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How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible 

Posted on July 2, 2021 by The Soul Brother

The visionary jazz artist sketched an “Astro-Black mythology” that aligned ancient Egyptian history with a future human exodus “beyond the stars.” Source: How Sun Ra Taught Us to Believe in the Impossible | The New Yorker

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The SoulBrother’s (Lez’s) Spring Mix

Posted on May 20, 2015 by The Soul Brother

Enjoy these tunes as you drive, work out, ride the subway, clean the house, etc. This mix features new music from Rihanna, Monica, Jeremih, my homie Zo The Jerk, A$AP Rocky, Snoop Dogg, and many more. Check out their albums … Continue reading →

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Prince Records Tribute to the People of Baltimore, Shares Artwork

Posted on May 1, 2015 by The Soul Brother

Prince will share his feelings on the unrest in Baltimore in the way he knows best — in song. The legendary artist has recorded a “tribute to all of the people of the city of Baltimore,” a spokesperson tells Billboard. … Continue reading →

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Bill Withers: The Soul Man Who Walked Away

Posted on April 22, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Andy Greene On a clear day, you can see the Staples Center from Bill Withers’ house, which sits high in the hills above West Hollywood. Today, in about two hours, the Los Angeles basketball arena will host the Grammy … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Broke the Music Business

Posted on April 21, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Stephen Witt One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to a party at the house of a co-worker. He was angling for a permanent … Continue reading →

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Breaking Ad: When Hip-Hop First Went Corporate

Posted on April 21, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Kyle Coward First up is the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man rapping over a minor-key piano sample atop a classic East Coast boom-bap beat, climaxing with a roar and proclaiming that he likes to wet his whistle with a 40-ounce. … Continue reading →

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Tidal Review – Jay Z Streaming Service Test

Posted on April 18, 2015 by The Soul Brother

It’s been two weeks since Tidal, the new music-streaming platform owned by Jay Z and a handful of pop’s highest-ranking Illuminati members, launched with an ostentatiously—almost clumsily—star-studded promotional video. In the time since, there’s been a flood of thinkpieces and … Continue reading →

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Rihanna – American Oxygen

Posted on April 16, 2015 by The Soul Brother

  RiRi gives us a poignant song about our nation. It addresses immigration, civil rights, the Eric Garner murder, corporate greed, the hope of change in the “New America”, and much more. She hit this one out of the park! … Continue reading →

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Will Jay-Z lead artists into a powerful new digital era?

Posted on April 14, 2015 by The Soul Brother

By Ashahed M. Muhammad Jay-Z rarely uses social media so when he used his Twitter account to communicate with his 3.1 million followers, people kind of knew something was brewing. It was seen as a major move when the Hip … Continue reading →

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March 2015: A historical month in Hip-Hop

Posted on March 23, 2015 by The Soul Brother

The month of March has welcomed two socially and morally conscious hip-hop discs that hopefully maybe the vanguard of more to come from other artists. The first is the much-anticipated, long-awaited “To Pimp a Butterfly” from Kendrick Lamar. The other … Continue reading →

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