‘Based on a True Story’: Will Smith’s Hip-Hop Comeback Faces an Uphill Battle
Will Smith’s new album, 'Based on a True Story', marks his return to hip-hop, but genre may not have room for legacy acts or ...
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COLUMN | Can I kick it?
In the hip-hop community, A Tribe Called Quest is seen as one of the classics. In the time of "gangster rap," or "mumble rap, ...
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The Hip-Hop World Loved Roy Ayers, and He Found It ‘Wonderful’
Hip-hop production stalwarts such as J. Dilla, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Madlib, and others have sampled from his six-decade-spanning catalog of jazz and funk-laced compositions.