Here’s to a ‘perfect combination’ that can teach us all a thing or two about entrepreneurship and maybe even provide a couple of good fights - in Africa and the Philippines.

Live Nation’s investors are watching balance sheets and profit and loss statements, not Jay-Z.

If the decline of the US-based conscious MC is to be stopped it will not begin by blaming a platinum artist or ‘the system.’

What rapper is capable and willing to represent the righteous evolution that so many drug dealers, and those banging want to see? What Hip-Hop artist is going to have the courage to decide that while coke rap may be a subgenre that has artistic qualities and moves some units that what our people really need is not only an artist who tells stories and makes shout outs, but a leader who uses art, to build the community?

This week we worry a bit over the weight that Kenya’s constitutional referendum is having on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

To me the talk about Hip-Hop artists making ‘dance music’ is about a search for greater sound creativity as much as business.

This week we worry a bit over a Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast) which continues to wrestle with national identity while its dependency on diminishing cocoa production continues. Despite a eurozone slowdown we explain why Egypt’s tourism sector will continue to thrive (it has a secret weapon)

Your expressed view I believe is indicative of what is both very right and very wrong with Black-Jewish relations today.

The masses are fiending for ‘Goose Bump’ Music.

Can anyone openly state that America’s relationship with Turkey matters more than its relationship with Israel without being labeled, ‘Anti-Semitic’?