Fellow Native Tongue and all out fresh producer Prince Paul just dropped a gem from his 2005 XM Radio show. It was called Prince Paul’s World Famous Illout Show and it was unjustly short lived. In this episode, Paul kicks it with his friends, cracks jokes, plays a lot of classic material and runs down his incredible career of making dope music. Upon posting it he wrote, “This is The brief run of Prince Paul’s world famous Illout show that appeared on …
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Adam Horovitz aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys just scored No No: A Documentary, a documentary about Doc Ellis, a Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher that supposedly threw a no-hitter in 1970…while on acid. The trailer is cool, but it’s too long as if to tell his whole story, giving lesser reason to watch the entire film. Except, the devil’s in the details. Ad-Rock is steady expanding into film. According to The Wrap, he might be in director Noah Baumbach’s next flick …
What kind of music does a kid make from Chicago, born in 1993, and the first CD purchased for him was Kanye West’s The College Dropout (2004)? That kid would be Chance The Rapper, a 20 year old psychonaut navigating life in the inner-city of Chicago, self reflecting, making observations of his inner and outer environments. His style of rapping is a mixture of spoken word, stream of consciousness, soulful singing, jazzy scatting, choppy, and tongue twisting rap cadences. With the release of two official mixtapes 10 …
The winner of The Voice 2013, Tessanne Chin, like a good amount of contestants on TV singing competitions, they are not complete amateurs who happen to stumble onto the stage of a TV singing competition. Prior to being on The Voice, Tessanne worked as a backup singer for such artist as Jimmy Cliff, Patti Labelle, Peabo Bryson and Gladys Knight. She has also collaborated with other artist such as Shaggy on “Never Let Go”, Protoje on “Someone Like You”, the Trinidad and Tobago Soca band Kes on “Loving You”, and she …
In the post World War II era, Germany and Japan had to go through major reconstruction while getting their economy back on it’s feet. Life after WWII was the backdrop for the birth of amazing arts, and musical movements. Out of these movements we get a German band like Kraftwerk, and in Japan we get Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). In this particular piece we travel back in history, and then speed ahead into the future, to discover Yellow Magic Orchestra’s legacy …
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