on the Real: Ill Conscious on New Album, Losing His First-Born Son
Featuring one of the best freestyle performances to grace an on the Real, Baltimore’s Ill Conscious brings us...
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on the Real: Chef Erica Carries on the Haitian-American Experience, Confronting Misogyny in the Restaurant Industry
In part two of our interview with Chef Erica Carries, who previously told her powerful story of surviving...
Emcee, Beatboxer Redrum on Being True to the Elements, Fighting a Life-Threatening Health Scare
At every on the Real interview shoot, we ask the artist being interviewed to “freestyle,” as we use...
Sammus Brings the Black-Girl-Video-Game-Dope-Emcee Magic to Ottobar (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, Senior Content Producer In the 21st century, there is an overwhelming amount of entertainment...
on the Real: Negash Ali on Growing Up an African Migrant in Denmark, How Hip-Hop Spoke to Him as a Black Man
In the latest episode of on the Real, Negash Ali, the emcee-vocalist whose new album The Ascension is...
Illa Ghee on New EP with Sean Price (RIP) ‘Metal Detectors;’ Losing His Mother, Sean, and Prodigy in Three-Year Span
StayUp.News editor-in-chief Roberto E. Alejandro recently sat down for a phone conversation with Bed-Stuy Brooklyn’s Illa Ghee to...
on the Real: The Arsonists’ D-Stroy on Surviving NYC’s Crack Era, and How Gentrification Remixed Bushwick
In the latest episode of on the Real, D-Stroy of the legendary Arsonists discusses his musical inheritance, surviving...
Philly’s PnB Rock Hits Baltimore’s Soundstage, and Baltimore Loves It (Concert Review and Photo Gallery)
By Jack M. Angelo, Senior Content Producer As the summer slowly approaches, a small subsection of the Hip-Hop...
on the Real: Baltimore’s Tahmar on Bringing That Soul Back with ‘M.I.D.N.I.T.E. 3’
In the latest episode of on the Real, Baltimore’s Tahmar, whose M.I.D.N.I.T.E. 3 project was released on February...
Special Report: Chef Erica Carries Shares Her Story of Surviving Domestic Violence
StayUp.News recently sat down for an interview with Chef Erica Carries, owner and operator of Je T’Aime Catering,...