Murs’ has predicated his 15 year career on the belief that truth is far more interesting than fiction. Instead songs filled with materialistic fantasies, Murs’ style shines light on the joys and fears and desires of everyday folk. Find out why Murs is confident Love & Rockets is the inspirational music you’ve been looking for.
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Murs: Inspiration Music
Posted: October 18, 2011 in Music InterviewsTags: 9th Wonder, Dame Dash, homosexuality, Interview, Love and Rockets, Melrose, Murs, Ski Beatz
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J*DaVeY: Next Level Art
Posted: May 13, 2011 in Music InterviewsTags: 2011, Blu, Evil Christian Cop, Interview, J*Davey, Los Angeles, Nirvana, Warner Bros.
“We don’t make our music for other people. We have no choice but to make it. It makes us.” – Jack Davey
?uestlove: The Creative Race Never Ends
Posted: February 4, 2011 in Music InterviewsTags: ?uestlove, Amy Winehouse, Interview, Jay-Z, Questlove, Raphael Saadiq, The Roots
Basically 97% of my life is work-related. 3% of my life is personal related. The real question is when am I going to the alter and having kids. You always say ok, I’m 27 now. I’ll wait until I’m 30. Then I’ll wait until I’m 33. Then I’ll wait until I’m 37. And now I’m 40. Now I’ll say 42. I don’t know. Right now with my life I’m totally devoted to working. I’m not doing it based on a fear of losing it….
Boog Brown: A Shine All Her Own
Posted: January 10, 2011 in Music InterviewsTags: Apollo Brown, Atlanta, Boog Brown, Brown Study, Detroit, Invincible, Monica Blaire, Nas, Outkast, Waka Flocka
“I support everyone that’s dope. If you’re dope, I’m rocking with you. But if you act like a douche bag when I fucking meet you…a lot of bigger name female emcees that I’ve met have been assholes for no reason.”
Senor Kaos: The Veteran Rookie
Posted: December 3, 2010 in Music InterviewsTags: Atlanta, Senor Kaos
“It wasn’t until the 2000s when all the crunk and snap stuff started coming out. After that people were like Atlanta had to be crunk, or sound like Lil Jon. After that came and went, then Atlanta had to sound like snap. That disappeared, and now everything is trap and dope boys. I try not to get in any of those trends, because as you can see they come and go…”
Why Jean Grae Is Awesome, Part 1: On Nicki Minaj’s Skill, Waka Flocka, Battling & Other Random Topics [Video]
Posted: October 11, 2010 in Music InterviewsTags: A3C, Cake or Death, Gucci Mane, Jay Electronica, Jean Grae, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Talib Kweli, Waka Flocka Flame
Atlanta’s three-day A3C Festival ended last Saturday. On the first day, Jean Grae chilled out in the media room a few hours before her set on Thursday night (October 7). Ms. Grae hung out for close to an hour, and like any group of Hip-Hoppers, we all got into a good discussion on the industry and some of her peers in Nicki Minaj, Waka Flocka, and Jay Electronica.
Bilal: One Man’s Revenge
Posted: August 16, 2010 in Music InterviewsTags: Airtight's Revenge, Bilal, Love For Sale
“My lowest point was battling with Interscope to put Love For Sale out without changing songs and finding a single. That was the worst; writing a song with the intent of it being a single. And then after doing that it getting bootlegged and the label telling me I had to start from scratch. That really upset me because I had gone through such a fight for the music…[What kept me going] was when I started to get responses from people online saying they enjoyed the music. When I got that it really opened me up to saying man, maybe I can keep going…”
Rhymefest: Hip-Hop Is Scared of Revolution
Posted: May 10, 2010 in Music InterviewsTags: Black church, Che Guevara, Cuba, El Che, Fidel Castro, Frederick Douglass, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Kanye West, KRS-One, Malcolm X, Meyer Lansky, Rhymefest, Rick Ross, tithing, Tupac Shakur, W.E.B. DuBois
“Music is really for trained ears. When you listen to jazz, you can’t just sit there with no one explaining it to you, how the horn and piano talks. Hip-Hop is the same way! How you gonna just sit down and listen to KRS-One’s By All Means Necessary if no one puts it in context for you? Same with Criminal Minded; how can you appreciate it? You can still listen to it.
You can’t even appreciate Pac right row! Let’s move up for the readers who don’t know about KRS and don’t care. You can’t understand Tupac unless you have Tupac in context. You can listen to a few songs and say that’s dope, but you need the story that goes with it. When you listen “White Man’s World” or “Trapped,” you have to understand where he was in his career. Then you listen to it and it means another level to you.
Good music is truly like the Bible.”
A Conversation with Masta Ace and Edo G (A&E)
Posted: November 1, 2009 in Music InterviewsTags: Arts and Entertainment, Edo G, Life of a Kid in the Ghetto, Masta Ace, Masta Ace Incorporated, Sittin' on Chrome
Paying homage now to an artist like Tupac, you might say a couple of lines known by him and flip it into something else. But back in the day, even saying a similar metaphor to someone else was frowned upon. And then calling yourself Lil or Young something after someone already has that name was frowned upon. It’s a lot of rules nowadays that are getting broken left and right that used to be unacceptable. But that’s just how the times are now. It is what it is I guess.
