Archive for the tag 'hip hop'

Feb 15

Press: A Conversation With Bianca

Recently I was cleaning up my desktop and came across this interview I did for an independent publication from my hometown, QPunx magazine. I’m not sure if it ever ended up being printed? I’m not sure if they’re still going anymore even? I haven’t seen an issue in a long while. Anyhow, I thought I’d [...]

Jan 25

Link Love: Gold Coast Bloggers, Vegan Chocolate Pistachio Whoopie Pies, Fugazi & more!

  Art source. If you live on the Gold Coast like I do I have some great news! I recently came across a little blogging community that’s started to hold events/meet-ups for bloggers.  Join the Facebook group. The ladies behind blogs In Spaces Between and Sweet Lime & Spiced Tea are the collaborators behind it. [...]

Oct 25

Apakalypse: Truth, Big Dreams, Hard Work & Legacy

Today’s Hip Hop Insight: “Personally, I don’t like it [mainstream hip hop] and I can’t listen to it all. I can’t stand it but I do have to give respect to the artists that are mainstream because they actually made their dreams come true—I respect that. I can’t stand it but I can’t knock these [...]

Oct 22

Atma: Cultivating A Deeper Connection

US hip hop artist Atma is one of my favourite emcees. I find his pursuit of self, spiritual and ancient knowledge as well as quest for cultivation of peace within inspiring. He believes in and lets the following guide him: love, truth, peace, light, creativity, joy, spiritual, inspire, service, relationship, listen, learn, teach, forgiveness, contentment, [...]

Oct 15

A Conversation on Def Jam with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin

I spent this morning watching a live stream of a conversation with Def Jam Recordings founders Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin presented by the New York Public Library and facilitated by Paul Holdengraber the library’s Director of Public Programs. They were there to chat about 25 years of Def Jam and to support the release [...]

Oct 04

Son of Saturn: Finding Positivity in Times of Adversity

Hip Hop Insight: The volatility of the world has nothing to do with my personal positivity. I read somewhere once that inner peace means being like the still waters at deep sea. No matter how chaotic and tumultuous the raging waves above may become, the water deep beneath remains calm and still, completely undisturbed. This [...]

Sep 27

Egypt’s Emcee Rush: Raging Against The Machine Using Music

Today’s thought: To me hip hop is the sound of the people. Everything on earth can be owned by others, property and so on can be owned by the system, the government or the machine NOT art though. Art is and should always be owned by the people and should always speak about and for [...]

Apr 17

Miss Bianca’s Digital Mixtape Numero Uno

Art by SilentAwakening “To me, making a tape is like writing a letter — there’s a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do.” ~High Fidelity. As a teen I’d sit in my bedroom at night and listen to the radio. I’d sit beside [...]

Apr 14

It’s Adventure time! Part II

In honor of expanding on the adventure that is ConversationsWithBianca.com with the addition of ‘My Interviews’ and the wealth of knowledge stored there from some of the brightest, always-questioning, creative, thoughtful minds from the punk & hip hop community worldwide I give you one of my favourite installments (so far) of Adventure Time! Talking candies, [...]

Mar 16

Hip Hop Insight #3

Pharrell by Guerillalove “I’ve come to believe that nothing’s impossible if you can imagine it. There’s nothing new under the sun. When you’re moved, you’re moved, and you should seize the moment to express the feeling. It’s that moment of expression that I define as art.” ~Pharrell. One of my fav hip hoppers and creators [...]

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