Why are so many artist catalogs being sold? 

 

Is the February 2022 issue of British Vogue with all Black models on the cover an example of ‘Black Skin Porn?’

Ray Angry and Katherine McMahon’s Public Domain project covers Xmas classic “Toyland” making it an unrecognizable rock and soul ditty that has nothing to do with losing childhood innocence. The video looks like a soul-tugging LSD trip challenging those present to embrace personal transformation. The single has a collective of distinct voices including Black Thought, Questlove, Liv Warfield, Pino Palladino, Marcus King, and Dap-King band horn players Dave Guy and Ian Hendrickson Smith. Angry is a Grammy-nominated producer and pianist and McMahon is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. Public Domain’s music seeks dialogue around intellectual property, identity and the cycle of things within a contemporary context. The “Toyland” remake pushes adults to address the state of their vulnerability and awareness instead of children. The  Seven Deadly Sins are referenced as another checkpoint of spiritual awareness as Angry walks through hallways of littered consciousness. “Toyland” is Xmas 2021 because it stylistically reflects the kinds of difficult truths we continue to grapple with in a world pandemic. 

 

 

Did the C.I.A. monitor James Brown? 

 

Will the Kanye West and Drake’s benefit concert to free former gang leader Larry Hoover who is serving six life sentences get the authorities to reasess Hoover’s conviction? 

Mary J. Blige debuts two new songs and a video from her next album. “Good Morning Gorgeous” and “Amazing” feat. DJ Khaled pick up where Strength Of A Woman left off with fierce self-love.  Blige went on the Tamron Hall Show and talked about her career, her current television role as Monet on Power Book II: Ghost and her next album. The Queen Of Hip-Hop Soul’s Good Morning Gorgeous will come out February 11th. She wrote the title track with with H.E.R., Lucky Daye, D’Mile and Tiara Thomas. Fans get to see Blige perform at the Superbowl LVI halftime show which also takes place in February. The video for “Good Morning Gorgeous” shows Blige celebrating her reflection.