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(Brooklyn, New York) Independent hip hop artist Kil Ripkin drops his single, “Aftermath Pt. 1″, produced by Eric G. This single is off his soon to be released album, The Balancing Act.

http://www.myspace.com/kilripkin

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(Atlanta, Georgia) Independent Hip Hop artist BLCTXT returns to IHH with his single “Contender”.

http://twitter.com/blctxt

http://www.myspace.com/blctxt

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(New York) Independent hip hop artists DownBeat Keys return to IHH with a single off their newly released project, “Instant Gratification”.  The single is titled, “Addiction”. Check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/downbeatkeys

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(Los Angeles, California)  Independent hip hop artist Seoul drops her single, “It’s So Easy”. Check it out.

http://www.myspace.com/djmetriconline

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Entertainment lawyer Barry Menes talks about various publishing deals and how money is made distributed from such arrangements. Know the biz!!

Hip hop artist Rhymefest wrote a thought provoking article at DJ Booth.net posing the question about who is more responsible for breaking records currently; bloggers or DJ’s? This has become increasingly frustrating for artists who find out that a lot of club DJ’s only want to play what’s hot on the streets and a terrestrial radio push demands that you have “mucho deniro”. So you’re stuck in a fucked up “chicken or the egg” scenario. They won’t play you if you’re not hot, but you can’t get hot if they don’t play you. Read the rest of this entry »

80s Babies – I Wanna Talk To You (Official Music Video) from Rookie Films on Vimeo.

Independent Hip Hop Artists, 80s Babies hail from Chicago, IL. The group is made up of emcee Dee “The Shogun” Jackson, and producer, Tall Black Guy. This is the video to their single, “I Wanna Talk To You”

http://www.myspace.com/deejackson

House of Mutants hail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This is the video to their single “Initiative”.

http://www.unifirecords.com/

Independent hip hop artist, Apollo The Great hails from Camden, New Jersey. Check out his single, “Reckidnize”.

http://apolloishim.com/

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