Special Sundays Radio Show and The Mad Bloggers present: “Love H.E.R.”, a compilation of artists using Common’s extended metaphor of a woman to describe his relationship with hip hop. The songs selected incorporate hip-hop artists from all over the country, from mainstream to underground and female to male. Whether you used to love her, still love her, love her again or she’s the love of your life, this is for you… head here to get that goodness!

Checkout the playlist after the jump… (more…)

Hi-top fades, polka dots, shorts with socks, video girls fully clothed, and Heavy D and The Boyz dancin’ up a storm to that New Jack Swing beat equals ’80s feel-good perfection. “We Got Our Own Thang” went to #3 on the rap chart and #10 on the R&B chart. “We Got Our Own Thang”, from the platinum album Big Tyme.

Despite the sudden loss of Heavy D, his surrounding community will honor him in style and love.

His legacy lives on in the documentary, Be Inspired: The Life of Heavy D, which premieres on the Centric channel on Sunday (February 26) at 11:00 PM EST. The hour-long informative celebration will feature interviews from many he affected in the industry including: Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Will Smith, Brett Ratner, MC Lyte and others, according to marketwatch.com.

Besides including his final show on October 11, 2011, at the BET Hip Hop Awards, the documentary will be supplemented with classic artists and friends like Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, and Kurtis Blow.

Heavy D died November 8th of last year from a pulmonary embolism.

Source: VladTV

“Children’s Story” by Slick Rick is ’80s-party-dopeness. Raise your hand if you still do the dance at 1:48 everytime this jam comes on, LOL! “Children’s Story” is ranked #61 on VH1′s Greatest 100 Songs Of Hip Hop.

Kinda diggin’ this one here from emcee Honors English featuring Karina Pasian. “Second Chances” tells three different stories about being an overcomer with a rather dope animated video by AUKS that helps the song come to life. Check it out. Produced by Needlz.  “Second Chances” is from Honors English’s forthcoming album State Of The Art.

Somali-bred, Canada-based emcee K’NAAN and New York’s NAS unleash the visuals for “Nothing to Lose.” According to the press release, the video was shot in Toronto’s West End, in and around K’NAAN’s old neighborhoods of Dixon Towers and Jamestown. Basically, it’s the grittier side of Toronto that Drake only hints at. K’NAAN’s latest EP More Beautiful Than Silence is out now.

Director: Francisco Soriano

Some new heat all the way from Germany that features GFM fave Kaye-Ree on the hook. As Chuck D. constantly reminds us Hip-Hop is a global phenomenon where often times you will have Emcees rhyming in several languages. Here’s to the embrace of the global where we understand and appreciate that the world is much larger than our block.

“Jump Around” by House Of Pain was one of the “hype” jams of 1992. It went to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and features samples from the music of Bob & Earl, Chubby Checker, and Jr. Walker and the Allstars.