This nice little number has been hiding from the world since 2004 when Spacek and Raphael Saadiq hooked up to make an album together. The album was never finished though so this track never saw
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Back in 2004 Raphael Saadiq opened his studio doors to Steve Spacek to produce an album for one of his sub labels. The album was supposed to be called Pookie Blue Room and features 10 songs produced by both Steve Spacek and Morgan Zarate with Raphael singing on all of them and featuring guest appearances by Common, Q-Tip, Ledisi, Steve Spacek and Sir Bentley. Anyhow the album was never completed and therefore never released. This is definitely some unreleased music that should pressed up at some point. [ via ] You can stream "They Don't Know [...]

From his work with the Soulquarians collective, to Donuts, his instrumental album which dropped three days before his death, Jay Dee aka James Yancey aka J Dilla created a sound that was often imitated, but never duplicated. His genius transcended production, and he will undoubtedly go down as one of Hip-Hop's greatest musicians ever. Dilla had a knack for creating entire beats around obscure samples that [...]
All over the world this week people are celebrating Dilla Day and of course we are no different. We usually post a Dilla track on or about the 7th of every month, but Dilla Day

Today is the day known as Dilla Day. The day to celebrate James DeWitt Yancey, known as John Doe, MC Silk, Jay Dee, or most commonly J Dilla, and all he has done for music. Below me and another iLS writer, Nikko, have put together some of, but not all, our favorite tracks with Dilla. If you feel there are any crucial tracks missing hit us up in the comments below and we'll add them. Anyway, iLS wishes you a happy Dilla Day, we just want you all to relax and chill out to some tunes celebrating the day of [...]
Here we give you another hip-hop playlist to just chill out to since it seems like you guys like the first installment we put up awhile back. By the way... Swamp People is one of the craziest shows on TV. Anyways, enjoy: A$AP Rocky - Houston Old Head The Roots - Make My (Feat. Big KRIT, Dice Raw) Common - The People Dom Kennedy - On The Way Home Y Not [...]
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Common stopped by Cosmic Kev's Come Up Show. He left a freestyle over French Montana's "Shot Caller" behind. Check the footage below. http://youtu.be/1AwLgkbsATE
In an effort to make every vinyl collector on the planet jealous, The Doctor's Orders have unearthed these rare snaps of Jay Dee taken while he was fine-tuning Common's Like [...]

Yes...this is the ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) "Blue Sky". Stalley's back again and this time it's on the No I.D. produced "Blue Sky" from Common's The Dreamer/The Believer. I'm wondering how many tracks the Ohio-native is sitting on since he has a mixtape coming out in the near future and has been giving listeners a constant stream of new tracks in the last week or so.
With quotes from Bubba Chuck's turbulent life and career - including the legendary "practice" speech - Don Trip describes life isn't always greener when setting out to cash in on [...]
In this Y U NO REVIEW, Anthony talks a bit about the latest album releases from Common, Crosses, Enter Shikari, Kayo Dot, and Asher Roth. Here are some short opinions on other albums that were missed this past month as well: 1. Machinedrum- SXLND (LuckyMe) I think people tend to assume that every album that gets incorporated into this segment must not be that enjoyable to me or something. That's not completely the truth since there are even decent releases that I can't necessarily get to. On [...]

New freestyle from Common, on Cosmic Kev's Come Up Show, spitting over Jay-Z's "Streets Is Watching" and French's "Shot Caller".

Com Sense was a guest on Cosmic Kev's Come Up Show and kicked a few minutes worth of off-the-dome freestyles. Say what you will, but Com never spits writtens when asked to freestyle-something rare in this day and age. The first is over French's "Shot Caller," and the second over Jigga's "Streets Is Watching." COMMON COME UP FREESTYLE 2012 2 COMMON COME UP FREESTYLE 2012
Drake took the diplomatic approach when asked to expand on why he wouldn't be responding to Common's invitation to battle and essentially saying "for shame" to the Chi-town vet for [...]

If you were expecting this beef to escalate any further, it looks like you're going to be disappointed. While Common seemed to attribute this whole rivalry to the competitive spirit of hip-hop, Drake has a different take on it. When Nah Right asked, "Will You respond to Common?": No. Because despite how it's been worded by him that situation is not a "hip hop moment" or a "battle for the sake of musical integrity"…it's a ploy for attention around the release of an album. More than anything it [...]

Last week, in the early morning hours of Sunday morning, I tweeted about a run-in I'd had with Drake at the T-Mobile/Google Music party at TAO at the Sundance Music Festival. I asked Drake when he was going to respond to Common and he simply replied "Never;" he also said some other things, but we'll just let that be. In an interview with Nation over at NahRight , he asked track about his plans to respond and this is what Drizzy had to say: So people want to know: [...]

The inaugural Icelantic Winter on the Rocks went down in Red Rocks concert history as being the first winter concert ever held at the gorgeous amphitheater in Morrison. C=T contributor, El Güero, weathered the fierce elements Friday night and when I asked him if he thought there would be a second Winter on the Rocks, he knew that the gluttons for punishment in the crowd would be around to sell out any future shows at Red Rocks. Atmosphere - Rhythm of Rain [mp3] Common (ft. Nas) - Ghetto Dreams [...]

Download: Blaqstarr "Never Hesitant" Blaqstarr & indie film LUV (starring Common & Danny Glover) released "Never Hesitant", off the movie which recently premiered at Sundance. luvthefilm.com www.blaqstarrmusic.com