I was reading a text book on global marketing the other day and I realized that integration is the problem in society. Not the black and white integration that comes to mind so quickly in a race conscious society like…
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Integration is the problem
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Posted in hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Watch This Space
Society, culture and the media that it operates through, can be studied and predicted. That type of stuff is what I’ve been interested in my whole life. The workings of the media and its impact on society has always seemed…
Mainstream rappers don’t care about you
If you observe what’s ‘poppin’ with today’s popular rappers, you won’t find much that should concern you. You aren’t missing anything by not listening to them. They aren’t making any big strides artistically or conceptually. Their songs are the same…
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Posted in Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts
Posted in Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts
After this, do you still love Hip Hop?
The last 4 months to many may have been very depressing when it comes to Hip Hop as a culture. Specifically, Hip Hop has been rocked by scandals of the most repugnant kind related to Bam and his legacy to…
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Posted in Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, Recent Posts
Fame and fortune versus making a living: 1000 True Fans
The following is an essay from the book, Hip Hop Know What I’m Sayin, available on Amazon.com At the presentation of a Proclamation to the founders of Hip Hop Education Week in Newark City Hall in NJ, Vinnie Brown…
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Posted in Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts
Hip Hop and Adult Learning
As I study Adult Learning, I see more and more how it relates to my life in Hip Hop and how the culture itself, in its True School aspect, is a blueprint of learning. Hip Hop in its best aspects…
Tagged with: advice, culture, deejay, emcee, graffiti, hip hop, lives, shades of hip hop, society
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Posted in 9 Elements, Deejays, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts
Have Black Men Advanced?
In 2014, an article by Dr. Boyce Watkins, outlined 5 reasons why he felt “black” men haven’t advanced over the last 40 years. Watkins states, “We are fragmented, distracted, materialistic, and ultimately weak. We are not men…. we are just…
Know what I’m saying?
Who are you really? Who do you model yourself after? Are you a product and accumulation of the behaviors you mimic from television, movies, music and religion? Are you the stereotype characterized in a file cabinet in a county courthouse,…
Tupac speaks about economics
In this clip which is the first MTV interview with Pac as a solo artist, he talks about society and the idea of giving. He also touches on his perception of how Americans should act toward each other. During the…
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Posted in 9 Elements, AP, AT, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, tupac
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,…
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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
Business Law Basics
This report is comprised of a set of briefs discussing the basic principles of law any business will confront in their operation. For small business owners and students, this will serve as a quick study guide and overview of standard…
Tagged with: advice, business, culture, Hip Hop Business 101, kurtnice, lives, media, money, shadesradio, society
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Posted in hiphoplives.net, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, money, 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
How do you get someone to check out your new music?
Today, a thousand more songs were added to the internet by independent artists all over the World. With so much music being posted, how do you get someone to check out your tunes as opposed to all the others? Unless…
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Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, advice, ARTISTS, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, mixtape, music, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, truth, zaq coldly
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, advice, ARTISTS, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, kurt nice, Latest Issue, magazine, mixtape, music, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com, truth, zaq coldly
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…
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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
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Get Healthy Hip Hop initiative
In a recent article on Hip Hop DX, Masta Ace revealed he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Article Link – HIPHOPDX As Hip Hop gets older and more of the First Generation of Hip Hop succumbs to natural causes of…
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Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, events, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, events, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, kurt nice, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Jay-Z reactive PR fails to boost sales
A November 20th launch party for the new Jay-Z line at Barney’s New York was cancelled for undisclosed reasons, even though they still went ahead with the deal. To be clear, it is not technically the new Jay-Z line. In…
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Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Deejays, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Latest Issue, new york, Recent Posts, Sean Combs Puffy, shadesradio.com, truth
Posted in 9 Elements, advertising, After Pac, After Tupac, ARTISTS, Deejays, facebook, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, jay-z, kurt nice, Latest Issue, new york, Recent Posts, Sean Combs Puffy, shadesradio.com, truth
Hip Hop Lives at Hip Hop Think Tank 2013 Conference
Distinguished guests from the World of Hip Hop education and Hip Hop music shared their feelings about the future of education. Kurt NiceKurt Nice aka Kurtiss Jackson is a behind the scenes pioneer in the Hip Hop Kulture, creating the…
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Posted in 9 Elements, events, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, events, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, Recent Posts, shadesradio.com
Hip Hop Think Tank 3
Hip Hop Education conference today in Harlem Kurt NiceKurt Nice aka Kurtiss Jackson is a behind the scenes pioneer in the Hip Hop Kulture, creating the first nationally distributed video mix tape series, Shades of Hip Hop, in the late…
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Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, kurt nice, shadesradio.com
Posted in 9 Elements, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, history, kurt nice, shadesradio.com
P. Diddy gives group $250k to promote entrepreneurship
“Don’t worry if I write rhymes, I write checks.” – Puff Daddy In an shining example of putting your money where your mouth is, Sean Combs aka Puff Daddy, aka P Diddy or just Diddy, used his vast material influence…
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Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, jay-z, money, new york, Sean Combs Puffy
Posted in 9 Elements, advice, After Pac, After Tupac, elements, Hip Hop, hiphoplives.net, industry, jay-z, money, new york, Sean Combs Puffy
