Category: Features

  • War in a rack Pt 1

    After releasing A Life In The Day Of B19 in September, three months of good reviews in Hip Hop magazines and radio play on urban stations, high street record stores still refuse to allow the album into the Urban music section! This is a major setback for the album and me personally. The aim of…

  • No Queens in the Dancehall?

    Let’s get things straight (excuse the pun). I love dancehall and reggae music as much as the next boat-rowing clubber, but that doesn’t mean that I agree with all the lyrics. Like many other tolerant people across the world, I find the incitement to hatred and violence by anyone in the media completely abhorrent. However,…

  • Growing Pains

    Today (May 21st 2007) the late Notorious B.I.G being would be celebrating his 35th birthday, and 2Pac would be approaching his 36th birthday. With them both perishing in their mid-20’s, their legacy has been preserved at their mind state at that time – some would call it a negligent and immature mind state, but nonetheless…

  • Coming Full Circle

    Coming Full Circle By TARIIQ O. WALTON When the phonograph was invented in 1877, it changed the way we heard our music very much in the same way the written word changed the way we told our stories. Prior to Thomas Alva Edison’s remarkable invention, one had to be in the presence of a particular…

  • Jokes Aside: Money, Race and Reality

    Jokes Aside: Money, Race and Reality By dmt. “I say fuck the police, thats how I treat em We buy our way out of jail, but we can’t buy freedom We’ll buy a lot of clothes when we don’t really need em Things we buy to cover up what’s inside Cause they make us hate…