Victor Trammell

There's a difference between being an aspiring talent with development potential and an artist with their own business who is working toward expanding an enterprise, not just their personal brand.

There are many keys to being successful in the record business. The key that will be focused on in this music review column is consistency.

One of the biggest misconceptions about organic hip-hop music that comes straight from the type of neighborhoods where the genre originated is that the songs don't have a meaning.

You have three main kinds of hip-hop performers. There is the rap artist who expresses the environment they come from while naming off the vicarious experiences of others.

On January 21, 1965, a hip-hop culture and music icon was born in New York City, New York's borough of Brooklyn. A few calendars shy of 20 years later, this preeminent figure would start on a path that eventually rocketed him to prominence.

Tamar Braxton, 40, and Vince Herbert, 44, got married on November 27, 2008. The pair met in 2003 through Toni Braxton, Tamar's elder sister who is also involved in the music and television industry.