Courtesy of our play cousins The Foreign Exchange, peep the new lead single from their release Authenticity dropping on 10/14/10.

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Cee Lo does is again with another joint from his soon to be released album Lady Killer.

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Fresh from our play cousin Phonte (The Foreign Exchange) From Afros To Shelltoes hits you upside the head with a new exclusive. This funky single comes courtesy of multi-instrumentalist ZO! whose album Sunstorm rises July 27, 2010 on The Foreign Exchange Music imprint. The joint features grammy nominated soulman Eric Roberson, choir boy crooner Darien Brockington, and spit fire specialist Rapper Big Pooh.

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With mega churches more concerned with tax returns than spiritual bankruptcy, absentee parents content on living second childhoods instead of raising competent adults, and ego driven leaders jockeying for a seat at Master’s table, it’s easy to understand why shallow billboard hits are all pretense and no power.

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With Little Brother spittin’, Bilal lending his heavenly falsetto, and Darien Brockington crooning like a southern sunday morning, this latest joint from the end of an era release Left Back almost seems unfair in a musical generation laced with more swag than real talent. Peep LB’s new joint Second Chances.

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From Afros To Shelltoes is your good music hook up. Straight from our play cousin Phonte & The Foreign Exchange Music is a sampler ($ free 99) of YahZarah’s joint The Ballad of Purple Saint James.

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Ed Garnes laments the break up of hip hop collective Little Brother.

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Another benefactor of the post Badu renaissance, D.C. native YahZarah’s live show is a hybrid of Tina Turner’s sensuality and Parliament’s funky freedom.With enough sista girl fire to ignite a new generation of soul mammas, play cousin Phonte and Nicolay of The Foreign Exchange Music give YahZarah the sonic freedom to take her rightful place amongst the greatest soul divas of our day with her upcoming release The Ballad Of Purple Saint James. Peep her new single.

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Knitting Factory records continues their musical coup with another fresh batch of Fela Kuti re-issues with the release of the Chop’ N Quench installment.

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Culling 80′s synthesized soul, futuristic funk, and down home melodies of a modern juke joint, Kooc D. Ville, the DJ Quik of the south, has quickly emerged as a production dynamo. Peep his exclusive tribute to Sweet Tea Ethics.

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It’s sometimes hard to give credit when it’s past due. I could easily use every ounce of my two degrees to prove Bobby Brown is far more R&B legend and less Eddie Kane Jr. has been, but the sweet nostalgia of “Girfriend,” which will have you hittin’ up Keisha from 9th grade on facebook, speaks for itself.

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The Best of the Black President signifies the rebirth of Knitting Factory Records. Earlier this year, KFR licensed the 45 album Fela Kuti catalog. Over the next 18 months, re-masers of all the Fela CDs will be re-released in unique digi-packs w/ the original artwork.

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