The Ohio R&B Music Experience (Holiday Edition) goes down tonight, Saturday, December 9th, at Nationwide Arena – 200 West Nationwide Blvd. – in Columbus. It features Xscape, Bell Biv Devoe, 112, Silk, October London, and J Brown.
Passes are still available, and can be purchased on Ticketmaster. This is another Global Events Production.
Atlanta rapper 1k Phew will be dropping a new album called Pray For Atlanta on January 19, 2024. The LP is being done in collaboration with Zaytoven, a GRAMMY-winning record producer who is also based in Atlanta, Georgia.
1K Phew and the team at Reach Records have just shared Favorite Trapper, a single from the project that features Young Dro and 1K Pson. Click here to stream it on your preferred music platform, and here to pre-save the album’s buy-link.
Approximately one month ago, on November 8th, A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop was staged at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, California. The groundbreaking event will now air on the CBS Television Network this Sunday, December 10th at 8:30 PM ET / 8:00 PM PT.
Tune in to see a star-studded lineup of hip-hop legends, including Black Thought, Bun B, Common, De La Soul, Jermaine Dupri, J.J. Fad, Talib Kweli, The Lady Of Rage, LL COOL J, MC Sha-Rock, Monie Love, The Pharcyde, Queen Latifah, Questlove, Rakim, Remy Ma, Uncle Luke, Yo-Yo, Arrested Development, Big Daddy Kane, Black Sheep, Cypress Hill, Digable Planets, DJ Quik, E-40, GloRilla, Gunna, Jeezy, Juvenile, Latto, Luniz, MC Lyte, Roxanne Shanté, Spinderella, Three 6 Mafia, Too $hort, T.I., 2 Chainz, Warren G, YG, and many more.
Next Saturday, December 16, Nigerian pop star Burna Boy will headline Spilligate 23 at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium, Carnival Grounds, in The Bahamas. This event is being presented by Foreign Currency Promotions. For additional information and links to tickets, visit their website at foreigncurrencypromotions-dot-com.
Singer, songwriter, and classically trained pianist Alicia Keys will celebrate the 20th anniversary of her sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, with a live performance at Webster Hall in New York, this Friday, December 1st.
Keys‘ fans and supporters who are not based in the NYC area will be able to watch the live show on Veeps. The Diary of Alicia Keys was released on December 2nd, 2003, by J Records.
Slick Rick the Ruler will be having his 13th annual Birthday Bash on Friday, January 19, 2024, at the Brooklyn Bowl – 61 Wythe Avenue – in Brooklyn, New York.
The English-American rapper and record producer who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s was born on January 14, 1965. His songs “The Show” and “La Di Da Di” are considered early hip-hop classics.
Jamaica’s king of country-reggae music, Wesrok, who is of Indian decent, has gotten one of his biggest songs – Perfectly Imperfect – reworked by popular Bangladesh / Dubai based music producer and selector, DJ AKS.
The original version of Perfectly Imperfect was initially shared in January of this year, with the official video following months later in May. It has wracked up thousands of streams across various platforms, so much so that it became the ideal candidate for a remix. Through one of his booking agents in the United States, Wesrok and his team were introduced to AKS who jumped at the opportunity to work with the fast-rising singer.
To his credit, DJ AKS has also done both original and remakes, with and for: Enrique Iglesias, Big Mountain, Neha Kakkar, Pakistani band JAL, DJ Suketu, Miles, Mehreen, Mila, and Parvaz Sazzad. Perfectly Imperfect (AKS Remix) was released on October 27th, and has been on an upward trend on all streaming platforms since it came out.
In the following statement, a spokesperson for Wesrok elaborated on what inspired this brand-new mix: “we decided to do a remix because of the acceptance of Perfectly Imperfect across the international scene. So it was felt that we could change the beat of that song to suit the Indian Market.” She also added that while they’re promoting this new record, Wesrok is simultaneously working on a collaborative single with dancehall artist Busy Signal, which they plan to share in January, 2024.
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