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AllHipHop — Last week, we covered De La Soul’s performance at the National Cannabis Festival in Washington, DC.  Along with the legendary rap group’s long list of hits performed, as well Plug One’s performance of “Excursions” to honor the late member ... more info

Guardian Music — In a short career, the Detroit rapper cemented a reputation as a cult great with underground strip-club jams, Beatles-inspired psychedelia and joyous neo-soulBy the time Jay Dee – whose real name was James Yancey – became J Dilla, he ha... more info

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) Justin Timberlake, Tyler The Creator, and Chad Hugo were guests on a recent episode of Pharrell Williams and Scott Vener’s Beats 1 Radio show OTHERtone. Video of the conversation has now been uploaded to YouTube. The clip included ... more info

Guardian Music — (PayJay/Mass Appeal)It’s taken nearly 15 years and much legal wrangling for this album by Detroit producer J Dilla, who died in 2006, to see the light of day. Having built his reputation with beats for A Tribe Called Quest, the Roots et al, Dilla ... more info

Rolling Stone — Ever since Krysten Ritter kicked ass as the lead superhero in Marvel's Jessica Jones, anticipation has been building for the next in the Netflix Marvel anthology series, Luke Cage. Lucikly, the show's executive producer and showrunner Cheo Hodari Cok... more info

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com in January, record producer/composer Adrian Younge hinted that he and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad were scoring a big project in the near future. It turns out Younge was... more info

Guardian Music — It may be yet another album released after the prolific producer’s death in 2006 but it was his attempt to make it as a starThis weekend will see the 14th release by the hip-hop producer J Dilla. The 14th posthumous release, that is. Dilla, born Ja... more info

Stereogum — Ali Shaheed Muhammad spent years producing and DJing in a Tribe Called Quest, and he also founded the neo-soul supergroup Lucy Pearl. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles orchestral soul producer Adrian Younge has made two albums with Ghostface Killah, and he ... more info

Mercury News, California — Malik Taylor, also was known as the rapper Phife Dawg of the legendary hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died in Oakley on Wednesday at 45, according to the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office. more info