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Staten Island royalty came through RIOC last week. Pop The Brown Hornet who many will remember from his classic 90s joint “Black On Black Crime” stopped by with his son Don Dollars to promote his new album “Foreman Mandela”. The album is almost entirely produced…

D.V. Alias Khryst came through RIOC to promote his new album “Music”.We also had 38 Spesh who brought up his new artist Che Noir.  Spesh just dropped an EP called “5 Shots” and a full album “38 Strategies Of Raw” which both feature Che. Click the link to hear the rawness.

Ace Clark, Jay Royale and Sauce Heist came through RIOC to discuss music. Ace’s new album “Black Privilege” is out now. Jay’s “The Ivory Stoop” and Sauce’s “Diamond Dust Shoes” are both available now through Trevor Lang’s iamtrevorlang.bandcamp.com. Check out the freestyle and support the…

D/R Period has a new label called Rockboy Records and he came through Rap Is Outta Control with his current line up of artists. Click the link to check out Shawn Rock, Berry Goodz, Ms Shica, Computa75 & Fly Ty.

Sadat X & El Da Sensei have a new album out called “XL”. They came by RIOC to talk about that as well as what’s going on with their other groups, Brand Nubian and Artifacts. We also had The Diceman from The Legion up in…

Sean Strange visited RIOC last week to talk about his recent EP with Scott G “Tommy & Ghost” as well as his upcoming album “Street Urchin 2”. And the Grime Lords (Born Unique & Pete Twist) were there to discuss putting together their album “Wimbledon…

Check out the video freestyle featuring FastLife, Supreme Cerebral & Banish Habitual from when they visited RIOC.

Last week we had Ultramagnetic MCs affiliate Big D and producer Easy Mo Bee up on RIOC. Mo Bee is producing D’s upcoming album “This Is My Life” (along with a track from Just Blaze and Statik Selektah). New single “New Yawk Hardcore” is out…

Masta Ace & Marco Polo just dropped their new album “A Breukelen Story”. So what better than to have Ace freestyle over a Marco Polo track. Also on the show we had Jamal Gasol & John Creasy from Niagara Falls. Jamal’s latest release is “It’s…

Flee Lord and Westside Gunn came up to RIOC recently to talk about Flee’s new album “Lord Talk 2” and how the two met through Prodigy. Also on the show were Rhode Islanders Freddie Black & Spliftout. Freddie’s new album “The Black Tape” is entirely…