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Brian Brown

Highlights: Music medley

By Mary Mancini

October 23, 2024

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It’s highlights week here at This Is Nashville, and today, we’re showcasing some of the musical performances and personalities we’ve featured this year.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: Ah-Deli, alex barnes, Ashley McBryde, Brian Brown, Crys Matthews, JusBam, Mike Floss, Pow Shadowz, The McCrary Sisters, Zach and Maggie White

Elements of hip-hop culture: beats & rhymes

By Khalil Ekulona

January 9, 2024

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Today, we explore two of the elements of hip-hop culture: beats (producing) and rhymes (emceeing).

Tagged With: Ah-Deli, Brian Brown, Carmine Prophets, hip hop, Hip Hop Culture, JusBam, M-Slago, Pow Shadowz

Hip-hop artist Brian Brown has his own way of repping Nashville

By jewly hight

January 5, 2024

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It’s tradition for hip-hop artists to rep the places, people and scenes they come from with fierce displays of pride. But in Brown’s music, including his new album, “BBGonProfit,” released in December, he makes a subtler art of speaking to and for his city, watchful and witty from where he stands on the fringes of Nashville’s powerful music industry and booming economic growth.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WNXP, WPLN News Tagged With: Brian Brown, music, Nashville Artist of the Month

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