Zion-I Crew, one of the most profound and creative crews, from the Bay Area, California, to touch our sound waves in recent times. A breath of fresh air to the sounds, that I call Real Hip Hop. I grabbed the opportunity to catch up with the crew during their hectic schedule hoping that they would reveal exclusively what was next on the agenda!
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Newly formed West Coast rap / urban hip hop group Avenue 707 celebrates the release of their first album, Avenue 707, on Hangout Records. Hangout Records, est. 2005, is the brainchild of childhood friends and band mates, Elwin Maiden and Jeff Nixon. These diligent visionaries decided that establishing a family-owned operation was the only way to have representation without compromising their creative freedom.
In an industry that advocates monotony, Goapele, perhaps because of her cultural heritage, is a non-conformist. Her exiled South African political activist father met her New York-born Jewish mother and married while in Nairobi, Kenya.