All posts by David Hailey

When Cody ChesnuTT snuck up on the scene back in 2002, he was cursed with folly of any new, slightly unique artist – hype. His modestly labelled double album The Headphone Masterpiece was recorded on a four track in his home studio/bedroom giving him instant indie credibility. It was an indulgent 36 track piece that [...]

Time travel has always been a fascinating subject in popular culture. It is notoriously hard to make a time travel movie whilst keeping an eye on all the various paradoxes that will undoubtedly appear. Somewhere around the ’80s two seminal pieces of film making changed all that – The Terminator and Back To The Future. [...]

There is an infamous sketch by Eddie Murphy, in the classic stand-up Raw, where he explains that if you are starved of crackers and someone throws you one, you automatically think it’s ‘best damn cracker I ever had’. He then goes on to explain, once you have had it for a while you realise it’s [...]

The Jazz Cafe in London has been a host to some great artists in its 22 year history. From legendary artists like Roy Ayers to more contemporary musicians like D’Angelo and Raphael Saadiq, many graced its small stage standing next to a (infamous but no longer existing) pillar that simply read ‘STFU’. The vision was [...]

“To tell a true story you have start at the beginning.” On his recent visit to London to promote his new documentary From Nothing To Something: The Art Of Rap, Gangsta Rap pioneer, actor and now documentary director Ice-T took some time to talk to us at SoulCulture, dropping gems of wisdom on the absence [...]

No art form or genre has ever had to justify its very existence the way hip hop does. Whether it is the various accusations levelled at it as having negative effect on society, or the broad generalisations that question its very validity as an art form, it remains a source of huge debate from its [...]

The most immediately striking aspect of channel ORANGE upon first listen is how palpably mature an album it is. I know there is a necessity to categorise musicians by genre, but it’s simply impossible to box Frank Ocean in the R&B category with artists like Chris Brown and Trey Songz. While his so-called peers embrace [...]

November 4, 2008. A historic date where a nation came together and broke a barrier that many felt they would never see in their lifetime. Barack Hussein Obama had defeated John McCain to become the 44th President of the United States on a manifesto of sweeping changes from the dark era of his predecessor, George [...]

I honestly didn’t know what to expect from Plan B as a director, when approaching this film. ill Manors was gathering considerable buzz within the British film scene as damning critique of the current state of affairs within Britain. Many saw it as a possible explanation to last summer’s riots and or at least an [...]

Based on the popular blog of the same name, Brothers With No Game is a new comedic web series based on the exploits of four young Londoners. The blog gained notoriety for its plain spoken sense of humour and episode one of the web series attempts to recreate that – in fact, the episode is [...]