Sunday 19th May 2013,
SoulCulture
#OKNotToBeOK: Oddisee discusses mental health at home and in creative industries [Video] #OKNotToBeOK: Chrisette Michele on diet affecting mental health x art as an emotional release [Video] Ladylike: Terri Walker x Nicole Wray talk inspiration and resurrecting soul Star Trek Into Darkness | Film Review SClusive Premiere: J.Appiah – “I Ain’t Rich Yet” | Music Video Coolroy | Get Familiar #OKNotToBeOK: Big K.R.I.T. – “Music has always been my therapy” [Video] #OKNotToBeOK: Wretch 32 on using music to express himself and cope with anger | SoulCulture TV #OKNotToBeOK: Getting Down, and Getting By. #OKNotToBeOK SClusive: ItsNate f/ G FrSH, Catch’Em x Phaze One (Piff Gang) – “WSLTA” (Remix) | Music Video Eleven11 – Shay’s Rebellion [FreEP] | Stream/Download

#OKNotToBeOK: Oddisee discusses mental health at home and in creative industries [Video]

“One side of my family is from Sudan, one side of my family is from Washington, DC. So I grew up experiencing two cultures that mental illness was kind of… something they would love to pretend didn’t exist.” DMV rapper

#OKNotToBeOK: Chrisette Michele on diet affecting mental health x art as an emotional release [Video]

Continuing our Mental Health awareness campaign #OKNotToBeOK, we sat down with Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele to discuss the effect changing her diet had on her mental health, keeping a journal, the effect the creation and release of her

Ladylike: Terri Walker x Nicole Wray talk inspiration and resurrecting soul

Taking it back to the days of afros and bell-bottoms, Terri Walker and Nicole Wray are Lady – a singing duo soaked in so much soul that not even a Spongebob Squarepants: Motown Edition could compete. Offering up copious amounts

Star Trek Into Darkness | Film Review

Since the broadcast of the original TV series in 1966, Star Trek has had so many sequels, reboots, re-inventions and spin offs that it becomes quite laborious to calculate. But never has the franchise received the widespread appeal given by

SClusive Premiere: J.Appiah – “I Ain’t Rich Yet” | Music Video

Newcomer  J Appiah blew us away earlier this year with his single “I Ain’t Rich Yet“, taken from his debut EP Studiocoustic, and today we are proud to SClusively premiere the official visual accompaniment to the young East London hailing singer,

Coolroy | Get Familiar

There must be something in the water, food or air (well there is definitely something in the air) in California as this state is churning out some of my favourite artists of the moment (and possibly all time).

#OKNotToBeOK: Big K.R.I.T. – “Music has always been my therapy” [Video]

Soul Culture sits down with Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T for our ongoing #OKNotToBeOK mental health campaign, as he speaks on music as therapy, loneliness, depression and finally making the decision to be happy.

#OKNotToBeOK: Wretch 32 on using music to express himself and cope with anger | SoulCulture TV

It’s an amazing thing that I found music, man…” Following on from Ne-Yo’s talk on the therapeutic power of music, chart-topping British rapper Wretch 32 sits down with SoulCulture and reveals how he uses music as a portal to express himself, for

#OKNotToBeOK: Getting Down, and Getting By.

So here’s the thing: I get down pretty often. Only thing is, I don’t always notice it, in the same way that if you’re running very fast on a cold day then you don’t feel the chill. I get down

#OKNotToBeOK

I’ve always been a bit melancholic, however much I smile externally. I took it as a character quirk for years and never paid it too much attention. Until the summer of 2008, when I became so miserable a year into

SClusive: ItsNate f/ G FrSH, Catch’Em x Phaze One (Piff Gang) – “WSLTA” (Remix) | Music Video

We already brought you the audio, which has garnered plays on Kiss 100 and BBC 1XTRA amongst others, now we bring you the owrld premiere of the official video for North London hailing emcee ItsNate’s “WSLTA (Where She Learnt That

Eleven11 – Shay’s Rebellion [FreEP] | Stream/Download

It’s a blessing having a circle of friends with impeccable taste in music regardless of genre or status who are willing to share and bring some serious audio crack your attention. Evidence of this comes in the form of newcomers

// Music

Kanye West performs “Black Skinhead” x “New Slaves” on Saturday Night Live | TV Catch-Up
Posted On May 19, 2013 | Comments

Kanye West hit the Saturday Night Live stage moments ago to unveil new music from his forthcoming album Yeezus. After unveiling another new track “New Slaves” in a unique manner, by beaming the visual across [...]

// Culture

Kanye West performs “Black Skinhead” x “New Slaves” on Saturday Night Live | TV Catch-Up
Posted On May 19, 2013 | Comments

Kanye West hit the Saturday Night Live stage moments ago to unveil new music from his forthcoming album Yeezus. After unveiling another new track “New Slaves” in a unique manner, by beaming the visual across [...]

// Interviews

Looking For Myself: Jared Evan talks industry politics, discovering Hip-Hop, Boom Bap & Blues
Posted On May 15, 2013 | Comments

“I’m a classic rock kid that fell in love with Hip-Hop.” There was a time that Jared Evan was considered a high priority artist by Jimmy Iovine, signed to Interscope Records via Polow Da Don’s [...]

// Get Familiar

Hawk House | Get Familiar
Posted On May 19, 2013 | Comments

If you’re tired of the pothead leanings of current Hip Hop, London trio Hawk House provide a brilliant alternative of soulful, jazzy Dilla-influenced Hip-Hop Soul that delivers a subtle, straight edge gospel message that both [...]

// Return To The Classics

Marcus Sanders revisits Hi-Five’s debut album | Return To The Classics
Posted On June 11, 2012 | Comments

At the end of the 1980s, Jive Records asserted itself as the new home for popular hip-hop recording acts. As a result, they turned their attention to signing fresh R&B talent to their ever growing [...]

// OK Not To Be OK

#OKNotToBeOK: Oddisee discusses mental health at home and in creative industries [Video]
Posted On May 16, 2013 | Comments

“One side of my family is from Sudan, one side of my family is from Washington, DC. So I grew up experiencing two cultures that mental illness was kind of… something they would love to [...]

// LifeStyle

Google Maps revamp puts bigger focus on personalisation | Web News
Posted On May 18, 2013 | Comments

Google have announced a newly redesigned desktop version of their popular mapping service Google Maps, set for release later this year. [...]

// Film + TV

Kanye West performs “Black Skinhead” x “New Slaves” on Saturday Night Live | TV Catch-Up
Posted On May 19, 2013 | Comments

Kanye West hit the Saturday Night Live stage moments ago to unveil new music from his forthcoming album Yeezus. After unveiling another new track “New Slaves” in a unique manner, by beaming the visual across [...]

// Style

Iggy Azalea talks style with Vevo: “I make music based off image” [Video]
Posted On May 15, 2013 | Comments

Since hitting the scene as part of T.I.‘s Grand Hustle camp, Iggy Azalea is known as much for her fashion sense and love of arts and creativity as her music. In an eight week series [...]

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