Tribute: Irv Gotti Had One of the Most Dominant Runs in Modern Music History
(February 6, 2025). As the new century began, hip-hop was still mourning Tupac and Biggie, its two biggest stars. While DMX, Nas, Jay-Z, and Master P kept the genre alive,…
This Year’s Grammys Were More Needed Than Ever
(February 3, 2025). It may be Black History Month. But in an era where cultural celebrations are vanishing from government websites, DEI programs are disappearing from corporate boardrooms, and America’s…
My Mom Loves Bruno Mars — But How Do I Tell Her About “F, J & W”?
(February 2, 2025). Just over three years ago, I took my mom, now 80, and six of her friends to see her favorite artist, pop/R&B superstar Bruno Mars, perform at…
Old Rock Music is Carrying Current Rock’s Water; Staggering 2024 Stats Show
(January 31, 2025). For the past couple of decades, music historians and journalists alike have been pondering the state of rock and roll, focused mainly on its decline from being…
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This album spent Biden’s entire presidency in the top 50… it debuted the week he was inaugurated
(January 17, 2025). In January 2021, Taylor Swift’s Evermore was unseated at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 by an unlikely contender: a sophomore album by a rising country star…