K. Gates, or whatever he is answering to these days, is was photographed with a Nigerian Basketball Player named Festus Ezeli when all the hoopla of The NBA All Star Games were happening in LA. He seems change his name more often than I can keep up with these days. Thus, I did not even know what to put in the headline of this Blog Post. Last year he was calling himself "The Savior Of New Orleans; in an interview with Tommy Sotomayor, he did not say he was calling himself God but did say the t...

Jezzy and Rapper Nice Gunz have known each other for some years now and though they continue to rock with each other, Jezzy now has to give more of his time to his new baby Daughter. She resembles her Daddy a lot and is growing so fast. In the image above, she like a new born, but a new image shows her looking out in expectation into the world.

It is great to see Jezzy stepping up to nuture his your one but he still made time to show love to his best bud by sharing his new tracklist for his u...

If you ever wanted proof on how famous Jay Z is, hear it for yourself! How you ask? Well, Professional Voice Artist are narrating news from the Brooklyn Rapper. You would have to be living under a rock or totally out of touch with Pop Culture to miss the news and headlines about Jay Z calling Kalief Browder a Prophet. Read with your ears and listen to The Podcast from a Huff Post Black Voices Spoken Edition in iTunes. The Podcast which segued from Kalief Browder's untimely ...

Jay Z often reminds us in his music and also in many interviews that his life story has been a journey filled with sin, change, and lots of blessings. Most recently, we shared his opinionated vocals in a New York Times an Artistic Video and it is obvious that Jay Z is becoming more vocal about issues affecting Black Men who more often fall victim to police brutality and longer prison sentences than white males.

Rumors keep swirling about Jay Z responding to Beyonces's Lemonad...

I can relate to Jay Z not just because I love Rap Music but because he grew up and came of age, living in a housing project just like I did. Though our stories may be playing out differently, I love him as a person and respect his "murder everything moving mentality". ...

If a picture couldn't make up for a thousand words, we probably wouldn't be sharing this one. Nice Gunz often includes his best friend Jezzy in his rhymes because he is in fact his real right hand. As you can see from the image below, this post is probable long overdue. It's Jezzy and Nice Gunz on some ride or die Ryda Muzik ish.


(L-R) Jezzy (MelphBoy), Nice Gunz

We had to put these to on together as we tell you that Nice Gunz is working on lots of new music. Listen to how Nice Gunz follows s...

The Good News is that we can bring you content that is relevant to our conversations. We love creating brand awareness for upcoming Artist, businesses, products and services. We may not be the first everytime and we certainly do not operate traditionally like a lot of Blogs/News sources, by letting the years guide our post. Who says something made in 1980 is not relevant to our conversations today? We do try to share the right content at the right time. Today, we are all over his track, f...

Okay, the last time we shared something super duper fly with you from the Ryda Muzik Family, it was the lyrical genius of BTY Young'N and his vulgar spit game on BTY. When the motorcycle skid off in the black and white video for the song, we knew it was only a matter of time before we heard from Labelmate Nice Gunz. Check out what we know will be a familiar tune below.

His latest track goes all the way in on that **ck Up Some Commas Beat, We don't know what Future is doing these days but this ...

Coming highly recommended and even showing up on Nice Gunz Instagram, the Rapper reminded us that there is so much talent all around us. This Pompeno Beach Artst seemed to come from nowhere making lots of noise. He has a sound that Nice Gunz has on replay on his playlist and now I am really needing to hear more of him coming through my speakers to.

At some point we all have to Boss our life up, if we want to move forward and make progress. That means we have to balance the time that we are wa...

Is it true that "most of the marketing promotions....don't deliver anything of interest" The failure, according to information contained in the March Issue of Website Magazine, is the result of self sabotage because data is not used properly. For Marketers, the approach may be all about data and analytics but for influencers like Xilla Valentine whose interviewing Celebrities, Blogging, and doing stand up, its about performance and knowing what to do to stay connected to his fanbase.

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Most people who consider themselves a part of Hip-Hop Culture can appreciate House Parties like the ones that took place in the House Party Movie, remember the high top fades that seem to grow like pinnochos nose. Parties have always been a way to connect people and music and the Block Parties were how the best DJ's brought crowds together to enjoy themselves, make love connections and the courtyards often mimcked the hippie scene of the 70's and everyone was just free drink, smoke green and ...

The Life Of Pablo is finally here but it took us on a roller-coaster ride before we could even get what I would call a tease of Tidal Streaming Love, giving us a taste of what the flavor of the album is like. According to Kanye, a gospel sound is not the only thing that makes this album a lot different than what we are use to when it comes to Kanye Music. Kanye's Twitter Rants have made it clear that his Pablo Album will only be released via Tidal's Streaming Service which is something that w...

For Rapper Nice Gunz and Rapper Kaotik its all about the grind, making music and living life. Nice Gunz just released a new song called Hard Life and Kaotik a video called All A Dream. The two present a great contrast to contemplate. While Nice Gunz is keeping it real by including real life lyrics in his songs, detailing struggles and his determination to make his audience really feel his words, he wants to connect, he wants to acheive fame and fortune or what some may call the fruits of his ...

I'm a member of the Viscom Community Sharing Site called My Voice. The site gives me a chance to earn rewards for participating in polls which usually require only about 3-4 minutes of my time. For my participation I earn point, usually 50-100 at a time and I score gift cards to cool stores like Star Bucks, Sephora and iTunes. Various stations under Viacom's umbrella are listed with content updates on upcoming programming, including links for watching videos that have not been added to the si...

Okay so we have been having some technical difficulties and it took Blog Xilla to help break some of our unfortunate bad technical luck. I'm so pleased to be sharing again I almost want to go off topic but I won't. I can't because I absolutely feel like it is high time for me to share Blog Xilla, The Almighty or dare I say Xilla Valentine. His new website can be found at xillavalentine.com. The site is a relaunch of what use to be marriedtotheblog.com with the same healthy mix of laughter, cr...

Like Kanye West said "The prettiest people do the ugliest things....." those lyrics sort of put a lot of emphasis on visual appearance and also on our actions. The way we look and the things we do will get noticed so when it comes to food, I like mine to look a certain way, by time it makes it to my table, for serving. If you don't know, I set a goal to create 7 cost efficient meals musings as many healthy and fresh ingredients as I could. The first was a Romaine Chicken Gizzard Salad & Soup ...

With food, when we mix flavors a creation is born, stimulating the palette and giving us pleasure. FYI (For your information) TI owns a Soul Food Restaurant called Scales 925 in Atlanta. It's upscale eating for the city that is vastly becoming known as Black Hollywood. The menu is full of Southern Cuisine and great for Atlanta's down south crowd. Okay, I was a bit taken back and surprised by the news, even though I had seen the "Whatever...

GQ Of The Year Awards was enough to make me covet a recipe on the United Healthcare Website for a Fruit punch beverage that included all the right flavors (add vodka for adults) A good drink can be refreshing and also a great way to celebrate. We are all celbrating Nice Gunz and not just because he is man enough to hold onto his dream of making music.


(L-R) New Orleans Rappers, Nice Gunz, BTY Young'N

Yes Family and friends are relieved that the case against the "In The Ghetto" Rapper has been d...