GZA Eastbound and Found
By Nicole Brydson
AUSTIN, TX — Wu-Tang’s the GZA was found today rapping on a stage over on the East Side for the Southbound and Found party. We have sad video evidence.
AUSTIN, TX — Wu-Tang’s the GZA was found today rapping on a stage over on the East Side for the Southbound and Found party. We have sad video evidence.
AUSTIN, TX — Revelers at BrooklynVegan’s showcase at SXSW on Wednesday were disappointed when the GZA, a founding member of rap syndicate the Wu-Tang Clan, billed as the headliner, did not make his promised appearance at Emo’s. Click through for the exclusive video.
Dollar Van Demos, a YouTube upstart founded by Brooklynite Joe Revitte, seeks out and promotes local singers by filming them in the most local form of transportation: the dollar van. Brooklyn’s next generation of talent could be belting it out next to you on your way to work.
On Friday night, as the Book Expo kicked off at the Javits Center, the crowd at PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo was kickin’ it with KRS-ONE, the zen master of their new imprint I Am Hip Hop. The first book to drop? The Gospel of Hip Hop.
Last Saturday afternoon, many Brooklynites happened upon Habana Outpost on Fulton Street in Fort Greene to find philosopher/rapper KRS-ONE preaching to his disciples.
Voletta Wallace, mother of the Notorious B.I.G., along with the cast, director, and writers of Notorious, which she co-produced, spoke to a captivated audience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music about the process of making the biopic of her son.
It isn’t often that New Yorkers get an intimate peek behind their neighbors’ closed doors. Even more unusual is a peek inside the intimate life of our state’s chief executive. But I digress.
As a child growing up in a 25-story filing cabinet for families and young professionals on West 53rd Street, I lived in apartment 10E. When trick-or-treating or selling my annual Christmas raffle tickets for school, I would get an intimate window into how my neighbors lived. We all have our domains, and regardless of how small they might be, they are ours. But what are we all doing behind those doors?
