Shafiq Husayn and similar artists

Carlos Niño is one of a kind. With a brain that vaults fearlessly past the clouds and feet planted firmly in the pavement, the brown Niño has midwifed...

I'Ced suffers from an unfortunate and tragic disease. It's called 'realism.' The 30-something musician, vocalist and producer hails from the midwest, ...

Shafiq Husayn is the man behind the curtain. The lone co-writer ever employed by Badu, the Bronx-raised, L.A.-cultivated beatsmith has been mastering ...

D'angelo has kept listeners captivated for 14 years since Voodoo. Through tribulations and false starts, the grit, honesty, and soul of his sophomore ...

The Grandmaster of the SP-1200, the Elohim of breaks, Shafiq Husayn, is readying another full-length manifestation.  After cutting his teeth with Rhy...

THIS TRACK IS SO CONFUSING. It literally stops in the middle and takes on a whole new vibe. Despite how trippy the lil fade and cut is at the halfway...

BadBadNotGood is a triad of young white Canadian musical prodigies. Matthew Tavares, Alex Sowinski and Chester Hansen met in college and bonded over t...

Amiri Baraka was born Leroi Jones, but for the poet/playwright/activist, he soon outgrew the shell of a name that did not reflect the strength and lin...

With her latest single "Family," mindtravellin' expert and songstress supreme Fatima is nearing completion on her debut album. The London-based artist...

This guy Sly 5th Ave is a beast!He's taken some of 2013's biggest pop hits in the black cannon and re-recorded them as orchestral covers... in his dam...

Is this deja vu?Frank William Miller Jr. is an enterprising young man I met through the Internet, right around the time I met Kenny Fresh. Frank has r...

The all-powerful press release For Lord Echo's cover of Pharoah Sanders' "The Creator Has A Master Plan" states:"New Zealand instrumentalist and produ...

Reginald Omas Mamode may have a name that sounds like it was picked up from the cutting room floor of Coming To America, but the artist is not looking...

If you're out and about in Los Angeles, you have no doubt seen Chris Clarke at some point. He's hard to miss. Far from shy, always beaming with positi...

After making waves covering Kendrick Lamar and Justin Timberlake, the prodigal instrumentalist Sly 5th Ave is back with another installment in his cov...

Since learning that Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner was a reluctant solo artist on last years' Golden Age of Apocalypse, I was expecting the next solo eff...

Bilal is a timeless artist. There are few cats that can go from being on a major music company (with J Dilla and Dr. Dre producing on their debut effo...

Shafiq Husayn has been making music at a higher level for over two decades. Starting out as a producer for Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate conglomerate in the...

Myth building is never a tidy endeavor. The process can be messy, offensive, inconvenient, impractical and strange. But a myth can maintain longer and...

Blu's long awaited major label debut, NoYork!, is still in the pipeline it seems, even though Warner Bros. themselves have yet to say a word about it....