Music Review: Common-Finding Forever
Common’s seventh surrender to the search for a lasting funk comes in the form of Finding Forever. His Chicago-originated semi-drawl subtly went from a classy underground thing to a cool mainstream breakthrough with the help of his provincial brethren Kanye West on 2005’s Be. Jazzier and slower, the music’s safeContinue Reading
Soul and Funk Artists G&D Announce Nation-wide Album Release Events
(September 20, 2007 Brooklyn, NY) San Francisco-based record label, Look Records will celebrate the release of pioneering musicians G&D’s upcoming album, The Message Uni Versa, by throwing listening parties across the country. Beginning in Chicago on Tuesday September 25th and ending in San Diego October 13th, these 10 listening partiesContinue Reading
Hood Estate:The Manual
NEW YORK —American entrepreneurs have made millions in the real estate market. Unfortunately it is an industry that is too often closed to underprivileged people, though they have their own enterprising dreams. Despite the current real estate slump, real estate mogul SPAR-aka-Leonard Person JR., CEO and Founder of Hood Estate,Continue Reading
Kanye Goes Platinum Outsells 50
Kanye West’s “Graduation” (Def Jam) easily leads the star-studded class of Sept. 11 releases, posting The Billboard 200’s largest sales total in more than two years. Nielsen SoundScan will show West’s album moved 957,000 during its first six days when the tracking service refreshes its charts tomorrow morning (Sept. 19).Continue Reading