[A couple of years ago, when Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def announced that he was "retiring", I was inspired to write a blog about my path of hip hop appreciation and how important he was to that path. I never really finished it, but it turns it he never really retired either, so we're even. [...] ...

https://soundcloud.com/brokeballer/raw-sugar-thisisthepart-part-22-of-31 #ThisIsThePart, Part 22 of 31: Raw Sugar “I don’t want to say it / The news is not so good / We’ll never get away / And even if we could / We’d just play the tambourine / Around an open flame / Oversleep and burn / To be back in the game . [...] ...

“I see the sky in your eyes, but your tears start clouding it / I made a map of your mind, but you’re always rerouting it / You’re good money to me, but you call yourself counterfeit / Can’t confide in me, because you don’t have the confidence . . ” Said sentiments sound much [...] ...

“Only you know what this song’s about . . ” ~ Alicia Keys They say that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them. I say that if two people become one person, then there are no secrets. Here, Philly-raised Atlanta-based rising star songstress Noel Scales and [...] ...