Recently, Power 92 celebrated its 15-year anniversary at the Chicago Theatre with Chance The Rapper as the headlining act. Power 92 is an urban radio
The anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s murder and celebration of his birth are painfully connected
Goodie Mob’s debut album might be the best debut in southern rap history and it represents that period in Atlanta’s history just before the cultural and aesthetic shift that defined the city after the 1996 Olympics. If OutKast were your cool cousins you’d hung out with in high school, Goodie Mob was like college “super seniors,” passing blunts while dropping knowledge in university housing.
Andre 3000 and Big Boi’s legacy was cemented long before Y2K, but that was the year they released their big, mainstream breakthrough album. Stankonia was OutKast’s fourth album and became a huge success
If you are a Chicagoan born in the ’70s, ’80s or ’90s, house music is definitely coursing through your veins. There is no denying it.
I remember hearing about the picnic behind the museum every year. Sometimes, I would make my way over there to enjoy the summer fun. Now,
It’s been one year since the Queen of R&B secretly debuted her self-titled visual album fully loaded with 14 new tracks and 17 music videos
Rhythm Nation 1814, Janet Jackson’s magnum opus and blockbuster follow-up to her 1986 breakthrough album Control, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. In looking back
It’s been twenty years since The Notorious B.I.G. dropped his seminal debut album. Ready To Die was a hit, making the burly emcee from Bedford-Stuyvesant
Thirty years ago Prince released what has arguably become his quintessential LP, the immaculate soundtrack album, Purple Rain. Dropped in the summer of 1984, The
A.J. Calloway and Spike Lee chat about how impactful Lee’s seminal 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” was on race relations in New York City
Hip-hop star Slick Rick celebrated 25 years since his debut album, “The Great Adventures of Slick Rick” was released by running through his classics at B.B. King’s
Spring 1994. It was 20 years ago today that Nas released his seminal debut album, Illlmatic. It wasn’t the huge crossover hit that, say, The
Singer and actress Brandy made an appearance on her old pal Queen Latifah’s talk show this week, and the Queen had a surprise for her
Brooklyn still has love for the late, great Notorious B.I.G. and the Bed Stuy community paid tribute on the 17th anniversary of his death
“Alternative hip-hop” is a term that sometimes elicits groans and eye-rolls from the artists and fans typically associated with it. That’s completely understandable. No one
2014 marks the 25th anniversary of De La Soul’s classic debut album 3 Feet High and Rising. In celebration of their two-and-a-half decades of groundbreaking, innovative hip-hop, the trio of Posdnous, Maseo and Dave are releasing their entire catalog for free download today (February 14th.) The downloads will be available on De La Soul’s official website.
Kanye West’s critically-acclaimed debut album The College Dropout turned ten years old this week, and numerous media and entertainment outlets looked back on the rapper’s first project with fond memories. As for West himself, he tweeted extensively about what his first album means to him and shared his perspective on the last decade of his career.
Baby Boomers across America are giddy this week, as musical events and commemorative TV specials are planned in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the
It’s been ten years. Ten years since the awkward, quasi-suburban kid with the sweaters, bookbag and a major inferiority complex bum-rushed the rap game. Kanye
