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UGHHB: There is a lot of new Hip Hop talent coming out of Florida right now! How are you being 100% original and different? What is separating you from all the other up and coming MC’s coming up from out there!? Jules: Honestly I think it’s just my approach to creating music. I look to make music that is timeless and has a soul to it. Music that you can tell every ounce of emotion was put into it. And also I rap and produce. So everything you hear from me either I made myself or I helped or assisted in some sort of way. I feel like my music is meticulously crafted to fit my voice so I feel like that alone gives it a unique feel. And I’m very much into samples so that kind of puts me on my own path. Not too many people from here is creating that type of music. READ FULL INTERVIEW ... 

As 2017 comes to an end, Rising Los Angeles, CA based Hip Hop artist R-Mean stops by our headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles. He speaks to us about his consistent growth as a rising MC, his Mean Monday's campaign, The Open Wounds 1915 movement and more!

Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana . He was the youngest of seven children of Armelia Johnson and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist   lay preacher. His parents named him after former Governor of Louisiana Huey Long . In 1945, the family migrated to Oakland, California , as part of the second wave of the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West. The Newton family was close-knit, but quite poor, and often relocated throughout the San Francisco Bay Area during Newton's childhood. Despite this, Newton said he never went without food and shelter as a child. As a teenager, he was arrested several times for criminal offenses, including gun possession and vandalism at age 14. Growing up in Oakland, Newton stated that he was "made to feel ashamed of being black." In his autobiography, Revolutionary Suicide , he wrote, "During those long years in Oakland public schools, I did not have one teacher who taught me an...

DJ Akademiks Speaks on J Cole says we should all boycott the NFL since Colin Kaepernick was pushed out the league

Song: Compass  by Suntonio Bandanaz Prod. By Nathan Thirdeyebling Ard off the American Gangster Nerd LP feat. Alpha P on Fresh Chopped Beats / MADK Productions Shot/Edited by Justin Gallagher for OK Productions #Seattle #RapHard #RespectTheCulture

Coretta Scott King (April 27, 1927 – January 30, 2006) was an American author, activist , civil rights 1964 leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1953 until his death in 1968. Coretta Scott King helped lead the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. King was an active advocate for African-American equality. King met her husband while in college, and their participation escalated until they became central to the movement. In her early life, Coretta was an accomplished singer, and she often incorporated music into her civil rights work. King played a prominent role in the years after her husband's 1968 assassination when she took on the leadership of the struggle for racial equality herself and became active in the Women's Movement . King founded the King Center and sought to make his birthday a national holiday. King finally succeeded when Ronald Reagan signed legislation which established Martin Luther King, Jr. Day . She later broadened her scope to include bo...

Mistah Wilson talks thawilsonblock.net is back! + Issue55 Cover Story + Latest Interviews + Pasadena to Seattle transition + The importance of supporting each other as artists + Shout outs + so much more...

Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins's mentor, tells a story about what happens to the talents you don't use

Mistah Wilson : Yo, CrystalTears​, thanks for coming thru for this exclusive interview with ThaWilsonBlock Magazine. How ya' been? CrystalTears : I've been doing great! I Just recently released my first record "Depress" independently after almost five years of hard work. Mistah Wilson :  It's been a minute but we finally connected for this interview. Go ahead and give tha audience a quick background on yourself... CrystalTears :  Well, I'm an 18 year old rapper/songwriter from Norway and I have been making music my entire life. Writing and music has been my only passion for as long as I can remember and way back in 2013 I started working on my first record. On the album I take you to one of the darkest moments in my life. I was sent to a hospital after trying to commit suicide several times. The album starts of with the first night of my stay at the hospital. Which is also the night I wrote "Sorrow" who'm is the very first song on the album. Mi...

Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi and enact social justice and voting rights . He was murdered by a white supremacist and Klansman . A World War II veteran and college graduate, he became active in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s. He became a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Following the 1954 ruling of the United States Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, Evers worked to gain admission to the state-supported public University of Mississippi for African Americans . He also worked for voting rights and registration, economic opportunity, access to public facilities, and other changes in the segregated society. Evers was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith , a member of the White Citizens' Council , a group forme...

"Listen to and engage young people themselves in work of making things better. They know the shortcomings of the foster care system. They are best situated to articulate the solutions. Incredible personal and leadership development opportunities for those young people lie in efforts to build a movement and campaign for change. Be open to innovation, to changes, to different ways to use “the money.” It is not your money, it is held and used in trust. Protecting jobs, institutions, the status quo is a moral failure if those things are not doing much to make young people’s lives better." "In the Minnesota Legislature, we have passed some groundbreaking legislation and devoted significant resources to help address the issues around the foster care system, youth homelessness, bullying in schools, the continuum of services and support young people need to grow into happy, productive, adulthood – lives with purpose and meaning.

Read    ///    Download K-Syran set to release new album + Foster Youth Success Stories + Bing Bing features Seattle Hip Hop Legend Suntonio Bandanaz on new single + Photography + so much more...

What I needed the most when I emancipated was family. I was just told I had a court date 11 days after my birthday. Turned out that I was emancipated. It was so unexpected. Having no money or a place to live, my foster parent let me stay until I was ready to leave. But my stuff was coming up missing so I decided to move out and live with friends until I finally found a place! Piece of advice- Never give up. Learn your rights. Ask your social worker about your rights, if you don't know them. Keep your head up and stay strong! Join clubs that'll keep you busy with others. Use Facebook to connect with other foster youth." Read More...