9th Wonder

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While conspiracy theorists still scream Illuminati, Rapsody is about the "urban magic" — "Illuminaughty." The cut off 9th Wonder's Jamla Is The Squad  is an air-tight one-and-a-half minute. The video for the track features Rapsody rapping her hookless rhymes to the camera with some camera effects for good measure. Jabari Parker,...

Terrace Martin is following up to last year's 3ChordFold and  3ChordFold-Remixed, now releasing 3ChordFold Pulse. With the LP dropping on May 20th, Terrace now unveils the cover art and track list. Snoop Dogg, Robert Glasper, James Fauntleroy, 9th Wonder and Teedra Moses will all be featured on the project. Check it out ...

It wasn't just the rookies reacting to the XXL Freshmen 2014 Cover, hip-hop vets gave their two cents on the 2014 Freshmen List. You can view it below. They seriously jerked my lil bro @BishopNehru on that Freshman cover... Damn. Homie did a lot the past year...

From everyone anxiously waiting for Tha Carter V to all the Donald Sterling madness that went down this week, Twitter was indeed the place to be. Check out the hottest hip-hop tweets from this week. #XXLFreshmen14 is coming! You ready...

Last week, XXL brought you the 10 greatest rapping duos of all time, our unranked list of the ten one-two punches that we've seen work off each other lyrically and effortlessly. The Clipse, Mobb Deep, Jay and 'Ye—they're all in there, trading bars and swapping metaphors at the genre's highest level. We m...

Super producer 9th Wonder shows off his teaching skills in the upcoming film The Hip-Hop Fellow. During the 2012-2013 academic school year, 9th Wonder served as a "Harvard Fellow" where he educated students on art of hip-hop and sampling...

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Lifted Research Group, affectionately known as LRG, announces 9th Wonder as the new Director of Creative OutReach and Business Development. Being preeminent supporters of music and culture the partnership seems to be centered around the hip-hop community. LRG...

Grammy Award-winning producer 9th Wonder took to Twitter this morning to announce the launch of the trailer and site for The Hip-Hop Fellow. The avant-garde document chronicles the producer's tenure as a fellow at Harvard University's Hip-Hop Archive...

In a recent interview with Big Von from 106 KMEL, Talib Kweli revealed that he’s working on a collaboration album with 9th Wonder. The crew is tentatively titled B.A.D. (Build And Destroy Gang). “The idea is that you have an album like The Chronic there hasn’t been a conscious or thematically positive album that has struck a chord like The Chronic," said Talib. "And that’s what... Read

It’s usually tough to dominate an album if you don’t utter a word, but 9th Wonder managed to do just that. His production takes top billing on almost every one of the 25-tracks on 9th Wonder Presents: Jamla Is The Squad. Each beat is seemingly better than the last and choosing a favorite instrumental on the project is next to impossible. It gives a...