(ThyBlackMan.com) Call it ironic or even fate that as I sat down to write this article, I decided to download Talib Kweli’s latest effort “Gutter Rainbows” and got a taste of just what I’ve been looking for in the chorus of the album’s title cut as the BK MC claims ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I have the interesting privilege of being on an email list owned by the White House. Whenever the administration holds an event that they believe to be of interest to African Americans in media, they shoot out an email to all of us. This week, at least two times ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’re part of the young hip hop generation, you’ve probably heard it before. For those of you who haven’t, the term “trappin(g)” refers to the attempt to accumulate wealth through the sale of illegal substances. Unfortunately, this term arguably has its own genre of music in present day ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Hip Hop is life, power, and expression. Hip Hop transcends race, class and cultures. It has been the voice for those who have been marginalized and oppressed. It has also been a vehicle for economic self-sufficiency and collective survival. Today, Hip Hop is a multi-billion dollar industry. However, over the ...
(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 ...