Black Thought

Earlier this month, 2DOPEBOYZ.com uncovered some unreleased tracks from Black Thought's shelved Master Piece Theatre album which was supposed to come out in 2001. Read More

New York: powerHouse Books, 2009, p. 395. Read More

Ooooh weee I've got one more exam to go and it's going to be a no-brainer so needless to say, I'm cutting loose this weekend and enjoying myself for the first time in about oh, 37 WEEKS since this damn course started. Read More

Grammy award winning artist Dice Raw, a longtime member of The Legendary Roots Crew collaborated with Philadelphia based producer Khari Mateen and artist Charles P. Bailey to create a hot new track that is guaranteed to be setting the club scene on fire. Read More

Here at AD, we started talking it through and decided we weren't going to add to the cacophony of lists being put out by various music pubs. Read More

For two years of high visibility the Washington rapper Wale has been one of hip-hop's hardest workers and greatest hopes. Read More

In certain circles, asking where you were when you found out James Yancey—better known as Jay Dee or J Dilla—died is like asking the same question about JFK's assassination to people of a different generation. Read More

You've heard of West Coast, East Coast, Detroit, and Dirty South rap — and now, if Wale earns the kind of success he seems poised for, you can count on the next platinum wave in hip-hop coming out of Washington, D.C. He's been around for a few years, putting out mixtapes and making cameo appearances on other artists' albums, and has been a fixture on the D.C. scene since he scored a local hit with 2006's "Dig Dug (Shake It)." Read More