“Mommy! Can you come here for a second?” Soul vocalist, Grammy nominee and Roots collaborator Maimouna Youssef aka Mumu Fresh, has taken a time-out of the interview to ask her mother, fellow singer Nataska Hasan something only a mother would remember. “Ma, I’m doing an interview and he wants to know what my first big performance was,” […]

Hip-Hop has repeatedly proven that there is strength in numbers. The genre has a history of bringing together strong soloists for specific songs, or entire albums with great results, from Brand Nubian and Black Star  to Jay Z and Kanye’s The Throne.  While some unions can feel a little manufactured, in the best cases it’s a […]