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We already advised you to Get Familiar with 20 year old LA artist Phlo Finister who recently sat down with LA Stereo for her first video interview, giving us a some insight into the young artist. [...]

In this two-part interview with NME, Broken Bells (aka producer Danger Mouse and James Mercer from The Shins) talk about the birth of the project and how they kept it secret.  We featured their first single from the project last month – “The High Road” – click here to have a listen. The official video [...]

In this recent interview with Billboard following his US #1 with “Down” ft. Lil Wayne, UK RnB star Jay Sean talks about his songwriting process, shock at his song’s swift rise in the US charts after coming to America as an unknown, his experience of working with Lil Wayne and being signed to Cash Money. [...]

Last month in New York, SoulCulture.co.uk met Roc Nation-signed emcee J. Cole and asked him, “Of all the lyrics you’ve written… What’s your favourite verse?” Speaking from the heights of the Roc Nation HQ, the lyricist explains his choice and drops an impromptu recital of his selected verse which comes from “The Badness” ft. Omen, [...]

SoulCulture spoke to DC-based, Grammy Award nominated soul artist Wayna earlier this year in our Chocolate City Special. In the video below, Wayna explains how innocently having a prop police baton in her bag actually resulted in her spending an 14 hours in jail earlier this year. The baton was a stage prop for “Billy [...]

Hip Hop is full of quotables and we all have our favourite lines and verses – but I always wonder which self-penned verses the rappers themselves are most fond of. On that note, we caught up with 88-Keys on our visit to New York this month… (if you’re late on his concept album, The Death [...]

Earlier this week one of Washington’s finest – Wale – dropped into London town for some promo so SoulCulture caught up with him for a follow-up chat, having already featured him in last month’s Chocolate City Special… What did we talk about? Nigerian pride and ‘inter-black’ racism. You know, the usual. Interview by Marsha Gosho [...]

The Seventh Seal hits stores October 20th. Spotted on Sketches of My Soul [...]

Since her introduction in 2007 with the album day.break 2.0, Muhsinah has been highlighted by many as a stand out artist among a generation of contemporary artists breaking the moulds of soul music. The Washington Post describes her as “part of a new breed of young soul rebels who seamlessly meld electronic beats with layers [...]

Socially-conscious producer, DJ and lecturer 9th Wonder dropped into London Town earlier this month and of course SoulCulture had to speak to former member of Little Brother who has produced for the esteemed likes of Jay-Z, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, Jean Grae, Masta Ace, Mary J Blige, and Erykah Badu… Watch the video below to see [...]