“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…
Ludacris talks to Billboard’s Carl Lamarre about ‘Silence of the Lambs’ collaboration with Lil Wayne, Verzuz battle with Nelly, and why the leaders of the world need to step up in…
Trae tha Truth, a Houston rap veteran whose given name is Frazier Thompson III, befriended Floyd after first meeting him in the city’s hip-hop circles about 15 years ago. In addition to his…
Many of us were introduced to the flair of Nick Cannon when he starred as the misunderstood Devon Miles in Drumline, or recognized his wit from his early days on Nickelodeon’s “All That.” Since…
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