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UGHHB: There is a lot of new Hip Hop talent coming out of Florida right now! How are you being 100% original and different? What is separating you from all the other up and coming MC’s coming up from out there!? Jules: Honestly I think it’s just my approach to creating music. I look to make music that is timeless and has a soul to it. Music that you can tell every ounce of emotion was put into it. And also I rap and produce. So everything you hear from me either I made myself or I helped or assisted in some sort of way. I feel like my music is meticulously crafted to fit my voice so I feel like that alone gives it a unique feel. And I’m very much into samples so that kind of puts me on my own path. Not too many people from here is creating that type of music. READ FULL INTERVIEW ... 

As 2017 comes to an end, Rising Los Angeles, CA based Hip Hop artist R-Mean stops by our headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. He speaks to us about his consistent growth as a rising MC, his Mean Monday's campaign, The Open Wounds 1915 movement and more!

Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana . He was the youngest of seven children of Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist   lay preacher. His parents named him after former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long . In 1945, the family migrated to Oakland, California , as part of the second wave of the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. The Newton family was close-knit, but quite poor, and often relocated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area during Newton's childhood. Despite this, Newton said he never went without food and shelter as a child. As a teenager, he was arrested several times for criminal offenses, including gun possession and vandalism at age 14. Growing up in Oakland, Newton stated that he was "made to feel ashamed of being black." In his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide , he wrote, "During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me an...

DJ Akademiks Speaks on J Cole says we should all boycott the NFL since Colin Kaepernick was pushed out the league

Song: Compass  by Suntonio Bandanaz Prod. By Nathan Thirdeyebling Ard off the American Gangster Nerd LP feat. Alpha P on Fresh Chopped Beats / MADK Productions Shot/Edited by Justin Gallagher for OK Productions #Seattle #RapHard #RespectTheCulture