Chuck D Champions All-Female Rap Quartet By Gail Mitchell Reuters LOS ANGELES (Oct. 1) - Something is off-kilter in the rap game. And Chuck D is determined to balance the creative scales.

"There are too many individuals and not enough groups," the Public Enemy frontman told Billboard during a visit to the trade publication's Los Angeles office. "Many of these cats (solo rappers) aren't as good as they think and say they are. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect the genre to...

Check out the video for the Crew Grrl Order track "Who Am I?". The set it off single and video of Crew Grrl Order the first all female black hip hop crew in 15 years. This collective of Lady Payn, Retina and Ms Ebonee surely shows power, skill and yet grace over this Gary G Wiz burning track and arrangement. You can hear the homage to early hip hop and the group effect clearly on this debut. Check them out on their myspace page. Click <...

It started out as a ceremony week for Public Enemy receiving a founders award from Billboard magazine , but rolled through with 2 fantastic performance nights in the ATL. On Thursday performances were at Club Apache where VP of SLAMjamz South Janol 'Mecca' Holmes orchestrated the acts into riveting attention. Souldripper Huggy sang his deep south soul. Quest Haven from Dirty North led his set list solo without skipping a beat . Kendo The Almost Famous scorched his set coming down from NY. ...

In the cities of Charlotte , Kansas City , and Atlanta the members respectively of CREW GRRL ORDER and HEET MOB are positioned for powerful cd/dvd releases come final quarter this October 31st. HEET MOB will release their 8 track cd titled 'THEY FROM WHERE' and will have their release party in KC on October 25th. Videos for songs like KC It Goes Down, Spread The Word, and Who Got Rhymes with a snippet of Get It Right are being strewn across YouTube and My Space. There are few dedicated to t...

Veiled a new newyorkaise production which leaves the batch by proposing subtle mixes kinds. With the orders, two MC' S with the precise flows (Dynamic Duet aka Mecca and Vel), a talented dj (DJ Frost) to bring a dimension hip hop. But especially a producer of reputation: large Chuck D of Public Enemy in person, which gave to the group a name judicious Most Hi-Fi to incarnate the political combat that both carry out MC' S.

Straight arrived of the American scene underground, all juggle ...