We got a chance to sit down with a hip-hop legend. Dres of Black Sheep fame talks to us about the Native Tongues as well as his new project, EvitaN. Their album “Speed of Life” drops today!
The Viewfinder: EvitaN feat. Sadat X, “3 Kings”
What’s better than EvitaN, the team of Black Sheep’s Dres and A Tribe Called Quest’s Jarobi? How about the Native Tongues twosome teaming up with Brand Nubian’s legendary Sadat X for a new song and video? As you may or may not know, Sadat X is, IMHO, one of the most underrated emcees of all time , so to hear his voice blessing the track “3 Kings” is beyond welcome. Both song and video give me fond memories of early ’90s New York…and early ’90s New […]
The Viewfinder: Evitan’s “Who Is This”
EvitaN-the supergroup consisting of Jarobi and Dres-are back with the new video “Who Is This”
Who The Hell Is…EVITAN?
Over the past couple of days, I’ve been deliberating writing a piece about how odd it is that, in the era of perhaps the most civil unrest in three, if not four, if not five decades, there’s been almost no protest music being made. Hell, even in the Clinton era (when things were actually going reasonably well,) we had Rage Against The Machine and latter-day Public Enemy. Even Michael Jackson and Prince took time out from dancing and sex to […]