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Long gone the days of Urban to these day’s Rap, Hip-hop, RnB tripe
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008The movie The Wackness starring Josh Peck and Ben Kingsley was so nostalgic. It might be a classic Sundance bleeding heart movie, but you could easily forgive the theme when you listen to the music featured on the film. It was the music of 1994 - such a great year for music, championing in that [...]
Le Grammy Whammy: Lessons from Hancock to the Winehouse generation
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008A couple of nights ago I caught on to the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards, and amidst jeers on Kanye West who is, as usual, perpetually pompous (sneered at the organizers for playing the music on him while he was still making his speech), it was meant to be a respectable event. The [...]
Evil, evil MTV!
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Okay, Kanye West rants publicly, and unabashedly WHY-DID-I-LOSE at the recently held MTV Video Music Awards. I’m sure some of you have heard of it. He rats about why a black guy can’t win (And offhandedly mentions indignantly that Black Eyed Peas - which includes a black guy - won over him [...]