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Ballin PR founder Nicole Balin hit me up
last week to get my opinion on promo CDs,
anti-piracy drops, album streams, and attempting to keep an artist’s work off the internet while still getting it reviewed in publications that have three to four month lead times...
I have two big items of note regarding
this week’s Adam B Experience podcast. First, the show
starts off with Skillz’s 2008 edition of “The Rap Up." Second, I announce the rules of the first ABX contest where you can take home some great CDs!
A month or so ago I was at
a show with former Artist Of The Week Deep
of 2 Hungry Bros and he handed me a CD by Jav aka Rapmononov, recommending I give him a listen. The album turned out to be dope, which really shouldn’t have been much of a surprise...
Jake Lefco makes some really amazing videos and
his latest, for his song "Teeth Chatter," continues in
that tradition. As an added bonus the clip features over half a dozen B-Listers in it, making it an instant Adam's World classic. Enjoy!
2009 is primed to be a heck of
a year for me. I’m already planning a trip
to LA (which I will chronicle here) and I’ve laid the groundwork to be able to take advantage of just about any opportunity that comes my way. As longtime readers know, however, no year can officially start without a look...
It’s 4:30am on Saturday, December 20th. Rakim and
Black Thought are long gone as the final Hip-Hop
show at the Knitting Factory in NYC ended nearly an hour earlier. Now the only people left are the staff, a few select friends, and me. Chaz Kangas and I decide to give ourselves the grand tour...
You could piece together my top ten rap
albums of 2008 by going through my five part
Top 25 Albums of 2008 series, but since that would take some effort RapReviews decided to make your life easier (wasn’t that nice of them?) by putting up my list of top rap albums from the year that was.
Influenced by everyone from Nine Inch Nails to
Lauryn Hill, Farchild is an artist who defies categorization.
Her debut album, Chivalry Has Died, is a testament to what can happen when a person refuses to allow themselves to be boxed in by genre specifications. According to Farchild, “I’d be...
This is the video for the title track
of Vinnie's upcoming album (which came in at #7
on my year end list). It's extremely creative and visually stunning. Oh, and it goes without saying that there's plenty of explicit content. Enjoy!
Here we are. We’ve reach the best of
the best, the crème de la crème, the pinnacle
of album greatness for 2008. Yes, it’s the top five albums of the year and the list features something soulful, something downtempo, something Hip-Hop, something rock and something blues.
With subgenres of holiday Hip-Hop such as hood
Christmas music, booty Christmas music, and even horrorcore Christmas
music, there's no reason for your holiday office party to be so damned lame...
We have reached the top ten of 2008
and boy what a mix we have here. Two
talented emcees, a rock band with a great sense of humor and songwriting ability, an Estonian pop singer and an artist that’s a little bit country make up albums 10-6 in this year’s top ten.
There was a fascinating development last week in
the ongoing battle that is The RIAA vs. Everyone
On Earth. Tired of taking individual music pirates to court in what usually ends up being fruitless endeavors, the RIAA is now looking to circumvent the legal system altogether by teaming up with ...
Who says I have to wait until Christmas
to give all of my B-Listers a gift? Today,
two full days before the holiday, I have a very special Christmas Eve Eve edition of The Adam B Experience ready for your listening pleasure. It’s an hour of great music and best of all, it’s free!
This week I sat down with TVBS' Tony
Kirkham to find out more about the band's latest
release, El Monstruo, why they parted ways with their label, Bodog Music, and what they ended up learning after spending the better part of a year and a half on the road.
All three pics are from last night's event
at The Knitting Factory NYC.
Albums 15-11 on my year end Top 25
are filled with artists that are sure to get
you moving, including a veteran emcee that infuses plenty of reggae into his work, Minnesota’s finest rap collective, a danceable duo from Brooklyn, a group that sets the vibe like Sublime and 311 used to, and...
I have a fantastic interview with political emcee
Paris that just went up on beyondrace.com. The feature
covers everything from whether or not he feels Barack Obama represents real change, to having to take Paris Hilton to court in an emcee vs. heiress showdown. Check it out at...
Last night I attended the birthday celebration for
Sean "Ope" Williams at 218 in NYC. Ope is
the CEO of Ope Entertainment and the creator of both the upcoming sneaker documentary Know You Got Sole! and the internet radio show Obsessive Sneaker Disorder. He's also a former Artist Of The Week...





















The Necessity of Promo CDs