July 16, 2010
Tweet There’s been a lot of cool music lately, and some hot live performances and concerts as well. Here’s a list of some people that have put it down on stage. During his concerts, R&B crooner Usher is known to grab a lovely lady from the stands and commence to grindin’ on her. Nicki Minaj, who ...
July 15, 2010
Tweet Robin Thicke and Snoop Dogg may both be married, but you wouldn’t know it by the hot video, “It’s in the Mornin.” I mean, wouldn’t this kind of hotness be reserved for matrimony? Like “Arsher” would say “Oh.My.Gosh.”
July 15, 2010
Tweet Cassie Ventura’s long-delayed Bad Boy album, “Electro Love,” was supposed to surface sometime in 2008, but was shelved because of the whirlwind that was Day 26 and Danity Kane. In 2009, Diddy was supposed to put the finishing touches on the album and whet the appetite of the music-buying public by leaking a few ...
July 7, 2010
Tweet Alex Cuba (Alexis Puentes) has been rocking out since most of you have been in elementary school. He’s only been doing it 90 miles south of Florida. On an island. That’s okay, pull out a nice Cohiba and enjoy the Cuban-Canadian singer in this happy joint (his first video done in English) that reminds ...
July 2, 2010
Tweet It’s turning into the Summer of Nicki Maniacal. Young Money’s hottest artist has scored her first No. 1 record, with “Your Love.” And if this summer’s buzz and the Hatorade associated with it is any indication, Minaj will score again and again. You can put that on anything. Not since Lil Kim and 50 ...
June 23, 2010
Tweet Super producer and now artist Sean Garrett and hip-hop’s new queen, Nicky Minaj have released a new video, titled “Get It All,” for the stans out there. At first glance this definitely looks like some “Saved by the Bell” stuff, but maybe that’s the demo. Garrett is hoping to get his shine on after ...
June 16, 2010
Tweet With leading-lady looks and a voice as crisp, easy going and heavenly as a tall glass of water, Amel Larrieux was the hip-hop generation’s Sade in the late 1990s: As one half of the duo, Groove Theory, their song “Tell Me,” was a certified banger for the ‘Love Jones” set. Larrieux struck out as ...
June 14, 2010
Tweet These days you’d get laughed out of an A&R’s office if you used the word, “funk,” and “soul,” in the same sentence. And let’s be honest, artists have been using the word” soul” migh-ty loosely for perhaps the past decade. But with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, it’s almost a reserved description. We ...
June 13, 2010
Tweet That’s what the New York Times is saying after a sitdown with rapper Drake, the biracial kid from T.O., better known to a TV generation as Jimmy from “Degrassi: The New Generation.” Drake unpeels a layer of his soul in the interview, confiding that he feels “unsafe in Toronto at all times.” (The rapper, ...
June 9, 2010
Tweet The “Sex Inventor” Trey Songz has released yet another video, this one, titled, “Already Taken.” And you thought music video budgets were dead? Not when they’re for inventors, or movie soundtracks like “Step Up 3D“.