Taking A Stand: High School Honor Graduate and Radio Host DJ Young Music Launches Empowering School Tour Against Youth Violence Source Magazine 3.3.2017 “DJ Young Music and Streetz Stop The Violence Foundation presents “The Streetz Blunt Truth Tour,” a multi-state effort to spread peace, love and understanding through music, while seeking to combat youth violence… Continue reading Increase The Peace: DJ Young Music Launches Empowering School Tour Against Youth Violence
Category: Hip-Hop
A Tribe Called Quest’s “We Got It From Here…..” CD Preview/Review Link
……In comparison to their pedestrian (and likely obligatory) 1998 release, ironically entitled The Love Movement, We Got It crackles with energy and inspiration. Phife’s pitch mellowed with age, but his familiar cadence won’t be denied, matching Q-Tip rhyme for rhyme on the urgent opener, “The Space Program” and rolling into Jamaican patois on the blistering… Continue reading A Tribe Called Quest’s “We Got It From Here…..” CD Preview/Review Link
Forever On-Point: Malik Taylor, AKA Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest (1970-2016)
…….For hip-hop fans who enjoyed a more cerebral and copasetic approach, A Tribe Called Quest represented a breath of fresh air amongst the more agressive of their ilk. Introduced to the public as an offshoot of the Native Tongues movement (which included The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, Monie Love and Quee Latifah, to name… Continue reading Forever On-Point: Malik Taylor, AKA Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest (1970-2016)
“Straight Outta Compton”: Watching, Remembering & The Impact Of NWA
I was a junior in high school, safely ensconced in North Texas suburia and youthful naivete when I discovered the music of NWA. The hardcore beats and clever sampling in their songs was what drew my attention at first, but what ultimately earned my support were the rhymes. The verses were more than catchy couplets… Continue reading “Straight Outta Compton”: Watching, Remembering & The Impact Of NWA
Moving Past “The Crossroads”: The Knowshi/Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Interview & MOC Preview Link
….Huge demand from their 2013 performances has the quintet criss-crossing from city-to-city in a nearly non-stop blitz from one end to the other in the Lone Star State (kicking off at Dallas’ Trees on Feb 13), but that didn’t keep him from updating fans on what’s new with Bone Thugz N Harmony, the eternal relevance… Continue reading Moving Past “The Crossroads”: The Knowshi/Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Interview & MOC Preview Link