[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="540"] Warren Spector[/caption] I finally got my dream Q&A with Warren Spector himself for GameNGuide. Here is an excerpt below: "GameNGuide: Considering your thirty plus years as a designer, did you ever see the industry getting into academia the way it has? Warren Spector: Oh hell...
I know I've been MIA for quite some time but it's been for a good reason. For the past week and a half, my day job has been taking up a lot of my time. What's this day job? Freelance news reporting for iTech site, GameNGuide. Check out...
BMF: The Rise and Fall of a Hip-Hop Drug Empire was released on Netflix this week and it brought me back to an interview I did with then Atlanta's Creative Loafing Editor-In-Chief Mara Shalhoup. This interview was actually done around the time she released her book detailing...
Above (Lacrae at the 2013 ASCAP Pre-Grammy Brunch in Hollywood + Yolanda Adams at the 2012 NAACP Gospel Concert in Houston + Texas Southern's 2011 Homecoming Gospel Concert with Le'Andria Johnson) I was reading Twitter earlier this week and saw Lacrae(Reach Records) mention that he finally received his...
So it looks like reports are saying that Baton Rouge native Lil Phat was assassinated by a Russian mobster for snitching to the police about a stolen car ring. Wow!! This is an opinion I wrote for Raprehab around the time of his murder. Around that time, Melvin...
I interviewed Mann a couple of years ago around the time his "Buzzin" track and the complementary remix with 50 Cent was released. After Mann's World was released, he sort of disappeared. Good to know that he's come back with the short but awesome Lisa EP. Mann...
Snoop Lion - Reincarnation "Reincarnated is pretty much about his love of weed, his love for women and how awesome Rastafarianism is. Smoking weed and taking on a hippy lifestyle doesn’t make one Rastafarian; it’s ashamed that Snoop doesn’t realize that well into his years. That simple...
Baton Rouge, Louisiana will forever hold a place in my heart. It's where I wrote my first real news story, earned my first awards, gained my political awareness and even the place where I lost my virginity. It was also where I really honed in...
It was 2011 SXSW and I was waiting for an interview. As I walked into this club in Austin, I heard this hypnotic bass and this guy with peculiar hair rhyming like no tomorrow. Come to find out, it was Rittz performing "High Five" in the middle of...
Sure I missed out on Bilal's debut 1st Born Second but, things changed once I got a chance to review the breathtaking Airtight's Revenge. In fact, it was one of my favorite albums of the last five years because "Levels" and "Flying" stay in heavy rotation on whatever...
