Going Down 6/12/10: Sol Fusion is a cool blend of artists, musicians, creative cuties, down-home homies and on-point crowd controllers such as DJ Kemit & DJ Salah Ananse. While “industry” events are often marred by “velvet rope” shenanigans, this “back up off the wall” affair brings back the days when you left the jam sweaty unafraid to be yourself. Only here will FELA, BBD, Run DMC, dead prez, Cyndi Lauper, Alicia Myers, Eurythmics, Biggie Smalls, Erykah Badu, and Michael McDonald be on the same playlist.

Award winning writer, activist, and counselor Edward M. Garnes, Jr., founder of From Afros To Shelltoes, brings his “Sweet Tea Ethics” to an uncensored documentary film entitled The reMixed Mind: Crossfaders, Visionaries & other Revolutionaries starring Joi Gilliam, stic man( dead prez), Killa Mike, Dionne Farris Jason Orr, Shannon McCollum, Lil John Roberts, Fahamu Pecou, DJ Kemit, Rich Medina, Ndea Davenport, and others.

In this episode of Sweet Tea Ethics, Ed Garnes, Killer Mike, Dr. Cornel West, Clifton West discuss market forces, hip hop, and why you won’t hear dead prez or Phonte on the radio.

Ed Garnes crowned Shannon McCollum the Gordon Parks of Hip Hop, and he continues to earn the title. McCollum debuts his new dead prez doc on September 17, 2009. Tell em’ Ed Sent ya!!

Over a decade ago, Hip-Hop theologians OutKast used their southern-fried flow to send an impassioned plea on their seminal track, “Mainstream:” Don’t let a little bling blind your perspective.

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Like kool aid on a hot summer day, our play cousins dead prez provide a new summer time “chill with the fams and break out the red cups” cookout jam. Peep this exclusive dead prez video “Summertime” produced by our homie Shannon McCollum with lens master Tao Ruspoli serving as director.