It’s always interesting to me that when it comes to comic book characters, illustrated stories of their origins are treasured and adorned with monetary value, yet the recorded/documented origins of our own cultural characters often gets the “blahzay”...

It’s no secret that the Brooklyn emcee/actor Mos Def is a fan of MF DOOM. Almost every rapper in that pocket is. How could you not be? His wordplay is godly – even if it almost seems jarringly...

Now we are here to collaborate with YOU, humanoid, on the most exciting project we’ve ever done. – De La Soul Yesterday I received an email from De La Soul [I’m on their mailing list] informing me that they...

First it was vinyl, then cassette tapes and next CDs. With the decline of cassette tapes and physical cds being sold it’s strange to hear that [newly pressed] records are on the raise. In 2014, almost eight million...

A streaming music service owned by music artists will change the course of music history about as much as a Wal Mart employ owning a franchise of the store would change the course of retail history. Jay-Z’s new...

“It started with the July 4th cookout party. All we did was hang a banner,” says Curran Lewis. More commonly known as Looh, the 24 year old is co-founder of the Philadelphia-based social movement CMTA (Creative Minds Think...

“This is not a serious academic study. This is an, like, ‘I thought it’d be cool on the Internet [project]…” – Matt Daniels, in a interview with NPR. Meet Matthew Daniels – a New York based designer, data scientist...

When it comes to female MC’s, who I always think of as just MC’s, they seem to fall into two distinct groups these days: those who have bars and those who lean on their sexuality as a crutch....