Scott Poulson-Bryant has graced the pages of this site before. The award-winning journalist is a seminal figure in the emergence of the hip-hop generation in popular culture, having been one of the founding editors (and coining the name) of Vibe Magazine, serving as a contributor to Spin, co-hosting a VH-1 panel show, and authoring “Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of the Black Man in America”, as confrontational a book as has ever been written about the topic of black male sexuality […]
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A Moment With: Scott Poulson-Bryant
The music-writing bug hit me pretty early in life, but it didn’t strike me as a viable option (for various reasons) until I was in my mid-teens. Starting with the creation of The Source, young urban culture finally got a voice in the print media mainstream, It was closely followed by Quincy Jones’ magazine venture, Vibe. From the first issue of the magazine I saw (with a striking photo of Treach from Naughty by Nature on the cover), I was […]
Critical Mass: What Does Everyone Think of Prince’s “20ten”?
Despite the fact that the internet is dead, people have been tossing around Prince’s new “20ten” like wildfire. Hell, the album hasn’t been released in the U.S. (and has no American release date scheduled) and it’s being given away with newspapers in Europe…what are we Stateside Prince fans supposed to do? I’ve had the album for about a week, and totally intended to write my own review of the album, but over the course of the past several days, a […]