“…Rappers got stylist cuz they can’t think for themselves …” -“Rusty” (Tyler the Creator ft. Domo Genesis & Earl Sweatshirt ) Ever checked out old school “Howard the Duck”? No, not that horrible 1986 travesty of a movie (sorry, Lea Thompson). The awesome existential Marvel comic, created by the late …

“You can tell where black people are, at any given point in history, by (their) music” -Nelson George (The Death of Rhythm and Blues) Last week I tripped over the Hollywood Walk of Fame’s ceremony for the Funk Brothers, a hugely unsung group of incredible musicians who molded and created …

In my opinion, modern, American Pop music owes it’s essence to the Blues and Frank Sinatra. The Blues informed us of our very souls, the true root of American artistry, including the anger, the sex, the fight for the right to be free, but Frank gave us the template for …

People always tell me they are looking for something new, but when something  new legitimately pops up, they are never ready. Frank Ocean’s stint on the Grammys was a cap off to a pretty remarkable evening winning Best Urban Contemporary album and best Rap/Sung Collaboration for The Throne’s ‘No Church in the Wild’. …

Nothing is more soulcrushing then watching my beloved Celtics lose to the Miami heat, but thankfully for me my other planned activity was chopping it up with Dj A-ski about hip hop, listening to Stevie Wonder as a kid and the alchemy that is synthesia. And like that…my rock ‘n’ …

Like any self-respecting geek, the announcement by Cartoon Network cancelling both Young Justice and the Green Lantern depressed a brotha deeply. It was bad enough to find out that the shows were on some top-secret hiatus, and “how to ‘whatevahdaheck’ your dragon” was on instead, but the cancellation was the …