Lay Down Your Own Flow With The Art of Rap Mobile App
Mic check 1, 2, 1, 2! Rapper Ice-T’s hip-hop documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap is creating an avenue for artists to record their rhymes and spread it to the community with a new mobile app, The Art of Rap. The Art of Rap app, available on both Android and iPhone, provides beats for rappers to produce their own [...]
Read MoreThe Hip Hop Archives to Present Hip-Hop Lessons on the Game of Business With Ben Horowitz at Harvard University
Many know Ben Horowitz as the co-founder of venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading sponsors for 2012 NewMe Accelerator. But Horowitz is also making a name for himself in the world of hip-hop and entrepreneurship. He uses hip-hop lyrics to explain business matters creating a new language for techies in Silicon Valley [...]
Read MoreSOPA and Hip-Hop’s Escalating Custody Battle
The response to Washington’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) was so swift and powerful that it can really only be called a protest in the same way that a first-round Mike Tyson knockout can be considered a fight. In a flash, Google got seven million signatures, Wikipedia staged a self-imposed blackout and [...]
Read MoreM15 iPhone Radio App Lets You Stream Music from Your Favorite Hip-Hop Websites
Music sites like XXL and OkayPlayer release music from different artists daily. They allow readers to download and sometimes even listen to tracks straight from the site. But now there’s an app that curates content from a variety of different sites called M15. M15 is an iPhone app created by Adrian Grant that curates not [...]
Read MoreR&B Internet Star The Weeknd Drops Another Mixtape Online
If there was an award for best ‘Internet R&B Singer’ of the year, many people would agree the artist most deserving is Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd. After only releasing his free mixtape Thursday four months ago, he has dropped another today. The Toronto-based R&B singer released mixtape, Echos of Silence today just [...]
Read MoreWhy Does Drake Hate Social Media?
Although social media has consumed the majority of people’s lives, there is one person who isn’t as enthused as the rest of us. Hip-hop superstar, Drake recently taked to Source Magazine about his dislike towards social media. Social media has many advantages, but it comes with disadvantages too, especially when it comes to children who [...]
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