Chris Crack Is The Funniest Emcee With Straight Bars

The award for funniest young emcee with straight bars goes to Chris Crack.  My man is hilarious plus he got a flow that’s on point.  I think i wrote about him before, but I was introduced to his sound through Mc Tree (Chicago Soul Trap Pioneer).  Tree is like a mentor from my understanding and …

Happy Birthday Tigallo Tigallo

Happy Belated Birthday Phonte from The Brooklyn Word.  Tigallo has been in my top 5’s for quite sometime now.  He’s a beast with the wordplay, clever and quick wit it and can do his own background singing in between. Fuxk outta here telling me any different… A couple of years ago, I pitched a collaborative social …

MOBB DEEP: Shook Ones Remix Chronicles prod. by Gibril Kuyateh

What’s good my peoples?  My bad about the date mixup, originally I said it would be out a week ago, I did a Steve Harvey slip… #happens Either way, I’m happy to finally have it up.  Shook Ones is my favorite Mobb Deep track, hearing it immediately takes me back to Bethel High School in …

How Developed Is Your Musical Ear? w/Rachelle Ferrell & Ledisi

Damn damn damn!  I had to stop this just to breathe and sorta wrap my head around the vocal complexity of what is happening.  The ladies below need no introduction as they are powerhouses of their craft. Rachelle Ferrell and Ledisi! Here’s what will happen in just a few seconds of listening… send chills down your spine …

Video: Ep. 02 The Brooklyn Word w/ Talib Kweli + Jessica Care Moore + Kenyatta Beasley + Chiara Fasi @ Soul In The Horn!

Ep.02 of The Brooklyn Word: … ft. Jessica Care Moore celebrating her latest release Black Tea: The Legend of Jessi James at Friday’s night’s hottest event by Dj Natasha Diggs and DProsper  ‘Soul In The Horn‘. Once Talib Kweli blessed the stage with Jessica, things really got ‘poppin’.  Their stage chemistry is undeniably a beautiful …

TALIB KWELI’S ‘FUCK THE MONEY’ IS NOW OUT + FREE DOWNLOAD

Talib Kweli is back with some heat that goes beyond commercial radio, yet can work for commercial radio.  His latest album ‘Fuck The Money‘ just hit my inbox and I’m digging what’s going on.   He spits thought provoking word play effortlessly as expected, speaking on the industry and his evolve state of dealing with …

Tracklist | The Brooklyn Word

The Brooklyn Word is composed of:   9 Hip Hop + 2 Eclectic & Soulful + 1 Funk + 5 AfroBeat & House + Bonus beats (won’t be available for download) + 1 Exclusive Tree Spoken Word sound design concept + originality and old school flavor GKXRS Intro ft. Maimouna Youssef Interlude: : American Hero theme Thee …

Gibril Kuyateh on “The Brooklyn Word” and His Journey Into Creating a Multimedia Soundscape

What is “The Brooklyn Word“?  Well it’s a multimedia “5D” concept created by urban music arts and technology specialist Gibril Kuyateh aka GiKu who hails from Crown Heights, Brooklyn.  His mother is from Ahoskie, North Carolina and migrated to Brooklyn while his father left Freetown, Sierra Leone in the 70’s for a life in the DMV (DC, …