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New JCole release review: 4 your eyes only (2016)

4 Your Eyes Only plunges deep into J. Cole's soul.  You can clearly hear it in his voice - pleading testifying, on the verge of cracking.  At Center stage with no featured guest, The North Carolina rapper speaks out on social ills, black lives and doing the right thing in a world of wrong.

We plunge into this amazing artist with a old hip hop head and a Generation X perspective.  Sean and I give props to a hip hop artist with a CD well made We revisit this because of the new release of the new K.O.D

Phonte / Foreign Exchange 2018 Review

Today we are pleasantly surprised by this new release by the Rapper Phonte.  I know him from his collaboration with the Dutch producer Nicolayand their group called the Foreign Exchange.  Sean knows him from his time with the rap group called "Little Brother".  We check out his new release "No news is good news" 

   

 Phonte Lyshod Coleman, better known as Phonte, is an American rapper, formerly of the now defunct North Carolina trio Little Brother and one-half of the duo The Foreign Exchange

 

Tory Lanez- Memories don't die Part 2

Part two of our music review is our Canadian addition, Tory Lanez.  Which as a new listener to his complete album I had a different outlook about this guy.  The R&B/ rap artist we add our view and perspective of a release that is totally reminicent of his fellowcanadian counterparts.  This is a something Tory should be proud of.

 

  

Xxxtentacion new release ? (part 1)

This week we drop in on two artist we felt was worthy of being highlighted with their new releases. Tory Lanez and xxxtentacion.   The release I personally was looking forward to is the XXXtentacion new release. With our previous review of his "Debut release 17" we didn't know what we were going to get especially after the SYRE release by Jaden Smith. And by the way, he's number 1 on the billboard chart.    Then we get into the Tory Larenz.  

    

Sy Ari Da Kid music review

We go through Sy Ari's two releases for the year 2018 and try to pinpoint this guys style and what he has done over the years as well as how his two releases compare to each other. We finish part two of the two Artist review with Sy Ari Da Kid

  

Live DJ's

*This is a repeat of an older review done by my brother and I from 2016*This episodes starts the series on Live DJ's that move crowds and not play music.  We talk to DJ Ant Live of Harlem and how he still does DJing with the classic 1200's and how true DJ's are still moving the crowds.  We do a round table with Ant Live and get his views on the art today.

 

 

Wayne Hosin AKA DJ Migraine

Today as part of my Live DJ and beat maker series.  I sit down with my good friend Wayne Hosin aka DJ Migraine.  A popular and traditional DJ still doing the party to party thing and keeping the art of HipHop and party DJ'ing alive.  We sit down and discuss his path.  

 

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Black Panther The Album

We listen all weekend to the recently released Black Panther Soundtrack and give credit where credit is due. With the mixture of R&B, West coast rap, amazing production.  This is a great addition to the upcoming theatrical release of the Black Panther Movie 

Black Panther The Album Music from and Inspired By (alternatively Black Panther: The Album) is the soundtrack album for the Marvel Studios film Black Panther. It was curated by Kendrick Lamar, and features a variety of collaborators, including many of Lamar's fellow artists signed to Top Dawg Entertainment. It was released by Interscope Records on February 9, 2018. Ludwig Göransson composed the film's score

She's gotta Have It (2017) Netflix

Growing up New York's thus making us Spike Lee fans.  We were interested at seeing Spike's remake of his own iconic "She's gotta Have it".  We've seen a couple of Spike's last few movies so you can understand why we came to this Netflix series with questionable expectations.  

Iconic filmmaker Spike Lee revisits his first feature film with this Netflix original series of the same name. Brooklyn-based artist Nola Darling struggles to stay true to herself and her dreams while dividing her time between her friends, her job and her lovers -- all three of them

insecure season 2 HBO review

Alicia and I return with our review of the critically acclaimed series insecure by Issa Rae.  We took a minute to get to look at this amazing series because of the many new and interesting shows coming out this year but we really missed another great season Issa Rae has created.  Check out our thoughts of this outstanding AfricanAmerican HBO series.