I still remember excitedly hurrying down to my hometown Sam Goody in July 2001. I was 11. The copies of Mariah Carey’s new single “Loverboy” were in stock and I was getting mine. It was my first full album cycle as a Mariah fan, and I was prepared to devour […]
Prior to his tragic and untimely passing, DMX was working on a new album for Def Jam. It was slated to be his first major label release in a decade and a half. There was a melancholic excitement when initial reports stated that X completed the album before his passing. […]
“She was afraid she didn’t belong there,” Aretha Franklin’s producer Jerry Wexler told David Ritz in Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. That was Aretha’s mentality about staging a show in the heart of the hippie revolution: San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. For all her hesitance, Aretha Franklin was sitting on […]
Listening to a DJ Khaled album is a trying experience. His latest release Khaled Khaled is no exception. Khaled’s only verbal contributions are almost exclusively one of his key phrases “We The Best Music,” “DJ Khaled,” and “Another One.” They are frequent and they are annoying. Aside from these incessant, […]
I woke up at the crack of dawn on May 3, 2011. I drove from my West Philly apartment down to South Philly’s Wal Mart and basically opened the place up. It took about 20 minutes for a staff member to retrieve a copy from the back because they weren’t […]
Ava Max has been making waves for 2 years, and now her debut album finally arrives.
Mariah Carey opened her mouth and silenced the naysayers on 2005’s The Emancipation of Mimi. The album was the best-selling LP of 2005 in the United States, and yielded one of the longest running number one records in Billboard Hot 100 history. The success and singles are the stuff of […]
Aretha Franklin’s catalog is so vast that you could listen to one Aretha Franklin song every day for a year and not get through all of her material (trust me, I’ve been working on that on my blog). And while most people can name a handful of Aretha songs, whether […]
Celine Dion’s new album Courage embodies its title before even giving it a listen. With a deluxe edition clocking in at 20 tracks (and a standard at 16), it’s courageous and ambitious for any mainstream artist, especially of Celine’s tenure, to release that much music at once in 2019. But […]
After 14 years and numerous false starts, Lil’ Kim finally returns to music to release her fifth studio album 9. In the time since 2005’s The Naked Truth she’s released four mixtapes, served a prison sentence, become a mother, joined several reality shows (as a judge, a contestant, a producer/star), […]
