About a month ago I stumbled across an image of Q-Tip at the 7th Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival in July. I spend a lot of time reading concert reviews, watching live performances and looking at event photography and I honestly do not think I’ve ever seen a photograph from an event before that conveyed so much energy, well maybe I have – but the photo really stuck in my mind. I found out the photographers name was Mel D Cole, checked out his site – became a little obsessed with his images and inspired by his hustle, and then decided to hit him up for an interview. Luckily he was visiting London for a week in August, and so we arranged for me to catch up with him and ask a few questions backstage at The Root’s show. Hit the jump to read what photographer, Mel D Cole had to say.
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This weekend saw the 7th Annual Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival return to New York, the home and birthplace of Hip Hop – one of the most exciting, influential and popular genres of music in modern culture. Brooklyn Bodega are an organisation and online magazine who are committed to promoting and working with artists and influencers who stand for positive Hip-Hop – the movement are also the organisers behind the world famous Brooklyn Hip Hop festival, and this year they decided to team up with legend, Q-Tip for the event! The line-up included Hip Hop greats, both new and old including Q-Tip (of course), Kendrick Lamar, M.O.P, Marley Marl, Stalley and Ali Shaheed Muhammed. More on the reverse.
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I find it so hard to make time to write this post these days, it’s the one post that takes me a few hours to write. I’ll kick start this week’s post with a new song from Scott Mescudi aka Kid Cudi. It features his mentor, Kanye West and it’s a rock-infused song. He’s so versatile and sensitive with his music and this is no exception, a rock fuelled radio friendly song. More after the cut.
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