Ali Shaheed Muhammad: Last News

The estate of Malik Izaak Taylor (Phife Dawg) has announced the release date of his long-awaited posthumous album, Forever. The announcement comes on what would have been the rapper's 51st birthday, and the record will be released on March 22, 2022, the sixth anniversary of his passing.

Todd Gilchrist editor Composer, singer and producer Arthur Verocai just might be the best Brazilian artist you never heard — though if you’re a hip-hop fan, you probably already have: sampled by MF Doom, Ludacris, Common, Schoolboy Q, Your Old Droog, Little Brother, Action Bronson and many more, his self-titled 1972 album is a crate-digger’s paradise, full of irresistible and idiosyncratic melodies just waiting to be slapped beneath a blistering rap verse. “Those breaks that help to deliver a kind of emotion that you’re looking for just turn out to be the perfect find,” producer and composer Adrian Younge tells Variety.

A Tribe Called Quest have disputed reports that emerged last week claiming they had partnered with music royalties marketplace Royalty Exchange to auction off a portion of their album royalties as an NFT.Last week, Billboard reported that the iconic hip-hop group had partnered with Royalty Exchange to auction off a 1.5 per cent share of the sound recording royalties from their first five studio albums, from 1990 debut ‘People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm’ to 1998’s ‘The Love Movement’.Now, co-founder Ali Shaheed Muhammad has written a lengthy response to claims of A Tribe Called Quest’s partnership with Royalty Exchange or authorisation of the sale, labelling them “Not Frigging True”.“On June 29, 2021 Billboard wrote an