(ThyBlackMan.com) Paul Porter has been in the music industry, and apart of radio, for what seems like more than a lifetime. He has watched the music change, and the industry itself as the goal became get money at all cost. In his book “Blackout: My 40yrs in the Music Business” he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Can you believe that Jay-Z is still occupying a space in rap at the age of 48? A couple of Friday’s ago, Jay-Z, paired with his wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, released a duet album titled EVERYTHING IS LOVE. The nine-track album completed the trilogy released over the past two years on ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The score of a television show, or movies, is a vital part of the feeling and emotion the show conveys to us. Many of us don’t know many of the people behind the scenes of a show that creates those moods for us the viewer. Kurt Farquhar has scored more ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nas released his long awaited-eleventh album Nasir last Friday, but it was met with mixed reviews. Fans raved about the style of production supplied by Kanye West and even loved the political awareness brought on by Nas. But the main criticism was that the lyrics were subpar while his energy ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I must admit the loss of life is very disturbing to my soul. Our children are being buried at a rapid rate; no one can predict the future, so we never know what could have come of them. I’m the first to admit, outside of a handful of artists, I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’m not one to dive into what I call “Super Fandom”. I don’t love any celebrity to the point of worship, and if we differ on music that’s cool too. Music, like art and literature, is very subjective. What moves on of us won’t make another budge at all. I ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) One of the most discussed recent videos of the year was premiered recently by Donald Glover via his moniker, Childish Gambino. In the video, a shirtless Glover gyrates across the lot of a huge warehouse while an assortment of comical yet vengefully wretched acts of violence take place in the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) There is a small part of me that feels for the man that lost his mother. As someone that lost a parent I understand that the very nature of that situation can drive a sane person mad. When you internally question yourself regarding the death of said parent like you ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “When you hear about slavery for 400 years … For 400 years? That sounds like a choice.” Let’s see. The first enslaved Africans were brought to what later became the United States in 1619. Add 400 years to 1619 and that brings us to 2019. Are we still not ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Is it possible that Kanye West is rich and famous today and 99 percent of the “victimhood cheerleaders” on the left are not because he refused to accept the premise that a black man can’t get ahead in America? Is it possible that God, or in Kanye’s words, “the universe,” ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “That boy done lost his mind” I can hear my late father saying after Kanye West’s twitter praise of his “dragon energy” brother Donald Trump. And, as surprising as Kanye’s support can be, I was even more astonished to find that public opinion polls show Trump’s support among black men ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people you just can’t get to shut up. They will stand on what they believe, and they won’t care what “experts” or anybody else says about it. They’ll listen, but they won’t budge on what they know is true. For two weeks, President Trump and artist Kanye West have ...