How Taylor Swift changed the music business -- from touring to album releases to fan engagement to marketing to artists' rights.
Sports anthems by Queen, Lil Jon, The White Stripes and more have been ubiquitous at sports games for years. Here's how a stadium anthem gets born.
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This year, our mercurial society punished Kanye West and Lil Wayne for acting on the very impulses that made them celebrated rap superstars. West, self-appointed Voice of His Generation and crown-of-thorns accessorizer, was immediately shunned after also
Kanye is infamous for a lot of things. One, in particular, is hisrant during a 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon— you know the one. Well, in borrowing his own words: Kanye West does not care about his fans. In fact, if there were ever an argument for anyone whoprobably hates their fan...
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Frequent Kanye West collaborator Mike Dean credits those 40 productions with changing the sound of modern rap. He first worked with 40 on Drake’s 2010’s “Over” and, despite numerous beefs and subliminal shots between Kanye’s G.O.O.D. Music and Drake & co.’s October’s Very Own,...
Jay-Z and Kanye West's producer Hit-Boy's father spent 24 years of his son's life in prison. Here's how making an album after his release fixed their bond.