“Choose a good reputation over great riches for being held in high esteem is better than silver or gold.” - PROVERBS 22:1 ———————————————————————————————————————- “History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be signficant.” - REFLECTIONS BY INDRIES SHAH (1969) ———————————————————————————————————————-
August 27, 2007
Jack Allsop AKA Just Jack is an artist originating from the UK, his second album Overtones was released in early 2007. It’d be easy to label Jack as the new Mike Skinner. After all he is from that same urban decadance camp of talky-singing over toe-tapping melodies. His breakthrough single, is a homage to the 15 [...]
August 25, 2007
Easy Lee (Charles Peters) and Tre (Treson Scipio) make the duo that is MOJOE, their music is described as The Roots meets Outkast over dinner with Marvin Gaye at D’Angelo’s house. Listening to their debut album Classic.Ghetto.Soul released last September 2006 this can not be far from the truth. Hip hop, soul and the blues blended [...]
August 19, 2007
Barbershop: The Series is a half hour tv comedy series adapted by John Ridley (Director) of the Barbershop films which was spread over 10 episosdes for its first and only season. This premiered in the US 2 years ago (August 2005) but we did not catch this hilarious series and at times controversial, till later [...]
August 15, 2007
Janet Jackson has followed her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri from Virgin to Island Def Jam, Billboard has learned. “She’s on Island, but it’s more or less [Def Jam CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid's] project,” Dupri says. “I let him deal with that on a day-to-day basis. He’s going to A&R that project, too. Janet’s record is one [...]
August 13, 2007
For the first time in his 14-year career, Common tops The Billboard 200 with “Finding Forever.” The Geffen set, which features production from Kanye West and a guest appearance by Lily Allen, moved 155,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Common’s 2005 effort, “Be,” debuted and peaked at No. 2 but had [...]
August 13, 2007
R. Kelly will go on trial next month in Chicago, more than five years after he was charged with child pornography. Judge Vincent Gaughan has set a Sept. 17 date for the start of a jury trial, according to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Kelly, who was born Robert Sylvester Kelly, has pleaded not guilty [...]
August 28, 2007