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Public Enemy & SE Bikes team up for branded bike, ride out event & free concert

Public Enemy has teamed with the acclaimed bike company SE Bikes to create a special PE branded bicycle. To celebrate their new partnership, SE Bikes will be hosting a ride out event today in New York City. The ride out's path will end in Brooklyn, where Public Enemy will be performing at a free concert.

The new bike, the 29" Public Enemy Big Ripper, blends the band's style, including their iconic logo and text featuring the band's most memorable song titles, with SE Bikes' famed tuning and quality, including their trademark floval tuning and Landing Gear forks. The bike is available for sale now at SE Bike dealers, with additional q

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Get a taste of Loss Control Radio with "Power of Equality"

Loss Control Radio is RAPstation's weekly show of truly artful turntablism, featuring mixes from LA's most hardcore DJ, Peyote Cody. You can get a taste of Loss Control Radio's sound with Cody's latest, "Power of Equality Remix."

Check out the video for "Power of Equality Remix" here.

"Power of Equality Remix" mashes up The Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Power of Equality," Public Enemy's "Can't Truss It," from their 1991 album Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Black. James Brown's "Let A Man Come In And Do The Popcorn," and Main Source's "Live at the BBQ" to cr

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Tupac, Missy Elliot, and J.Cole verses to appear on Sprite cans

They say inspiration can come from unexpected places, and apparently one of those places is a can of Sprite.

The makers of America's favorite lemon-lime sugar water have announced that their cans will now be graced with inspirational quotes from Tupac Shakur, Missy Elliot, and J.Cole.

According to Billboard magazine, the new cans will feature lyrics from Elliot's "WTF (Where They From,)" and "Hot Boyz," J. Cole's "Grown Simba," and "Love Yourz," and Tupac's "Keep Ya Head Up," "Wake Me When I'm Free," and "When We Ride."

Now, before you start to question the ethics of posthumously using Tupac's lyrics to sell soda, Sprite assures us that the promotion is being done

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New Karega Bailey Video, "Hope Dealer"

In a culture that’s continually berated by bad news, it’s often difficult to find the silver lining. Mass shootings, religious wars, murders, and the vacuous bubble of celebrities dominate headlines, when really people are in need of a little hope. 

Oakland-based emcee, award winning poet and educator Karega Bailey delivers that hope in the form of “Hope Dealer,” the latest video from the SOL Development collective. Filmed at Roses in Concrete school in East Oakland, the video takes the viewer through a day in Bailey’s life, where educating the next generation through arts an

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Watch the first trailer for the 2Pac biopic

In honor of 2Pac's birthday yesterday, Open Road Films has released the first trailer for their upcoming 2Pac biopic, which will portray the legendary rapper's life all the way from his early childhood in Harlem to his murder in Las Vegas.

Watch the trailer here.

Named after Tupac's most famous album, All Eyez on Me is directed by Benny Boom, who previously directed music videos for hip hop artists like 50 Cent and Nicki Minaj, as well as the 2009 comedy Next Day Air. The movie will star Demetrius Shipp Jr., a relatively unknown actor who nonetheless manages to capture Pac's attitude and look, at least in the trailer. The

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Mr CRF: Critical Beatdown Radio

Get a taste of hip hop flavor from across the pond with Critical Beatdown Radio, one of the UK's longest running hip hop shows, hosted by Manchester's finest, Mr CRF.

Drawn into hip hop by acts like The Ultramagnetic MCs, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Caveman, and more, Mr CRF started Critical Beatdown Radio in 1996, when it first aired on a pirated radio broadcast in CRF's home town of  Manchester. Critical Beatdown Radio has been broadcasting some of the best music to British listeners for two decades, but now that CBR is on RAPstation, the entire world can listen in for two hours of the freshest true skool hip hop.

Mr CRF is an accomplished artist in his own right, with multiple EPs under his belt, including 2014's "H

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