12 years ago, a new Ruff Ryders signee, known for his free styling abilities and winning audiences over on BET, made a cameo appearance on the 2nd installment in the Fast & the Furious series, 2 Fast 2 Furious. Jin Au-Yeung had a small role as Jimmy the Mechanic, to the delight of Hip-Hop heads and […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Jin’s Cameo in 2 Fast 2 FuriousOh, 1999. It was a simpler time. My 56k modem was helping me fly down the information superhighway. Flat screen TVs looked like giant cereal boxes. The world was freaking out about the upcoming Y2K bug. Oh, and I was in highschool, drinking Surge by the caseload while my friends and I were all trying to […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Devotion – “When I” (1999)Uh, I gotta be honest… I don’t know how I never knew about this. I kind of consider myself fairly well versed in the world of Asian-American music, especially the early wave of Hip-Hop artists but this completely blew my mind. Randall Park, you know Randall – from various ads to his break out role […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: When Randall Park was a Rapper with Ill Again – “Next” (2004)I can’t believe this track is 12 years old! But back when Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park still rapped, yet before his all-Hip-Hop stint with For Minor, he and resident LP DJ, Joe Hahn, linked up with the turntabalists known as the X-Ecutioners. The result is this track off X’s albums, Built From Scratch and it’s got […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: The X-Ecutioners x Mike Shinoda x Joe Hahn – “It’s Goin’ Down” (2002)As much as we love covering current Pop music, it’d be a shame if we didn’t take a look into the past and recognize the artist that laid the groundwork so many years ago. Don Ho is one such artist, straight out of Hawaii, who made a decent sized splash with his single, “Tiny Bubbles”, […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Don Ho – “Tiny Bubbles” (1967)This year has been a very full one, with lots of artists and music covered. Music videos, singles, albums, and side projects have come and gone and we are left looking back the trends and biggest moments of 2013. This summary of the year doesn’t really focus on individual artists and their day to day […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Revisiting 2013’s Biggest Moments in a-TunesWith the recent news that the Royal Pirates are gearing up to make noise again, this time in another nation all together, it made us nostalgic for the bands that have come and gone since we started this humble blog in 2008. With each of the following bands, it’s been at least a couple years […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: 5 Rock Bands That We Miss HearingHappy Friday, everyone! Can you remember online entertainment before Vevo? Before Youtube? Before Facebook? Before Myspace? If you were one of those folks who passed around funny videos via AIM file transfer and Kazaa through your creaky dial-up modem, then you just might recall these fellas out of UCLA, collectively known as ‘N Chink. I have no […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: ‘N Chink – One of the First Asian Viral Video StarsLet’s take a trip down memory lane by Lookin’ Back, shall we? I remember hearing this song back in 2005 and instantly becoming a fan of Daphne Loves Derby indie-Pop/Rock sensibilities. “Hammers & Hearts” was the major promotional single from their album, On the Strength of All Convinced (Amazon, iTunes). The band fronted by Kenny Choi, who […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Daphne Loves Derby – “Hammers & Hearts” (2005)Lookin’ Back, 16 years ago, Jocelyn Enriquez released a Top 40 pop tune called “Do You Miss Me?” (iTunes) from her self-titled sophomore album. This is one of those songs that I completely forgot about, and it wasn’t until the chorus came up that my memory was jogged to the point where I could vaguely […]
Read More Lookin’ Back: Jocelyn Enriquez – “Do You Miss Me?”
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