Jasper Brown

pur·pose·ful - New Album now available on digital/streaming platforms. CDs also available via Bandcamp - | #prince4ever 💜🖤

[Jasper Brown @jasper__brown]

From the Official Video for “Still” (prod. by @16BitSpit). Filmed and Directed by @Big7evn for Reel Geneous Media. 🙏🏾 Link to Full Video: https://t.co/MvmzriLOQQ

#JasperBrown #16BitSpitBeats #ReelGeneousMedia #JasperBrownPurposeful #OldHeadRaps #RapHandsExtravaganza #Twizzlers

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

On Sunday, October 31, 1976, Halloween night, Parliament-Funkadelic’s performance of “Standing on the Verge of Getting It On” / “Undisco Kidd” was captured live at The Summit in Houston, Texas, during the early stretch of the P-Funk Earth Tour. The concert was later issued as part of the 83-minute video release “George Clinton: The Mothership Connection,” released in 1998 and reissued in 2001.

The tour grew out of the world built by Parliament’s “Mothership Connection” and unfolded as Parliament’s “The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein” and Funkadelic’s “Tales of Kidd Funkadelic” and “Hardcore Jollies” were entering the marketplace. Backed by major Casablanca Records investment, including a reported $275,000 production budget, the P-Funk Earth Tour became a theatrical milestone in Black music performance, with Jules Fisher’s stage design, elaborate costumes, special effects, and the now-iconic Mothership landing turning funk into full-scale arena mythology.

The Houston footage shows a powerful mid-1970s P-Funk lineup in motion: George Clinton, Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy” Haskins, Glenn Goins, Garry Shider, Calvin Simon, Grady Thomas, Ray Davis, Cordell “Boogie” Mosson, Bernie Worrell, Michael Hampton, Jerome Brailey, Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington, and the Horny Horns lineup featuring Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Richard Griffith, and Rick Gardner.

Because the Halloween concert was professionally filmed and later preserved through official video release, this Houston date remains one of the clearest surviving documents of the P-Funk Earth Tour’s early Mothership-era spectacle, a moment when Black American funk, rock, theater, humor, technology, and cosmic imagination all got down on one stage.

[Keith Murphy @murphdogg29]

Prince created a monster. No weak links in the OG Time. Murderer's Row of talent, musicians, characters. The "hypeman" (Jerome) was a star. Morris = beyond COOL. Jimmy & Terry = greatest production duo EVER. Jesse = guitar God. JB and Monte were killers. And P was the visionary.

[O.G. @GRReynolds3]

The Time - Jerk Out (Arsenio Hall Show)

[The Rap Music Plug Podcast @rapmusicplugpod]

🚨 Nickelus F joined The Rap Music Plug Podcast for an interview 🚨

We discuss his legacy, the greatness of rap’s best writers

and the North Star underpinning The Undisputed & this current chapter of his career

Tune in June 10 🎙️

RMPP Patrons - check feeds for early access!

[Funkatopia @funkatopia]

SHOW YOUR LOVE! Born on this day, June 1, 1960, The Baddest, Mr. Jesse Johnson. While widely known as the guitarist extraordinaire of Morris Day and The Time, his solo albums are the stuff of legend. Working with Prince helped to solidify his notoriety and launch him into the forefront of greatness. His blistering performances created standout moments across all of The Time albums, as well as his guest appearances and production contributions to projects like Wendy and Lisa, Tamara and the Seen, Da Krash, and many others. And his own hits still stand the test of time with funkafied greats like Can You Help Me, Be Your Man, Crazay (with the late Sly Stone), Baby Let's Kiss, and more.

Funkatopia has been blessed enough to welcome him to the show on 3 separate occasions. The last being what he announced would be his final interview (https://t.co/NZU0sSjfqk). Which we certainly hope isn't true, because we can't get enough stories from the maestro. Happy birthday Jesse!

[Brohbliv @ohbliv]

KURIO out now 🧩 🧩 https://t.co/cOSmTFygju

[WINO WILLY @winowilly_]

Cooked while at the Laundromat.

What’s the best detergent to help with dirt??

[dash lewis // gardener @gardenerjams]

vordul mega popped up at a gig at park slope venue young ethel's in july 2025 and since then, has appeared as a solo artist on several bills

for @hearingthingsco, i interviewed him and many others about his life, influence, and unexpected return

link in comments

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

This archival footage captures rapper Heavy D during a pivotal 1994 appearance on BET’s Video Soul. Beyond announcing the release of his definitive album, 'Nuttin' But Love,’ strategically slated for release on his 27th birthday, this interview highlights the profound camaraderie defining what is considered the golden era of Black American television broadcasting.

In a brilliant display of showmanship, Heavy D unseals a private artifact kept intact for seven years: a humorous, handwritten warning left by host @DonnieSimpson in a shared limousine in 1987. This segment beautifully preserves the dual nature of the 90s: uncompromising artistic discipline balanced by a deeply human, communal spirit.

"Part of me being great is working with great people. I'm not just great on my own.” — Heavy D

[Screenise @screenisemovie]

Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson - “White Men Can't Jump” reunion

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

“She needs to be singing to the whole world.”

Those were the words of the legendary Roger Troutman, after he discovered the incredible Shirley Murdock. Watch him speak on bringing Shirley Murdock's gift to the world, followed by Murdock’s 1988 video of "Husband.”

[Andrew Barber @fakeshoredrive]

A true gem:

Roc Marciano killing the booth on Rap City: Tha Basement when he was part of Busta Rhymes' Flipmode Squad

Summer 2000...

[highlydustedmusic @80sBank]

I was hunting down anything
Jay Dee related during this period. So when this Jazzy Jeff EP hit the locals around ’02, it wasn't even a thought.
And this EP & the album that followed for Jeff were dope as hell
Jay Dee & Baatin 🕊️
Peace to T3 & Jazzy Jeff
"Are You Ready"
'02

[Etan Thomas @etanthomas36]

Ran into Maryland Terp Royalty on the train Juan Dixon and Lonny Baxter. These cats were the truth. What Juan was able to do in college at his height, he was unstoppable. And all the ppl who I’m sure always told him he was too small but he proved them all wrong. Much Respect 👊🏾

[eu-IV @euIVmusic]

knx and ohbliv. output blew my mind

[dj short @_DJShort]

D'Angelo covering 'The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker' by Prince

[Reagan Gomez @ReaganGomez]

VRA, CRA, Roe v Wade, imagine your generation fights for & GETS these historic wins & 50/60 yrs later you are still alive to watch the country piss it all away…

[Moog Synthesizers @moogmusicinc]

When @numanofficial pressed a single note on a Minimoog for the first time, the future opened up. Guitars suddenly felt like the past, and this synthesizer felt like what was coming next.

“Without that chance meeting,” Gary says, “my life would’ve been an entirely different thing.”

Watch the full video: https://t.co/OVAo3ieO36

[Brohbliv @ohbliv]

I promise yall this is the last alias/alter ego I create 😭 https://t.co/AyDpsKkuJ5