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Polymathic Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases New Single “Phonics” (feat. Sydney Palmer and Declan Sheehy-Moss)
From Amir Royale I don't think I've ever really felt well-understood by my peers or mentors. Most my life I was outcasted for my passionate and exuberant outlook. "Phonics" was a way for me to define what that felt like — but, furthermore — showcase to others how to combat it. I've had this song sitting in a vault since before the pandemic. Thus, I recruited some of my favorite people in this whole wide world to share the stage for one of my last few "harder" stories to tell. Or, well — at least I think so. Declan Sheehy-Moss (a good friend of the next J. Dilla and Robert Glasper - Cisco Swank); as well as Sydney Kate Palmer (an NYU student of mine) both bring this so beautifully to life — and, I don't know — I just hope you finally get it one day. Maybe, just maybe — I even pray I'll still be here on Earth to know finally what it feels like. That's if God decides I'm lucky enough. I love and miss you all, always. Walk good, take care. 🌺❤️🩹🌺
By StageScene Magazine3 years ago in Beat
Migrant Motel Uses Self-Deprecating Humor To Entertain With New Song & Video 'Shame'
Migrant Motel is making waves in 2023, using self-deprecating humor to reflect on their career thus far with new release 'Shame'. With timely pop culture references combined with a bright and bouncy beat, the song deals with timeless issues that many musicians face: knowing that they possess viable talent – but wondering when the wider world will notice what they have to offer.
By RockNRollBuddha3 years ago in Beat
Polymath Actor, Recording Artist, and Filmmaker Amir Royale Releases His ‘Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented’ EP
From Amir Royale Sophomore year, NYU Tisch’s Clive Davis Institute, 2017. I created the concept of Stories of the Lost, Rich & Tormented as a "Writing the Hit Song: Deep Cutz" homework assignment. Over the course of 14 weeks, I crafted and reworked about 12 or so ideas. Suddenly, my songwriting professor at the time (Eren Cannata of Cove City Sound Studios, Facethouse Records & Warner Chapel Music), directed us to use all the content we created thus far to formulate an EP. This project would then become one we’d pitch and present to potential A&R scouts. It was our final project. I curated 5 of my best records across the class to showcase a conceptual narrative and description of greed, lust, and youth insecurity within American culture. It is the final entry within my four-EP-long music chronicle (dating back to my 2015 EP, This Is for You.). To let this project go free finally—feels like a blessing. Thank you.
By StageScene Magazine3 years ago in Beat
Is 50 Cent the Biggest Troll in the Hip Hop Arena?
The Internet is rife with trolls. Probably the biggest purveyor of trolling is the incendiary website Encyclopedia Dramatica. This digital destination is beyond relentless, restraint, or care on the outside. Deep within it, though, are strands of truth and wit that match or even supersede its spiritual origin, Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.
By Skyler Saunders3 years ago in Beat
Rebel Yell: The Invisibly Adventurous Life of an Almost Rock Star
Whether you’re a street busker, YouTube star, or singing in the shower anything can happen in rock n roll. Sometimes I made a lot of money and most times nothing. I still earn royalties for projects 45 years ago.
By Arlo Hennings3 years ago in Beat
Seven of Machine Gun Kelly’s Most Complicated, Philosophical Quotes Explained
1. “I am weed.” This is no doubt a reference to famed Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s famous ejaculation that, “I don’t do drugs. I am a drug.” A transgressive artist himself, MGK’s casual acknowledgement that altered states of consciousness do not necessarily require an external substance to catalyze them is still a somewhat radical spiritual and biochemical assertion.
By Katie Alafdal4 years ago in Beat
What if the Beatles were Americans?
In the world you know... The Beatles are the best-selling musicial act in human history. They have the most number-one hits in both the United States and the United Kingdom, with worldwide estimated sales of 600 million units. Universally considered the most influential band of all time, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Star formed their union in Liverpool, England, in 1960.
By Lightning Bolt ⚡4 years ago in Beat
Decisions, Decisions
So, what's it going to be? A rap club, or a rock club? Well, obviously, it all depends on how you feel at the time. Oh, and don't worry about your friends Jack, Johnny, James, Jose and the rest of the gang, they've already R.S.V.P’d for both clubs, so you’re good. If you care less about rhythm and more about punching the air and dancing around like a voodoo witch doctor hopped up on coke, then a rock club is for you. If you’re more of a rhythm person, but you want to conserve your energy for the fight that will inevitably break out less than five feet away from you, then your best bet would be a rap club.
By Rashad Lewis5 years ago in Beat
The Worst Exercise Playlist
Anyone who looks at my body knows that I don’t exercise nearly as much as I ought to. I’ve gained forty pounds since the start of this pandemic, in part because I’ve transitioned from an active university lifestyle of walking frantically everywhere while jamming out to sick tunes, into a sedentary lifestyle of sitting in my old satellite chair, munching on whatever food I’ve brought upstairs with me and rewatching old episodes of sitcoms that premiered when I was too young to stay awake through the whole show. But that’s beside the point. Truth be told, I do not live an active lifestyle. Frankly, I never have. For the most part, it’s been due to circumstance that I’ve gotten even a modicum of exercise in. But, Vocal has been pestering me to drop an exercise playlist for a few days now, so here we are.
By Steven Christopher McKnight5 years ago in Beat
