“I know it’s easy to wonder what any woman in her right mind would be doing with hip-hop,” the scholar and music journalist Joan Morgan wrote in a 1995 issue of Vibe magazine. “But there was sweetness in the beginning … Perhaps it was because we were being acknowledged as part of a whole.” Morgan, who later coined the term hip-hop feminism, is among the many black women who appear in the new HBO Max documentary, On the Record. The film focuses chiefly on Drew Dixon, a former music executive who worked with the Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons in the ’90s and publicly accused him of rape in December 2017…
Getting ready to release his debut project – and with the momentum of two singles keeping the wind in his sails – hushed murmurs of curiousness about Wesley Joseph have swelled to scattered roars…
Thanks to star-studded debut album ‘The Adventures of Bobby Ray,’ B.o.B started the 2010s at a commercial peak. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing since, but he’s kicking off the…
In 2012, a young Chicago-based designer named Virgil Abloh put together his first apparel collection. He called it Pyrex Vision. Across the country, Buffalo rapper Alvin Worthy—who records as…
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