A couple of days ago, my boys atYouKnowIGotSoul.comraised an interesting question on theirFacebook page: Who were the most successful male singers of the 90s? Now if you know me (Keith Sweat) you probably knew (Keith Sweat) who would be my personal No. 1 pick (KEITH SWEAT). But e...
Over 32K music fans have voted on the 120+ Best Rappers of the '90s. Current Top 3: Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube
The curtains haircut style was worn by the most famous male celebrities in the ’90s, including Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and David Beckham. This flowing look is a relaxed style that can be made formal if it is slicked back or parted to the side. The curtains hairstyle is defined by a pre...
“I’m Bout It, Bout It”—released on the third album by TRU, Master P’s trio with his brothers Silkk the Shocker and C-Murder—doesn’t actually feature the latter two rappers. Instead, it’s a tag-team moment for P and Mia X, who routinely found time to steal the show on ...
” Shadow shows how perfect sample cues and meticulously sequenced drums can carry their own emotions without the need for a unique human voice. Shadow’s one-of-a-kind approach to beatmaking helped usher in a new era of beatmaking, while also changing the way many rappers approached ...
Given that they were riffing off male rappers’ fashion, the look was tomboyish. As the group matured, they began dressing in body-bearing looks, like metallic sports bras with cargo pants and slinky leotards. In 1996, Aaliyah was chosen for Tommy Hilfiger’s Tommy Jeans ad campaign, ...
Boy Band ParadeLists that celebrate the joy and shame of the music industry: the all-male instrument-free vocal group. Your Favorites, Then and Now Boy Banders Who Act Now Solo Acts Who Failed Hardest Ranking All the Members of NSYNC ...
grunge has continued to spread and mutate far beyond its point of origin, its influence now manifest in everyone from irrepressible pop stars like Olivia Rodrigo to modern-day indie-rockers like Soccer Mommy to nu-school noisemakers like Chat Pile to Cobain-obsessed rappers like Post Malone (whi...
praising the sweet leaf with a devotion rarely seen beyond the parking lot at a Phish concert. While the rappers twist their "Latin Lingo" intovatorhymes about blunts, guns and forties, D.J. Muggs pumps bongloads of bass into paranoid sound collages like "Hand on the Pump," and when yo...
the success of the genre’s MCs was based on their willingness to shatter old forms and wield the shards to create a new style of self-expression. The 80s and 90s saw the best male and female rappers alike used wordplay, repetition, and extended metaphor to relate experiences that were dar...