Purely Magnetic & Eclectically Soulful There’s something majestic and beautiful about hot lava spurring its way down the side of a volcano, encapsulating and seamlessly changing everything in its path… And like the erotic vessel that lava can become when truly recognized as such, it leaves things different, hot “as hell”, and somehow unrecognizable than [...]

Being in the middle isn’t always a bad thing, depending on how see things middle ground can mean you’re moving that much closer to the top or you’re thankful to have ground underneath you at all… For Bronx native Fred the Godson, his perspective is somewhat both, reasoning “…these bars stick in your head and [...]

BUGZIE, THE NAME SAYS IT ALL. HOW MANY BUGZIES DO YOU KNOW? OF COURSE IT’S FAMILIAR, THE OLD MOVIES OF COOL, SMOOTH TALKING, QUICK THINKING GAMBLERS OR MOB BOSSES. NOW SAY “BUGZIE THE DON”. THE NAME HAS A NICE RING TO IT BUT IT ALSO FITS THIS COKE BOY SOUTH TO THE LETTER. OVER ALL, [...]

You can find just about anything in the streets if you look hard enough, sometimes you don’t have to be looking to stumble onto the unexpected… Even in the street there’s spirit and spirituality, an understanding of karma and the evidence that God is essentially in everything… Hip Hop has been categorized by a number [...]

INTRODUCING…..”BANKS!” RICHMOND VIRGINIA IS PUSHING NEW ARTIST OUT BY THE DOZENS. THEY SAY VA IS FOR LOVERS. THEY MAY HAVE TO RECONSIDER THE STATE’S SLOGAN. HOW ABOUT VA IS FOR HUSTLERS AND GO GETTERS? BANKS CAN COMPLY WITH THAT. RAISED IN RICHMOND’S WORST AREAS, THE EAST AND NORTH SIDE BANKS ALWAYS MADE THOSE AROUND HIM [...]

Today’s lyrical namesake Rich Porter hails from a place known for cheese-heads and a respect for protecting the quarterback at any cost… Light years away from street legend Rich Porter’s Harlem playground… Yet there is a piece of the two that are intertwined at the core of their being and while they may never have [...]

1. WHERE ARE YOU FROM? RJ: South central Los Angeles. 2. AT WHAT AGE DID YOU START RAPPING? RJ: The age of 9, I wrote my first rap, but at the age of 18 I officially began making music 3. LIKE MOST YOUNG BLACK MEN GROWING UP IN INNER CITY NEIGHBORHOODS, YOU BECAME SORT OF [...]

MZ LADY ROSZEA, I SENT HER A TEXT MESSAGE TWENTY MINUTES BEFORE THE INTERVIEW. SHE RESPONDED “I JUST GOT OUT OF THE POOL AND I’VE HAD A FEW DRINKS” AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW THIS WOULD BE A GREAT INTERVIEW. I FIGURED IT COULD GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER BUT GREAT NON-THE LESS. ONE [...]

DIYA, THE NAME IS ARABIC, MEANING “LIGHT” BUT JUST LIKE MOST IN THE STREET CULTURE, THE SECOND NAME CARRIES WEIGHT AND BRINGS RECOGNITION. IF YOU ASK FOR DIYA..WHO? THEN ASK FOR YG MOOK AND WATCH THE REACTION. IN EAST OAKLAND, COMPTON, OR THE NORTHWEST YG MOOK’S MUSIC IS GAINING FANS AND ROTATION. IN SOUTH CENTRAL [...]

A true gentleman knows the “how’s and why’s” of life… Able to decipher the real from the fake or an opportunity, from just an option… But couple that gentleman with a mentality of a street hustler (thug if you will) and the instinctual nature of what it means to be driven and unstoppable goes up [...]