Loosie is about a track, scoring my life. “Smile,” Jay-Z 4:44, Jay-Z’s 13th studio album, dropped when I was wrestling my courage to the ground. Had to shoot it to get some act right. Jay’s moms, Gloria Carter, spits a poem at the end. I was listening to it on my way home. Right when I opened the door to my apartment, she finished her verse with, “Smile.” The track itself is dope. Jay talks about his mother at the beginning …
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For LA Weekly I wrote an article about rapper and songwriter Gizzle. Also, I talked to rapper and producer The Koreatown Oddity. Check Gizzle’s EP 7 Days In Atlanta, shorty got bars. She’s like the Dolly Parton of rap, meaning, she pens hella songs, or in this case, raps for a lot of popular rappers. TKO was a humble cat who happens to be a multi-talented hardworking artist. Stones Throw Records just dropped his album Finna Be Past Tense. His Driving While Black flick was …
On this edition of TMG’s “On The Scope” post we have music from D’Angleo’s highly anticipated long over due new Black Messiah LP, Lecrae‘s Anomaly, Azealia Banks’ debut Broke with Expensive Taste, new track from Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) & South African artist Petite Noir, a deep interview with David Banner on Sway In The Morning show, performance videos by Valerie June, and much more music for you to digest. D’Angelo Black Messiah stream Black Messiah promo videos Interview: D’Angelo on the Inspirations Behind …
On this edition of “On The Scope” 12-13-2014 we have newly released albums from J Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Ghostface Killah’s 36 Seasons, the self-titled collaborative project PRhyme by the super duo DJ Premier & Rocye da 5’9, E-40‘s Sharp On All 4 Corners 1 & 2, electronic/alt R&B artist JMSN‘s second studio album JMSN (Blue Album), Jack White’s Third Man Records artist Olivia Jean’s solo debut Bathtub Love Killings, as well as some DJ mixes by Ben UFO, DJ Mike Rizzy, Run …
This past Saturday on December 6th, 2014 I had the opportunity to attend the local All Tribes San Francisco Chapter of the Universal Zulu Nation’s community event “Meeting Of The Minds.” It was a six hour session of sharing, learning, building with Hip-Hop heads, community organizers, activists talking about what’s going on in the community here in San Francisco, and making connection to the national, global social-political-economic conditions going on right now. When I came through the doors of the …
