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Another way to see how media manipulates you
Tagged with: culture, media, politics, society, statistics
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, Recent Posts, secret wars, wisdom
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, Recent Posts, secret wars, wisdom
The Homicide Hoax vs the Suicide Reality
We are constantly reminded to fear the crumbling of inner cities and the dangers which lurk in their crime-ridden streets by conservative news outlets like nj.com and the Star Ledger here in NJ. They sensationalize murder because the “if it…
Tagged with: death, gun, hoax, homicide, media, society, suicide
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, illuminati, politics, Recent Posts, TTB
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, illuminati, politics, Recent Posts, TTB
What Hip Hop Appreciation Week means to me
What is Hip Hop? I know I’ve asked that question before, but during Hip Hop Appreciation Week, it’s good to revisit that topic. To be realistic, there is no real consensus or generally accepted answer to that question. For the…
Tagged with: 9 elements, culture, hip hop, money, society
Posted in 9 Elements, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Rappers just look like emcees
Rapper Mac Miller was quoted on Vlad TV as having said Golden era music is similar to 2013. His full quote from thestar.com stated; “Artists right now are making some of my favorite music in Hip Hop that’s ever been made,…
Tagged with: bboy, culture, dj, emcee, graffiti, hip hop, kurtnice, rap
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, b-boy, bboy, beatbox, Chuck D, de la soul, Deejays, dj, elements, emcee, five percenters, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, krs one, kurt nice, mf doom, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, b-boy, bboy, beatbox, Chuck D, de la soul, Deejays, dj, elements, emcee, five percenters, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, krs one, kurt nice, mf doom, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Blame Hip Hop and protect the real criminal
I read an interesting article by Manny Faces of the NY Hip Hop Report and Birthplace Magazine about a report by CNN anchor Don Lemon. The problem with the main stream media is that they are not competent enough to…
Tagged with: cnn, culture, don lemon, hip hop, lives, manny faces, media, ny hiphop report, rap, shadesradio, society
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine
Why is “White on Black crime” perceived differently among “Blacks”
Some people in the community have wondered why people in the so-called Black community seem more outraged by the Zimmerman acquittal Wilson non-indictment (or Garner choke-hold non-indictment), when in places like Chicago, young teens are murdered more often. That is…
Tagged with: brown, darren wilson, garner, indictment, justice, media, race, society
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, cops, dumbing down, history, illuminati, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, Recent Posts, truth, wisdom
Posted in After Pac, After Tupac, conspiracy, cops, dumbing down, history, illuminati, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, Recent Posts, truth, wisdom
A Hip Hop Pilgrimage to the Mother Land
There is such a thing as Hip Hop Tourism. And that’s the practical business approach to looking at the recent trip by Switzerland born and raised Hiphoppas from Winterthur. On the other hand this was more like a Hip Hop…
Tagged with: 1520, 9 elements, afrika bambaataa, art, artist, culture, eow, graffiti, hip hop, Igi B, lives, shadesradio, society, switzerland
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, afrika bambaataa, After Pac, After Tupac, brooklyn, five percenters, GRAFFITI, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, Kool Herc, kurt nice, Latest Issue, new york, Recent Posts, World
Posted in 5%, 9 Elements, afrika bambaataa, After Pac, After Tupac, brooklyn, five percenters, GRAFFITI, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, Kool Herc, kurt nice, Latest Issue, new york, Recent Posts, World
Rare footage of KRSONE at Stonehenge
KRSONE at Stonehenge in 2007 with Mondo One backed by words from DJ Supreme and the Teacha speaking on Hip Hop. Are you swayed by the public portrayal of Hip Hop Kulture? Is what you see and hear on television…
Tagged with: 2007, 9 elements, art, artist, culture, hip hop, KRS, lives, shadesradio, society, stonehenge, video
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, emcee, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, krs one, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, truth, wisdom
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, emcee, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, krs one, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, truth, wisdom
Ferguson Police: Portrait of a PR Disaster
The events which took place on August 9th 2014 in Ferguson Missouri will become a textbook case of how not to conduct PR after a tragic and unfortunate incident. The incident, which involved a police officer shooting an unarmed 18…
Tagged with: culture, Ferguson, lives, media, michael brown, politics, PR, public relations, society
Posted in After Tupac, AP, kurt nice, Recent Posts
Posted in After Tupac, AP, kurt nice, Recent Posts
Time to Shine just added to Video: Archive
In 1997, Shades of Hip Hop released it’s 3rd video mixtape during the summer. Unlike R.I.P.- Tupac and B.I.G., released in April 1997, this tape was not all videos. Like the first video mixtape, Trains to Newark.NYC, this was chock…
Tagged with: 9 elements, culture, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, shadesradio, time to shine, video
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
I like GIFs do you?
It’s real simple. I’m a visual person and moving GIF files are cool. They’re sometimes the perfect eye-candy. If you’ve been reading some of the more recent posts, you will have seen a clever usage of these amazing little mini-movies.…
How did Hip Hop end up here?
Over the past few years, I was forced to re-evaluate my feelings about Hip Hop Kulture because of the state of hip-hop music. It’s not just that rap has declined over the past 10 years, but the lack of originality,…
Tagged with: 9 elements, advice, artist, culture, hip hop, Jay-Z, kurtnice, lives, media, money, rap, shadesradio
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Picking the right thumbnail and song title
A lot of work may have gone in to your last music project. You may have taken time to come up with concepts and constructed a well put-together song. It may have taken numerous hours in the studio to get…
Tagged with: 9 elements, advice, album, art, artist, culture, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, media, promotion, society, swag, technology, thumbnails
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Why did KOTD use Canibus in their commercial?
In a shadesradio.com commentary I talked about how most Hiphoppas don’t watch battles of any kind, whether its emceein, deejayin, bboyin, or whatever. Why is that? Isn’t Hip Hop Kulture losing out on what could be well-regulated, profit generating business?…
Tagged with: 9 elements, art, artist, bboy, breakin, canibus, culture, deejay, dizaster, graffiti, hip hop, kotd, kurtnice, lives, radio, rap, shadesradio
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, b-boy, bboy, canibus, freestyle, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, b-boy, bboy, canibus, freestyle, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
The most popular Jay-Z interview on YouTube right now…
What does it mean when you have the most popular Jay-Z interview on YouTube right now? Nothing…because YouTube hits aren’t what they seem. This week on spreaker.com I broke down the significance of YouTube hits and likes on social media.…
Tagged with: 9 elements, artist, emcee, hip hop, Jay-Z, kurtnice, lives, media, shadesradio, society, technology, video
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, illuminati, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Mos Def wears skirt but here’s two other things
You may have seen the picture of Mos Def (Yasin Bey) wearing what appears to be a skirt, although he prefers to call it a wrap from Ghana. In American Hip Hop Fashion sense, it’s not a good look. I’m…
Tagged with: #mosdefskirt, 9 elements, artist, culture, emcee, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, mos def, rap, shadesradio, skirt, society, video
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, mos def, music, rapper, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, wisdom
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, mos def, music, rapper, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, wisdom
New uploads this week
Here are some new uploads to the Shadesradio YouTube channel this week. I went back on Spreaker.com to do some commentary on the Hip Hop Business course that I have been putting off for a long time. I still have…
Tagged with: 9 elements, artist, culture, emcee, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, media, originators, rap, shadesradio, society, video
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, emcee, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, new jersey, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, emcee, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, new jersey, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Your best promotional tool is more you
If you ever wondered how to get a person more interested in your music look no further than this post. Here is the answer. Give the listener more you. That’s right, give them more of who you are, if you…
Tagged with: 9 elements, advice, art, artist, culture, deejay, emcee, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, media, mixtape.magazine, promotion, shadesradio, society
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
The next level of mixtape promotion
What are the challenges you face as an artist trying to live through your art? Whatever you think they may be, most of those challenges aren’t new. There is no question that the internet has made it much easier for…
Tagged with: 9 elements, advice, art, artist, culture, emcee, graffiti, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, media, mixtape.magazine, press kit, promotion, rap, shadesradio, society, video
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Deejays, emcee, facebook, freestyle, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, mixtape, music, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Deejays, emcee, facebook, freestyle, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, mixtape, music, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Onyx back with the raw on WakeDaFucup
It seems that as I dig thru the archives of video footage from Shades of Hip Hop video mixtapes, I find all sorts of gems relevant to the conversations of today. Back in 1998, Shades caught up with Onyx for…
Tagged with: 9 elements, art, artist, culture, DOD, emcee, fredro, hip hop, kurtnice, lives, onyx, rap, shades of hip hop, shadesradio, sticky fingaz, video, wakedafucup
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Latest Issue, onyx, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Latest Issue, onyx, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
