Depending on who you ask, Philadelphia rapper Freeway is a rapper who has been slept on for his whole career. Others will say the only…

Philadelphia MCs Black Thought & Dice Raw of the Roots, Peedi Crakk, Ms Jade & Meek Millz were all on the set of Jill Scott’s new video “Shame.” In between takes, the Philly wordsmiths got together for an old school cypher.

Last night while Charlie Sheen was putting on quite a display of crazy on CNN, ?uestlove announced via Twitter the rather eclectic line-up for the 4th Annual Roots Picnic in Philadelphia.  This year the Philadelphia hip-hop heroes will share the stage with The Grammy’s pick for Best New Artist, Esperanza Spalding, Wiz Khalifa, and Mr. […]

Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz, and Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe star in Victoria Mahoney’s upcoming independent film, Yelling To The Sky. The film also stars Marc John Jeffries and Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter of The Roots.

Ghostface Killah’s ninth proper album, Apollo Kids, hits stores on December 14th and is certain to be another solid entry into the Wu-Tang Clan member’s discography.

Raekwon is looking to follow up his last album, 2009’s Only Built 4 Cuban Links Pt. 2, in September.

First single off The Roots’ forthcoming How I Got Over (June 22nd) courtesy of Shake and YHTN.