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Commentary: 5 Favorite Carolina Hip Hop Releases Of The Last 5 Years (2008-2013)
This past Saturday June 8, 2013 my blog turned five years old. On Sunday June 8, 2008 I wrote my first blog post. Shawty, I was so good and terrible at blogging back then. When I look at some of those early posts, I cringe. I was just so excited to have an opportunity to talk…
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Paradoxos (@Paradoxos) Event Recap: Ideas Are Contagious, Durham Is Cool. #PDXS2013
Image from LifEKit Lifestyle Co.’s Instagram This past Thursday and Friday (June 6 and 7) was the inaugural Paradoxos in Durham, NC. The two days was billed as “a series of events around Durham’s center….entrepreneurial pitches, collaborations between tech companies and local breweries, keynote addresses and talks by industry leaders…jam-packed with inspiration, ideas and fun.”…
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J. Cole & Lisnr: Hip Hop + Mobile Technology + Startup Culture = A New Engagement Experience
Hip hop culture, fan engagement, startup culture and the use of mobile technology has been changed, all by a Carolina artist named J. Cole. June 5, 2013 was a regular evening at home. I was winding down and strolling my Twitter timeline for the daily news when the above Tweet from Hollywood Cole showed up.…
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Commentary: 5 Project Management Tips For Your Next Album Release
Some of y’all know I have a pretty cool “regular” job in corporate IT as a project leader and project manager. Basically a project manager (PM) is somebody who makes sure something (i.e. a project) gets done the right way, on time, within budget and in the way folks want it. I was blessed with…
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Purchase Nanci O Is Hip Hop T-Shirts At Kosmic Kickz (@KosmicKickz) & In The Online Store
Hey Greensboro, Triad and surrounding areas! Have y’all stopped in to Kosmic Kickz lately? Now with every Nanci O Is Hip Hop T shirt purchase at Kosmic Kickz as well as the in the online store, you’ll receive a Nanci O Is Hip Hop/Eargasm Entertainment LLC lighter. The lighter also doubles as a bottle opener.…
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Dirty Dave (@DirtyDaveDDE) — “Charleston”, A Short Film (Video)
One of my grandaddy’s farms in South Carolina is smack dab on the edge of a huge swamp plus has several smaller swamps scattered throughout the land. Whenever my cousins and I went outside to play as a youngins’ the old heads always warned us to “watch out for gators and stay out them swamps!”…
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Events: 2013 South Carolina Music Awards (@SCMusicAwards) + Voting Now Open!
Well y'all it's officially that time of year. The 2013 South Carolina Music Awards season have arrived. Nominations are in and voting runs now through July 1st. This year the events will be held in Greenville. Every year gets better and there's usually an exciting twist. Visit SCMusicAwards.com for ticket information, sponsorship, performance opportunities and…
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R?§H?Ð (@RashadMusic) Talks Ohio’s Funk Roots, Black Music, Envisioning A Legacy + More
One time for Raleigh marketing and social maven S. Dionne. We were at a private birthday dinner for a business associate last month and the conversation turned to music. She adamantly exclaimed that Columbus, Ohio's R?§H?Ð (Rashad) Museum was THE best R&B project she'd heard in a long time. Her reasons were pretty convincing so…
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Events: Eargasm (@EargasmEntLLC) & Headgraphix (@HeadGraphix) Ball Out 5 on 5 Tournament
Eargasm Entertainment and Joseph Headen of Headgraphix have linked up and will be presenting a basketball tourney this Summer in Raleigh! Their 1st Annual Ball Out 5-on-5 Outdoor Basketball Tournament goes down June 15 at Biltmore Hills Park in Raleigh. This will be a community oriented event aimed primarily towards local artists, independent businesses and…