Category: Lit
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Common’s autobiography One Day It’ll All Make Sense out in September; pre-order now available
Chi town rapper turned actor Common and author Adam Bradley, known as the hip hop scholar, will soon be releasing Common’s autobiography One Day It’ll All Make Sense; named after the widely respected lyricist’s third solo album. Synopsis: In One Day It’ll All Make Sense, Common holds nothing back. He tells what it was like…
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Jay-Z: A World With Amnesia [Video]
“A world with amnesia won’t forget your name” – Jay-Z (The City Is Mine) The big homie Jay-Z decodes the above line from “The City Is Mine” off of the In My Lifetime, Vol.1 album and why that line or “vow” as he calls it led to him choosing to pay homage to the late…
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Prodigy – The Next 48 Hours Part 1: My Infamous Life [Video]
My favourite empire state boy Prodigy, one half of the infamous Mobb Deep has linked up with Jump Off TV and AllHipHop for a three part web series called The Next 48 Hours With Prodigy. Going behind the scenes during the week of P’s book release of My Infamous Life, this webisode follows Prodigy to…
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Wu-Tang Clan biography author Alvin Blanco speaks on debut book [Video]
A summer read for keeps comes in the form of new music biographyThe Wu-Tang Clan and RZA: A Trip Through Hip Hop’s 36 Chambers, penned by journalist Alvin “Aqua Boogie” Blanco. In the video below, Aqua speaks with FUSE TV’s Hip Hop Shop about the motivation behind his debut book; out now to buy via
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50 Cent pens anti-bullying book, Playground
In what must be the unlikeliest event to occur since the man himself dated Chelsea Handler, it seems Fiddy’s turned his hand to writing novels. The rapper and actor adds another string to his bow with a book entitled Playground. The novel- a story about a 13-year-old bully who changes his ways and learns from…
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SoulCulture’s interview with Just Blaze quoted in Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey book
In May 2010 we asked superproducer Just Blaze “What Happened To The Remix?” – who would have thought that that answer would make it’s way into the pages of the colossal 420-page coffee table book Hip Hop: A Cultural Odyssey Book? Bound in black leather and described as “the definitive literary and photographic celebration of…
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Gil Scott-Heron: A True Revolutionary (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)
The iconic Gil Scott-Heron passed away on the afternoon of May 27 in New York City around 4pm EST at St. Luke’s Hospital. The loss of Scott-Heron sent a shockwave throughout the worlds of Hip Hop and Soul music. Numerous amounts of current and past artists in both genres expressed their sentiments via Twitter and…
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Gil Scott-Heron dies in New York, aged 62 | News
Acclaimed poet, singer, musician and author with a widely acknowledged influence on Hip Hop, Gil Scott-Heron has died aged 62 in New York. Whilst the cause of death is not yet known, according to reports Scott-Heron became sick on returning to New York following his recent trip to Europe. “A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who…
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Jay-Z’s $450 million business Empire State Of Mind explored in new book
Disclaimer: Jay-Z stans will love this video, those who foolishly accuse him of being in the Illuminati… not so much. Hip Hop mogul Shawn Corey Carter, better known to the world as Jay-Z, is the primary subject of a new book by author Zack O’Malley Greenburg entitled, Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to…
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Introducing Chicago wordsmith Harold Green: “I just want to give people something real”
Making soul-stirring statements with his dedication to creating what he calls “substantial art”, Harold Green, III is impacting his corner of the world and through the power of the internet, soon everywhere else too. SoulCulture caught up with the Chicago native to talk about everything from spoken word artistry/emceeing, love, being a community advocate and why…