Imagine this: you’re a participant in a televised game show, and you’ve made it all the way to the final round. After you spin your wheel or choose your letters or pick your question, the only thing standing between you and all the money of your dreams is a simple task — define the term “urban contemporary.” Could you do it? Would you win that money? Despite an enduring debate around the name, it is, for many, still unclear what precisely constitutes the genre of “urban contemporary,” and how or why the meaning of the term has migrated over the last several decades. Industry stakeholders have been pushing to change the name since at least 2018…
When John Legend finished recording his seventh studio album in February, he, like everyone, couldn’t have imagined the state of society four months later, juggling both a global pandemic and a…
In this installment of Rap Life, Ebro talks to Steven Victor and 50 Cent about the creation of Pop Smoke’s posthumous album ‘Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon’. They open up about the…
“The Last Dance,” the ESPN series about his final season with the Bulls, is interwoven with classic hip-hop that presented some legal hurdles. But Jordan, and the league, weren’t always…
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