Bad Brains are Iconic Hardcore: The World’s Greatest and Still Active Punk Rock Band
During the later 70s, punk music began creeping up from the underbelly of the Bowery in New York City with the help of a Queens' based band called The Ramones. The Clash and Sex Pistols bashed the establishment in...
Choppin’ it up with Greg Nice
WORDS BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO
Greg Nice, who along with Smooth B forms iconic rap duo Nice & Smooth, has plenty of classic verses on his resume. On October 26th, Greg Nice drops his solo debut album,...
Teena Marie- 3 Decades of Soul, Funk and Classic R&B
In a day and age of commodity artists who are forgotten shortly after a year or so of a radio hit, and in an environment where hit artists of yesteryear are remembered only by those who were raised on...
What a Hip Hop artist (or any artist for that matter) can learn from...
"The Worst Best Movie" is a great documentary about what some people call the worst movie ever made (good news for Ed Wood and his "Plan 9 from Outerspace"), "Troll 2" (no connection to "Troll," it was named this...
Interview session with Venomous2000 by C73
Is Hip-Hop Dead?
No, I don't think that HIP HOP is dead because I'm still alive. LOL. But for real, what I mean by that is, as long as people like me are putting their hearts and spirit into...
10 questions with MyVerse (conducted by CyPhEr777)
I recently caught up with poet and emcee extraordinaire MyVerse to answer 10 questions pertaining to all things music. Here's what she had to say:
What is your vision of Hip Hop’s future?
I see Hip Hop rebuilding its conscious...
Hip Hop veteran, Buckshot, talks about the music industry and gives advice to artists...
One of Hip Hop's most respected lyricists, Buckshot, talks about his career, the music industry, and success after nearly two decades in Hip Hop. During a Duck Down Records' 15 year anniversary show, the emcee, whose career was launched...
The prince of the new recorded music economy: Jeff Price’s Tunecore, empowering artists to...
Jeff Price is the prince of the new music economy. In an environment where major labels are less likely than ever to easily produce a new Platinum selling act, highly unlikely to score a Diamond selling one, and site’s...
Grammy winning and Platinum selling Naughty by Nature discusses the music industry
In this exclusive interview with Hip Hop stars Naughty by Nature, Vin Rock and Treach talk about what it takes to make it in the music industry today. Although they state that it's now a "veteran's game," they also...
What an indie Hip Hop act (or any artist) can learn from this self-published...
Too many times, artists of all genres look only to their own immediate world for both creative and business inspiration. The problem is that those same ideas are recycled over and over again by many within that space. I...
