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Pasadena rapper KStone talks Childhood, Incarceration, and Music (Exclusive Interview)

BStyle Photography Mistah Wilson: Yo KStone, what's good wit it! Thanks for coming thru for this exclusive interview with ThaWilsonBlock Magazine! Before we get further into it, what was it like growing up in Pasadena, CA and what does it mean to be from tha City of Roses? KStone:   I'm a 80's baby so around that time it was turnt meaning the gang life. You seen the rising of the crack era. Pops a gang member so I remember hearing gunshots. 46 E. Montana St yea is where it all began. Mama got us in the kitchen clutching down I remember all of that. My childhood was nasty. To be from here City of the Rose it's a wonderful feeling blessed it's no other city like it. Mistah Wilson:   When did you know you wanted to pursue music? KStone:   I wanted to purse music at a young age. I remember pops got his beats playing on his stereo he had back n the day telling me to catch the beat read in his rhyme book at like 9. Since then it waz a go. But I didn't ...

"Life's A Gamble" music video by KStone featuring Major James

ALMOST FAMOUS LNK  LIFE'S A GAMBLE FT MAJOR JAMES OFF THE MIXTAPE  ALMOST FAMOUS  PRODUCED BY JAY P BANGZ  MIXED BY KALI SLIM PRODUCTIONS

Bing Bing explains how Foster Care & Heart Break has Affected him as an Artist

November 10th, 2017 is a big day for Pasadena, CA rapper Bing Bing and his alter ego, Mistah Wilson. Tha Bingster has officially informed tha block that his next musical project will be called Beautiful Struggle 2: Open Wounds and tha 2nd single is due out on Thanksgiving Day 2017. Marking the 3rd time that Bing Bing has changed the title of his forthcoming compilation, he's decided to make "Beautiful Struggle" a mixtape series as he did with Tha West Kept Secret from 2007-2011. Bing Bing with Friends of Foster Children after wrapping Christmas Gifts for Group Home Kids "The songs I'm writing still have that pain in them that coincides with what I call tha Beautiful Struggle. It makes sense to continue with this theme," explains Bing Bing. With all that being said, November 10th is a huge day for Bing Bing and ThaWilsonBlock. Tha Pasadena native will be making his debut performance at Legacy Fridays going down at the Historical  Landmark Washington Hall o...

600 North Mentor Avenue & 900 East Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena, California by Mistah Wilson Photography

"I Know" (2pac Pain Remix) by West Serenghetti

"Life Is Good" by Grimstyles feat. Melissa Waldrop

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Hudson Avenue, Pasadena, California by Mistah Wilson Photography

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ThaWilsonBlock Magazine is now accepting music submissions from local independent artists who want to gain exposure and make a little $$ while they're at it.  WilsonBlock100 Charts automatically displays the hottest content on the block with content ranging from Articles, Videos, Photography, and more... If you want to make money from your music by simply sharing it around, you've come to the right place! You can make money from exposure by simply submitting your music to WilsonBlock100 Charts. If your song(s) are Top 3 by the 10th of tha month, YOU WILL GET PAID! How It Works: Submit Your Song(s) for $1  each. Then send your song link to this Email Address  (*Must Include Graphic and/or HTML Widget) Your Song will then be added to our blog within 24-48 hours (this is how you get on WilsonBlock100 Charts) You will receive a link to share and promote. Share your link with as many people as you can! If your song reaches the Top 3 spots on WilsonBlock100 Monthly Cha...

Los Angeles Rapper 2Mex explains what Underground Hip Hop means to him

Who was Betty Shabazz?

Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X . Shabazz grew up in Detroit , Michigan , where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism . She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama , where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse. It was there that she met Malcolm X and, in 1956, joined the Nation of Islam . The couple married in 1958. Along with her husband, Shabazz left the Nation of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year. Left with the responsibility of raising six daughters as a single mother, Shabazz pursued a higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn , New York. Following the arrest of her daughter Qubilah for allegedly conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan , Shabazz took in...

Hudson Avenue & 700 East Claremont Street, Pasadena, California by Mistah Wilson Photography

ThaWilsonBlock Magazine Issue56 (October 2017)

Read    ///    Download CrystalTears explains how he used Music as an alternative to Suicide + How Federal Policy Designed the American Suburb + thawilsonMAG's $1M Issue + Coretta Scott King + Medgar Evers + Harry Tyson Moore + Beautiful Women + Street Art & Photography + much much more!

Bing Bing Changes Title of Upcoming 2017-2018 Album

Pasadena rapper Bing Bing announced that effective immediately he is changing the title of his upcoming mixtape "UhBuDuya" to "Open Wounds". Reasons for the change have a lot to do with rejection and the burden he carries from a broken household. Bing Bing had this to say  "At 27 it hurts to walk around with all this pain .. I have memories that make me smile. Laugh. Then there are memories that convict my heart. Stop me in my tracks. I just can't go on like this. As much as I desire to help others I don't owe anyone but myself. And it seems tha only way to patch these wounds is to tell my truth." The theme of the UhBuDuya mixtape was to come off as little more chill and relaxed than his previous project Beautiful Struggle. It was meant to be more of a compilation of catchy hooks and creative concepts. But, the way Bing's latest single "Regardless" ft. Suntonio Bandanaz sounds, we may be in for another sad and emotional project.  ...

Stephen A. Smith Claims NBA Players Have Cheated Fans With No Defense in Annual All Star Game

Stephen A. Smith rants about NBA player effort for the All-Star Game in wake of recent changes made to the format.

Who was Harry Tyson Moore?

Harry Tyson Moore (November 18, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the Civil Rights Movement , and founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida . Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Vyda Simms Moore , also an educator, were the victims of a bombing of their home in Mims, Florida on Christmas night 1951. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in Seminole County while she died January 3, 1952, at the hospital in Sanford, Florida . Forensic work in 2005-6 resulted in the naming of the probable perpetrators as four Ku Klux Klan members, all long dead by the time of the investigation. The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for civil rights activism; Moore has been called the first martyr of the early stage of the Civil Rights Movement. In the early 1930s, Moore had become state secretary for the Florida chapter of the NAACP. ...

Exclusive Interview with Marcellis, Chicago’s Hottest New Hip Hop Artist

UGHHB: Hey Marcellis! We appreciate and love your new cutting edge Hip Hop sound coming out of Chicago. Please tell us how many years have you been making music? What part of Chicago are you from? Marcellis: I started writing music my junior year of high school. So I’d have to be sixteen. And I was born in Chicago and raised there til about 6th grade then I moved back and forth from the suburbs. My mom wanted me and my siblings in better school which was perfect timing because our school in Chicago, Parkman Elementary School, closed down along with several other CPS schools that next year. Read Full Interview

How Fine Art is a SCAM

Good news, aspiring artists! The world of fine art is manipulated financially AND extremely exclusive! 

Why Weed Remains Illegal in the United States..

How Federal Policy Designed the American Suburb..

Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.

1,500 Youtube Views Now Count as 1 Album Sale?

DJ Akademiks Speaks on YouTube views for songs will now count toward album sales... even music used in user generated clips. 

800 Hudson Avenue & 800 Arden Road, Pasadena, California by Mistah Wilson Photography

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