November 11, 2011
A pale skin resembles beauty in Japan, but that no longer doesn’t count for everyone. Hina lives her life according to the ‘B-style’, or the ‘black lifestyle’. This includes going to the tanning salon regularly to become as dark as American hip hop artists. [Thanks Lorraine] You have men/women foolishly bleaching their skin in a bid to look lighter and now this mess. Hina reads the The Source, XXL Magazine, and watches Hip Hop videos and believes that is “black lifestyle”? We are seriously doomed. […]
May 24, 2011
Black Grape Global and Yamaha Music are delighted to present a special benefit concert by the double MOBO Award winning saxophonist YolanDa Brown, to help raise funds for The Japan Society’s Tohoku earthquake relief fund. The concert on Saturday 4th June is to be held at London’s luxurious new entertainment venue ‘Under The Bridge’, costing £20 million and located within the Chelsea Football Club complex at Stamford Bridge. Yamaha Artist YolanDa Brown is widely regarded as the emerging “voice” of mainstream […]
March 11, 2011
Via BBC News The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan since records began has hit the country’s north-east and triggered a devastating tsunami. Japanese TV showed cars, ships and buildings swept away by a vast wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude quake. A state of emergency has been declared at a nuclear power plant but officials said there were no radiation leaks. At least 60 people have been killed by the quake, which struck about 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo. The […]
January 24, 2009
In Japan, Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall music is HUGE!!!! And if you don’t believe me then just watch this. The footage below was filmed at an event that took place last year, in Osaka Japan. I remember back in the 90s when it was thought that if the Reggae art form wanted to achieve international success/popularity (Like Rap/Hip Hop has) then it’s artists had to make the move to America and then sign to major labels. Label executives (who knew nothing about the genre/culture) would then team up reggae artists with Hip Hop/R&B acts and attempt to water down […]
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