(ThyBlackMan.com) The Music Industry is not dead! People just want to hear good music instead of the one dimensional form of music they’re being force fed.. Presently The American Real Estate industry is in dire straits. The Real estate industry has been flooded with an inferior product namely sub prime loans, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.” -Muhammad Ali DJ Kool Herc, The Godfather of Hip-Hop, the first to loop beaks and develop the beat style that set the foundation of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Recently, Jay-Z, the man who created an anthem which shamelessly glorified pimp culture, “Big Pimpin“, acknowledged his own conflicted feelings about that song to the Wall Street Journal. “It was like, I can’t believe I said that. And kept saying it. What kind of animal would say this sort of ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Drake is the front runner for my unofficial “ Rapper Least Likely To be Arrested ” award as a Hood conservative listener. While sometimes listening to ( paradoxically ) Rick Ross and others waxing poetic about poison sold to their own people, Drake stands out and apart from this ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In the late 1980s, a little group called NWA came out of Compton, California to capture the hearts and minds of music fans around the world. A drug dealer named Eazy-E put together enough money to lift “gangsta rap” out of the streets of L.A. and into the living rooms ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people wondered, “Who cares?” Others mused about the seeming disparate jail sentences between Clifford “T.I.” Harris and other celebrities such as Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan. If you didn’t find yourself in the previous two groups, you may see yourself in the third, heaping praises on the justice ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Once, long ago, in a record industry far, far away, Nas was a universally respected rapper. Hip-hop purists will likely put his debut album ‘Illmatic’ in their Top 25 list of all-time greats, and Nas himself in the upper echelon of rappers. Sadly, Nas’ reign as a commercially viable artist ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s being reported that the rapper T.I. ( aka Clifford Harris) has a probation revocation hearing coming up on October 15. The rapper was arrested for drug possession with his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle. The incident occurred on September 2 of this year, and they were allegedly in possession ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Back in 2006 during an interview with T.I., he told me he had changed. He told me he was sad it took him so long to realize he had been living on the wrong side of the law. He told me it was his biggest regret that he had let ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop promotes blacks living beyond their means, skipping out on education… The debate has raged for centuries about whether art influences society or where society is influences art. In the case of popular hip-hop music, the “art” both creates and justifies society, even at it own expense. As ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A gangsta-inspired double-consciousness? I think I’m Big Meech/Larry Hoover? Whipping work/hallelujah? One nation/under god ? Real n*ggas getting money from the fu*king start? –B.M.F (Blowin Money Fast) by Rick Ross featuring Styles P?? Earlier this month, Casey Gane-McCalla, a journalist, rapper, comedian and Facebook friend, declared on his FB ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I never liked music until I heard hip hop. I never really liked hip hop until I heard NWA. Call me a thug, a hoodlum, or a dangerous black man, but as an 18-year old teenager, the chronic coming out of those speakers took my breath away. Ice Cube was ...