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Deante Hitchcock is one of Atlanta's most talented young MCs on the come up. Here's the EP "THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE" . Catch Deante live at 2018 A3C Festival . Source: A3C Festival

The A3C Festival presents a track from Emmy Award winner, Jabee , and BBAS ' own, J57 ! ***Thanks to the Brown Bag AllStars for sending***

Emcee/producer Yinka Diz presents the Concrete/R2S -directed music video for "Hear Me, Tho" , the first release in his #ATLBound campaign, as he preps for this year's A3C Music Festival in Atlanta. ***Thanks to Dunn Deal Promotions for sending*** Available at https://soundcloud.com/yinka/yinka-di...

2015 A3C will take place  October 7-11, 2015,  in Atlanta’s eclectic Old 4th Ward, along Edgewood Ave, and East Atlanta Village.  A3C has moved the Conference Center to The Loudermilk Center, and the host hotel to the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel.  The A3C Pro-Audio Conference Center will remain at the SAE Institute of Atlanta, and A3C has partnered with the Atlanta Streetcars to move A3C attendees around Atlanta for free. A3C artist submissions are open through September 19th.  Submissions are free through September 1st for artists with a Sonicbids account. To date YCDon, Buggs Tha Rocka, Shope’, Young Chizz, Triune and nearly a dozen other artists have been selected to perform at this years A3C Festival & Conference.   Past Sonicbids selections include: Young Thug, Trinidad James, Rhymefest, Ca$h Out, Que, Black Sheep, Tanya Morgan, CJ Fly of Pro Era, & Propaganda.     Submit here : http://www.sonicbids.com/find-g...

This past weekend Jay Shells and Mike Walbert (A3C's Festival Director) drove around Atlanta, GA putting up more than 25 of The Rap Quotes street signs.   We have waited a couple days to let the signs live, before publicly announcing the project has taken place... and people have already begun to share photos on social media and discuss possible locations.  As early as next week a video & photo recap by  Aymann Ismail  of  Animal Newyork  will be dropping! Check out the  CREATIVE LOAFING ARTICLE  interviewing Jay Shells about his trip to Atlanta. Now that the signs are officially up, we are launching The Rap Quotes ATL Instagram Sign Hunt.     CLICK HERE for more detail and The Rap Quotes ATL playlist The Rap Quotes campaign started in NYC by Jay Shells has expanded to LA, Philly and now ATL.  The Rap Quotes attempts to catalog all site-specific rap lyrics by installing them as street signs in t...

R.A.R.E. Nation sends this documentary of Palermo Stone 's rare behind-the-scenes footage of how an indie artist makes an A3C trip possible. From the travel arrangements, to the show designs, to the day-to-day, to the performance, nothing is a given and the fact that so many artists make this journey is a testament to their passion and persistence. Palermo Stone 's The 2nd Coming is available now on all major outlets and can be purchased on iTunes or streamed via Soundcloud at these links: iTunes : tinyurl.com/T2Citunes  SoundCloud : tinyurl.com/T2Cstream

Str8OutDaDen sends their latest podcast featuring Fort Collins, Colorado emcee Curci , they caught up with him during their time at the A3C Festival in Atlanta. After sharing a chance story of how they met, which included Jay Electronica .

A3C is proud to present a screening of the documentary  Nas: Time is Illmatic  followed by a Q & A with the filmmakers. The film covers the making of Nas' 1994 album  Illmatic , often hailed as the greatest hip-hop album of all times, and the timeless themes that have kept both the album and Nas relevant for so many years. After the film screening, we'll be joined by director One9, writer Erik Parker, and producer Martha Diaz for a   discussion about  the making of the film, the inspirations behind it, and on the scope and influence of Nas'  Illmatic .  Friday, Oct 10th at 3:00pm #A3Cfilm A3C All-Access of VIP Pass Required [ Buy Today ]

Last month the friends at A3C ( http://www.a3cfestival.com ) invited TeamBackPack to Atlanta for their annual hip-hop festival. It was an amazing week. Artists flew in from all over the world to contribute to the hip-hop culutre at venues throughout the city. We took advantage of the talent available and got some great episodes out of it, including this one produced by Mikey Fresh . ***Thanks to SMKA for sending***

A3C partnered with Revolt TV and Atlanta production crew, SMKA , to book the legendary Stankonia Studios during 2013 A3C Festival and produce an original mixtape, The Hang Out: A3C Edition . For 12 hours a day ( Thursday, Oct 3rd through Saturday, Oct 5th ) nearly 30 of the most talented up-and-coming artists at the 2013 A3C Festival came through Stankonia to record 15 original tracks produced by 808 Blake & Kato of SMKA , Prolyfic , DJ Burn One & Kamal of RadioActiveKids . For 3 days Stankonia became a must-attend destination for many of hip-hop’s elite MCs. Artists Include: Problem , Jarren Benton , Chuck Inglish , Boldy James , Forte Bowie , Denzel Curry , Kings Dead , Kris Kassanova , Scotty ATL , J. Nics , Skyzoo , iNDEED , Cory Mo , Chill Moody , Kidd Kidd , 40 Akerz , EarthGang , Shawn Crystopher , Bizzy Crook , Cool is Mac , Chase Allen , GQ , Halo , Planet lV , Locksmith , Runway Richy , Doley Bernays , Phene , Sy Ari Da Kid , Jus Nice , Kelsey Lu , Phene ,...