To fully understand Mobb Deep’s The Infamous… — one of the greatest albums ever recorded — you need to understand two albums that came prior. The first is Mobb Deep’s debut Juvenile Hell. Even though they were only 18 at the time, the album’s release concluded what was already a long journey for the two MCs. Prodigy, who was from Hempstead, Long Island, and Havoc, who lived in Queensbridge Houses, met at the High School of Art and Design in Manhatten a couple of years prior…
As the pandemic has shut down economies across the globe, many artists are asking fans directly for cash — and music companies like SoundCloud and Spotify have added features to help them do…
Not far from where songwriter Emily Warren lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, there’s a dive bar with a weekly disco night. “It’s kind of a shit show,” she says. She had been attending regularly…
In honor of Harrell’s enduring impact across two genres, let’s recap Uptown Records’ 25 biggest hits on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Among the accomplishments, eight No. 1s on…
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