Category: Arts

A 24 year-old senior from Arlington, Texas, Terry Williams, also known as “Teewillo,” has come a long way from get- ting his Head Wrapped, which led him to being Broke As F**k. But now that he’s gotten a job and is on course to graduate, he will be moving west and pursuing the American Dream. […]

  The Best Man Holiday, which opened in second place with an estimate $30.6 million, is the sequel to a movie that came out 14 years ago and did only $34 million in total business back then ($54 million at today’s price). This weekend sequel made just as much in three days as The Best […]

  Marantz Moon hopes his work encourages viewers to examine their own lives, struggles, and to understand that to find the path to true peace, they  must first follow their own hearts. Moon’s work explores the concepts of love, peace, prosperity, failure and success in life in the attempt to acheive understanding or resolution for […]

  Students came out in droves to T.H. Harris Auditorium Wednesday night to see what Black Dynasty Modeling Troupe (BDMT) would conjure up for it’s big fall show.   The clothing exhibited in the show was everything from original current trends, out of state designers and accesories from Lipstick Couture. The men of Black Dynasty […]

  Beyond his years at 22, Dizzy has been one of the first Sin City rappers to grab the spotlight and carry it across the nation.  His first mixtape series Soul Searchin’ and SmokeOut Conversations could be dismissed as just marijuana music, but the inspiration behind the concept is deeply personal to Dizzy.  His father […]

Compton has a rising star by the name of Problem, and he’s beginning to get known throughout the nation.  Born in Germany but raised in the Hub City, Jason Martin, 28, started his career by ghost writing a verse for the track “Be thankful” on Snoop Dogg’s 2006 compilation album The Big Squeeze. Noticed by […]

  For today’s young Black underground rappers, balancing lyrical content with original beats is a hard thing to do. It takes true talent to rhyme about going to college sound good.  Luckily for Shawn Chrystopher, he successfully managed to do so in his latest mixtape, “The Love Story LP.”  The first three tracks are right […]

  Ever wondered if the world could just be one big control system? Carson, Calif., native Herbert “Ab-Soul” Stevens seems to think so.  This underground rapper chooses his topics wisely as he laces his lyrics with thought-provoking facts and metaphors concerning what one may consider the “secrets” of this universe.  Contrary to how boring his […]

    Eminem is impossible to untangle in just a few listens. As a story, as hip-hop poetry and as an album filled with hidden meaning and insight, Marshall Mathers LP 2 is how Eminem views his own life  The record opens with “Bad Guy”, a seven-minute long banger that concludes with a reference to […]

Grambling was a mecca for all things cultural and educational during the ’70s. James Brown, The Harlem Boys Choir, Isley Brothers, Temptations, Nancy Wilson and Count Bassey, all gave classic performances at the Mens Gym.  Eddie Robinson, an iconic head coach, who won black college football national championships in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1977.  The […]