From Every Level Of Neighborhood
What Would you have Done if you Didn’t Sell Drugs: I would have been a badass pirate no matter what! An outlaw. I did it for the entertainment of it all. I made a ton of money. I was making about $300,000 per month. Money was not a problem. The only problem we had was being able […]
Composed of several acts including First Lady Dennie Diamondz, Benji Buckz, Black Diamonds, Interstate Fresh, Flee McVain, Top Notch and others, Grind Hard is a New York-based organization with aims of shifting the hip hop culture in 2016 and beyond. And although the crew was birthed in The Big Apple, Grind Hard CEO T. Money […]
Growing up in a predominantly female household, Kyah gained an early appreciation for R&B music. However, in and around school, she experienced and enjoyed the rap and hip-hop genre with friends and classmates. The athletically gifted young lady was a standout on the basketball court and it looked as though the WNBA might be in […]
He would listen to songs on the radio, and never actually learn any of the lyrics, but would focus more on the cadence of the instrumental. It wasn’t until he was 14 when he would decide to actually put the pen to the paper and start rapping. Coming up in Brooklyn, everyone had a passion […]
You’re in such a different classification of what a rap artist is, from style to flow. Where did the Skanks the Rap Martyr persona come from? The name Skanks originally comes from a dance called “The Skank” that I learned growing up, it was the only dance I knew how to do when I was […]
Timothy: Who was the inspiration behind that track, I know it has to be a shorty behind that. TM: Nah, to be honest with you when I was locked up I was reading a lot of those black novels, by Zane and all that, and just from reading it I realized just how intriguing that is. So I’m like if you can articulate […]
Timothy: Tell us a little bit about what’s going on now with Young M.A. and what you up to right now. Young M.A: Right now, we’ve been doing a lot of shows out of town, out of state. We’ve been in the South a lot lately, from Atlanta to Texas, North Carolina. Right now, I’ve got the project called SleepWalkin’ dropping and I’m also […]
T.K.: Are there any more film projects coming in the future from you? Vic: The Chef Survival Kit Show, I changed it from Jail Recipes to the Chef Survival Kit Show because I’m droppin’ in the New Year. So it’s like a return of the Jail Recipes but it’s just called Chef Survival Kit now, you can look forward to that. It’s crazy, I […]
Raised in one of the most infamous parts of the South Bronx, Young Cutta gained a strong connection with music at an early age. At the age of ten he would rap for friends and family and by the time he was thirteen, he was recording in major studios and performing at open mic nights […]
T.K.: Wow, that’s nice. How did you get your start in the business? Steph: I, like every singer, in church at first, right? And school talent shows and things like that. But, professionally, I started a little over 10 years ago singing backup, with the Van Halen reunion tour. And from there I got signed to Poe Boy Music. I was in a group called […]