“My Victory” is from the forthcoming soundtrack to MK Asante’s 2013 award-winning memoir, Buck. The music is produced by J.Dilla and it’s from his Rebirth Of Detroit Instrumentals. Maya Angelou’s vocals are lifted from The Black Candle which is a 2008 documentary about African-American culture and Kwanzaa directed by Asante.THEContinue Reading
[youtube id=”JqOqo50LSZ0″] Poet, author, civil rights activist and professor Maya Angelou passed today at her home in North Carolina. Angelou became famous after the 1969 publication of her first autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. She would write a total of 7 memoirs, 3 books of essays andContinue Reading
“Music is older than the music industry and art is much more poignant and powerful than just the idea of just doing it” It’s been almost a decade since Natalie Stewart last recorded as one-half of Floetry with schoolmate Marsha Ambrosius. Their short but potent run started in their nativeContinue Reading
[youtube id=”HiEST26-bcc”] XL Recordings is releasing a new album of unheard songs from Gil Scott-Heron that were recorded in 2008 during the I’m New Here sessions. The recordings are stripped down versions of some of past material, including this version of “Alien (Hold On Your Dreams).” XL chose to makeContinue Reading