Music
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The 15 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time
Hip-hop celebrated its 46th birthday on August 11. The anniversary of the genre’s unofficial yet widely accepted formation in the Bronx just happened to coincide with the tail end of a conversation regarding everyone’s top 50 rappers list. The thought of putting together my own top 50 list always put me off; once you get…
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15 Years After Its Birth, AfroPunk Brooklyn Remains a Source of Eternal Inspiration
AfroPunk Festival descended onto Commodore Barry Park for yet another year, and damn was it fun—beautiful, and in case you were worried, yes, it’s still black as hell. Year after year, white media and the rest of the world get a gift. That gift is inspiration and forecasted trends in everything from fabrics, hairstyles, upcoming…
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On the Way to the Show: Solange Knowles Announces Residency at Sydney Opera House
“Cranes in the Sky” … and cranes down under. Solange Knowles is giving the people of Australia what they want and need! According to Pitchfork, Solange recently announced a residency at the Sydney Opera House, which will be her first Australian appearance since When I Get Home was released. The residency will last four days—the…
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Don’t Get It ‘Twis’-ted: Sign Language Interpreter Steals the Show at a Twista Concert and Shows Importance of Access for Deaf People
Twista may be the fastest-rapping MC in the world, but how good is he with his hands? His sign-language interpretive hands, that is. Probably not half as good as Amber Galloway Gallego, the sign language interpreter hired to bring Twista’s show to life for fans who are deaf or otherwise hearing-impaired. At a concert Saturday…
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I Saw Janet Jackson Live for the First Time in My Life and Experienced My Own Metamorphosis
“We don’t have to be who we were yesterday, we can be who we are today.” —Janet Jackson text I believe everyone has a shortlist of people they’ve always wanted to see perform live but never really had the chance to. For me, that list consists of folks like Whitney Houston or Michael Jackson. However,…
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Someone Has Dethroned Lil Nas X From the No. 1 Spot, So He Can't Ride That Horse No More
Has the time come when Lil Nas X can’t ride his horse “no more?” Well, he won’t be riding it on No. 1 Boulevard any longer because “Old Town Road” has been dethroned. *cue shock and awe* That’s right, according to BuzzFeed News, Billie Eilish has knocked Lil Nas X’s pervasive hit song off the…
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OMG! OK, It's Happening: Rihanna Reportedly Registered New Music With Her Publisher
We’ve expressed this sentiment more than once, but it needs to be repeated: Rihanna has successfully executed the best troll in modern music. The once-upon-a-time artist and now beauty and fashion mogul decided to announce she was debuting her much-anticipated new album in 2019 and proceeded to heighten her fans’ anxiety to astronomical levels while…
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Bryan Michael Cox Claims Jay-Z Told Jermaine Dupri to Turn Down a Similar NFL Deal
Up until last week, one of Black Twitter’s conundrums is deciding whether to choose $500,000 or an apparent lucrative dinner with Jay-Z. Well, Jermaine Dupri may be able to tell us just how beneficial that hypothetical dinner would be. Jay has been all over the news recently after holding a press conference with NFL Commissioner…
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Somebody Found John Coltrane’s Lost Album Blue World and We’re All Better for It
John Coltrane is kind of a big deal. Over the course of a career that spanned over two decades, the legendary composer and saxophonist churned out classic albums like 1957’s Blue Train and 1964’s A Love Supreme, all while trying to kick a vicious heroin addiction and expanding the boundaries of what we knew jazz…