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Isaac Hayes, Rest in Peace
Published on 10 Aug 2008 at 11:19 pm.
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Filed under black culture, entertainment, music, history.
Isaac Hayes was a groundbreaking soul musician who exploded onto the charts 1971, when his original theme from the popular film Shaft topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks and won an Academy Award for best original theme song. The song and the movie score also won Grammy awards for best original score and […]
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Nas, Shaq & Weezy: A Review of This Month in Hip-Hop
Published on 25 Jun 2008 at 12:16 am.
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Lots of Hip-Hop news this month. In no particular order, weigh in on these updates from three Hip-Hop veterans:
Nas’ controversial album entitled Nigger was renamed “Untitled” because of creative differences with his record label. Nas dropped The Nigger Mixtape with DJ Green Lantern on June 9th. I’m listening to it right now, it’s pretty good. […]
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Nas presents.. Black President
Published on 11 Jun 2008 at 1:02 am.
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Throughout Nas’ illustrious career as a Hip-Hop artist, his message could be described as conflicted. Over the years we’ve seen a side of Nas that is misogynist, pugilistic and violent but we’ve also seen a side of Nas that is conscious, spiritual and even sensitive. But one thing any Hip-Hop enthusiast can say about […]
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Rest in Peace, Bo
Published on 2 Jun 2008 at 7:25 pm.
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Bo Diddley 1929-2008
Legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist Bo Diddley passed today surrounded by friends and family at his home in Archer, Florida. The rock ‘n’ roll/R&B pioneer was 79 years old.
His signature sound laid the foundation for rock ‘n’ roll, and became so identified with him that it became known as the “Bo Diddley” beat. […]
Like Meet The Press, But With Better Beats
Published on 13 Nov 2007 at 12:57 am.
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Filed under positivity, music, racial rhetoric.
What’s up y’all; I haven’t posted in a minute, and I’m neck-deep in my graduate studies at this time, but I’ve resurfaced temporarily to help sling some new mind-opening ish courtesy of my brother, the founder of the website you are now reading. As you may or may not know, in between all that community […]
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G-Unit vs. Good Music. And the winner is…
Published on 19 Sep 2007 at 12:43 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, black culture, mainstream culture, music.
Multi-platinum recording artist 50 Cent (G-Unit/Aftermath) threw down the gauntlet several months ago, challenging Kanye West (Good Music/Def Jam) to a battle in record sales, stating: “If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer write music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t […]
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Hip-hop’s favorite expletives
Published on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:29 am.
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I see that Paul Butler over at Blackprof has gotten a decent amount of mileage out of his recent post on Russell Simmons’ call for the entertainment industry to voluntarily ban the n-word, “bitch,” and “ho” from their media products. Butler roundly rejects the idea, taking the standard “if you don’t like it, don’t buy […]
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Kenya Loves Kenny
Published on 8 Apr 2007 at 3:46 am.
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Noted without comment: a fascinating NPR piece on the popularity of American country music in Kenya, of all places. Definitely worth checking out.
prussian blue
Published on 5 Jan 2007 at 3:27 pm.
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in September a duo of blond haired, blue eyed, teen-aged girls came out of the blue and hit #4 on the Billboard Chart! No … it’s not the Olsen twins. How can this happen? They sold 91,000 copies of their album in one week! They did it with out the assistance of big record company […]
Jackin’ For (Rock) Beats
Published on 8 Aug 2006 at 8:49 pm.
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Damn, sometimes I feel like I’m the only Blackademic with a keyboard up in this piece . . .
Anyway, I want to let all the rock ‘n roll fans out there know about a lil’ musical nugget I’ve been enjoying over the past several days—a track called “Jackin’ (It Got Ugly)” by up-and-coming Chicago MC […]
