According to Robert "Robski" Grady, founder of Nashvillerap.com and co-founder of the inaugural Tennessee Music Conference and Hip Hop Awards, the local rap scene is "in a state of emergency."
Detroit's once-flashy "Hip-Hop Mayor" Kwame Kilpatrick will spend four months in jail after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice charges stemming from a torrid sex scandal case.
Jabel Sarr, is another young Gambian hip-hop singer currently based in Sweden. He is the latest Gambian hip-hop talent to be discovered in that part of the world.
Los Angeles alternative hip-hop group Pharcyde is performing together for the first time in 11 years at the Rock The Bells hip-hop festival at the Gorge.
