It seems hip-hop stars are recognizing the Black Star Shine of Ghana & broadening their perspectve in audience, how to make money in a struggling music industry & how to stay relevant in a hip-hop world that has gone…

Some people can’t fathom the idea of why a prestigious artistic institution like NYU would name Swizz Beatz as NYU’s first producer-in-residence of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts, but I…

I have been very critical of Jay Z for awhile now because of what I saw as some shady suspect moves, like the way he totally undercut Damon Dash out of a business that they started together. Most…

Calling Jam Master Jay the pioneer of the global recognition & the lucrative careers created out of hip-hop Djing would be an understatement. Growing up in Lefrak City, Queens we were proud to say that hip-hop’s worldwide recognition…

After her much talked about Rock the Bells performance, Lauryn Hill or Ms. Hill as she is now known as in her professional career as a musician/artist, is ready to come back to every ghetto & every city…

I didn’t start out as a John Legend fan because I found him to be awkward & not well developed in his stage presence when Kanye first introduced him to us all. I was tired of hearing “Ordinary People” &…

This is amazingly brilliant- we have to get back to valuing the teachings & history that comes live & direct from our elders, which no history books have nor can authentically record! Teaching our history & telling our…

For True  Global Music Lovers , you have probably already heard & fallen in love with Miri Ben-Ari AKA The Hip-Hop Violinist. The Israeli beauty who has rocked the world renown Apollo Theater  & played her melodic violin along…

Global Hip-Hop is the way forward ..”They move in Circles.. We Move Forward“! I feel like a broken record as I constantly find myself telling people that not only is Hip-Hop not dead, but it has found new life globally…

Today at sundown marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, otherwise known as the day of atonement & repentance amongst Jews. Yom Kippur is by far one of the holiest & most observed days of the Jewish calendar.  When many…