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Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s ‘Walk This Way’ turns 33 this July 4. The changes it made are still reverberating through the music industry.
With ‘Old Town Road’ topping the charts, an author reflects on how old rockers and young rappers came together to make an earlier hit
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Randall Park on Asian Americans in hip-hop — and punching Keanu Reeves
Star of Netflix’s ‘Always Be My Maybe’ shouts-out the Bay Area rap scene
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2Pac’s birthday, GOATs and how we get hip-hop wrong
Tupac’s place in hip-hop history was never about being the best rapper. It was always about his artistry.
The Uplift
Singer Lloyd is back like he never left with new music and a movie role
‘I was off the scene and now I’m all the way back on the scene’
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The 20 greatest hip-hop tours of all time
Our ranking, inspired by all the great rap acts on the road this summer, is 100% correct
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Aux Cord Chronicles XIX: The NBA Finals playlist
For the first time, we let the people decide
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Jay-Z’s billionaire status adds up to a lot more than what’s in his bank account
Like Madam C.J. Walker and John H. Johnson before him, Jay-Z’s rise to business mogul is testament to the power of the black dollar
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Will Smith, a pioneering black nerd, helped raise and change rap music
Smith’s music career reveals an artist who believed in an Afrocentric American dream based on ambition, hustle and black pride
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DJ Khaled’s ‘Higher’ is a heartbreaking victory lap for Nipsey Hussle
‘Almost like church,’ the song is part history lesson, part manifesto