Over the weekend, I was busily covering The Source360 Festival in Downtown Brooklyn. Created by Northstar Group and The Source founder L. Londell McMillan, the festival emphasizes and focuses on positivity as the festival’s mission is “to […]
Category: hip-hop
The 2nd Annual Source360 Festival Preview
The 2nd Annual SOURCE360 Festival Preview Created last year by Northstar Group and The SOURCE founder, L. Londell McMillan, The SOURCE360 Festival had set up shop in Downtown Brooklyn with an important mission: “to spread […]
New Audio: Sadat X, El Da Sensei, 9th Wonder and DJ Iron Team Up for “We Must Stand”
El Da Sensei and Sadat X have collaborated off and on together as hip-hop supergroup XL but fans of both emcees have been waiting for the duo’s long-anticipated full-length effort. But building up some buzz […]
New Video: The Politically Charged and Cinematic Video for White Boiz’s “Mothership Intro”
White Boiz, the collaborative project between Strong Arm Steady‘s MC Krondon and Sa-Ra collective’s producer Shafiq Husayn can trace its origins to rather humble beginnings — mutual admiration: Krondon would show up to Sa-Ra performances unannounced […]
New Audio: maticulous Teams Up With Pittsburgh-based emcee Beedie On the Haunting New Single, “The Journey.”
maticulous is a Pittsburgh-born, Brooklyn-based producer, who has worked with the likes of Doom, RA the Rugged Man, Ruste Juxx, and is one half of emcee/production duo Audimatic, with Audible Doctor of the renowned hip-hop collective, Brown Bag AllStars. As a producer, […]
Live Concert Photography: Mad Satta with Quincy Vidal and All Natural at DROM 7/2/15
Live Concert Photography: Mad Satta with All Natural DROM July 2, 2015 This summer has been an extremely busy one in the world of JOVM — and as you can imagine, I’m still busily attempting […]
Live Concert Photography: Talib Kweli with Live Band with MK Asante, Rapsody, NIKO IS, K Valentine and others at Brooklyn Bowl 7/1/15
Live Concert Photography: Talib Kweli with Live Band with Rapsody, NIKO IS, K Valentine and others Brooklyn Bowl July 1, 2015 As I’ve already mentioned a number of times on this site, it’s been a […]
New Audio: Introducing The Effortlessly, Soulful Sound of ZForbes
ZForbes is a Toronto-based producer/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist and beat maker, who has developed a reputation for effortlessly soulful productions and his latest single “Work That” will further cement that reputation as the single is comprised of chopped […]
New Audio: Guilty Simpson Teams Up With Quakers’ Katalyst for The Hard-Hitting “Fractured”
If you’ve been following JOVM over the past couple of years, you may know that Detroit‘s Guilty Simpson is not only one of my favorite emcees, but I think he’s arguably one of contemporary hip-hop’s shamefully unheralded, under-appreciated […]
New Audio: Method Man’s New, J57 Produced Single “The Purple Tape”
Long Island-born, Brooklyn-based DJ/producer/emcee J57 is probably best known among hip-hop heads as a member of the Brown Bag All-Stars, one of the more prolific and underrated crews in contemporary hip-hop. And over the last couple of […]
New Audio: The Uncompromising Homeboy Sandman’s Eerie New Single “Arrows”
As I’ve said a number of times on this site, Homeboy Sandman is arguably one of contemporary hip-hop’s most prolific, inventive and uncompromisingly challenging artists. As an emcee, there are few like him, who tackle complicated subjects […]
New Audio: Guilty Simpson’s Politically Charged New Single “Animal” Evokes the National Conversation on Policing Policies and Race
Detroit‘s Guilty Simpson is not only one of my favorite emcees, he is arguably one of contemporary hip-hop’s sadly unheralded and under-appreciated artists; in fact, 2013’s Highway Robbery, a collaborative effort featuring the production work of […]
Live Concert Photography: Rabbi Darkside at The Blue Note 6/7/15
If you’ve been following over the past month or so, it has been an incredibly busy; in fact, I’d say that the past month has arguably been the busiest in JOVM‘s history, as I’ve covered […]
New Video: THEESatisfaction’s Trippy Video for Album Title Track, EarthEE
Seattle has a long-held reputation for being the home of an important indie rock scene but over the past few years, the Pacific Northwestern city has started to develop a reputation as the home of […]