Consider the fact that it takes roughly one million spins on Pandora for a songwriter to earn just $90.

Like Chris Rock said, “I Love Hip-Hop, but it’s getting harder and harder to defend it,” I love Hip-hop too, and have been down with it since the early days, before it was on vinyl records

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Though hip-hop has always been met with heavy scrutiny, there are some artists who make you dive further into their artistic blueprint in order to decode the messaging in their music.

So the question for black-American radio is, given your rich storied history as articulated above, zealously advocating for the benefit of the community that you serve, what happened?

Speaking of shade, this is one time I’d take shade over snow. Rain. Sleet. Or whatever caused the delay in my fellow group members from attending my new single release.

With the ever changing globalisation landscape, music is constantly being exported/imported. BET for example has had to introduce a Best International Act Africa category won by Davido in 2014 as afro beat has crossed international borders

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If before you made your video, you said, “Let’s make a viral video,” then you’re doomed from the very start. Look up “viral” in a dictionary and you will realize your mistake.

The coronation of Iggy as one of the most successful rappers in history has occurred without much support from the imagined hip-hop community or from black people not invested in her brand. Funkmaster Flex has called her music “trash,” and Iggy’s hit singles have received little airplay on Top 40 “urban,” hip-hop radio stations.