Check out saan solo’s Instagram Live Interview with @the_sound_sommelier (6/24/21) now available on her IGTV. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
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I am grateful to have had the opportunity to be featured on Kalamazoo Lively Arts in 2015 and again in 2021. The team always asks insightful and thought-provoking questions with expert visual storytelling skills. Watch on PBS below or on YouTube. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
This crafty music selection device created by Ken Shyvers (inventor of the pinball machine) allowed you to select music to be played via the phone lines. You could deposit your coin into the slot, and it would ring to a female “DJ” operator who would take your request and play it so you could hear it right at your tabletop or counter. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Ever wonder where Wu-Tang Clan got their amazing samples from? Watch as Wu-Tang's producer, rapper and founder, RZA, takes you through scenes from "Master of the Flying Guillotine," "Executioners from Shaolin," "The 36th Chamber," "Enter the Dragon," "Five Deadly Venoms," "The Mystery of Chess Boxing," "Ten Tigers of Kwangtung," "Shaolin vs. Lama," "Shaolin and Wutang," "The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter," and explains how they influenced and provided samples for their tracks. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
“Assurance” reveals the obstacles that female DJs face, both on and beyond the dancefloor, but also elucidates their defiant navigation of these issues as they pursue their career ambitions and right to fulfilment. The documentary was birthed out of British-Nigerian DJ Juba's pursuit for new perspectives in the gender debate. | Visit Achickwitbeatz.com for your instrumental needs & dope stuff for music lovers.
Little Brother discusses their new album “May the Lord Watch” and explains why 9th Wonder wasn’t a part of it on the Premium Pete Show.
N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. In this episode the guys drink it up in Los Angeles with the legendary A Tribe Called Quest. Also joining the guys is Busta Rhymes, Consequence and DJ Scratch. The guys talk about their Queens, New York roots, their influences, working with the likes of Nas, Kanye West, J Dilla and remember the late Phife Dawg.
Peep the new documentary from Torben Bernhard about a teenager born without a jaw recording his first rap album. Learn more & support the cause here & here.
Peep an animated short of George Washington Carver's interview with Glenn Clark in 1939 that contains helpful advice for all creatives.
