Aug 13, 2012

This past Tuesday August 8th, the Hot 97 team graced the infamous SOB’s with a special showcase. Linking up with MENAGE A TROIS  MOSCATO, Hot 97 created a customized event with some of the hottest up and coming talent in the NY area. Hot 97 had DJ SPYNFO on the 1s and 2s the entire night and in between acts, the guests to this invite only event rocked out to...

Aug 1, 2012

Is it just me or is it that every time you go to find a job they have this exhaustive list of “desired skills” and “required experience.” If you are like me before you look at what the job functions are and what you’ll be responsible for doing if hired, you go right to the bottom of the job post where the company sits on its soapbox and asks for all of...

Jul 19, 2012

Since rap entered the scene and really since it became popularized through mainstream media circa the 1990s, critics, activists, “community healers” and all the other anti-rap groups spoke out against rap music and all that it stood for. Literally, anti-rap rallyers pushed for its abolishment because of its promotion of violence, drug dealing, gang banging,...

Jul 2, 2012

Black Entertainment Television – The one stop shop for and center of African American culture in the media. Now before I give my modest attempt at a recap of the BET awards, which were taped last night and will probably play about 15 more times in this week alone, I must say that I’ve never watched a BET award show from beginning to end. But if I had to...

Jun 12, 2012

  There is something in the air. I’m not sure what’s going on but it seems like my fellow genYers are becoming less tied to doing what they love to do and only doing what is going to seemingly make more financial sense. In the past few weeks –I think it actually started around graduation season in Mid May – it seems like a lot of people I talk to...

May 31, 2012

Between the texting, tweeting, facebooking and g chatting how does anyone get anything done?! I mean seriously, If I get one more poorly written text message or choppy email because people can’t snap out of social media mode, I’m going to raise some real concerns. Now before you judge me, let me be clear. I am completely and wholeheartedly for social media...