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Blues Talkin Moves to DistortedSoul.com

But the man say:
Ain’t nothin’ but the blues doin’ the talkin’, baby.
Conspiracy’s all up inside your mind.
But I find it don’t get better for my people.
It’s just a theory, but conspiracy
Keeps f^ck!n’ with me
all the time.

After many years maintaining a music website and a separate blog, I’ve decided to merge the political commentary from BluesTalkin.com into my music site at DistortedSoul.com. Continue reading

Elevation Sundays

Originally published at DetroitFashionPages.com

Man! It’s cold! It’s that bone chilling Michigan cold where the wind whips through you like a chainsaw. By most estimates, it’s the icy temperatures on this frigid February evening that have transformed Ann Arbor’s hottest hip hop night from a steamy, sweaty mass of bodies into a warm, intimate family affair.

Elevation Sundays at The Firefly was founded three years ago by two members of Ann Arbor’s Sky Children hip hop family. Martin “DJ Graffiti” Smith and Jackson Perry of hip hop phenoms Now On approached Susan Chastain, owner of the legendary A2 jazz hang out and asked for a Sunday night spot. Continue reading

Elevation Sundays

Originally published at DetroitFashionPages.com

Man! It’s cold! It’s that bone chilling Michigan cold where the wind whips through you like a chainsaw. By most estimates, it’s the icy temperatures on this frigid February evening that have transformed Ann Arbor’s hottest hip hop night from a steamy, sweaty mass of bodies into a warm, intimate family affair.

Elevation Sundays at The Firefly was founded three years ago by two members of Ann Arbor’s Sky Children hip hop family. Martin “DJ Graffiti” Smith and Jackson Perry of hip hop phenoms Now On approached Susan Chastain, owner of the legendary A2 jazz hang out and asked for a Sunday night spot. Continue reading

Takes Money to Make Money

My interview with Hot Lava Records recording artist, Detroit rapper Stretch Money has been posted at DetroitFashionPages.com.

In it the 22 year-old Eastsider talks about his regional hit “Take Money to Make Money”, the rumors of legal action by Maze and Frankie Beverly over the use of their music and the stretch that Hot Lava CEO Crane Novacane is taking for the next 18 months.

Click HERE to check it out

Takes Money to Make Money

My interview with Hot Lava Records recording artist, Detroit rapper Stretch Money has been posted at DetroitFashionPages.com.

In it the 22 year-old Eastsider talks about his regional hit “Take Money to Make Money”, the rumors of legal action by Maze and Frankie Beverly over the use of their music and the stretch that Hot Lava CEO Crane Novacane is taking for the next 18 months.

Click HERE to check it out

© Nadir Omowale