BUFFALO, NY – There’s a dynamic group of artists coming out of northern New York, and they’re all beginning to make a splash in the hip-hop scene. Though made up of individual artists – such as Lay, Killx Jxwz (pronounced Killa Jaws), Blank Black and Mr. Void – the group is known as NOLB (No One […]

COMPTON, CA – Marcus Christ has a deep love and appreciation for the great hip-hop albums of all time. When he thinks about the tapes and records he listened to as a child that made him fall in love with the genre, he remembers how artists back then not only created amazing music but also put […]

LOS ANGELES, CA – In November of 2016, Nelly Bando found himself in a rough situation. The hip-hop artist from Los Angeles, California was in the United Kingdom at the time working on new music. In the middle of this tour he went through a terrible break-up with his girlfriend, finding out the hard way […]

SHREVEPORT, LA – When Robert Crutchfield was a child attending church with his family, he was always enamored with the drummer. It didn’t take long before he was playing drums himself, and soon found himself exploring different genres of music – such as reggae, funk, R&B and Blues. At age 15 he joined a reggae band […]

MCDONOUGH, GA – When Dr. Alicia Cain was an 18-year-old African-American woman growing up in Harlem and Bedford – Stuyvesant, New York – she often found it frustrating that she could never find magazines or even mainstream media that catered to her demographic. She longed for a more positive portrayal of her community, and that desire […]