Charlamagne Tha God interviews Ray J in a “VGBAM Icons” t-shirt; available here.

The good people at The Art Of Photography talk about how focal length and sensor/film size affect which lens you will want for the right picture.

Check out the official artwork for the new song from Doughboyz Ca$hout “Mob Life” done by BAM’s own TaVon Sampson.

Check some of the photos of up and coming artist James Blake.

Photos by | Seher Sikandar

Lauryn Hill played a surprise show in Brooklyn last night; a spur of the moment affair that was arranged last minute when her three-month prison sentence for Tax Evasion was handed down last week, giving the ultra-rare performance an even more heightened sense of the “unicorn effect” that attends every Lauryn Hill appearance these days. In short, we were not for a second considering not being there–or not documenting it for the ages with Seher Sikandar‘s luminous photography.  See more at OkayPlayer.

We are back with our “Making of” Series.  This round we have the Making of Jason Derulo “The Other Side” Single artwork.  This one is a little different from the others that showcased artwork for Rap artist as this moves over into the POP World.

STEP 1: IN this step We started out with the original image, performed some minor retouching to remove any imperfections the image may have.

Step 2: We crop the image we feel best fit.  Also start to add our text for the title as well as a logo that we created forJason Derulo.

Step 3: The image started to look a little flat and boring so we added a little color treatment to make it stand out a little more.  I tried a Blue to orange gradient to add a little to it.

Step 4:  This last Screenshot is the final product all put together as we finish up the composition of everything on the cover. Making sure everything is lined up all my colors are correct and all imperfections are removed.

- TaVon Sampson