SIRIUS XM SHOW 224 Download Hour 1 1. Willie The Kid - Afromentals Mixshow Intro 2. Hudson Mohawke ft Olivier Day Soul - Just Decided 3. Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind 4. Eddie F & Erick Sermon - This Is Hip Hop 5. Warren G ft Bj - True Star 6. AFTA-1 & ...

From Current.com/embedded: On this special hour-long Embedded, Mos Def takes us on an all access seven-day tour of Japan while he performs his new album "The Ecstatic" to packed venues in Tokyo and Osaka. During that week, he hits up the Harajuku fashion district, whoops it up at a sumo wrestling ...

Watch Embedded featuring MOS DEF getting Ecstatic in Japan - TONIGHT at 11/10c on Current TV

Download: The Clonious “Lovelights” (feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow and Dudley Perkins) (off Between The Dots out now on Ubiquity Records) via Ubiquity

LA: Join us Friday at Tantra as Frolab & Footlng Devolopment bring you Rich Medina's World Famous "Jump n Funk" Party celebrating the music of Fela Kuti. More info here.

From Bob: here's the two-minute piece CNN ran on me this weekend as a prelude to their upcoming "Latinos In America" documentary next week:

Fros i met while on tour with Mos Def and more since getting back to LA.

Hebru doing what he does best:

Spotted today in the LA Times - they took some time to highlight some "memorable" fros - Marc Jacobs' spring 2010 Louis Vuitton show in Paris By Emili Vesilind, Special to The Times - Leave it to provocateur Marc Jacobs to roll out one of the most culturally significant hairdos of the ...

Shouts out to frolaborator Nabil! This gives us mucho inspiration as we edit Cognito's photos from Mos Def's The Ecstatic Tour! via @2dopeboyz: THIS IS THE PHOTO BOOK FROM THE GLOW IN DARK TOUR. NABIL CAPTURED THE EXPERIENCE LIKE CRAZY! WHEN I LOOK AT THE PHOTOS IT BRINGS ME RIGHT BACK TO ...

Shout out to Ace & EdO!!! To everyone born after 1985 listen to this b4 you want to talk Hip Hop with anybody. Get your bars up!

In support of the Knitting Factory Records re-launch of Fela Kuti’s music catalogue, as well as the debut of the FELA! show on Broadway, Giant Step has organized official Felabration events in more than 15 cities across North America throughout the month of October; this outstanding schedule of Felabrations will ...