Is R&B a genre? Is gospel a genre? Are hip-hop groups musicians? The first, and arguably most interesting question, might never be answered. The word “genre” is just a meaningless name for a vague grouping of genres, so it is pointless or even wrong to try to label any musical group. Some groups seem to…
16 bars is the average amount of an audio track that includes the track’s unique audio. For instance, you get a 16th bar of music that includes a melody, and a 16th bar of music without. For example, the most common 16th bar in a single song is 2 minutes 12 seconds. There are many…
Amar Lee’s hip-hop name is likely to increase his popularity but will the rapper be able to make the transition to mainstream fame in time? Last month, he claimed he was being “harassed and stalked” by internet trolls following a rap fight with the “American rapper” Eminem. The rapper, who was born Amamar Lee, said…
Gangsta rap, to me, isn’t a genre. It isn’t an industry. It is a way of life. That’s how it’s perceived now. I don’t think it gets any better than it ever was. That’s what has me so angry as I sit here and I look at how gangsta rap has been portrayed and made…
It was a lot easier not to. But we had done an internal trial of not having an active voice button at all on the device, where you would just press it and the music would play. We did that and found the music was better on the device. So, we looked at the other…
No, you can be just as productive without an MP3 player. Music is a valuable learning tool, and a very portable way to make music and connect to it. You can play music anywhere, and you can send it via email, email attachments to friends, and web links back and forth across computer, mobile device,…
The average cost of a gram of the drug is $1,074 in 2014, according to a drug pricing research firm. That means an ounce of a particular type of drug could cost $8,800. Some experts believe prices will go up as the market is opened up. “There’s almost no price in the country that isn’t…
Yes. Can this be done well enough? No, I don’t hear that. There are a lot of artists out there who use samples when they should really be rhyming. I can’t stop rap. I can’t stop singing and dancing. I’ve started, and I’m not stopping.” “And then there’s artists who aren’t rapping, who are singing…
Yeah (Loudly) Yeah (Loudly) Lyrics taken from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/yanno/dunkel.html After a successful showing earlier in the summer, the 2015 U.S. Championship at Long Beach on Oct. 9 will have a total prize pool of $150,000, with the majority of the money guaranteed by Valve. That makes the contest one of the largest in CS:GO’s history, the…
This is the way we are using the name “Omar” in the community. The first four letters mean OG in Arabic (الي). This is a shortened version of an Arabic name Oman . “Omar” is a shortened version of Oman . We are proud to announce that we have partnered with Ali-G and Ali-Zad to…