In a lot of ways being a hip-hop artist is like being a professional athlete. You have a short window to make a lot money and you’re going to have to come up with creative ways grow your income…
It seems almost anywhere that serves reasonable priced coffee or cheap beer; there will be a quartet of men, late in their years; congregating. They’ll meet weekly and even daily. If you’re a fly on the wall for any of…
It was late November 1994 and Redman and Method Man had just busted into BuyRite music on Detroit’s West 7 Mile to promote their separate Def Jam releases (Redman’s Dare Iz a Darkside dropped on 11/22 and Method Man’s Tical…
Many African American movies of the early 90s gave us insightful looks into the culture of violence that resided within the black community. Sometimes the movies really hit close to realty and other times they were just entertaining. None were…
#FaShow90sBox is my story and my journey through urban fashion. I went from being a kid that just wanted to dress like his grandfather to being a kid what wanted to dress like his favorite rapper. Because my grandparents were…
Writer and blogger Jessica Ann Mitchell says Kayne has a “Frantz Fannon complex,” and his social and racial rants have more to do with him not getting a “seat at the table” rather than him actually caring about social and…
I know it feels kind of awkward. The N.W.A. movie is coming out and you have mixed guilt and feelings about wanting to see it. Let me guess; you’re my age (39). You grew in the prime of the gangsta’…Read more