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Rakim, De la Soul, Blackalicious headline Paid Dues fest

Radio doesn’t play their music. Cable won’t show their videos. Chain stores don’t push their albums. It’s a hard life for alternative hip-hop acts; that is, until summer festival time hits, and then they are in high demand. To exemplify the fact is the third annual Paid Dues Festival Series, which expands to several cities across the U.S. this summer. This year the festival brings along legends such as Rakim and De la Soul for select dates along with other luminaries such as Sage Francis, Blackalicious and the Hieroglyphics. The festival aims to publicize hip-hop artists normally ignored by the...  read more

Rakim goes on tour, new album still on horizon

For the next month, rap godfather Rakim will be performing in the first Hip Hop Live! tour, sharing a stage with Ghostface Killah, Brother Ali and-- get this-- a live backing band, the Rhythm Roots Allstars. The legend talked to Billboard.com about the tour and the status of his upcoming album The Seventh Seal, which still has no release date. "The number 7 has a lot of significance. The 7th letter of the alphabet is G -- that stands for God. There are 7 continents, 7 seas. The 'Seventh Seal' deals with that and also some revelations in the Bible,"...  read more