Maybe it's the sample, a mercurial sped-up marimba melody from a Billy Cobham jazz-fusion song. Or maybe it's the familiar boom-bap beat, or the warm, wistful bassline, or the fact that this prophetic ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. When I moved to Madison, Ala., in the summer of 1993, I was nervous, to ...
Sly Stone’s artistic contributions continue reverberating through all of Black music. 17 hours ago “Our whole energy was: these punk ass cops, and this crime wave, aren’t going to stop our chill,” ...
On the face of it, it’s one of hip-hop history’s most perplexing mysteries – if, admittedly, perhaps not the most pressing. How come the Souls of Mischief’s truly excellent debut didn’t turn the band ...