The A3C Hip-Hop Festival is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in the city of Atlanta Oct 8-14.* Founded by Brian Knott and Kevin Elfick, the A3C Hip-Hop Festival began as a way to showcase Hip-Hop talent in the Atlanta area after t...
The Grio is reporting that excerpts from Maya Angelou’s book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will be incorporated into a hip-hop album entitled Caged Bird Songs. The songs are produced by Shawn Rivera and RoccStar. Rivera i...
Veteran musician-turned-record label executive Antonio “L.A.” Reid strives to bring out excellence in anything and everyone with whom he comes in contact. Since the late 1980s, he and longtime collaborator, Kenneth ...
When songwriter and producer Carvin “Ransum” Haggins first collaborated with artist Musiq Soulchild, the singer asked him why he makes music. Haggins, with full confidence, tells the uplifting vocalist that he wants hi...
There’s no denying that the regional sounds that emerged out of Memphis between the 1950s and 1970s helped to cement the city’s notoriety as a dominating force in popular music. Memphis’ fertile ground left lasting impacts a...
Legendary pianist and composer Joe Sample passed away on Fri., Sept. 12 from complications due to lung cancer. The exceptional keyboardist with an incredible ear for melody and chords was famous for his ability to improvise and co...
Black music scenes in America have always been characterized as having a specific “sound.” Scenes, or cities, such as Detroit, Memphis, Muscle Shoals, Minneapolis, New Orleans and Miami have each spawned a wealth of performers as ...
At a recent live broadcast of The-Steve Harvey Morning Showfrom Georgia World Congress Center, the comedian and talk show host declared before his massive audience that George Tandy, Jr. is “a bad boy.” The transparent singer, son...
If jazz musicians are like one big happy family, then Dee Dee Bridgewater would certainly be the protective big sister over her younger siblings. The vocalist, with her iconic bald head, has a career that spans four-plus decades a...
Rich Nichols, the legendary hip-hop writer, producer and manager of iconic hip-hop group The Roots has died. Nichols, who managed and produced The Roots for two decades, died today after a long battle with leukemia, which was conf...