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Introducing the Whatnauts is the kind of hard-to-find album that makes you pee in your pants when you uncover a copy dusting away at some Goodwill, yard sale, or flea market. Scavenging for their

recordings is what you had to do until the late ‘90s when no fewer than

three CDs of the Whatnauts’ music finally hit the streets. Obscure

beyond reason, the Whatnauts were comprised of Garnett Jones,…

Raheem DeVaughn is finally back with a new album that's inspired equally by the gospel sounds of the church as the street funk of hip-hop. The DC native built a devoted following on the independent scene, touring and releasing mixtapes before being introduced to a wider audience in 2005 with the release of his debut disc The Love Experience, a success that…

Joe Bataan (also spelled Bataán) (born 1942 in Spanish Harlem, New York City) is an Afro-Filipino American Latin R&B musician from New York. He was born Bataan Nitollano and grew up in the 103rd and Lexington part of East Harlem where he briefly lead the Dragons, a local Puerto Rican street gang before being sent to the Coxsackie Correctional Facility to serve time for a stolen car…

THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR:

In the early 1970's, the film "The Spook Who Sat By The Door," premiered, the film was about-the CIA accepting applications from blacks, expecting blacks to fail the exams. When one black man (Freeman) passed the exams, they

were shocked.…