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How a Brooklyn fan turned a Jay-Z pitch deck into a Yankee Stadium collection
Mitchell & Ness flipped an unsolicited idea into a capsule collection celebrating ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ ‘The Blueprint’ and Jay-Z’s Yankee Stadium shows
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On Clive Davis and the death of a music mogul
Label executive shaped the careers of Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys, but his legacy includes a more complicated story about power, crossover, and control in the industry
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When Jay-Z became a rapper again
The Roots Picnic wasn’t just a concert. It was a reminder of what made the empire possible in the first place
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‘The American Carnival’: Halftime power rankings
The road to America’s grandest stage has already begun
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Drake’s ‘Iceman’ is a 40-degree day
The rap superstar’s highly anticipated return to music is rinse-and-repeat Drake
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Michael Jackson and the night the Super Bowl stood still
Michael Jackson’s 1993 Super Bowl halftime show didn’t just captivate a stadium — it forced the NFL to rethink what halftime could be.
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Prince and his piano: 10 years later
A decade after his death, Prince’s final tour is still a reminder of what could have been.
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The tragedy of watching people still love Kanye West
Despite years of racist outbursts, fans seem to be poised to welcome the Chicago rapper back into the fold
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How James Bernard and ‘The Source’ defined 1990s hip-hop
A requiem for the man, the magazine, and the era