Hip Hop Archive

  • Kalae All Day

    Rapper Kalae Shows and Proves All Day

    The self-proclaimed “love child of Jimi Hendrix and Lauryn Hill” rapper/singer/songwriter, Kalae,  Showed and certainly Proved at the first ever ladies edition of  this Brooklyn Bodega bimonthly event [Show and Prove.] Although the other sister acts, Gypsy Flesh, Zarinah and GNU, definitely brought it, for...

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  • Sybarite Dancers

    Sybarite Dancers Channel Aaliyah

    We tragically lost the stunningly beautiful and talented Aaliyah in 2001 but still today, there are many who refuse to let the memory of her fade away. The Sybarite Dance Company recently honored the “Queen of Urban Pop” with a dark and sexy number (so...

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  • Which came first, the DJ or the Rapper?

    Which came first, the DJ or the Rapper?

    In the case of the Jasmine Solano, it was the DJ. But, while she can rock a set like none other, one fateful day Jasmine turned the tables on her music career and wrapped her always freshly manicured fingers around a mic. Since then, she’s...

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  • Jasmine Solano

    Jasmine Solano Sets it Off

    Award winning Radio Personality, DJ and Performer, Jasmine Solano, or “Miss Electric Punanny to you…” took to The Canal Room stage the other night and quite literally killed it.  Opening for tween favorite, Sean Kingston, Jasmine most definitely set the tone off right for an...

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