Jay-Z & Ciara Land In Top Spots

Easily two of Urban music’s most anticipated releases, Jay-Z‘s ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ and Ciara‘s self-titled fifth album have been the hottest of topics…

Kwame and The Uptown Shakedown

Harlem based band Kwame and the Uptown Shakedown are performing live for Removing the Bars, Columbia’s criminal justice conference and concert on March 23rd…

HT Christopher

Christopher S hunter a.k.a. H.T. Christopher was born in Wyandanch, NY was introduced to jazz music at a very young age by his grandfather….

Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail

Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne was introduced by Frank Ocean parsing the respective qualities of gods and kings. Two years later, both…

Ciara

Ciara’s 2004 debut Goodies arrived at the tail-end of the last R&B boom. Its best moments used the churn and snap of “crunk’n’b” as…

J. Cole – Born Sinner

Born Sinner, the heavily referential second LP for Roc Nation signee Jermaine Cole, borrows its title from the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy”. By the time…