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10 Hip-Hop Songs About Police Brutality & Misconduct To Vent To

By: shad2487Category: Features

Eric Garner.  John Crawford.  Michael Brown.  Ezell Ford.  All these recent news stories about police brutality are heart-breaking and a painful reminder that, despite how far this country has come in terms of race relations, law enforcement and the justice system still have African-American males in their cross hairs. Moreover, there’s no damn good reason […]

EXCLUSIVE: Twista’s N.Y.C.'s 'Dark Horse' Album Release

By: Niki Gatewood (@THE_NikiG)Category: Features

Twista, Chi-Town’s expeditious wordsmith, visited the heart of New York City’s Midtown to celebrate! The occasion– the official release of the Tung Twista’s ninth studio album, Dark Horse. The world-renowned, LQ New York, hosted the event. Boasting everything from Air Maxes to ascots, from Dom Perignon to Dancehall,  an eclectic array of people came out to show […]

Review: “Get On Up” – The James Brown Story

By: shad2487Category: Features

At the beginning of the James Brown biopic, Get On Up, a strung-out Brown (Chadwick Boseman) walks into an insurance seminar in 1988 with a shotgun and causes a scene because someone used his private bathroom.  Just moments later, Brown and his band are seen flying into Vietnam in the 60s, during the height of […]

5 Hip-Hop Trends That Need to End

By: shad2487Category: Features

Hip-Hop music and culture is over 40 years old, and, in four decades, its reach has grown from block parties in the South Bronx of New York to all seven continents around the globe.  And just like anything that is more than a flash in the pan, endurance was essential if rap expected to survive […]