Artist Fahamu Pecou continues to strut his lyrical stuff pushing role models in a blog inspired by Dr. Cornel West & Sweet Tea Ethics.

Shannon McCollum reflects on shooting two kings: T.I. & MLK in his blog Same Camera Different Eye exclusively on From Afros To Shelltoes.

Shannon McCollum (The Gordon Parks of Hip Hop) talks John Legend in his new weekly blog “SAME CAMERA DIFFERENT EYE,” exclusively on From Afros To Shelltoes.

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.

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.

Peep Ed’s exclusive with Dawn Robinson of En Vouge circa 07′.

Internationally acclaimed artist/activist stic.man of dead prez has always put his art where his heart is; the community. Standing on the shoulders of Curtis Mayfield, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, and Public Enemy, stic.man and dead prez continue to make true love and freedom accessible to the masses.

Ed Garnes , Raphael Saadiq, & Tboz Talk, Going Solo, September 11, Tony! Toni! Tone!, And Why Soul Music Will Never Die (Another Excerpt from Ed’s Book Other Side Of The Game)

Hip hop journalism aint dead. And it surely lives in the south. Roni Sarig’s tome Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing is one of few books to trace southern musical roots from Mc Shy D to booty shake.

NEXT: The Documentary follows the rising stars of Hip Hop photographer Shannon McCollum, Jazz and roll duo Daysahead, spoken word slam champion Ayodele Heath and literary agitator Jelani Cobb in a series of four vignettes.

To parallel Obama’s intricate policies and a monkey running the streets is less than unacceptable. It seems as if a black person in the U.S. cannot rise to a position of power without some major form of belittlement – whether it’s being the head cook in the high school cafeteria or the undisputed heavyweight champ.