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Kanye West called Erick Sermon sometime in May 2023 and wanted the EPMD co-founder to hop a flight to Los Angeles to work on a new project. Sermon’s ailing mother, Belinda, was in hospice care at the time and knew about the trip but didn’t want to hamper her son’s opportunity. Sermon protested but was […]

November 12, 2025
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Kool G Rap, Brand Nubian’s Grand Puba Honored at 3rd Annual Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards Gala

Jimmy “Super Rhymes” Spicer, whose 15-minute single “Adventure of Super Rhymes” is widely considered hip-hop’s first storytelling rap, died from cancer in 2019 in financial peril. As Russell Simmons’s flagship artist at Rush Management, Spicer helped lay the foundation for what would eventually become Def Jam Recordings. His music has been sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, De […]

November 12, 2025
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Rise Against’s Musical Dystopia

“And” is the first word Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath sings on “Nod,” the opening track from Ricochet, released in August. It’s also the first word he sings on the next song, “I Want It All.” But that wasn’t a deliberate strategy, judging from McIlrath’s surprise when I point it out. “Oh yeah, I didn’t […]

November 10, 2025
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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Steven Kilbey of The Church

Name  Steven John Fucking Kilbey Best known for  Idiot savant (perhaps more of the former) behind Australian band The Church. A prolific renaissance bloke, knocking out records, paintings, poems, books, and now even comics. Still haven’t choreographed a ballet, but who knows? Current city  Coogee Beach, Sydney, Australia 2034. Really want to be in  Bali. Sitting on a deck […]

November 7, 2025
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Every Cyndi Lauper Album, Ranked

In an ’80s pop landscape full of enormous talents and outrageous fashions, Cyndi Lauper still managed to stand out with one of the loudest voices and biggest personalities on MTV. The Queens native looked like a thrift store come to life and incorporated professional wrestlers like Captain Lou Albano into her music videos and performances. […]

November 7, 2025
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Salute, Salutery, and Salutations

Kelvin “Pos” Mercer—also known as Posdnuos or Plug One of pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul—was flipping through television channels when he stumbled across the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky starring Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, and other jazz greats of that era. He instinctively  knew that was going to be the title of the […]

November 6, 2025
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