Finally! An underground RnB artist that hits close to home. Jay Saint has been on point with everything this past year. Last night (Feb 08, 2009) he performed in NY for the “NewDimensionProject” and KILLED it (I missed out but word of mouth is a powerful thing!). He also is a Jersey City resident whos passion for music is irrepressible and uncomparable. His album will be Debutting Feb. 22 and even I got a little piece of the action! Jay Saint will also be performing soon in Hollywood, California, and has …
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You can travel the world but you cant run away, from the person you are in your heart/ You can be who you want to be, make us believe in you, keep all your light in the dark/When searching for truth you must look in the mirror and make sense of what you can see/Just Be…
When it comes to music, sometimes you just need to get away from the norms. 90% of TRUE hip-hop heads, dont just listen to hip-hop. Because music is such an expression of oneself, it can …
This is a form of Underground hip-hop when you dont have proper equipment and/or you dont have beats to rhyme off of. This semi-legendary technique is called “Text Rap” where “Text-cees” join a rap board and either post written rhymes or battling eachother through lyrical wordage. You wouldnt believe how many people actually do this unknown phenomena. I’m not going to knock it because, in all reality, it does give practice to all of those inspiring artists, but I guarentee, this clip of a text battle I am about to show …
Today I want to start a new topic called “A Word for a Wednesday”. The purpose of these articles will be geared at givng a little insight to all of our categories.
INTEGRITY- possession of firm principles: the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards
We chose this as the “Word of the Day” because it is very important in the Music Industry. Too many people now a days are trying to do or become something that they really arent. For example, Before 2008, Jersey City …
Soundclick.com is a wonderful place to catch artistic people (As well as the unartistic) doing what they like most. Music. Today we are introducing a Producer that goes by “BlackLight Music”. Along with other Producers such as Sinima Beats and DaPrblmChld (Who were also highlighted here) BlackLight has such an AMAZING sound. Not only do they have that “Boom-Bap” instrumental technique, they also have an unorthodox way of including guitar strings and riffs, horns and other “Live” instruments into their craft. Today we honor BlackLight as an AFTA recipient because they …
It seems as if every song now-a-days, has this message in it. The only difference is in todays music it is intertwined with the fascination of money, and expensive alcohol. I guess Juvenile would just rather tell you from the GET what he expects you to do. “Girl you Look good” is a good enough reason for you to “back that a*s up!”. Even though it is very deragatory to women, and it is very demeaning, it is a DAMN good song! You know, you used to bump this in …