This is a poignant 25 minute short film entitled “A War For Your Soul“, by a brother & filmmaker Reginald Bullock that carries themes that are universal, relevant not only to the USA but worldwide as we have this problem in spades in certain countries and vast in others with regards to violence amongst the youth. [...]
February 28, 2010
The week is near its end and we round this ladies only posts trail with South African born and based in Tdot [Toronto, Canada] a talented sister femcee and singer Zaki Ibrahim, featured in Louwop acoustic hip hop video. A lady Zaki Ibrahim has been and continues to garner acclaim and praise for the diverse, eclectic [...]
February 27, 2010
The sister’s installment beckons and from across the Atlantic by way of Brooklyn, New York is femcee Bless Roxwell. A lady’s music is all inspiring, self and women empowerment and we like positive and social commentary down this diary channel. Here is a sister femcee to look out and considering what she stand for especially from [...]
February 22, 2010
In recent months the sisters & ladies haven't been getting much love on this daily diary *c'mon son*, lets rectify this and commence the week with this soul chilling and electro number by a sister Nikko Gray, the first lady and artist of the clothing and music label GAS'D.
February 20, 2010
Right about now, we pause on the music international for a second to feature in a couple of seconds an interview [2 short parts] by a brother Beyonder [ UK multimedia artist, educator & presenter] with guest, I came across a brother months ago, recently and honestly saw him at Ctrl.Alt.Shift United Underground show, but [...]
February 18, 2010
Hip hop is international a standard fare of free expression in a constructive manner be it musically Jay Electronica [on tour in the UK] comes to mind. Internationally known and locally accepted is Chinese hip hop pioneer and graffiti artist MC Yan, a multi-lingual emcee/revolutionist who, word plays his social/political commentary lyrics in the local dialect [...]
January 30, 2010
This Electronic Press Kit [EPK] of UK poet/emcee TY, he talks about the pending 4th album “Special Kind Of Fool” obviously [laughing out loud], again a brother speaks on his trials & tribulations in the past, being signed from Big Dada to another quality music stable BBE Music rethinking music, what we can expect [...]
January 28, 2010
Howard Zinn [RIP] an American historian and social activist whose take on history “People’s History” was going against the grain [what is taught, studied in school and beyond] , past and current state of affairs. People always have differing opinions whether they agree with Howard Zinn and others or not, he who wrote the “A Peoples [...]
January 12, 2010
Whilst we wait in anticipation of the Distant Relatives album by Damain Marley and Nas release date 16th March 2010. Years prior, siblings Julian and Stephen Marley worked on a remix project according to today’s music story, covering songs by father and legend Bob Nesta Marley with renown artists in Erykah Badu, Guru, Rakim, Lauryn Hill, [...]
January 5, 2010
A poet/emcee and veteran of the UK and international hip hop scene, a brother Ben Chijioke ala TY has come on in leaps and bounds solidifying is mark as one of the best in quality, whether live or on wax. TY is soon to release his 4th live/studio album titled ‘A Special Kind of Fool‘ [...]
January 4, 2010
Came as across this via a status update by Daoud Abu-Bakr aka DJAfrican an aspiring film maker. Some African countries are still corrupt, conflict rife, poor health, hunger, poor water, selfishness.. these plus more are stifling the growth of a vastly natural resourced Africa, a highlighter than most, this short film sheds a bright light in Botswana. Botswana [...]
December 16, 2009
A brother is one of the UK’s finest lyricists like Low Key, another infamous London emcee Mystro part of Natural Born Spittaz collective, waxing lyrically live on Kiss Fm. Mystro is liked in these quarters due to his eclectic conscious and witty cocktail of punchlines and message and flow in clarity plus plain quality. Just have a [...]
December 15, 2009
A brother Kareem Dennis is a musician, poet, political activist and emcee, many know him as one of the UK’s finest lyricists like Mystro, the infamous Low Key. When it comes to UK poignant waxing lyricalists I was stuck at Roots Manuva, Blak Twang, TY, Phi Life Cypher or Braintax then through the interwebs means… viola [...]
December 3, 2009
Fela Anikulapo Kuti (R.I.P) was one of the famous and revolutionary sons of Africa, who coined and created what we now know as Afrobeat. Spreading the Afrobeat afar and beyond was Fela’s band Africa 70 assembled in the 60’s and 70’s and from this band set came the infamous and legendary drummer and composer Tony Allen [...]
November 19, 2009
The gentleman that put on wax and uttered “the revolution will not be televised” a sentence and words steeped in the stable psyche of music, the poet & social commentator and musician into question, you guess right… the legendary Gil Scott-Heron. A brother has been in hiatus for a while longer but caught in the [...]
March 8, 2010