TAG: Community

Nov07

Childish Gambino – More then Just a Rapper (Two Sides of Cool: Donald Glover) (Video)

Two Sides of Cool: Donald Glover from URB Magazine on Vimeo.

With Donald Glover’s – I mean, Troy’s – no wait, I mean Childish Gambino’s Camp making it’s preview rounds across the press pits, I wanted to post this 2 Sides of Cool feature URB did on Donald Glover from 2010. Check the video above, catch Community on NBC every Thursday, and preview Camp by clicking here


Two Sides of Cool: Donald Glover (Full/Tagged)

Allow us to introduce you to Donald Glover: writer, actor, comedian, musician, rapper, and all around hustleman. He has made his mark as an Emmy Award winning, hit show starring, movie scene stealing, rapping when not acting, Twitter movement making, media mogul of the current …

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Feb27

Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti (Review)

Various Artists

Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti

Released by Now-Again Records


To begin describing the epic importance of Fela Kuti is to write a doctoral thesis on the history of African music from before his birth to the present day. To understand the impact the music of a person such as Fela is to consider the history of struggle, prejudice, racism, and political disenfranchisement as an understandable whole.  In the music of Fela Kuti, we see these positive undercurrents of political awakening, consciousness, activism, empowerment and liberation.  These values are what make the messages embedded in the work of Fela ...

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