How NOT To Get Coverage On A Blog or Web Site Part 3: Lying & Not Listening
By Adam Bernard (http://adamsworldblog.com) The advent of social networking has given artists a fantastic tool for promoting themselves and their work. It’s also given them the ability to shoot...
View ArticleGood Wood NYC’s Birthday Gift To Drake
Click here to view the embedded video. I first learned of Good Wood NYC jewelry company when I received a custom version of their now ubiquitous Jesus pieces from Marcus Troy as a gift, and I was...
View ArticleEight Reasons To Be Excited About G.O.O.D. Music: The Album
photo from BFreshBlog.com Rick Ross and Lil Wayne used 2010-2011 to boost the profile of their respective Maybach Music Group and Young Money rosters with crew albums, but Kanye West has been building...
View ArticleYoung Jeezy Interview On HipHopDX
The photo above was taken in Detroit in 2006, at a listening session for Young Jeezy’s second studio album, The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102. I remember being really surprised, because while...
View ArticleWEK3 On The Newsstand
I’m admittedly late in this post (which is why I’m making it on a Sunday), but I figured I would let all of you know just in case you still have the issues laying around. I’m in a couple magazines...
View ArticleWilliam E. Ketchum III With MTV RapFix
I haven’t made a formal announcement, or even shared many of my links yet, only because I wanted to get into my groove with them first. Still, I wanted to share it with you guys since it seems to be...
View ArticleHipHopDX’s Top 10 Mixtapes Of 2011
While putting together our year-end lists, the staff at HipHopDX voted on what we thought were the top 10 mixtapes of 2011. After deciding what made the cut, editors asked me to write captions to sum...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Michigan Hip-Hop Albums Of 2011
As I’ve shown in my coverage on MichiganHipHop, NPR and more, 2011 has been a banner year for hip-hop from the Wolverine Spartan State. More than any other time I can remember, all sides of the...
View ArticleMoleskine and Evernote’s Smart Notebook
Click here to view the embedded video. This is a pretty interesting project. The descriptions I’ve read seem really convoluted, but the video above makes perfect sense. Moleskine is a company known for...
View ArticleRoyce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier: The EP (Spotify Playlist)
Many hip-hop fans will readily admit that Royce Da 5’9″ and DJ Premier are two of the genre’s most talented people. Bar for bar, Nickel can hang with anyone with a pen and pad, and Premo has hundreds...
View ArticleWilliam E. Ketchum III’s 2012 Christmas Wish List
Good day, friends. Christmas is coming up soon, and I know that deciding on a gift for your favorite journalist/artist manager can be difficult. I’m a fairly eclectic guy, and I like so many things...
View ArticleHow NOT To Get Coverage On A Blog or Web Site Part 3: Lying & Not Listening
By Adam Bernard (http://adamsworldblog.com) The advent of social networking has given artists a fantastic tool for promoting themselves and their work. It’s also given them the ability to shoot...
View ArticleKing 810’s David Gunn talks life in Flint and unapologetically describing...
I spoke to KING 810’s David Gunn recently for The Flint Journal, and he had a lot to say. Check the story to see his thoughts about growing up in Flint, filming their video for “Fat Around The Heart”...
View ArticleCivil rights icon Angela Davis visits Flint
I’ve wanted to cover race and social issues more over the past few years, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so: a visit to Flint by civil rights icon, author and scholar Angela Davis. I didn’t...
View ArticleMichelle Obama honors late Gates Millennium Scholar, aerospace engineer from...
I wrote about Eric Marks Jr., an aspiring aerospace engineer from Flint who was honored by First Lady Michelle Obama after he died at age 23 this month. His story was so inspiring: not only for how...
View ArticleObituary for Vernon Merritt Jr., the founder of Flint’s first black-owned FM...
Flint recently lost Vernon Merritt Jr., the founder of the city’s first black-owned FM radio station WDZZ. I had the honor of speaking to his friends and family to write his obituary for Flint Journal....
View ArticleThe history of McCree Theatre, Flint’s afrocentric community theater program,...
I’ve been following McCree Theatre, a black community theater and outreach program, since I started at The Flint Journal. The result is a three-act story about the rise, fall and resurrection of the...
View ArticleInitial thoughts of ‘Straight Outta Compton’
I’ll need a little more time before I can really tackle the film critically, but I really enjoyed #StraightOuttaCompton during an early screening I saw in the Detroit area on Wednesday, July 23. So...
View ArticleBig Sean hosts early screening of ‘Straight Outta Compton’ in metro Detroit
The N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton” hits theaters on Aug. 14, and I saw the film at an early screening in metro Detroit that included a Q&A with Ice Cube, F Gary Gray, and actors O’Shea...
View ArticleFlint’s presence on ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s first album in nearly 16 years
Dr. Dre’s first album in nearly 16 years is inspired by his group N.W.A. and pays homage to his hometown of Compton, but Flint, Mich. has a big presence on the record, too. Flint emcee and Aftermath...
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