Chris Brown’s latest album, Fortune, has been nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 55th Grammy Awards against breakout R&B artists Frank Ocean and Miguel. Powerhouse R&B/pop songwriter and producer Danja penned the album’s third single, “Till I Die,” featuring rappers Big Sean and Wiz Khalifa, which Brown dedicated to the […]
Take Care, the second studio album from Toronto-born rapper Drake, has been nominated for Best Rap Album at the 55th annual Grammy Awards, against such heavyweights as Nas, The Roots, Rick Ross, Lupe Fiasco, and Reservoir’s own 2 Chainz. Black Fountain songwriter Jawann Peacock contributed to the Take Care track “Look […]
O.N.I.F.C., the twice pushed-back new album from Wiz Khalifa, was released yesterday at long last. Nate “Danja” Hills, the recently-profiled Reservoir songwriter and producer, leant his talents to one of the album’s most melodious tracks, “Medicated.” “I was going somewhere totally different when I got in the studio with […]
Reservoir songwriter and producer Nate “Danja” Hills has been singled out by R&B music blog, You Know I Got Soul. In a recorded interview, Danja takes YKIGS through his just a handful of his multiple collaborations, signature hits, and projects with New Age Rock Stars (N.A.R.S.), his independent record […]
Pop music’s original Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna, released her seventh album in seven years this week, appropriately entitled Unapologetic. Amid the album’s A-list guest artists and chart-topping songwriters is an instantly recognizable interpolation of the hook from the Black Fountain R&B single, “Pony,” written in part by Stephen “Static Major” […]
“Mercy,” the haunting, heavy collaborative hip-hop track featuring Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T, and Reservoir songwriter 2 Chainz, is officially the Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year, at least as far as the Soul Train set is concerned. BET and Centric presented this year’s installment of the Soul […]
“Bad Girls,” the upbeat R&B-World fusion hit performed by M.I.A. and written by Reservoir songwriter-producer Danja, continues to make waves in film and TV. After months of notable placements– Step Up Revolution, Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club, The Mindy Project–“Bad Girls” gets ready to burst into 2013 with trailers for a new action-comedy […]
Christina Aguilera took to the stage at the 40th American Music Awards ceremony last night to perform a medley of songs from her new album, Lotus. Following an ethereal introduction, Aguilera launched into “Army Of Me,” the anthemic dance-pop track written by Phil Bentley and Reverb Music singer-songwriter Jamie Hartman.
Sans Attendre (translation: Without Waiting), the new release from internationally-renowned songstress Celine Dion, has quickly become the #1 album in Canada and France. The album, released November 2nd, comes five years after Dion’s last French- and English-language releases, titled D’elles and Taking Chances, respectively. Sans Attendre sold 100,000 copies in its first week of release in France […]
Producer Calvin Harris has the #1 album on Billboard’s Dance/Electronic Albums chart with his October 30 release, 18 Months. This comes after a #1 debut on the Albums chart in Harris’ native United Kingdom. 18 Months is the artist’s third solo effort. Harris’ big mainstream break came in 2011 when he collaborated […]