Amitis is a crossover artist from Iran who moved to Atlanta 10 years ago to bring her musical talents to the United States. Fluent in several instruments, she reaches a broad range of people and her fan base just keeps growing. Read my interview with Amitis to find out what it …
Read More »Interview: Koma
Koma is a young artist from Boston driven to innovate and revolutionize the music scene. At a young age, he realized he could turn to music during the toughest times, allowing him to also create art with his emotional outlet. Check out my interview with Koma below to find out …
Read More »Kunta’s Groove Sessions Starring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Rock
On November 2nd, 2015, one of the last few stops of the short and sweet 1st Annual Kunta’s Groove Sessions took place at Terminal 5 in New York City. After an initial announcement for a show at the very intimate Webter Hall, ticket mishaps and outraged fans caused for the …
Read More »The Future of Rap
There are two types of music listeners–more specifically, hip hop listeners–that irk me: Old heads that refuse to give new music a chance and new heads who have no knowledge of music history. With that being said, I really don’t want to be that guy who complains about what music …
Read More »30 Years of SummerStage: Interview with Erika Elliot
Erika Elliot has over 20 years of experience in a plethora of different professions throughout the music scene. Currently, she is the Artistic Director for the City Park Foundation’s performing arts festival, SummerStage, which is celebrating it’s 30th anniversary this year. Ms. Elliot gives us some insight into the magic …
Read More »The CMW Experience
Kaydee is a hip-hop artist from Toronto, Canada–he was chosen to play in this year’s Canadian Music Week festival to perform alongside Joey Bada$$, Denzel Curry, and Jazz Cartier. Kaydee and his team wanted to allow viewers to see the behind the scenes antics they may not normally be afforded to see, which …
Read More »Interview: AnnMarie Fox
AnnMarie is a singer, dancer, songwriter and model who has opened for artists Case, Lil Mo, and Ruben Studdard, amongst many others. In October 2010, AnnMarie was sought after for a show being broadcasted on major network and extended the opportunity to showcase her talents on the premier episode of …
Read More »Album Review: Vince Staples–Summertime ’06
If you’re familiar with Kanye West’s song “Last Call,” you know the part where he talks about Jay-Z pulling the Gucci bucket hat over his eyes in disbelief and making one of those faces like “OOOOOOOO”…that is the only way I can describe how I felt the first time listening …
Read More »Album Review: Tyler, The Creator–Cherry Bomb
I hate the stigma that seems to go along with Tyler, the Creator and Odd Future as a whole because to me it’s more a stigma against unrestricted creativity. I get it, they do some off-putting, esoteric things…but it would be naive to think that they don’t turn people off …
Read More »TIDAL WAVEY
First things first (RIP Uncle Phil, for real) I apologize for the title of this article being cornier than a Big Sean line from 2012. I’ll be completely honest, the only reason I started using Tidal in the first place is because Kanye told me to–Yeezy taught me. I am …
Read More »NEW MUSIC: LeVarsity’s EP “4PLAY” Out Now
At midnight on April 4, LeVarsity’s EP 4PLAY was officially released. This mixtape is short and sweet and features production from Jay Liri, Bonafied Beatz, and the rapper himself. Released on 4/4, including 4 songs, this release is an obvious play on words–which gives you a tiny peak into the …
Read More »Album Review: Kendrick Lamar–To Pimp A Butterfly
Back in September with the release of “i,” I thought I had lost all hope in K.Dot. Though it got incredible critical reception and resulted in the masses flocking to him and calling it an anthem, I was disappointed. This came almost exactly 2 years after the release of ‘Good …
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