It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you… My Rakim flow, lol. It’s been a minute since I’ve fallen back into my creative state and dropped a review of films or music on the site. I’m bringing it…
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Get To Know: Darien Clea Band – New music, real music
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It’s been a while since I’ve been compelled to write a Get to Know. It’s been a while since I’ve been compelled to write anything on the site. While I have been watching a lot of movies and listening to…
Get To Know: Frank Ocean
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Sometimes there isn’t a comment that can be made about a musician that is just right. In my daily browsing I ran across this video on www.okayplayer.com. I really don’t care if this video has been featured in other places,…
Get To Know: Lenny Kravitz
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My favorite Lenny Kravitz album is 5. If you don’t have 5 buy it simply because of the song Mama. I can’t hear that song without crying. Yeah, I’m man enough to say that. While Lenny has always pushed the…
Get To Know: Singa Bromfield
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I recently went on one of my weekly excursions to buy a bunch of kicks to resell and standing in front of the store was a man with a guitar in classic NYC street musician style. His foot was against…
Get to Know: Fashawn
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Hip-Hop has had a black eye for so long that often emcees who drop an LP get love although they are actually pretty mediocre. Now I’m not saying that guys like Wiz, Currensy or Wale aren’t dropping new age gems,…
Video for Night Catches Us
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Re-Getting to Know: Lauryn Hill, I have my fingers crossed
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In the land of music where each day has a new release that is either strictly for the kids or just another very poorly done R&B song that is played continuously until the people know it and sing it because…
Get To Know… Blitz The Ambassador
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Every now and then there a no words needed when telling you about a music artist. While hitting up okayplayer I ran across this video and in a way the artistic value of this music and video can’t be rated.…
Austin City Limits: Gnarls Barkley
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I honestly don’t know when this was shot (2008 it’s on the vid duh), but I am really loving what ACL is now doing with the show. If you have not taken the time to support PBS please do so.…
Get To Know, The Roots
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On June 22nd The illadelph crew that delivered classics like “What They Do” and “You Got Me” return with an album that continues to push the boundaries sonically and lyrically. Black Thought is the most underrated emcee ever. His skill…
Get To Know, k-os
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YES is the fourth album from Candadian emcee K-Os. I discovered him a while back I think it was in the early part of this decade. The name of the song was crabbucket and I thought it exemplified the mentality…
Invest 8 minutes for inspiration
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If you haven’t seen this one, invest seven minutes into this and then make sure you add Dwele’s youtube page by clicking here
Get To Know: Dwele – What’s Not To Love
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I tend to keep Dwele in the CD Rotation. After being introduced to Dwele when Dilla was pushing the Slum Village project in the early 2000′s, I found myself waiting and waiting on anything he was dropping. There are certain…