Written by Cyrus Langhorne SOHH While things appear to have settled down between Grammy-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco and producer Pete Rock over a "TROY" sample, The Roots' Questlove admits he's siding with the Chi-town emcee. "I would hope that Pete would reconsider his position ...
Q&A: Hot Sugar On Associative Music, Working With The Roots, And Sampling A ... Village Voice (blog) For a moment, the rapid sound their wings make seems like something you could happily hear Lil Wayne or Juvenile rap around. Hot Sugar is the alias of Nick Koenig, an artist whose associative music technique is hooked around sampling the sounds of the ...
Time to remember the Benefits of Healthy Trees Patch.com It is no surprise that trees have been getting a bad rap lately. During the past two years, we have seen unprecedented storms with high winds, causing unpredictable tree damage. People are concerned and as a result they are having healthy, mature trees ...
Having Big Fun in the Big Town MovieMaker Magazine by Rebecca Pahle | Published May 21, 2012 26 years after it was filmed, Dutch director, journalist and rap aficionado Bram Van Splunteren's Big Fun in the Big Town is finally being released to worldwide audiences. While it's easy to think that a film ...
Sasquatch spotlight on Seattle up-and-comers TheNewsTribune.com I started rapping shortly after I started listening to rap. I probably wrote my first song when I was about 10 years old. I was fortunate enough to have a connection to get in the studio at a really young age, and started recording music at around 11 ...
What Will Smith Learned From Star Wars, Rap Music, and Watching Dallas Movieline This brings Smith full circle, in a way, with the roots of his own success, which he credits to soaking up the pop cultural trifecta of Star Wars, hip-hop, and TV's Dallas as a child. “It just felt like somehow the limits got knocked off after I saw ...
Rapper Eve plays tiny Fishtown club Philadelphia Inquirer Eve was featured (along with Erykah Badu) on the song "You Got Me" by The Roots, also from Philadelphia. (AP) PHILLY-NATIVE RAPPER Eve returns to town Wednesday for a free show at the tiny Kung Fu Necktie (1250 N. Front) in Fishtown.
Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Santigold to headline Jay-Z's Made in America fest in Philly Philadelphia Inquirer Also not on the list, but the subject of much speculation, are smooth-operating Canadian rapper Drake and Philadelphia's the Roots. The latter, who host their own Roots Picnic festival on June 2 and 3 at the Festival Pier and will also play on the ...
Tickets for Jay-Z musicfest on sale this morning Philadelphia Inquirer Also not on the list, but the subject of much speculation, are smooth-operating Canadian rapper Drake and Philadelphia's The Roots. The latter, who host their own Roots Picnic festival on June 2 and 3 at the Festival Pier and will also play on the ...
