Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s a loaded philosophy that has always come up short in the mainstream. But based on the evidence of the culturally varied crowd that came together for the ...

Black music has many streams of expression, 2 of the most prominent being Hip-Hop and Reggae. And when you go back far enough, these traditions are seen to have their roots in the music of Africa.

Not content with just being announced as part of the rather-weak Lollapalooza 2011 lineup today, Nas and Damian Marley have dropped the music video for “Nah Mean” from their album Distant Relatives.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, while performing in front of tens of thousands at the sold-out UCLA JazzReggae Fest, Nas told the audience that his collaboration album with Damian Marley, Distant ...

There are certain hip-hop artists — including underrated veterans such as Hieroglyphics, Blackalicious and A Tribe Called Quest who have rarely (if ever) gotten radio play — that don’t primarily ...

Nas and Damian Marley celebrated today’s release of their ambitious rap-meets-reggae album, Distant Relatives, with a performance last night (May 17) at a sold-out Highline Ballroom in New York City.

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In 1989, Ice Cube joined forces with New York’s legendary Bomb Squad to record AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted and make a statement about national unity. Two decades later, Nas and Damian Marley, the sons of ...