Album Review: Royce Da 5′9″ – Street Hop (2009)
Rating: 3 out of 5 Potholes

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Welcome to the weekly rundown where we (soulsupreme and Marty) provide you with our top ten headlines for the week that was.

1. The title-track from the upcoming Michael Jackson documentary: This Is It is released. It sounds like some vintage MJ. The track was originally recorded in the early ’90s and will be featured on a two-disc companion set.
2. David Banner, 9th Wonder & Twista anti-violence awareness. After writing a column about hip-hop and violence in the urban community, it’s really good to see some activism in the wake of the recent death of Derrion Albert and increasing youth violence in Chicago. Hopefully this will encourage other community organizers to take positive steps against the violence.
3. New Shafiq Husayn EPK, new album in stores. Shafiq talks about the bubbling music scene in Los Angeles and Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, the bass player who on his new album we recently reviewed. Read the rest of this entry »

Album Review: Slaughterhouse – Slaughterhouse
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Potholes

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Album Review: Royce Da 5′9″ – The Revival EP (2009)
Rating: 4 out of 5 Potholes

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Welcome to the weekly rundown where we (soulsupreme and Marty) provide you with our top ten headlines for the week that was.

1. VIBE Magazine ceases operations. After 16 years in business the urban music magazine has ceased operations. It’s not too surprising to anyone these days when a magazine or newspaper folds. But that doesn’t mean it’s still disappointing and a continuing sign of how shitty the industry has become.
2. R.I.P. QB Steve McNair. In a very sad turn of events former Tennessee Quarterback  Steve McNair was killed yesterday in an apparent murder-suicide along with a young woman. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family during this time.
3. Michael Jackson returns to the Billboard charts. After the tragic death of the music icon last week, his music sales have dominated billboard charts again. Sadly, death is one hell of a promotion tool. Read the rest of this entry »

A very special day for all of us here at Potholes In My Blog as we welcome producer/emcee Black Milk to Open Mic Presents… Black Milk is coming off of his critically acclaimed sophomore effort Tronic, and has a bunch of exciting projects and ideas coming up that we were fortunate enough to get the inside scoop on. Please join us in welcoming such a talented and humble musician, Black Milk! Hit the skip for the full interview…

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Reyn: What’s up Black?
Black: What’s good, just chilling.

Reyn: Before we jump in, how about you just give us a brief explanation of the name Black Milk.
Black: Really, it’s just something I came up with man. It’s got no deep meaning behind it, it was something that just stands out to get peoples attention when they hear the name, or see the name somewhere, whether they like the name or not (Laughs.) And I know, once they heard the music, it didn’t matter what my name was.

Reyn: Tronic has been out for a little bit now, are you happy with the way people received it critically, commercially and musically?
Black: Everything has been great response, so I definitely can’t complain about that. I put a lot of work into the album in the short period of time that I had to make it. It’s good to see the people reacting with a positive feedback towards the album. I just want to continue to keep dropping jewels and timeless music. My music will last for a minute, which was my whole mindset for the album.

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