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CMJ Media Meet-n-Greet Co-Hosted By Ariel Hyatt & Cyber PR

By Rab Bakari • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Events, Music

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CMJ Media Meet-n-Greet Co-Hosted By Ariel Hyatt & Cyber PR.
This event took place during the CMJ in New York city at Sutra Lounge 16 1st Avenue (near 1st street) from 5-7PM this Tuesday evening.
I was glad to be there by invitation of Ariel Hyatt and Christina Duren.
Local, national and international media & bloggers, united! CMJ [...]



Reinventing R&B History for the New Century - Raphael Saadiq

By Rab Bakari • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Music

How Raphael Saadiq honors the past and blends in the present
The Way I See It (Columbia), the third solo album by Raphael Saadiq, is one of the more formally intriguing I’ve heard in a while. On it, a highly respected R&B veteran directly mimics soul music as it sounded in the decade prior to disco.



MySpace possibly excludes independent music artist

By Rab Bakari • Sep 30th, 2008 • Category: Music

There will be an “exodus” of music artists from MySpace in a row over the website’s new music download service, a record label boss has warned.
Independent record labels have cried foul after failing to reach a deal for their acts to appear on MySpace Music.
“MySpace has been floundering lately already, and people have been moving [...]



Fela is on Broadway…well sort of!

By Rab Bakari • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Africa, Features

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is one of Africa’s and possibly the world most revered, innovative musician of the latter part of the 20th century. He was from Nigeria. Fela is usually branded as a musician first then political activist second.
He recorded over 40 albums and 500 hundred songs. His self-titled Afro-Beat fit right in with the music [...]



The State of popular Music In Africa

By Rab Bakari • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Music

African music is being scrutinized. A few weeks back I posted a review/release about a HipLife Generation CD.
Read Here! Today I will allow African Musical connoisseur and World Music radio jockey of First World Music; Akenataa Hammagaadji laments on the state of what passes off as African music particularly in response to the post mentioned above. [...]



Allow Me To Introduce Mysef! My Name is … Rab!

By Rab Bakari • Jan 3rd, 2008 • Category: African Cup of Nations GHANA 2008, DJaying, Features, Food, Graffiti, Lead Story, Music, Politics & Culture, Sci-Fi, Tech, Uncategorized

I decided to make this my first post. I would like to introduce myself . I am Rab Bakari. Connections to USA and Ghana. I am a Tech; Sci-Fi; Apple; Football (the game that really uses ‘the foot’); Graffiti; Music and Food enthusiast! I am a child of the golden years of the Hip Hop [...]