Media Questions Of The Week

Will the attention paid to  KRS-One’s mistake of naming Ad-Rock instead of MCA on the song “Hip Hop Speaks From Heaven” bring more listeners to his new album The World Is Mind?

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Will Underground be canceled because WGN’s parent company was purchased by Sinclair Broadcast Group?

Will DJ Premier’s unheard work with artists like Kendrick Lamar ever be released?

 

 



In 2012 We Said Goodbye

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Jimmy Castor Funk Pioneer

Johnny Otis Godfather of R&B

Etta James The Matriarch Of The Blues

Clare Fischer Master Arranger

Belita Woods Soul Singer

Don Cornelius Soul Train Founder

David Peaston R&B singer

Whitney Houston Pop Queen Actress

Dick Clark Media Mogul

MCA One third of pioneering rap group The Beastie Boys Film Director Activist

Ms. Melodie Member of Boogie Down Productions

Donald “Duck” Dunn Bass of Stax Records

I.G. Off NYC Underground Rap Star of the ’90’s

Chuck Brown King of Go-Go

Donna Summer Queen Of Disco

Faruq Z. Bey Detroit jazz innovator

Robin Gibb One-third of the Bee Gees

Fontella Bass “Rescue Me” singer

Jayne Cortez Master Poet Activist

Dave Brubeck Progressive Jazz Leader



MCA’s Rolling Stone Cover

MCA is on the cover of the new Rolling Stone and most the issue is dedicated to him. Ad-Rock and Mike D give their first interviews since MCA’s passing and credit him for being the foundation of The band’s creativity. The issue goes on sale May 25.



Media Questions Of The Week

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1. Was the Maybach Music press conference something out of the P.T.Barnum playbook?

2. Would NY Post columnist Phil Mushnick have said the same kind of racist things about Eminem if he was part owner of the New York Nets instead of Jay-Z?

3. Wouldn't it be a good thing for the hip-hop community to raise money for cancer research now that MCA of the Beastie Boys has passed?