Lemi Ghariokwu and the Legendary Album Covers of Fela Kuti

Fela Kuti is an iconic musician from Nigeria who took every opportunity that he could to critique the corrupt Nigerian government and Nigerian society overall. His lyrics were scathing and thought provoking. When he sung you could hear his frustration and anger with the country that he felt was being held from greatness by the…

Chief Keef Trap Symphony

When people think of Chicago Rapper Chief Keef, many things come to mind. However, one of those things is defiantly not classical music. However the rapper got the help of a classical orchestra to perform his hit song Faneto. It was very interesting to hear the rapper rap about his beefs and and gun toting…

ENERGIZED!

Allan Kingdom has been making music since 2013 and has worked with some of the most successful artist in the industry, but he often doesn’t seek the limelight. His new video for his single Energized bring a special type of energy (for lack of a better word) that the artist hasn’t shown in a while….

Wagner Free Institute of Science

Wednesday I headed to the Wagner free Institute of Science to look at the various Lantern slides brought for m around the city. The lectures presented to us were very educational, but also gave all those in the room a glimpse into the past and how lectures used to be given. The most visual slides…

Tierra Whack- Less Is More

One of the most intriguing creators coming out of Philadelphia is Tierra Whack. To some she may be eccentric, however, she put together one of the most complete musical projects of the year, Whack World. She was able to create a full 15 track album with each track being accompanied by a visual. The most…

MUDBOY

This past week the most viral rapper out, Sheck Wes, released his debut project titled MUDBOY. The cover art for this album is very interesting. Sheck Wes proclaims himself to be a mudboy,  which under his definition means someone who came from nothing or from a bad situation. In the album cover you see the…

Design Facilitating Learning

I am a big fan of the Ted-ed youtube channel. This channel basically creates various animated shorts about different educational topics. Often times the animation for the video compliments the topic. In their most recent video they talked about the myth of 10 labors of the demi-god Hercules. However they used 8-bit animation to give…

Maxo Kream and The New Wave of Gangsta Rap Videos

Maxo Kream is a native of my home town in Houston Texas and over the years his music has started to become more popular around the country. One clear theme in his music is his affiliation with the forum park crips on the southside of Houston Texas. He often talks about criminal acts he performed…

FACES – Art is the Personal

This past week was extremely sad and the music world lost a great talent and human being, Mac Miller, at the age of 26. Miller has been making music professionally since he was 18 years old. Mac’s music was always extremely personal no matter what he was going through in life. I believe he was…

Stop Trying to Be God

Houston Native Travis Scott recently came out with his most commercially successful album to date, “Astroworld”. This album was named after the the six flags amusement that was closed and tore down over a decade ago. Like a true artist Travis invokes a strong overall theme that shows through in all of his work related…