Teena Marie interview: The late, great soul legend discusses her love for, and life...
In honor of the great Teena Marie, below is an interview conducted with her. During our talk, she shares her love for music and discusses a lifetime of creating it. It was with sadness that we learned of...
Back to the Bronx: The late Bobby Davis, street and club DJ music hero,...
After learning of the passing of the great Bobby E. Davis of the S.U.R.E. Records, I pulled footage of us talking about the record pool's importance, in regards to the music industry. This footage is from 1999, and it's...
Tubeify- a new way to consume music: 10 Questions with the platform’s creator
Tubeify is a free online service that has recently started to make some waves with music fans seeking a better way to experience music online. It mines established services such as Last.FM and Billboard for data pertaining to music...
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...