed photography & artwork.      Considered a favorite MC among many of his rap and Hip Hop "peers" Hus Kingpin is often named by woman fans of the genre as one of the most attractive artists...

Producer Just Corey comes through with "Night Knight" the remix - featuring DEL and DOOM. Video directed by Czarheel Subscribe to Just Corey's Youtube Channel  Follow: @Czarheel

Mind-blowing that Raekwon’s masterful album Only Built For Cuban Linx turns 28 today. In celebration, I’ve compiled a nearly-comprehensive playlist of all the samples, available on TIDAL. There are a couple of gems too dusty & deep for the Tidal waters, for whatever reason these did not appear on the platform. When looking at the list of known samples for this album, CB#5 by Ralph Vargas & Carlos Bess, recorded in 1993, is a mysterious piece to the question “where did RZA find that funky drumbreak?!”. Bess & Vargas aka D-Boy Music acted as session musicians for Hip Hop &...

DNA Family member Isaiah "wit da Hair" Mostafa stays on the DNA dot com website, he returns this time with producer Baghead with "Roadblocks", the first single from their upcoming EP (untitled). Baghead, being one of our favorite producers for the last 4-5 years (here's why) was a mainstay on the (now on hiatus) Drums & Ammo "Friendly Fire" radio show. "Roadblocks" can be the anthem for every artist/visionary/dreamer with a mission or purpose that drives them. "They gon' be, Roadblocks Roadblocks!" More info on Isaiah Mostafa and Baghead. #DNA Artists: Isaiah Mostafa & Baghead Isaiah Mostafa and Baghead linked...

name Even though this is the first official DNA Video Premier with Nimsins, Nims has been part of the DNA of DNA for years. Nimsins was put on our radar in 2017 at a Lo-Fiction (Nimsins early Hip Hop crew) art show/performance in Downtown Oakland. This was one of the first times I'd came in contact with an Oakland based crew that gave me that Hieroglyphics/Indi energy that'd been lacking. Nimsons comes from East Oakland where the root of all of his art stems and reflects from. As a two-year-old in 1997, he was shot by a stray bullet that would...