January 30, 2017
President Donald Trump is a con man, a liar, a pimp and a hustler… and these are just a few of his good points. It seems nearly everyone on earth was against him… women, Blacks, Jews, Mexicans, Muslims, the Mayor of London, and even the Pope. With a list of haters th...
January 30, 2017
“Hey you know Johnny Kemp died.”
“What? How did he die?”
“They don’t know. They found him in the river.”
“Was it Friday night?”
“Yep, and he just got paid.”
If you go back to 77-78, on a lot of Saturday nights you could find Johnny Kemp singing and walking the bar at the...
January 30, 2017
Billy, as he was know by, my man who was his musical director and traveled cross the water with more than once, died of cancer. Billy Paul had at least five big great chart hits, none as great as “Me and Mrs. Jones”. That song can call to mind infidelities of all sor...
January 30, 2017
I ain’t been right since Prince died… my wife told me before I heard it on the T.V. “Jigs called. He said Prince died.” I didn’t question her comment because Jigs doesn’t kid or joke about shit like that. I took a deep breath and sat down in the nearest chair....
January 30, 2017
My man called and asked me, “Do those people down there know what you do? They might know what you do because what you do got you to be who you are.”
This same friend once said to me, “Duke I know you and your past. You ain’t a thug or a pimp… but you do have some thugg...
November 18, 2015
Genres of music are not delivered whole cloth made and tailored to the times. As with any art form they are hybrids of the past, present and future. Rap music was the voice of a new democratization in popular culture, Its cohorts in graffiti and fas...
November 3, 2015
Once the baton was passed and the old school had it firmly in their grasp, they took off like a shot. They took the breakdown and broke it down even further. What they had to say also expanded beyond the early anthems of self and materialism and massageney to includ...
August 20, 2015
Okay, let’s look at President Obama. He may not have been a conservative but from where I stand he has been a good president. Given the fact he was the first man of color to have the job and twice, I must admit with all the inherent problems that go with being the fi...
August 19, 2015
Nu-School rappers, much like the soldiers who came home from W.W.II., rode the gravy train the originals and the “old schoolers” laid the piles and tracks for. LL Cool, N.W.A., The Ghetto Boys, Uncle Luke, Big Daddy Kane… these acts mostly had major label deals. By...
August 18, 2015
The grief on the face of Bobby Brown was palpable, his daughter had just passed after long period of incapacitation. At that moment I flashed back to the first time I saw Bobby Brown. He was fourteen or so and was asleep on the floor at Unique Recording Studios in N...
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