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On January 16, 2013 my mother committed suicide. She was 55 years old, just two months shy of her 56th birthday. The suicide was her second attempt in three months following an eleven-month illness that several physicians and specialists failed to correctly diagnosis until eight weeks before her more successful suicide. While her physical illness [...]

If you are a depressed artist, the following may be helpful. Conversely, if you are not depressed then, I would imagine, you are either not an artist or are a fortunate exception. [...]

I know I’m not the only one with trouble resting. I’m not sleeping at night. I take naps, mostly. I see the postings on social networking at all hours in different time zones where people display their tosses and turns. We’re blurting out different levels of stress, we’re trying to figure out why we are [...]

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 a full-time job in entertainment PR – i.e. being paid to smile – that I’d [...]

Chinua Achebe was my hero. As a second generation Nigerian immigrant growing up in England, role models who I could genuinely identify with were few and far between – especially in the 1980s, when it was still a big deal to see a black face on TV. So much so that we’d receive phone calls [...]

Another week, another bumper packed edition of weekly Monday Mixtape Round-Up. The last seven days saw a of music fit for almost everyone land onto the ‘net in the form of mixtapes, EPs and album streams. [...]

Happy Monday peoples and welcome to another installment of our regular Monday Mixtape Round-Up. Once again last week saw a plethora of mixtapes, EPs, free LPs and album streams hit the ‘net and we have them all in one place for you guys in case you missed out. [...]

As we bring in another week of new music, SoulCulture rounds up all the mixtapes, EPs and free albums released over the past week for you to catch up on. [...]

Another Monday brings another round-up of all the mixtapes, EP’s and album streams that made it to the ‘net over the past week. Today’s round-up includes projects from Flatbush Zombies, Mike Will Made It, Miguel and many more. Check them out and get downloading after the jump. [...]

Oft taking up a large portion of the charts and the hearts and minds of much of the population, hip-hop has undeniably grown leaps and bounds from where it started. With an undeniable amount of power, the social impact the genre has on those who identify and associate themselves with it is a subject that [...]