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“Blackout” takes readers on a ride through Porter’s whirlwind of media jobs, working for and with some of the music industry’s most colorful, well-known and scandalous players.

Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant throughout the music industry.

We have all heard this story too many times, but hopefully, given the millions who watched this wonderful BET biopic, we can look at the Top 10 Music Business Things we learn from the New Edition Story:

On October 28, 2016 at 3pm a new radio station WHPB THE WIRE 98.5FM will hit the airwaves in the Pine Hills area in Orlando, Florida.

Your arrogance is out of this world. What planet are you living on? What did Jesse Williams’ speech actually inspire you to do?

I’ve spent the past few years tirelessly writing about the music industry’s deplorable portrayal of Black people. I’ve verbally attacked record companies, radio stations, TV networks, and executives who profit from Black death and dysfunction.

If modern Hip-Hop were a movie set in a post-2Pacalyptic world, Drake would be the drone manufactured to rule it all.

In the late 70’s, the term “Black Music” was slowly being replaced with “Urban Music”. Going further, Black Music Departments at various labels across the nation were renamed Urban Music Departments. The industry, focusing on profit over culture, reasoned that this name-change would make Black music easier to market to mainstream audiences.

Paul Porter, RapRehab.com founder and former B.E.T. program director made an appearance on Take No Prisoners Radio to spill the beans about what’s happening behind the scenes of the rap music industry

We live in an age where information is immediately accessible and people have become used to this instant gratification which prevents them from seeing the bigger picture and looking several years or even months down the road.