Category Archives: hip-hop

RZA and The Wu-Tang Clan Are Huge Geeks (You Read it Here First!)

By Parker Mason | Published: October 27, 2009
Earlier today, I watched this interview (embedded below, via BoingBoing) with RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, in which he talks about how much of a geek he is and how that influenced his music. “I’d rather raise nerds than raise gangsters”, the hip-hop star says as he talks about his interest in new music-creating software, and [...]
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A Round Table of Music-Blogging Knights

By Parker Mason | Published: October 13, 2009
Via The Hype Machine’s blog, I came across an interesting round-table discussion on The Morning News among a group of music bloggers. It’s interesting to hear their thoughts on the relationship music bloggers have with the Public Relations people in the record industry, and there is definitely some take-away for all PR pros there. Matthew Perpetua, who [...]
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The Future Of Music (It Was A Good Day)

By Parker Mason | Published: August 7, 2009
It has been fairly obvious that the record industry is in decline, has been for years, and will probably continue to decline for some time. That’s because the RECORD industry is based on a decades-old business model of selling discs of either the vinyl or laser-read variety. The music industry, it seems, has never been better. Artists [...]
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36 Chambers of Social Media

By Parker Mason | Published: March 22, 2008
I’ve been listening to a lot of Wu-Tang Clan lately, and the similarities between these verbal Shaolin Swordsmen and social media are uncanny. For those of you that don’t know, Wu-Tang is a rap group that formed in New York in the 80s and has since their album Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), they’ve gone [...]
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French President’s Son Is Secret Hip-Hop Producer

By Parker Mason | Published: January 11, 2008
I’m really interested to see how the current president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, will respond to the recent news story that one of his son’s from his first marriage has secretly been producing hip-hop songs under the name of “DJ Mosey.” In his previous position as interior minister,  Sarkozy  “initiated cases against French rappers…for defaming [...]
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