Due to many changes in my professional life and the heavy load of all the other projects I'm involved in I cannot continue with the upkeep of this blog. It's been fun and I hope many of you enjoyed the remix project that was created by us.
Zimbabwe Kev
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Bing’s Jay-Z Decoded Case Study
Hip-hop is continuing to take us to new heights!! Droga5, the advertising company responsible for marketing Jay-Z’s Decoded won an Outdoor Grand Prix Award for the Bing campaign. Jay is showing us the way.
Zulu Faz - 16+ "Olé"
Greedmont Tv has teamed up with Zulu Faz to bring you 16+, a series in which Zulu Faz will drop more than 16 bars accompanied by a short and simple visual. All the music is Produced by Zulu Faz and Zimbabwe Kev as Kaotiq Simfoni.
Olè is the 1st video in this series showcasing a very stripped down and unorthodox Kaotiq Simfoni instrumental, the video was Directed by Zulu Faz and Zimbabwe Kev.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Kanye "Dark Fantasy" Live at G.O.O.D. Music Showcase
Kanye is one of the greatest performers of our time!!
Bob Ley Reads Jay-Z Lyrics On ESPN
haha this was low for Jay though to diss DeShawn Stevenson lol. Please have respect like when you talking to your mum lol. We still love you Jay
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
NAS It Ain't Hard To Tell + Made You Look GANSEVOORT PLAZA NYC
Nas Rocks two of my favorite songs from his catalog especially "Made You Look" that's my favorite of all time.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Life is Good
I'm late on this too but some days ago Nas announced the title of his new album on twitter. It's going to be amazing I BET!!
Heaven's 1st Song
When we created this remix project I was so inspired musically I felt like I was touched by God at times. A lot has changed since then because I've had to pick up a lot of slack on the business end. On the production end I'm slowly getting back into it and having been paying attention to every producer up and coming and not established. So "Heaven's 1st Song" is my inspiration for today as I journey back to music production.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Elzhi: Elmatic
Tags: MTV Shows
I'm a bit late on this tape and have just downloaded it. Glad to see this getting a lot of press Elzhi is one of the nicest to do it. Below is the tracklist and the download link on xxl's site.
1. The Genesis
2. Detroit State of Mind (Houseshoes Shout)
3. Halftime
4. Memory Lane
5. The World Is Yours
6. Represent
7. Life’s A Bitch feat. Royce da 5’9 and Stokley Williams of Mint Condition
8. One Love
9. It Ain’t Hard To Tell (Pete Rock Shout)
10. Pete Rock Shout
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"We almost killed Nas," Danny Hastings tells Mixtape Daily.
Tags: MTV Shows
This is a hilarious story about the "I Am" Cover. I'm glad they didn't take Nas away from hiphop though because that would have been a sad state for hiphop.
Rock The Bells 2011
Pre-sale tickets go on sale June 3 and to the general public on June 4.08.20 San Bernardino, CA – San Manuel Amphitheater
08.27 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
09.03 New York, NY – Governor’s Island
09.10 Boston, MA
Monday, May 23, 2011
J. Cole - Return Of Simba
J Cole and Elite on the production! J Cole on the Vocals! Sit back and enjoy!!
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
Zulu Faz & Dj Burn One – Choose One
A quick clip as we continue to promote Rhode Scholar Vol.1 with Dj Burn One, Greedmontpark, Djbooth and Refinedhype. You check out the project or download it from zulufaz.bandcamp.com
Directed by Zulu Faz and Zimbabwe Kev
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Kanye West Brings Out Jay-Z At MoMa
This footage is brief! It almost looks like a trailer. Dope though otherwise
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Blackstar Bring Out Jay Electronica During London Concert
Blackstar bought out Jay Elect in London that must have been a treat!!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Nas Wins Emmy Award
So Jay-z won an Emmy Award and so did Nas for directing, producing and narrating the short-film, Survival 1, which documented the Liberian amputee soccer team.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Derrick Rose: 2010-2011 MVP
J Cole on the Track! Congrats to Derrick Rose on The MVP award, the youngest to ever make it.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Jay-Z Covers SKY
New Music: J.Cole “Disgusting”
A Bit Late but here is J Cole's new joint. This signifies that we are getting the album! Thank you Sweet baby Jesus.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Nas & Damian Marley On Tim Westwood
Two of my favorite guys in the music game right now stop by Tim Westwood.
Zulu Faz & DJ Burn One Present: Rhode Scholar Vol. 1
Zulu Faz teamed up with Dj Burn One along with Greedmontpark, Refinedhype and Djbooth to present “Rhode Scholar Vol. 1″. The mixtape is produced almost entirely by Faz, with his Kaotiq Simfoni cohort Zimbabwe Kev, along with Session and Vereen Corp, providing additional beat work. Features come from Lil Wayne and Curren$y (blended by DJ Judge Mental) and up-and-coming Boston rapper/producer Session. Art direction provided by Corey Davis.
The download link and mixtape preview are below, but before we get there……who wants an iPad loaded with goodies, including an advance copy of “Rhode Scholar Vol. 2″? That was a rhetorical question, you do. It’s simple: just download the project and create a response video. Check below for details.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Zulu Faz & Dj Burn One - Introduction
Zulu Faz & Dj Burn One - Introduction from Zulu Faz on Vimeo.
God's Black Son producer Zulu Faz's trailer for his mixtape with Dj Burn One that drops May 2nd 2011.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Illmatic 17 years Old Today!!
I can't believe this album was released on April 17th 1994. Wow it feels like yesterday. My favorite joint till this day is "The World Is Yours"
Monday, April 18, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Jay-Z Interviews Gwyneth Paltrow for lifeandtimes.com
Oscar-winning actress and my sister Gwyneth Paltrow emailed me and said, “I love your new site. Can I ask you five questions about it?” I said, “I’ll show you mine if you let me see yours.” Here are mine. Go see hers at goop.com. It’s fresh.
Shawn Carter: The public at large is discovering your ability to sing. When did you first discover you had that talent?
Gwyneth Paltrow: I kind of always sang. My mother has a great voice and was always singing jazz around the house and I think she passed on her musicality to my brother and myself. I sang in an a capella singing group and I always thought that somewhere down the line I would dust off my pipes and use them but I didn’t know I would be so old when it happened. When I sang with you one night at the Royal Albert Hall a few years ago, it was so terrifying. I thought that would be the end of it. This has been a surprise to me as much as anybody else. But I love it.
SC: Personally I was very surprised at your extensive knowledge of hip-hop songs. Particularly how you can sing ’90s hip-hip songs word for word. I can’t even do that! How does a girl from Spence discover hip-hop?
GP: I first was exposed to hip-hop when I was about 16 (1988) by some boys who went to collegiate. The Beastie Boys were sort of the way in for us preppie kids. We were into Public Enemy, Run-DMC and LL Cool J. But then I went to LA the summer between my junior and senior year of high school and I discovered N.W.A which became my obsession. I was fascinated by lyrics as rythym and how Dre had a such different cadence and perspective from say, Eazy-E, who I thought was one of the most ironic and brilliant voices hip-hop has ever had. It was an accident that I learned every word of Straight Outta Compton and to love something that a.) I had no real understanding of in terms of the culture that it was emanating from and b.) to love something that my parents literally could not grasp. But I was hooked. I can’t remember what I ate for dinner last night but I could sing to you every single word of N.W.A’s “Fuck Tha Police” or [Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock's] “It Takes Two.” Go figure.
SC: Does that extend to pop and rock music as well? Did you do the whole lace gloves circa Madonna and flannel shirts in the ’90s circa Kurt?
GP: I was never super into ’80s or ’90s pop. Aside from hip-hop I loved, I was very into alternative stuff like New Order (which did become pretty mainstream) and The Cure and bands like Yaz and Book of Love. But when Nirvana came out, my mind was kind of blown. I remember sitting around a record player playing Nevermind for days in a row with my college friends really mesmorized by that record, as everybody was at the time. I couldn’t believe my ears.
SC: Speed round: Miles or Coltrane?
GP: Miles
SC: The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
GP: Beatles
SC: Patsy Cline or Billie Holiday?
GP: Billie H
SC: Biggie or PAC?
GP: Biggie by miles
SC:Michael or Prince?
GP: Prince!
SC: And finally, would you ever make a solo album?
GP: Would I ever make a solo album? Should I? Never say never.
Via lifeandtimes.com
Gwyneth Paltrow Interviews Jay-Z
Q: Life + Times is incredible—aesthetically, culturally … When did you get the idea to start it and how long have you been working on it?
A: I started working on it in its various incarnations over a year ago. I've thought about it forever. You know how it works, seeing other sites and being either inspired or saying, "That's shit. I would do it like ..."
Q: I love seeing everything through your filter, how do you decide what you are going to cover? How personal is this?
A: Well there is a basic metric for what we cover but, more importantly, I believe it's how we cover it. The DNA is to basically let the subject speak for itself. We don't want to tell you what to think. As far as how personal? I would say it has to pique my interest.
Q: As someone who has walked through museums with you, eaten with you, heard music with you, I know firsthand how creativity in all areas lifts your consciousness. Do you feel that as a cultural figure of importance it is part of your responsibility to share what inspires you?
A: I think it's every human's job to inspire others, to feed one another's senses. Inspiration begets inspiration times infinity. Imagine if the person that was inspired to create the phonograph didn't share it with the world.
Q: In one word answers, name someone or something in food, music, art and design, style, and sports that inspires you today and your favorite spot to be leisurely.
A:
* Food: Batali (he's like a rock star)
* Music: MARLEY (the perfect blend of love and gangster)
* Art: BASQUIAT (where music and art met and fell in love)
* Style: MARC JACOBS (he takes the Bronx experience like 40 below boots and bubble gooses and puts it on the runway)
*Disclaimer: I know it's one goose 2 geese..
* Sports: Muhammad ALI (enough said)
* And my favorite spot to be leisurely is wherever family, friends, good food and wine are.
Q: You are the coolest man on Earth, how the f did you get like that?
A: I'm around great women, starting with my mom. Women keep men cool. The hotter the chick the cooler the guy ... that sounds like a really bad rap line!
He showed me his, I showed him mine. Check out Jay’s mini interview with me at Life + Times
Via Goop.com
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Nets Fined $50K Over Jay-Z Visit To Kentucky Locker Room
The New Jersey Nets have been hit with a $50,000 fine for visiting the Kentucky locker room after the Wildcats' won an appearance in the NCAA's Final Four tournament.
The fine ends an official investigation conducted by the NBA over Jay-Z's visit. Under the rules, Jay-Z's visit is prohibited under NBA rules because he is a minority owner in the New Jersey Nets.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said The New Jersey Nets were fined Friday (April 8th), before The Nets played The New York Knicks at the Prudential Center.
Via Allhiphop.com
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Nas & Damian Marley x Dennis Brown “Land Of Promise”
This is Dedicated to all my people in Africa. The motherland.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
J. Cole Added to Rihanna's "LOUD" Tour
J. Cole will be hitting the UK again to tour with UK rap superstar, Tinie Tempah this fall. Be sure to catch Cole as he lights up arenas once again starting in October.
Via Rocnation.com
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sade teams up with Jay-Z
Sade is teaming up with Jay-Z on a track titled “Moon & The Sky” which will be included on her Ultimate Collection cd that is to be released May 3rd. Check out her site Sade Music Store for further details.
Via Rapradar
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Young Guru Speaks on being a Dj
As many have noticed Young Guru has been commanding the dj duties for Jay-Z for a little while.
Via Rapradar
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Santigold Inks Deal with Roc Nation Management
Jay-Z continues to terrorize the music business in a Great way. He and his company Roc Nation continue to grow and they have just inked a management deal with Santigold. Can we say powerhouse??
Via MTV
Nas comments on Libya Leader Gaddafi
Nas has sparked a bit of controversy by stating that Gaddafi is misunderstood. As an African this is a really touchy subject and its tough to say Gaddafi is misunderstood when his citizens want him out. The people always have the power!! Below is a link to the article.
Via MTV
Nas involvement in ATCQ Documentary
Besides all the controversy regarding this ATCQ documentary I really love the ability of Nas to work on so many projects under the radar. I hope everything gets worked out on this doc.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Kanye West x Vevo PowerStation x SXSW
Kanye West | Vevo PowerStation from ScreenWerks on Vimeo.
Yup its on Ye will be at SXSW. Great luck to all the people that'll be making moves at SXSW this year!!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Forbes Five: Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists
Diddy and Jay-Z go neck and neck on Forbes' Wealthiest artist list. This is their net worth maybe they should joint together and bring it to a billion.
1. Diddy ($475 million)
2. Jay-Z ($450 million)
3. Dr. Dre ($125 million)
4. Baby ($100 Million)
5. 50 Cent ($100 Million)
Read the rest of the article on FORBES.COM
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Jay-Z Auctioning NY Knicks Tickets
Jay-Z is auctioning seats for a New York Knicks Game and the proceeds will benefit the Stephen Gaynor School. Jay-Z up to some good as always below is the link to put your bid in
http://www.charitybuzz.com/categories/15/catalog_items/2565018
Monday, March 7, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Nas to possibly feature on Dead Prez's new album
Nas and Andre 3000 maybe on deck to work with Dead Prez!! awww man this new Dead Prez album "Information Age" is looking lovely.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Roots Picnic Lineup Announced
Saturday, June 4
Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing – Philadelphia
Tickets On Sale This Friday, March 4 at 10am!
Starring: The Roots, Nas (backed by The Roots), Wiz Khalifa, Esperanza Spalding (backed by The Roots), Ariel Pink, Man Man, The Dismemberment Plan, Mac Miller, Yelawolf, Little Dragon, J. Period, Nicos Gun & Donn T.
PHILADELPHIA – Today, the Legendary Roots crew announced the 4th annual ROOTS PICNIC will take place at Philadelphia’s Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing on Saturday, June 4th. The Picnic is one of the hottest shows of the summer, curated entirely by The Legendary Roots Crew to create a unique, genre-bending all day festival in the city of Philadelphia that boasts multiple stages, eclectic collaborations and the latest and greatest of what music has to offer. This year the main stage will have sets from The Roots, Nas (with The Roots), Wiz Khalifa, Esperanza Spalding and more.
Beloved Philadelphians The Roots are among music’s elite and continue to garner critical acclaim with their every move. This year they snagged up three more Grammys to add to their already packed trophy case. They’re also one of the busiest bands around and when they’re not performing a show or in the studio, The Roots can be seen every week night as the house band on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon”.
After having Public Enemy and Wu Tang members play backed by the Roots at the Picnic in ’09 and ’10, you need an artist of tremendous stature to back those performances up. Nas is that guy – a man many consider one of the top MC’s in the history of the game. From his brilliant 1994 debut Illmatic, to his mainstream success with It Was Written, to his anthemic ability to tell stories, educate and perform, Nas is the stuff of rap legend. This could go down as the greatest performance at the Roots Picnic ever.
Pittsburgh native Wiz Khalifa may be newer to the scene but has established himself as one of the rap game’s brightest young stars to watch. The artist behind “Black & Yellow” embarked on a stint on the famed “Rock The Bells” tour alongside such legends as Lauryn Hill and Snoop Dogg, which was immediately followed by his nation-wide headlining tour and performing at Bonnaroo and Bamboozled.
Bassist, vocalist, composer and Grammy Award winner Esperanza Spalding is making her second trip to The Roots Picnic, after blowing the crowd away in 2009. Since her 2008 release of Esperanza, which went on to become the best selling album by a new jazz artist internationally and top the Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz chart for over 70 weeks, Spalding has not slowed down. Last year, she released Chamber Music Society, which sets her on an upward trajectory to prominence, which culminated by winning a Grammy for best New Artist this year.
Last year’s Picnic was a sold-out affair — among the highlights was the generous serving of The Roots playing back-up band to John Legend and then with Wu Tang Clan’s Method Man, Ghostface Killah and Raekwon. In previous years performers have included TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, Public Enemy, The Black Keys, Santigold, Gnarls Barkley, Kid Cudi, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and many more.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 4 at 10am and will be available at LiveNation.com, Live Nation Box Office (111 Presidential Blvd, Bala Cynwyd), Festival Pier (Columbus Blvd & Spring Garden St, Phila / day-of-show only) or by-phone at 800-745-3000.
Via Okayplayer
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Jay-Z & LeBron James - Gym Groundbreaking; Boys & Girls Club Of L.A.
Two black men doing good for the community.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Kanye West Performing at Kobe Bryants Party at the W Hotel
Kanye was killing em in LA this weekend!!
B.o.B & J. Cole in the studio
Yes this is going to be some dope shit!!! Classic music in the making.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Jay-Z Wins 3 Grammys
Even though he didn't show up e still snatched them up. I'm still salty they didn't nominate Nas and Damian.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Nas Interview: The Vine Australia
Few in the rap diaspora can even come close to approaching the oeuvre of Nasir Jones [above, left next to Damian Marley]. His now legendary debut Illmatic (1994) not only brought together New York’s finest production talents on the one record – think Premier, Large Professor, Pete Rock, Q-Tip and L.E.S. – its unfettered rendering of a young man growing up in the Queensbridge projects set lyrical benchmarks that, arguably, have yet to be surpassed. Almost two decades on, those 39 minutes are still considered amongst the genre’s defining releases.
But Nas has never been one to dwell on past successes. His game has always been that of quiet but steady accumulation and development – of which seven further solo albums and his recent collaboration with Damian Marley Distant Relatives (2010) have evidenced – and while many of his contemporaries have blissfully soaked up the limelight, Nas has remained an intensely private, relatively media shy individual.
Well, after three aborted attempts and numerous voicemail messages, we eventually tracked down a surprisingly affable Nas on the eve of his Good Vibrations performances. Here he chats history, Damian Marley, Africa, the place of politics in hip-hop and his need to always move forward.
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When I think of your career, there has always been an almost educatory aspect to your music; the idea that you use your position in music and culture to not just express yourself but to pass on knowledge.
Yeah.
I’d love you to expand on that. What do you think instilled that in you as a kid coming up? Who were some of your teachers?
Um, just growing up in New York City, it’s just the way. I guess the law of the land was each one teach one, and what we didn’t learn in school, someone else would teach on the street, on the block. Whether it was just survival or small lessons in history or what have you. Just being a New Yorker gives you a certain drive to want to learn and talk about what you’ve learned.
It’s interesting you mention that, because to an outsider at least, you’ve always been someone who stays very quiet and seems quite introverted off the mic.
Yeah, you know, music is what people know me for. And yeah, personally, I’m kind of private I think. So music is the only real way I get things off my chest.
So many MCs and performers feel the need to maintain a public presence and persona when not working on their art. By comparison to so many of your generation, you’ve really steered clear of the limelight. Would you say that fame doesn’t sit comfortably with you?
It’s just a different thing that I don’t really care for. I’m not really going to make enough of an effort to be there at the right places all the time. You know, to be the biggest celebrity. But I do care for making music and I do love making music, you know? That’s the difference.
I’d love to hear a little about the record the Damian and what brought you guys together. Did the concept for Distant Relatives come before you had hooked up, or was it something that kind of unravelled once you’d spent time in the studio?
You know, it was something that just happened when we starting recording together. We had recorded together before and we really respect each other’s music and had been talking about doing some more records. So we starting doing more records and soon realised that one of the things we have in common is just our love for history. You know, world history and especially history about Africa.
What made it an important time to drop a record about Africa and about the African lineage?
There’s never a better time than the now, you know? It was just what we wanted to do right then. We started having conversations about Africa and we just knew, right then and there, you know.
The issues surrounding Africa – from poverty, to AIDS, to the diamond trade – are so often neglected or forgotten about in the West. Did you see one of the record’s main roles as attempting to keep Africa in the public discourse, even if it was via a different medium?
Yeah, definitely. When people care about people and use their influence to do that, it’s a good thing, you know. I get inspired when I see what Alicia Keys is doing for AIDS and HIV. She inspires me and she’s inspiring to a lot of people, and it’s just good to see people who care about other people. You know, it just felt good and right for us to do this.
In a more general sense, what do you feel the place for social issues and politics is in hip-hop? Do you feel that there’s a responsibility to carry on the work of artists from your era like the late Guru and Tribe and KRS? A responsibility to be politically and socially aware?
For some artists, but not for all. I don’t think the world of hip-hop has a responsibility to concern itself with politics. I think hip-hop needs to be concerned with hip-hop, with art, with expressing itself. There’s a young hip-hop artist born everyday with something new to express about the world that someone my age can’t see from where he’s standing. It’s important for him to express his art and that’s what the music is really about.
I love art and, you know, I’ve been fortunate to have a voice that has been able to be heard by a lot of people. And some things within politics concern me and I have the opportunity, thank god, to talk about it through music.
Do you think hip-hop has struggled to break free from its foundational principles, or are they still what define the art form? Is it time to let go a little now and allow the younger generation to draw their own definitions?
Yeah, yeah, but unlike any other art form, hip-hop artists tend to stay fresh and move on. The hip-hop genre’s mentality has changed. The business is a beast, so it definitely pushes you away from feeding the music business the longer you’re in it. But with hip-hop artists the whole thing is competitiveness and staying fresh. So that competitiveness makes an artist want to continue to prove that he’s number one, no matter how old he gets, until that time comes when it’s obvious that it’s time to stop.
I was lucky enough to speak to Phife when A Tribe Called Quest came out here late last year and he was kind of talking about the role the industry model and its income streams were having in raising young hip-hop artists; that now, with syncing and licensing being one of the main income streams, rather than albums, young artists weren’t being encouraged to develop…
Yeah…
He kind of likened it to how some NBA teams are drafting kids straight out of high school instead of allowing them to learn the game on the college circuit, which I thought was a kind of cool analogy.
It’s the problem with the music business as a whole. It’s not just a hip-hop thing. It was happening before there were any hip-hop records around; it’s just more obvious now. Once a record company is done with you, they’re done with you. They don’t care about letting a new artist create their own identity, they’d rather to make a new artist exactly like what’s already out there and what’s already hot.
So it’s a business and it’s unfortunate that it is that way because there are so many talented artists who don’t have careers anymore or who’ve been pushed out of the business by greedy businessmen. The difference with hip-hop artists today is they’re thinking like businessmen and it’s important they do that. It’s important that hip-hop artists own their own record companies and someone like Phife can own their own radio station. It takes a lot of work and it ain’t easy, but we have to grow our business minds now because we know what happens to artists in this shady business.
When you look back to Illmatic – this 39-minute joint from when you were barely in your twenties – do you see the enduring response to that record as a blessing or a curse? There’s that phenomenon in music that when someone creates an incredible debut, everyone just wants you to make the same record over and over again. How do you get your head around that record and the response to it all these years later?
I’m very proud of that record. I mean, it’s my first record and it made an incredible impact on hip-hop, the hip-hop game and myself, and I appreciate all the love I got from that album. But the answer is no, no I don’t think about anything that is still said about that album or about what I do now. Because in five minutes that album will just be an old album to a new generation of people in the world.
There’ll be new Illmatics, they’ll be new… I’m not saying there’ll be new Illmatics, let me take that back, but there’ll be records that make you forget the significance of Illmatic. So if you’re one who gets caught up in what people are saying, time will pass you by and before you know it, you’ll be forgotten. You’ve got to keep growing because it makes no sense to get caught up thinking about something that, in five years from now, only a select few people will remember anyway. Because there are thousands of new things happening in the world.
So I have to grow. Every artist has to grow, and I pay attention to those artists who do grow and do move on.
Dan Rule
Via The Vine
Jay-Z Signs DJ/Model Harley Viera-Newton to Roc Nation
Jay-Z is a smart dude by signing Harley Viera-Newton as she can double as model and a Dj. Interesting
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Jay-Z & Overbrook Entertainment Form Film Partnership
Jay-Z is at it again and he has teamed up with the incomparable Will Smith to start a film venture. 1st up will be Annie Starring Willow Smith. Below is an excerpt from Jay-Z.
“The Overbrook Entertainment family and I have a unified vision. We’ve already produced a Tony Award winning play and we’re developing a true superstar in Willow. This venture into film development and production is a perfect next step with teams that are accomplished, creative, and innovative.”
Via Rapradar
Friday, January 21, 2011
INFLUENCERS in-depth Series / STEVE STOUTE
INFLUENCERS in-depth Series / STEVE STOUTE from R+I creative on Vimeo.
Steve Stoute Used to Manage Nas and was very close friends with Nasir Jones, he also created a very Keen relationship with Jay-Z and this is a brief look into to one of the most brilliant minds of our lifetime.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Distant Relatives present: "HOPE ROAD" (part 1)
A visit to the Bob Marley Museum with Nas and Damian Marley.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Kanye & Jay-Z “H.A.M.” Dropping 1.11.11
The 1st Official Single from Watch The Throne will be out next week! People grab onto your seat its going to be a wild ride.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Oprah Presents Master Class: Jay-Z
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Via Rapradar
Jay-Z New Year’s Performance
Jay-Z and Coldplay were booked at the opening of a new Las Vegas Resort and were reportedly paid $1 million each, Jay brought out Beyoncé, Kanye West, and John Mayer.
Via Rapradar
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