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Bounce Bounce Bounce: Sony and R. Kelly Mutually End Longtime Record Deal: Report [Updated]
Wow. It finally happened. According to Billboard, sources are confirming that Sony and R. Kelly have agreed to part ways. The R&B singer’s relationship with the record label was quite familiar. In the early 1990s, Kelly initially signed to Jive, which eventually became a part of Sony BMG. In 2012, he signed a contract with…
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I Went Down a Hip-Hop Rabbit Hole and Ended Up at the Fu-Schnickens Like It Was 1992 All Over Again
As it did for so many folks I know, hip-hop changed my life. I don’t mean in the “It saved my life” way, but when I was introduced to hip-hop, I fell hook, line and sinker into the ocean and never came up for air. I was living in Germany in the late ’80s and…