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01/01/2017

Rashid's Project

Listen to “Violets” from Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, and Phonte. The track is from the forthcoming album “Everything’s Beautiful”

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/premiere-robert-glasper-miles-davis-violets-interview

Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Bilal, KING Featured on Miles Davis Tribute Album

Robert Glasper's Everything's Beautiful coming May 27

This weekend marks the nationwide release of Miles Ahead, a new motion picture about jazz trumpet titan Miles Davis, directed and co-written by and starring actor Don Cheadle as Miles enduring a 24-hour whirlwind encounter with a journalist played by Ewan McGregor. The film notably toys with the facts a little, concentrating on Miles the quick-tongued, vibrant character as much as Miles the historical figure. Miles Ahead is scored by noted Texas jazz pianist Robert Glasper, who recently teamed up with Davis’ label and estate for another exciting project. For the forthcoming Everything’s Beautiful, Glasper was given full reign to sample, rework, and reinterpret anything in the Sony Miles Davis catalog that he pleased. He came away with a warm, life-affirming album of eleven revamped Miles classics assisted by a cast of collaborators including Bilal, Erykah Badu, John Scofield, Stevie Wonder, and more. Today we present one of Everything’s Beautiful’s finest, “Violets,” a collaboration with North Carolina hip-hop veterans Phonte of the hip-hop soul outfit the Foreign Exchange and producer 9th Wonder.




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12/19/2016

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Public Enemy

Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group. Formed on Long Island, New York in 1982, they are known for their politically charged music and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community.

They remain one of the most critically acclaimed bands in history. Their first four albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s were all certified either gold or platinum and were, according to music critic Robert Hilburn in 1998, "the most acclaimed body of work ever by a hip hop act."

In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Public Enemy number 44 on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, the highest ranking for a hip hop act.[3] The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.

The band were announced as inductees for the 2013 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on December 11, 2012, making them the fourth hip-hop act to be inducted.

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10/28/2016

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Junglepussy ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’
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10/28/2016

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Junglepussy
https://open.spotify.com/album/1LGNcwOY4Ro9eEDJwohBez

Brooklyn rapper Junglepussy, known for her fiery lyrics that pack a punch and her unapologetic attitude, first started making music at the end of 2012. Since then she’s released two projects, Satisfaction Guaranteed and Pregnant with Success, given talks at Yale, Columbia, and NYU licensed her music for Comedy Central’s Broad City and walked in the DKNY fashion show. She's been cosigned by everyone from Diddy and Erykah Badu to Action Bronson and Le1f and played shows with Lil Kim, Nelly Furtato Travis Scott, Solange, and Dev Hynes. i-D said Pregnant with Success will "make her your new favorite MC,” The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Spin, and NPR all called it one of 2015’s best, she was on New York Magazine’s 2015 “Reasons to Love New York” list, and she receives support from Fader, Complex, HotNewHipHop, Hypetrak, Vice, VH1, MTV, Paper, Village Voice, XXL, Buzzfeed, and more. “Junglepussy means business, and she’s got the talent to back it up. With a raw sexuality and a strong message about female autonomy and empowerment, she’s a modern Lil Kim.”

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10/28/2016

Raw Hip-Hop @ Brick City Method Man & Redman

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10/14/2016

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Ol' Dirty Bastard [Mr. Couragous O.D.B], Big Baby Jesus RIP
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10/13/2016

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09/29/2016

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MOBB DEEP FREE AGENTS, THE PLAYLIST
https://open.spotify.com/user/121809214/playlist/4SdOZQr5Ek13DdlITyrl9b
Release Date February 25, 2003
Duration 02:04:49

Release Date February 25, 2003
Duration 02:04:49

Unlike many high-profile CD "mix tapes," which are often little more than sloppily edited various-artists compilations with a bit of overdubbed, superfluous self-aggrandizement thrown in for good measure, FREE AGENTS:THE MURDA MIXTAPE comes within shooting distance of being a fully realized album. In fact, the disc signals a return to form of sorts for Mobb Deep, a group that disappointed some core fans by moving in a slightly more mainstream direction with 2001's INFAMY. As on the Mobb's masterpiece THE INFAMOUS, Prodigy and Havoc deliver a straight-up slab of no-frills East Coast gangsta rap. The similarity is not coincidental, as the disc is a mixture of brand new material, re-worked versions of classic tracks and remixes. In several cases, the group even creates completely new songs using old instrumental tracks as a basis. Throughout, Mobb Deep and its producers utilize their trademark bleak musical backdrops and plainspoken, harshly cinematic rapping style to utterly chilling effect.



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MOBB DEEP FREE AGENTS, THE PLAYLIST
https://open.spotify.com/user/121809214/playlist/4SdOZQr5Ek13DdlITyrl9b
Release Date February 25, 2003
Duration 02:04:49

Release Date February 25, 2003
Duration 02:04:49

Unlike many high-profile CD "mix tapes," which are often little more than sloppily edited various-artists compilations with a bit of overdubbed, superfluous self-aggrandizement thrown in for good measure, FREE AGENTS:THE MURDA MIXTAPE comes within shooting distance of being a fully realized album. In fact, the disc signals a return to form of sorts for Mobb Deep, a group that disappointed some core fans by moving in a slightly more mainstream direction with 2001's INFAMY. As on the Mobb's masterpiece THE INFAMOUS, Prodigy and Havoc deliver a straight-up slab of no-frills East Coast gangsta rap. The similarity is not coincidental, as the disc is a mixture of brand new material, re-worked versions of classic tracks and remixes. In several cases, the group even creates completely new songs using old instrumental tracks as a basis. Throughout, Mobb Deep and its producers utilize their trademark bleak musical backdrops and plainspoken, harshly cinematic rapping style to utterly chilling effect.


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09/29/2016

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08/13/2016

The Network

New York City Free Speech
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PacificaWBAI Free Speech Radio provides a vast array of original programming to listeners in the Metropolitan New York City region and worldwide on this site.
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08/03/2016

What are streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube paying artists? Here’s what one indie label found out.

Sadly, most artists and labels have no idea what they should be getting paid by streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music, and none of these services are offering any guidance. So, we started publishing whatever royalty statements we could get our hands on (send us yours at [email protected] and help the artist community out).

Most recently, we’ve been working with an independent r&b, rap/hip-hop label to test the waters on a range of services. Alongside some low-lying payments, they also discovered some outrageously high per-stream payments from Tidal and Microsoft Groove (who are now paying several dollars per stream, and no, that’s not a typo, scroll down).

After a test on their catalog, here are the resulting payments that came through. These are before distributor INgrooves took their cut and applied other costs. All of these are per-stream payments.

You’ll notice that Microsoft Groove is not part of this graph. The reason is that their payouts are so high right now, it would make it impossible to see the relatively tiny payouts from everyone else (scroll down and you’ll see what I mean).

And, here’s a complete breakdown of everything captured. Aggregated per-stream payouts across all countries at the top, with specific countries, listed where data was available.

Downloads Drop 18.5%, Streaming Gains 38.4%. In Just 3 Months at Sony Music

Daniel Adrian Sanchez

Sony Music Entertainment released their first quarterly earnings report from April 1 to June 30, beating out analyst’s expectations in posting an 8.7% increase in sales to $1.374 billion. This is a strong increase from the same quarter last year, when Sony reported $1.27 billion in sales. At the same time, however, they also reported an operating income decline from last year’s $310 million to $155 million, thanks in part to the “negative impact of the appreciation of the yen against the U.S. dollar”.

Seemingly proving that music streaming is indeed the future of music industry, Sony credits the quarter’s revenue increase to growth in streaming and its visual media and platforms. Streaming makes up for $299 million, a sizable 38.4% increase from last year’s $216 million. Digital revenues also grew 10% to $461 million. Download revenue, however, fell 18.5% to $162 million. Physical music formats sales also fell, accounting only for 32.1% of the music group’s revenue, down from $324 million, or 37.2% of total revenue. Sony’s other music revenue, likely synch licensing payments and royal payments totaled $131.7 million, up slightly from last year’s $127 million.

The strongest albums in this quarter that helped drive this increase in sales were Kazumasa Oda’s Anohi Anotoki, and Meghan Trainor’s Thank You, among others, with Beyoncé’s Lemonade becoming Sony’s top-selling recorded album.

Sony’s overall music revenue was hampered by having to take a “re-measurement” write-off in its equity interest in independent music distributor The Orchard. Sony bought out the remaining equity stake in The Orchard from Dimensional Associates in March 2015. The company was estimated to have been valued close to $400 million at the time of the buy-out. The Orchard was founded in 1997 by producer Richard Gottehrer and manager Scott Cohen as a way to foster independence and creativity in the music industry.

Apple Music (paid):

Overall: $0.0119

Australia: $0.01032

Canada: $0.00773

France: $0.01356

Germany: $0.01056

Greece: $0.01150

Indonesia: $0.00801

Italy: $0.01380

Japan: $0.01267

Kazakhstan: $ 0.00988

Mexico: $ 0.00460

New Zealand: $ 0.01166

Singapore: $0.009594

South Africa: $ 0.005599

Switzerland: $ 0.01914

United Kingdom: $0.015994

United States: $ 0.01105

Apple Music (free trial):

Overall: $ 0.001703

Australia: $ 0.001953

Canada: $ 0.001741

Germany: $ 0.002076

Mexico: $ 0.000965

Netherlands: $0.002421

Portugal: $ 0.001386

Russian Federation: $ 0.000425

Singapore: $ 0.001585

South Africa: $ 0.002256

Turkey: $ 0.000695

United Kingdom: $ 0.00252

United States: $ 0.001985

Google Play Music

Overall: $ 0.008516

Germany: $0.009078

Switzerland: $0.01317

United Kingdom: $0.01519

United States: $0.007459

Spotify (subscription)

Overall: $ 0.006111

Costa Rica: $ 0.004420

Germany: $ 0.008198

Mexico: $0.001621

New Zealand: $ 0.007034

Norway: $ 0.004889

Peru: $0.003587

Spain: $0.003212

Turkey: $ 0.002988

United Kingdom: $0.01194

United States: $0.007339

Spotify (free)

Overall: $0.001348

Argentina: $ 0.000109

Australia: $0.0001169

Brazil: $ 0.000243

Canada: $ 0.000773

Dominican Republic: $ 0.000120

Finland: $ 0.000830

Germany: $ 0.000543

Hong Kong: $ 0.000295

Mexico: $ 0.001621

New Zealand: $ 0.000656

Peru: $ 0.000103

Spain: $ 0.003212

Sweden: $ 0.001016

United Kingdom: $ 0.001352

United States: $ 0.001437

YouTube

United States: $ 0.00001212

(only ‘United States’ appeared in the statement).

Microsoft Groove

United States: $4.69

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