In the 1980s, musicians only scratched the surface of what could be done with the music video. Michael Jackson set the standard and in the…
In the 1980s, musicians only scratched the surface of what could be done with the music video. Michael Jackson set the standard and in the 1990s, everyone raced to match or surpass him.
Ok, so after Kanye ‘jumped out the window’ with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” Artist-Approved-Weekly-Free-Download series, every other artist has to follow suit, right?….With Timbaland & Snoop Dogg having already begun releasing music under #TimbalandThursdays & #PuffPuffPassTuesdays, it would seem so to us earthlings that this is the new hot marketing tool in music, but at closer […]
Timbaland’s weekly download series, “Timbaland Thursdays,” has been a bit underwhelming. The few songs the hit making producer has put out have mostly sounded like throwaways. However, this week he’s relaunched the series with a banger from someone you may not have heard from in awhile – Missy Elliot.
Missy Elliott has been gone for a minute to focus on production work for Jazmine Sullivan and Monica, but she’s back and ready to conquer the dance floor once again. The leftfield hitmaker, whose last single “Ching-a-Ling” burned up the clubs in 2008, has some new music on the way.
BET aired its first ever original music documentary special, My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women In Hip Hop – a new film directed and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, taking an in-depth look at the role of female rappers in Hip Hop. Featuring interviews with music executives, journalists, artists (including Missy Elliott, Eve, […]
Hip hop producers are known for digging deep in the crates for the records they use to create the songs we all know and love. No genre is immune from being sampled!
