Tag archive: hip-hop
Snoop Dogg on personal branding (CNBC interview)
He talks about establishing himself in a competitive marketplace, being authentic, maximizing opportunities and the importance of social media to maintaining relevance and how failure shaped his career, too. An interesting conversation for sure. (HT @maids_zenith)
Nas ~ Untitled
This is one of those albums that from the start, it’d be really hard to like it. First, Nas wanted to name it after a slur. After causing a stir and using that whole thing as a media tool, he… continue reading »
Yoon Mi Rae – Korean Hip-Hop
The only thing I find YouTube useful for is finding random foreign hip-hop acts. Here’s an artist named Tasha (Korean Name: Yoon Mi Rae) with a track called Black Happiness. She’s serious.
An old playlist
I made this playlist in 2003, but I was goofing around the wayback machine and ran into my old blog and started reading old posts, dredging up stuff I’d forgotten and well…anyway..I liked this playlist. So I’m gonna post it… continue reading »
Atmosphere ~ When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Atmosphere has never ranked atop my favourite indie hip-hop acts. I realize they are the darlings of NPR and the frozen tundra of hip-hop mecca of Minneapolis, but…I just could never into them beyond a few random tracks. But I… continue reading »