impressive, earning accolades for her television work (Living Single) and an Oscar nod (the 2002 musical Chicago), and making her one of the first MCs with the star power to prove how deeply a rapper could become embedded in American pop culture, even outside of the world of hip-hop....
Everyone loves it, which is why he’s the wealthiest American musician and the first rap billionaire. He’s in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has 22 Grammy Awards, and has sold over 50 million albums and 75 million singles. Everyone knows who he is, whether you’re into rap or not. Tr...
With his induction into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, he stands as an enduring icon whose impact on American music is immeasurable. Also ranks #2 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time, Ranked Also ranks #12 on The (Male)...
The American Dream has a lot of back alleys, and he was showing those things, and I felt like, here's a guy trying to talk to me about something I had seen firsthand. I think the artist's primary responsibility is to reflect what life was like in their time. Talking Heads did that...
Also ranks #4 on The Greatest Rock Songwriters Of All Time 11 The Beach Boys 1,997 votes The Beach Boys, a quintessential American rock band, earned their fame in the 1960s with a unique blend of vocal harmonies, lyrics reflecting California's youth culture, and innovative music product...
Within a year “Old Town Road” was the longest-running Number One song of all time, seeming to sum up eons of American cross-cultural love and theft in just one minute and 53 seconds.489 The Breeders, ‘Cannonball’ 1993 Writer(s):Kim DealPowered byPlay the Full Song Notified by fax...
Singles like “Fu-Gee-La” and “Ready or Not” showed that the kids from New Jeru had grown into seriously thoughtful songwriters and producers who could craft hits with the best of them. Even the covers on the album were incredible. All told, Lauryn Hill, Pras Michel, and Wyclef Jean...
There is some controversy among the principal songwriters of "Summer of '69" as to exactly what the title refers to. Bryan Adams was only 9 years old in 1969 and claims it is a sexual metaphor. His songwriting partner Jim Vallance disagrees, seeing other possible inspirations, such as the ...
Nevertheless, things came together - literally - for both principle songwriters, while George Harrison contributed two of his best-ever songs in the shape of Something and Here Comes The Sun. It stands, against all the odds, as a brilliantly cohesive piece of work. Key Track: Come Together...
The protean trio poured everything into this double epic, working psych, hardcore, avant-rock and noisy pop into a loose concept about a young man’s first year of freedom. Bob Mould and Grant Hart both emerge as first-class songwriters, and the band as a formidable power trio. It was ...