Ok let’s forget about all the negatives or the hate distributions surrounded when the name Drake is mentioned. Let’s forget about some of the reasons that some “hip-hop” fans don’t like and feel that Drake is not hip-hop. Mind you hip-hop is all about evolution I mean hip-hop/rap is in almost every genre of music but as I step down from my soapbox let’s just talk about the music, the breath of fresh air, the album and the creativeness of Thank Me Later in which as in the final track, to Drake you should as the Timbaland produced title states: Thank Me Now.

Hip hop means so many different things to so many different people. For me it's sitting in the staircase of LG and using a tape player to record ourselves rapping our own lyrics OVER the latest hot rappers vocals. Ghetto ...

Admittedly, I tend to be biased when former group members go solo. Maybe it's the track record of the crashes and burns I've witnessed in the past. Floetry was and is to me nothing short of amazing. Something about their chemistry put me in a unexplicable zone. I've always been on Team Marsha I just was a tad reluctant to hear her completely 'solo'. Also, excuse my late awakening to this album I've been off grid for a minute but I'm getting up to speed very quickly.

Celebrity DJ SynCity & Superstar DJ ROS partnered together to create an unofficial ‘soundtrack’ completely inspired by the Disney blockbuster film Alice in Wonderland, as directed by Tim Burton and released in theatres March of this year. The official title of the compilation is “Alice In Wonderland: The Lost Tape”> It's dubbed as a groove infested sonic ride through Wonderland-making it very appropriately titled. Their goal was to simulate what a house party down the rabbit hole would sound like. The collabo features music by Madonna, Nelly Furtado, Wynter Gordon, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs (just to name a few).

From the moment I heard the single Everything to Me I knew Monica had a hit album on her hands. Everything is produced by Missy Elliott and samples classic Deniece Williams song entitled Silly. Most artist are not even worthy ...