When you get two legends in a room, you know it’s about to be magic. That’s exactly what happened when Majic 102.1’s own Madd Hatta chopped it up with the hilarious Finesse Mitchell. The comedian and actor, always keeping it real, dropped gems about his journey from a civil engineering student to a stand-up king. […]
Brad “Scarface” Jordan — Houston’s own “every rapper’s favorite rapper” — turned 55, and he’s celebrating like a man who earned every year. The iconic MC is hosting a massive 55th Birthday Bash & Concert at the Bayou Music Center (11/14/25), and the city is ready. This milestone hits different. Scarface spent the past few […]
Sometime in ’84 I had to be at a jam at the park when I heard the DJ scatch the intro of this song over and over and had the shell toe Adidas wearing Be-Boys showing out. Man what a magical musical time. Let me adjust my Kangol…now I’ll finish. Two identical twins, TaharQa Aleem […]
In the heat of New York City in 1981, when disco was bowing out and R&B was stepping in to claim its spot, there came The Strikers—seven musicians who didn’t just follow the beat, they built it. Veterans of the scene like drummer Milton Brown, bassist Willie Slaughter, keyboardist Howie Young, guitarist Robert Gilliom, saxophonist […]
Houston’s own Madd Hatta of Majic 102.1 recently chatted with Black-owned media mogul Roland S. Martin for a powerful discussion on the urgent need for the Black community to engage in the political process. Martin didn’t mince words, delivering a compelling message about the real-world consequences of voter apathy, especially with critical elections on the […]
This one put in the super heavy funk file. Back in the 70’s & 80’s some of the best jams came from small labels that would pop up quick and go away just as fast. I looked forward to cutting on the radio and hoping I heard something to light up my soul and “Shine […]
You ever hear a record that takes you straight to the roller rink floor — lights flashing, sweat shining, and everybody moving like the weekend just clocked in? That’s Suzy Q’s “Get On Up and Do It Again.” It’s that feel-good, funk-disco hybrid that defined the early ‘80s — a time when soul grooves were […]
Denroy Morgan dropped a track that lit up dance floors and blurred genres with his reggae-disco-boogie infused jam, “I’ll Do Anything For You.” It was 1981, the tail end of disco, the dawn of boogie, and Morgan, a Jamaican transplant who landed in New York in ’65, had been grinding with his underground reggae group, […]
Discover how Houston R&B artist Jack Freeman is pushing the genre forward with his cinematic new album, Nina, produced by Brian Michael Cox.
There was a brief, beautiful window in the early ’80s when funk was refined, soul was effortless, and the groove was pure. One of those musical moments for me was Sylvia Striplin’s masterpieces, “Give Me Your Love” and “You Can’t Turn Me Away”, songs that never touched the charts or radio but became sacred ground […]
A Polk County elementary teacher is under fire after a video surfaced showing her leading students in a supposedly “funny” birthday ditty that included the lines, “You live in a zoo — you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too,” sung to a 6-year-old Black kindergartner, according to the child’s mother. The […]
Earthquake didn’t hold back on the state of the country. When asked about the nation’s leadership, he called it "foolish."