The Trike rides again as Thomas, Anthony, and I are joined by Chris “CFX” Flynn for more conversation about nothing. Within this show: “Accidental Racist” by Brad Paisley and LL Cool J is discussed, Thomas takes issue with how young girls dress these days, Anthony doesn’t like that Tom Cruise gets top billing even though [...]
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Everyday People: The Wonderful World of Elizabethany
Blending style and entertainment is an art that few people have the patience or ability to master. Our interview today with Hot 100.5 DJ and avid blogger Elizabethany shatters that notion; everything seems to come so naturally to her that even when she’s working hard it still seems like she’s having the time of her [...]
READ MORE »The CD The DJ Will Have On Replay On D-Day: A Blake Allee Story
Music goes beyond a hobby and becomes a way of life when you listen to hundreds of records just to find that elusive mix that strikes a perfect chord in you. I came upon Blake Allee’s My Best Friends Are Machines mixtape on DatPiff almost a year ago and it’s been cycling through my hip-hop [...]
READ MORE »MC Myopia: Hip-Hop Branding: A Preview
Myopia = The problem of “thinking too small.” Several months ago I began writing an article for TricycleOffense.com about marketing for the underground hip-hop artist. What resulted was a 9 page monstrosity which I’ve since decided to make into a full-blown writing endeavor. What follows is a short preview of that project in which I [...]
READ MORE »Better In The Dark – Episode #140: The Swave Riddle Of The Purple Curse (Guest: Kelen “B Hyphen” Conley)
The Boys Outta Brooklyn once more reunite with their Musical Director, Kelen ‘B Hyphen’ Conley to examine the very peculiar, very short movie career of one Anthony Rodgers Nelson, a.k.a. Prince! From the seminal 80′s musical opus Purple Rain to the incomprehensibly bad Grafitti Bridge (a film one of us says is the worst film [...]
READ MORE »An Evening With “KING DAVID”: D-Why Returns To 123 Pleasant Street
I should have written this article days after this event but I didn’t. Some may call it pure laziness but I have to call it something else. The night of August 25th meant something to me. In my previous article, I chronicled how D-Why and I had met and his rise leading up to the [...]
READ MORE »EGreen: The Benediction
Benediction The form of blessing pronounced by an officiating minister at the closing of a divine service. EGreen is a compelling blend of big-city swag and small town grit; attributes one might come to expect from a successful east coast rapper. But EGreen does more than just repeat the same delivery exhibited by some of [...]
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