Andre Harrell, an innovative music executive who in the late 1980s founded Uptown Records, a crucial bridge between the worlds of hip-hop and R&B, and who gave the first career break to Sean Combs, who became one of hip-hop’s signature moguls and global ambassadors, died late Thursday night at his home in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 59…
There’s a changing of the guard brewing in the Midwest. After introducing himself to the world with the vivid storytelling behind Die A Legend, Polo G cemented himself as a fixture in rap for…
The tracklist for Westside Gunn’s Pray For Paris started floating around a few weeks back, and people assumed it was either an April Fool’s joke or that Gunn was going to sacrifice some of his…
In 1981, Coventry band The Specials’ seminal hit, a perfect storm of creepy ska and political invective, struck a chord with the British public. On “Ghost Town,” the band mourned the tragic…
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