Originals

“It’s Pink Friday H*e!” It’s 5pm on a Sunday; while most are enjoying dinner at a table with family, tons of Barbs are lined up outside the 14th Street Best Buy in New York( I should know, my little sister was one of them!). All to purchase a copy of Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated debut […]

Flavor Flav once again drew the ire of the Black community at large (and anyone who is just tired of his antics) with his announcement that he was opening up a fried chicken establishment and liquor business. While I won’t call for Flavor Flav to die I would like to suggest some career alternatives that […]

Von Pea, the Brooklyn-based member of the group Tanya Morgan is a little nervous about his solo debut, Pea’s Gotta Have It. “I see how people treat solo records and it always comes across like “this is a spinoff, this not the real thing, it’s just a side of the real thing,” he explains. “For […]

Everyone made a big stink about Kanye West apologizing to Taylor Swift but the reality is he’s a rather contrite dude when he wants to be.

Music in the schools has been on the decline in more ways than one.  Now that everyone is gearing up to send their little ones back to the classroom (or reuniting with their long-distance loves in the dorms) I wanted to take a trip down memory lane to when school was cool enough to be […]

Platinum Sound producer Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis has been experiencing a sonic boom. The producer for everyone from Justin Bieber (“U Smile”) and Shakira (“Hips Don’t Lie”)  has had the streets humming along to that infectious bassline on  Dirty Money and Mary J. Blige’s “Someone To Love Me.” In the midst of planning the entertainment for […]