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Day: December 17, 2015

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August Alsina Clears The Air About Def Jam Tweets & Dealing With Life’s Struggles Through Music [Video]

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With his brand new album “This Thing Called Life” out for all the world to hear, the always telling August Alsina stopped by the Sway in the Morning studios to catch up with the team. After calling out Def Jam last week for leaking his album one day before the release date we hear Alsina speak from the heart about the situation. Having worked hard and having people to feed he admits the tweets came from frustration. Speaking more about label culture and the way mainstream music functions Alsina preaches the importance of being true to yourself. Dealing with his emotions through making music we hear a good amount of pain in “This Thing Called Life.” Crafting interludes and intros out of late night thoughts it’s inspiring to hear Alsina explain how the music from this album came out.

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Rhythm Roulette w/ Khrysis [Video]

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For the latest installment of Rhythm Roulette, we connected with Khrysis (on the boards with the heat!). We took the Soul Council producer to Nice Price Books in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he picked three random records consisting of First Choice’s “Doctor Love” single, a record from Booker T and The MG’s, and Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings’ Give The People What They Want. Khrysis tried his hand with the Booker T and Sharon Jones records, and ended up making heat with those two. However, it was the “Doctor Love” record that he ended up flipping that made 9th Wonder say “Pon de Replay.”

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Young Roddy: The Kenner Loop (Documentary – Part 4) [Video]

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The time has come for the fourth and final installment of Young Roddy’s The Kenner Loop documentary. Here, Roddy tells Rob Markman his experiences touring with Jet Life — his first substantial time spent outside of the Kenner/NOLA region — and recalls his first the time he realized his music was making a legitimate impact on people. Young Roddy hadn’t released his debut album The Kenner Loop at the time of the interview, but he told Markman that the album already felt like a success, because he knew all of Kenner was behind of him. People from New Orleans had done it, but not many from Kenner (except maybe Jon Batiste).

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