Malcolm M. Mays’ “Covers” Starring Tristan “Mack” Wilds Shines With Songs In The Key Of Strife for Urbanworld 2017 by Jerry Barrow Black Cinema in the 1990s was defined by…
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“Word Is Bond” Says A Mouthful About Hip-Hop’s Evolving Wordplay by Jerry Barrow Words. What were once the backbone of the rhythmic linguist art known as MCing have taken a…
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Bad Boy’s “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop” Celebrates Triumph Over Tragedy by Jerry Barrow Sean Combs’ life has always been…dramatic. The world’s most famous intern turned record mogul captured the hearts…
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Clive Davis’ Documentary “…The Soundtrack of Our Lives” Goes Wide But Not Deep On The “Friendly Provocateur” by Jerry Barrow “You want me to be a sidebar to Puffy?” a…
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Album Review: Tribe Called Quest’s We got it from Here…Thank You 4 Your service by Ron Worthy I went into the record with fairly low expectations for a number of…
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by Ron Worthy Over the past few months (honestly, it may be years), many Generation X hip-hop purists have been really up in arms about the emergence and growth of…
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Last week, we introduced our new weekly feature, First Listen Fridays, and despite all of the madness that is happening in our World this week, we want to bring you a…
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Introducing our new weekly feature, First Listen Fridays. As many of you know, Friday is the new Tuesday in the music business. For years, Tuesday was the day albums were released. Now,…
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A few weeks ago, we randomly saw the new iPhone 6 commercial by Apple featuring a rainy windshield, windshield wipers and THIS!!!!! Good Lord! It seems like advertisers have been really…
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Rarely do we ask you to drop what you are doing and listen to a record. However, now is that time. As the title says, YOU NEED THIS. Thanks…
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This year is really turning out to be an amazing one for music. New releases by Kendrick Lamar and Anderson .Paak have already disrupted the internet in ways we haven’t…
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This past weekend, our staff was hanging out in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn when we came across a recent publication of local magazine, The Deli. It’s January cover…
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This past weekend, a close friend and fellow soulhead, leaned over to me and asked me to listen to something she knew I would enjoy. Almost immediately, my face scrunched…
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By Solomon Words | @sologeeohdee Jess the Facts, a Boston native based in the City of Angels, has hit us over the head with his newest album Blue Hues of…
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By Solomon Words | @sologeeohdee Compton, California. You hear the name and automatically think of a place that’s rich in history. Two of the more immediate things that likely come…
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Back in 1990, a few years before neo-soul exploded, it was all about acid jazz, a fresh style made by young people whose musical sensibilities hearkened back to the pulsating…
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Close your eyes, rewind your mind to a few years ago, and recapture that revelatory moment that you heard Disclosure’s inspired music for the first time. Your introduction to the…
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With four albums in just 12 years, singer/songwriter Lizz Wright has consistently captivated audiences with her soothing, full-bodied vocal stylings and honest lyricism. The bronze-skinned songstress’ full-length releases Salt (2003),…
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With just two albums under her belt, Janelle Monáe is already widely and deservedly regarded as a musical visionary who possesses charisma, confidence and style in vast abundance. In the nearly two…
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To quote a certain Mr. James Todd Smith, don’t call it a comeback, Dr. Dre has been here for years. Thirty years to be more precise, if you rewind to…