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From the days of cassette tapes to the age of playlists, they have proven that real talent does not fade. It evolves, it ...
We’ve previously looked back on some of the biggest guilty pleasures from the ‘70s and ‘80s, so we’re doing one final lap ...
Hip-hop's most celebrated festival returns as LL COol J's "Rock The Bells" announces its highly anticipated 2025 lineup.
Poet and educator Darius Daughtry talks about his free festival in Fort Lauderdale, a family friendly, three-day event that ...
She was 80. The death was confirmed by Cynthia Carr, a friend and former colleague, who said Ms. Durbin had been under care for dementia. For more than four decades, Ms. Durbin brought her pithy ...
For fans of Mid-Atlantic street music, a word that’s growing in notoriety is bip. As he caught more ears in underground rap ...
Hip-hop is the ultimate loudspeaker for the inventive language being generated on back blocks, basement parties, and school cafeterias in various corners of Black America. Phrases and terms that ...
Bruce Springsteen experiments with loops, synthesizers and the rhythms of mid-1990s hip-hop on “Blind Spot,” the second song to emerge from his long-awaited collection of unreleased music ...
Downstairs who also appeared in numerous films throughout the ’80s, has died. Marsh passed away at her home in London on Sunday due to complications of dementia, her friend, filmmaker Michael ...
especially their 1992 instant classic “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.).” One of the West Coast’s most important groups during the rise of conscious rap in the late ‘90s, Sacramento’s ...
From New York to Hollywood and everywhere in between, see what your favorite stars are up to Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since April 2022 ...
Many of the women on this list still have active careers today, but it’s safe to say that they hit the peak of their star power in the ’80s or ’90s — and for many, they help define this memorable era.