J.B. Moore, Early Hip-Hop Producer & Former Billboard Staffer, Dies at 81
Though not well-known today, Moore was instrumental in hip-hop’s early mainstream success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...
J.B. Moore, Producer of Seminal Hip-Hop Records, Dies at 81
He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...
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Amplifying Hip-Hop’s Revolutionary Spirit at BAM
The 2025 edition, titled Power to the Poets, will highlight the enduring legacy of hip-hop as a force for truth, resistance ...
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Hip Hop and Helicopters: Memorable sets and takeaways from Rolling Loud 2025
Outside of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Park Grounds on March 15, 2025, hordes of colorfully-dressed teenagers and young adults ran ...
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Happy 52nd Birthday To Hip Hop Icon Common!
On this day in 1972, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., better known as Common, was born in Chicago, Illinois. The Grammy and Academy ...
World Poetry Day | Poetry Is Not A Luxury
Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish ...
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Milwaukee's new poet laureate has taken art form to thousands of MPS students | Opinion
From the diverse scenes at popular Milwaukee eastside establishments like Bangkok Orchard— now closed — to the urban hip-hop ...
I’m a grandmother who’s releasing a hip-hop album – never give up your dreams’
She was one of the youngest people in the UK to be diagnosed with MS at the time, and while the process has been ‘tumultuous’ ...
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10 Years Later: Kendrick Lamar Sets New Hip-hop Standards With Modern Classsic ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
A lot can happen in a decade. In the music world alone, we saw significant sonic shifts in genres, artists rise and fall, and ...