Good News... There's Good New Music!... J. Cole

I feel there is a reemergence of good music into the mainstream. (It's about damn time!) I have to give props again to my homie Jabz for putting me on to J. Cole... I'm like a lot of people who are hearing this dude for the first time... So here's a short bio from my one day research...

• J. Cole (born Jermaine Cole) hails from the town of Fayetteville, North Carolina (often mentioned as "The Ville" on his mixtapes)
• Went to St. John's University in 2003 on Academic scholarship and graduated Magna Cum Laude... 3.82 GPA (quite impressive)
• Used school as a ticket to NYC to be in the heart of the music industry
• Dropped one mixtape "The Come Up" before being signed by Jay-Z to his new "Roc Nation" imprint
• Jay-Z heard one song and was impressed and wanted to meet with him...

The song that apparently got him signed happens to be my favourite track from the "The Warm Up" mixtape... "Lights Please"

By 2nd and 3rd fave joints are "Losing My Balance"...

...and "I Get Up"

Navy Goes to W.A.R.!... Feature in Harlem

In the spirit of Hubert H. Harrison, Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, Marcus Garvey, and the many West Indians who helped to shape the identity of Harlem during the roaring 20s…..

Work As Renaissance returns
on Wednesday, August 19, 2009
with a touch of Carnival featuring two premiere talents and a special guest:

Half rapsonian, half poet, wholeheartedly brilliant

NAVY

Seduction’s voice swaying to a reggae beat

HERMINA

From Trinidad to Juilliard to Prospect Park, her words nourish brainstems

SAMANTHA

THORNHILL

These wonderful features will be backed by an endless supply of firepower via various members of the art community, including the ingenious one-man band himself,

NGOMA ,

and Brooklyn’s finest j’ouvert band

KUTTERS RIDDEM

SECTION.

DOORS OPEN AT 8PM.
$7 FOR 1 PERSON/ $10 FOR 2 PEOPLE
BRING AN INSTRUMENT AND PLAY FOR FREE ADMISSION
LA PREGUNTA ARTS CAFE
1528 AMSTERDAM AVENUE AND 135TH STREET
1 TRAIN TO 137TH STREET--CITY COLLEGE