Author Nello

Just when you think emcee/rap mogul JAY Z couldn't change the game anymore than he already has, he does it again.  Such is the case with his music streaming service TIDAL being acquired by Sprint earlier t...

Pioneering New Jack Swing trio Bell Biv DeVoe is readying their highly-anticipated comeback album, Three Stripes, which is due for release this Friday Jan. 27th.  An offset of legendary group New Edition a...

I recently got a chance to sit down with rising R&B/Soul singer/songwriter Sevyn Streeter, who is currently on her Girl Disrupted Tour in support of her upcoming long-awaited and highly anticipated debu...

We here at TheHipHopDemocrat are obviously a mostly Hip-Hop based website, but obviously cover a lot of R&B and Soul, as well as some other genres like Jazz, Funk and Reggae at times to name a few others. �...

Westcoast Long Beach emcee, KXNG CROOKED, is one of the most lyrical and greatest emcees of all-time, as well as one of the few more politically charged emcees left in Hip-Hop.  So it should be no surprise...

Westcoast emcee The Game has always been one of the most vivid at painting pictures of his environment growing up in Compton, California. Whether it be with his globally critically acclaimed debut album, Th...

In 2016, after years of grinding, R&B/Soul singer/songwriter BJ the Chicago Kid showed that patience is a virtue and that sometimes, timing is everything.  Whether it be the long time between his actua...

Singer/Rapper and multi-instrumentist, as well as musician Anderson .Paak entered 2016 riding the wave of his big break as one of the most significant contributors on Dr. Dre’s opus 2015 album, Compton: A...

Dreamy, surreal, lighter and sensuous with a heavenly like easy atmospheric blend of Dream Pop and R&B, which harkens back to the likes of such legendary artists as Sade, Janet Jackson, Erykah Badu and ...

Detroit emcee Royce Da 5’9” has always been known as a very ill lyricist and one of the best lyricists there is in Hip-Hop, not only now, but arguably of all-time. Though he is arguably at some of his l...