Kenya Allmond (me)

I attended a talk and book signing for The Anthology of Rap with editors Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois.  Also among the panelists were Common and Kurtis Blow who both gave performances which I captured on video.

Last week I heard in the news that Prince was cracking down on YouTube and eBay for not protecting his copyrights. What I am reading in the news is that he is removing grainy videos of his concert in the UK as well as pirated music and videos. There has been no mention of the [...]

Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t listen to hip hop. My musical selections are limited to jazz, neosoul, R&B ballads, and contemporary gospel. “You’re old”, some say. “What happened to you?” others say. My question is what happened to hip hop? Back in the 80s and 90s, hip hop was real music. The [...]