If you have read the Weekly Music Commentary for a while, you understand how I feel about the entire world of entertainment. As I have written before, “with the growth of technology the world grows increasingly smaller“. While I sit in my corner of South Florida in the US, this article is being read byRead More
Author: Edward Reid
Is Lil’ Wayne Okay?
Who is the hottest rapper today? Depending upon whom you ask that question you may get various answers. I remember asking a friend who he thought was the top rapper right now, and he said definitely Lil’ Wayne. A lot of folks reading this week may disagree, but he should be included if there isRead More
Against All Odds
Fantasia Barrino Overall, about half (51%) of teen moms have a high school diploma compared to 89% of women who didn’t have a teen birth. Young teen mothers are even less likely to graduate from high school. Fewer than four in ten (38%) mothers who have a child before they turn 18 have a highRead More
Trying Something Different
Robert Glasper When you think about the different genres within the music industry, they seem to divide musicians like nation’s borders divide the population of the world. Genres are used more by music executives to categorize music for record sales purposes. I learned about genres early as I remember presenting a dance record I wasRead More
Youth is the Hope of Our Future
Coco Jones The title of this weeks’ post is a quote from Jose Rizal, a reformist and nationalist prominent in the history of the Philippines. Rizal was a polymath; he attended medical school and was a practicing physician, as well as an artist, a poet and essayist, additionally remembered as a political figure. He accomplishedRead More
It’s a Family Affair
Tamar Braxton Recently the entertainment world has been buzzing with news from singer/reality show star Tamar Braxton. She is an integral character on one of televisions’ most successful reality shows, Braxton Family Values, a show that follows the lives of the sister musical group The Braxtons. Also, Tamar stars in a spin-off of the showRead More
Turning it All Around
Charlie Wilson Next weekend here in South Florida we will welcome a large yearly concert called Jazz in the Gardens. It is held at Sun Life Stadium and features some of the biggest names in jazz and R&B music all together on stage for a two-day event. There are so many artists whom I wouldRead More