Angie Stone’s Hip-Hop Impact: From Dr. Dre To Alicia Keys To Sugar Hill Records
Chuck "Jigsaw" Creekmur talks about Angie Stone's profound impact on music talking to legends of Hip-Hop Culture.
How a Rapper Ruined The Rolling Stones’ ‘Miss You’
A 1990s gangsta rapper ruined the beat of The Rolling Stones' "Miss You" for the soundtrack of a famous comedy movie.
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Legendary Jazz Artist Passes Away at 84
Roy Ayers, the legendary jazz musician who created the hit song, "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has passed away due ...
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Roy Ayers, “Godfather Of Neo Soul,” Dead At 84
Roy Ayers, the jazz-funk pioneer known for the hit “Everybody Loves The Sunshine,” has died. He passed away on Tuesday (March ...
“We should use the tools of today’s society to create music”: How Kraftwerk’s The Model shaped modern pop
With The Model, Kraftwerk had created the prototype for modern pop. They had also lit the touchpaper for a whole wave of ...
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5 best Roy Ayers songs to pay tribute to the late Jazz legend
Everybody Loves Sunshine hit-maker and jazz legend, Roy Ayers, has passed away after battling a long illness. He was 84.
Roy Ayers, Influential Vibraphonist and Jazz-Funk Composer, Dies at 84
Roy Ayers, the pioneering jazz-funk composer, producer, and vibraphonist, died Tuesday, March 4, in New York after a long illness, his family said in a post from his Facebook account. “He lived a ...
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3 Songs That Explain Rap in the 1980s
No more were disco beats of Kurtis Blow in top style ... With brash, hard lyrics, rappers like Eazy-E and Ice Cube soared over beats from Dr. Dre. And on this song, we hear their origin story ...
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A beginners' guide to funk music - how it was different to other genres at the time
Many early disco songs leaned on the same rhythmic phrasings ... as well as the R’n’B funk stylings of OutKast and Gnarls Barkley. Dr Dre even combined gangsta rap and funk to form the ...