The 2011 Rock the Bells Festival, sponsored by Boost Mobile and Blackberry, kicked off with a bang at the House of Blues this Tuesday night. Rock the Bells founder, Chang Weisberg, welcomed veterans and newbies to the stage to announce an airtight line up that rivals last year’s stellar offering. This year’s line-up boasts Lauryn Hill (Miseducation [...]

Hello my name is… EXILE Manfredi. I was raised in… South CA all day.. The reason that you’re reading about me is… Because I turned on the radio and decided to record it and manipulate it into music. Which will be released as Exile Radio AMFM out August 31st on Plug research/Dirty Science Records. Right [...]

  Its been almost 6 months since the tragedy in Haiti and the country is still trying to pull itself together. Some of hip-hop’s finest have collaborated with Oxfam America to bring to you Notes of Haiti (Ayiti). This compilation features Exile, Blu, Karriem Riggins, Invincible, Buff1 and many more.  Fans can download this 16-track [...]

ECHOPLEX 1154 GLENDALE BLVD. LOS ANGELES, CA. 90026 21 AND OVER | 8PM-2AM [$10 LIMITED PRESALE TICKETS via ticketweb.com] $15 DOOR Click here for more information The first person to send an email to elosi@overamerica.com with the subject line “Happy New Year” will win 2 tickets to Twenty Ten. You don’t want to miss this [...]

Plug Research Records has been getting it in this year, most recently with the addition of Bilal to it’s roster and the release of Shafiq Husayn’s En-A-Free-Ka. If you’ll be in NYC for CMJ, you won’t want to miss ‘Can I Get You High’ presented by Plug Research & V-Tech. Vapors and Plug Research are giving away [...]

  Words by Andres Reyes “I’m going to be completely honest with you, it took me a very long time to develop my style.” Jason Rutkowki, also known to some as MC Blame One, is soft-spoken, humble and brutally honest—not the kind of qualities you expect to find in a rapper. “Some people run into [...]

Words By Preach Jacobs In hip-hop, it’s sometimes hard to make the distinction between beat-makers and producers, but with Exile the choice is clear. Best known as one of the heroes in the independent game, Exile is pushing the envelope on what we are accustomed to hearing from producers, and Exile’s collaborative effort with emcee [...]

Photos Courtesy of Ed Canas As you can tell the house was PACKED, but you really can’t be too suprised with that kind of line up. U-N-I opened the show with a suprise appearance from Evidence. Blu & Exile energized the crowd with a classic emcee/DJ set-up. The waiting period for Wale’s show wouldn’t have been so [...]

Idle Warship (Talib Kweli, Res & Graph Nobel) wsg/ BLU & Exile 9pm BB Kings 237 West 42nd Street Times Square NYC

For those that never met DJ Dusk, let me tell you a little about my friend. Dusk (along with Miles) was the man behind LA’s most authentic underground hip-hop weekly, Root Down. During the years he put the party on, he and his event’s reputation attracted the creme de la creme of the music industry, [...]