We featured a brother Ian Kamau some moons ago and he is a talent, one needs only check his free mixtape/album in the recent past: sings, writes, produces, spoken word artist, emcee to mention but a few. The impression I get from a brother is wanting to be known as an artist making good and social [...]
March 8, 2010
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. [...]
March 7, 2010
Some in the dying seconds of the weekend, others minutes and another hours, yet we shall see the driving new week and be grateful and progress. First time I seen and heard this video and track “Different Places” off the album “Another Intensity“, so fresh from German based brother and reggae artist Gentleman a veteran of [...]
March 6, 2010
Free from another in one shape or form each and every additional year of this freedom journey is worth a celebration by a people. This is the road/path the democratically elected Republic of Ghana is driving on, made independent on the 6th March, 1957 from the colonial master Britain, led by the Ghanaian and African Son/scholar/activist [...]
March 4, 2010
One of the reason for this blog is sourcing all kinds of social/conscious/goodness from any corner of the planet, this can be old or new and will warrant a presentation on this channel. The Niyat a hip hop collective, fall into this mould and on research discovering bits of information here and there, hip hop veterans! [...]
March 3, 2010
"Strangers" is a silent short film shot by writer and director team Erez Tadmor & Guy Nattiv in 2007 [a favourite amongst the Interwebs click and building] with a poignant message I believe of "tolerance", a better snippet and gist of the storyline:
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 26, 2010
We continue the ladies theme from this side of the Atlantic part Deux as Andreya Triana was Un, with a rising sister flutist and singer Deborah Jordan who I came across today via a status update by Muphoric Sounds. On the digging business, a lady has released the album “The Light“. From Deborah Jordan debut release [...]
February 25, 2010
And we move on from a lady Andreya Triana featuring in our audio in the mix with Shae Fiol to a fully fledged video of the single “Lost Where I Belong” off her debut album release out on 23rd of August 2010 on Ninja Tune Records. A sister’s soothing voice on a fine jazzy & soul [...]
February 23, 2010
A sister Green Tea Soul is a quality soul singer & songwriter on the rise and one to watch, feeling her style and voice speaks volumes on relations and others. Albums released by Green Tea Soul to date are debut “Dosage I: Shades of Green” [2006], sophomore “Dosage II: Choices” [2008] and the newness “Beautiful Weirdo” [...]
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 17, 2010
The Far East we go, Nippon [Japan "Land of the Rising Sun"] being precise, with some contemporary smooth sounds by Laidbook. Japanese musicians make soulful jazzy/hip hop like whoa! for instance that DJ Mitsu on the Promise In Love joint, simply classy. Laidbook are a quartet of artists with Mabanua playing drums, Shingo Suzuki on bass, Yukihiro [...]
February 16, 2010
Senegal with AURA commenced it and now to the rainbow nation, South Africa. Tumi and the Volume, a South African hip hop & music collective [4 in a band] are an organic live band lacing poetic and socio-political lyrics. Nailed these brothers down sometime ago virtually mind, as future and feature post artists for the blog [...]
February 15, 2010
AURA [French: Artistes Unis pour le Rap Africain or English: United Artists for African Rap] is a network of African artists united together to effect change in Africa through Hip Hop music, the result a collaboration with Plan to launch Poto – Poto. Poto – Poto is the name of a campaign to raise awareness and [...]
February 14, 2010
1hr 25 minutes into this commercial Valentines day, someone making bare money and a little rant; got a partner, be grateful and loving every single day, at least try [laughing out loud]. Right got that of mi chest, that heart burn gone.. This sister is a multi-skilled/talent by the name Afua Richardson she sings, writes, plays [...]
March 11, 2010