Detroit, Michigan has a respected and accomplished lineage in hip-hop, specifically among its producers. With artists like Black Milk, J-Dilla, DJ House Shoes and Wajeed laying the foundation, the bar has been set pretty high. Enter Apollo Brown. The twenty-something track master has been filling iPods providing his dusty, drum heavy compositions for instrumental albums […]
When Drake dropped his song “Wu-Tang Forever,” plenty of people were upset because the song had nothing to do with Wu-Tang except for the fact he repeatedly sang “It’s Yours,” which is a Wu-Tang song title. However, one of the members of Wu-Tang, Ghostface Killah, says Drake is only making the Wu-Tang movement bigger […]
After celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their seminal debut last year, The Wu-Tang Clan have finally made good on their promise to deliver new music. They have just released, “Keep Watch,” the first song from their next album, “A Better Tomorrow,” the long-overdue follow-up to 2007’s “8 Diagrams.” “Keep Watch” has everything fans of the […]
In 2010 TheUrbanDaily.com had the pleasure of interviewing MC, radio host and mixologist Heather B about her pending third album executive produced by DJ Premier, “Open Bar.” We released a snippet of the chat with her talking about her marriage to Horse of The Bravehearts (who knew?) but wanted to hold the rest until the […]
Navigating the choppy waters of dating and relationships is one of the toughest things we’ll have to face. Everybody can use a little help in that department, especially semi-famous to actually famous people. For that reason, rapper Ghostface Killah will appear on the fourth season of VH1’s hit reality show “Couples Therapy.” Ghostface will try […]
In this interview with VLADTV, Rapper Saigon opens up about his decision to join Vh1’s “Love & Hip Hop,” explaining that he was just trying to stay on-trend with what’s going on in the world of hip hop these days. He adds that everything is already taped and uploaded to the web these days, so […]
Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothing to mess with and here’s why… A member of the Wu-Tang affiliated group Killarmy, Jeryl Grant, also known as Killa Sin was arrested last week. Grant was charged on second-degree attempted murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Grant is accused of having allegedly shot a man near the […]
Drake knows when to keep things in the family. At a weekend stop for his “Would You Like A Tour?” tour in New Orleans, Drizzy played his entire minnie-movie/music video for “Worst Behavior,” from his chart-topping third album, “Nothing Was The Same.” The 10-minute clip was shot in Memphis, Tennessee, and opens on the historic Royal Studios, which […]
When you’re first starting out in the music business, you can’t afford to burn any bridges. An aspiring hardcore rock band learned that the hard way. The band neglected to pay their sound engineer and what they thought would be an epic hardcore rock song was turned into an electronic dance song free of […]
Chinese billionaire and film producer Run-Run Shaw had a gang of credits under his name. The philanthropist who donated billions to colleges, the investor that helped saved Macy’s department store with cash for a chapter-11 bailout, the man who was knighted in Great Britain, the guy who lived past 100 or even the fellow with […]
Black Twitter became a mainstream buzz term late last year after receiving top billing in a Wikipedia article. Developed from within the fast moving Twitter network, this growing cultural subset has become a powerful collective of varying minds from all corners of the world. Although Black Twitter has attracted some media attention for its ability […]
