Cash Money Records Case Study and Interview: Streets Up Marketing
Regardless of your taste, if you’re a fan or practitioner of building awareness, then you should appreciate the trade of skilled rap promoters. Cash Money Records set the precedent in current rap music for how to build awareness from...
Spacey sounds propel DJ Planetarium to new levels! By CyPhEr777
PFM PRESENTS…DJ PLANETARIUM-The Planetarium Funk Metronomes In: A Whole New World Unlike Our Own A HOVEROCK DOMINATION COLLABORATION
For those who know PFM of Hoverock Records, mostly know him as a lyrical monster. He’s able to create and deliver the...
Ahoora: metal banned but music keeps coming
Milad is a guitarist and songwriter in an eclectic Tehran-based band called Ahoora. The band's name isn't known in music industry circles that attend festivals with strategies to position their newly signed rock brands bands as rebels, but maybe...
J.A.E.: New Hip Hop Talent Spotlight
Here's the story of a North Carolina born emcee who currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Justin Johnson aka "J.A.E." spent his teen years freestyling competitively during high school, but today he's busy working on new material. J.A.E....
Why Hip Hop Was Great
Original Hip Hop: Notice that the young fans were positive and articulate. I met Scott La Rock in '86, about a year before he was murdered. He was positive, encouraging, and went beyond offering advice- he actually helped me...
Kool Keith the master of the underground
Kool Keith's been rocking stages globally since 1986. Here he hangs after a successful show at Czar's Imperial Theatre in Ybor City.
The Real Avon “Bodie” Barksdale: Uncut Raw
WORDS BY KHALID STRICKLAND a.k.a. BLACK PACINO
PHOTOS BY SUNDIATA ACREE a.k.a. THA SNYPER
VIDEOGRAPHY BY CLAYTON DONNELLEY a.k.a. CLAYDOG
MUSIC BY CHRIS CLARKE for CLARKEWORK ENTERTAINMENT
It's always a thrill when I interview people that I actually respect.
The acclaimed HBO TV series...
What you can learn from harpist Merry Miller about succeeding in the music industry
Merry Miller is an extraordinary artist and businesswoman. Don’t take my word for it, she was named in Crain's New York Business magazine “40 Under 40” issue. She is the former Executive Vice President of Programming at the Learning...
Charlie Murphy interview parts 3 and 4
In this segment Charlie Murphy discusses what it takes to be a successful comedian. He also compares achieving success in comedy to what it takes to be a successful rapper.
In part 4, Charlie Murphy explains that producers of...
Charlie Murphy interview with Insomniac Magazine segment 2
Make sure to check out parts one and three of the entertainment industry interview with Charlie Murphy.