These 50 famous rappers have never had a No. 1 album…
(March 25, 2022). The first rap album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (which measures the best-selling and most consumed albums each week) happened in March 1987.…
This year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was exactly what it was supposed to be, and that’s not for everybody…
(February 14, 2022). The Super Bowl LVI halftime show (Sunday, Feb. 13) is now in the record books. Along with the game itself between the L.A. Rams and the Cincinnati…
Tribute: James Mtume went from jazz virtuoso and activist to “sophistifunk” creator who made hits for some of the most tragic figures in Black music history
(January 19, 2022). He couldn’t have predicted this fate at the time, but legendary soul/funk producer James Mtume, who got his start in jazz, would eventually write for, produce, or…
2022 “Rap-port card”: Here’s what Kool Moe Dee’s grading system might look like for today’s rappers (from best to worst). Do you agree?
(January 14, 2022). You knew it would happen. After a couple of rap “report cards” from 1980s hip-hop pioneer Kool Moe Dee went viral last weekend, it was only a…
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The deeper meaning (assuming there is one) behind the first high-profile rap release of 2022: Antonio Brown’s “Pit Not The Palace”
(January 4, 2022). And we thought a Kanye West new project rollout was about as crazy-hyped as one could get. Ye’s months-long, pre-release promotion of his album Donda in 2021–complete…