As Featured on NBC 7′s “SoundDiego” music magazine TV show: Ghetto New$ Flash’s Dita Quiñones caught up with Rodriguez, the focus of a new documentary about a ’70s singer from Detroit who became famous in Africa then vanished from the scene.
Wowzers Cadowzerz! GN$F! has been out of the loop with Nicki Minaj’s latest music videos – Nas is playing her love interest! I never saw this one coming. The Queensbridge native doesn’t even rap in the video. He just stays looking fresh to death in his Gazelles and courts his fiery Queens boo throughout the [...]
Common just tweeted the release of his new music video featuring Queens Godson, Nas, “Ghetto Dreams” directed by Matt Alonzo.
It’s a breath of fresh air for hip-hop this week with the debut of Common’s “Ghetto Dreams” featuring Nas. The head-bobbin’ track produced by No I.D. In the interview the video director shows Common and Nas an old photo of the two back in 1995 on the set of Fat Joe’s music video shoot. The [...]
WAKA FLOCKA QUITS RAP WTFlocka Waka Flocka Flame wants to quit rapping? Waka said he’ll be at peace if has to walk around with $200 in his pocket instead of $20,000 because at the end of the day he wants to stay away from the drama and wants to maintain being himself. But what is going [...]
Gil Scott-Heron declared in his polemic song, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died in New York at the age of 62. Many rappers sampled and looked up to the music styles of Scott-Heron, they include Nas, Common, Mos Def, Dead Prez, KRS-1, and Kanye West to name a few. His music was even featured [...]
Artist: Nas and Damian Marley @nas @damian_marley_ Producer: Queens and Jamaica Origin: Africa
Imagine smoking weed in the streets without cops harassin Imagine going to court with no trial Lifestyle cruising blue behind my waters No welfare supporters more conscious of the way we raise our daughters Days are shorter, nights are colder…
It’s the return of similar video concepts being tried again. I don’t think Shyne’s The Original outdid Nas’s 2002 classic One Mic. What do you think? Watch:
When Nas and Damian Marley’s “Distant Relatives” dropped on May 2010, I had no idea what a classic album it would be. That album was on iTunes REPLAY! It was the perfect union of reggae and hip-hop, no wonder, it’s aptly titled “Distant Relatives” Hip-Hop DX released 2 of the 3-part video series “Jamaican Journey”, [...]
