When technical difficulties torpedoed Teddy Riley and Babyface’s anticipated Verzuz battle last month, Black Twitter responded in perfect Black Twitter fashion: memeing the debacle into oblivion. Meme Zero came courtesy of the husky, bearded man dancing behind Riley to “The Show.” A weed carrier, people figured. An Instagram hype man. But folks familiar with the music industry knew exactly who the cat in the hat was: Breyon Prescott, a songwriter and executive in the third decade of a long career…
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Every once in a blue moon, an artist will come by in hip-hop that bridges the ever-dividing gap between the new and the old – someone who embodies the best of both, and someone that everyone can…
The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a spontaneous rendition of the electric slide dance near the White House.…
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