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Hey Fam’ no one cares what you are going through, just keep Grinding
I had a conversation with an old friend of mine – about life, work an life again and really just life. Life encompasses; work, love, pain and more. The topics we had were revolving around work, finances and then hip hop. He said something about how UG Hip Hop has a lot of it’s politics,…
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How To Promote A New Release On The Cheap
While simply uploading music and hoping for the best works out for some, most musicians need to promote their work if they want to make their mark with audiences. Music promotion is a broad term that covers everything from urging fans to listen to new music over social media to launching a costly professional PR…
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I Feel Yo’ Pain and here are Strategies to keep in mind while you grind
Payne Keelah dedicated a whole EP to all rappers, artist out there grinding, industry people on the come-up making ends meet. I Feel Yo Pain he called it – and I equally feel your pain too. This EP is not limited to just rappers even people involved in the industry at whatever level are all…
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6 things every artiste should be aware of, the How-to and Why
Many rappers might not make debut yet due to the demanding and yet easy to get familiar with landscape of the industry. DO NOT take easy for granted. There’s a lot that goes in, to break out as an artiste; this might include learning how to use social media, something you have likely ignored. Many…
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What You did not know about Cover art & should Consider NOW!
If you are reading this then you hope to become a better artist who does things differently. You want and hope to acquire skills and knowledge and trust – your welcome! A basic definition of Cover art … is either an artwork as illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book…
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PICTORIAL: TPPM Event Highlights; Sylvester, Rugged, Payne Keelah, Josh & more
Last weekend on 1st April our very first TPPM campaign event to promote Mental Health and Poetry, Music Therapy happened. First of all, shout outs to every one who turned up for this social progress inspired event. We must say Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry and Music Tea Talk went down very well some what beyond…
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PRESS: All You need to Know about Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry & Music Event
Often times the perspective of what poetry, music and literature can do is limited to aesthetic and entertainment sake. It is is not a bad thing, and in fact you tune in to staff that interest you. We for a while most of you were wondering what Therapeutic Purpose of Poetry and Music Event is…
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Hip Hop Production: What Do I Need?
We have an industry that rarely gives credit to producers but that doesn’t stop young people to aspire into making music/music production. For this article and others in this series about music production and specifically hip hop production; we will be serving you some of the basics, howtos and guidelines to start your career as…
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Who Killed Hip Hop? Digital Book comes out 25 August
Last year Enygma and Mulekwa blessed us with Who Killed hip Hop? off A Few Good Friends Mixtape. And it sparked some good conversation and a thought process for us who cared to do so; re think the genre and the culture in general. Various issues were raised in the song. The different killers of…
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Episode 12: a look at AJO and The Sphynx a match made in Hip Hop
On this episode, I review the previous episodes, introduce the new home for NuveyLIVE, speak Greek Mythology as it inspires some rappers, inspiration for rappers and the need to read. A short review of No Apologies Ep by AJO, and a may be AJO should work with The Sphynx since they are all Inspired a…