How the Word is Passed is that book for me. CS: That’s very kind of you to say, truly. BB: You and I have… I don’t know, we’ve been friends online, we comment on each other’s things, and I was so excited when you defended your dissertation and you got your PhD, but ...
Born Kurtis Walker, the Harlem-based Blow began DJing when he was just seven years old. In 1979, the 20-year-old's "Christmas Rappin’" sold over 400,000 copies and turned the up-and-comer into a household name. But it was his follow-up single, 1980’s "The Breaks," that helped ...
3, 1995 in New York City, Biggie was the event’s big winner, taking home four awards. But Dre also played a role in the evening’s drama. Dre earned the honor for Producer Of The Year, winning the award over fellow beatmakers DJ Premier, Easy Mo Bee, and Pete Rock — all of ...
In 1986, 20-year-old Mike Tyson became the youngest Heavyweight Champion ever, kicking off four years of utter dominance that made him one of the biggest icons in sports. But by the time he officially retired in 2005, it was hard to imagine ever seeing him in a ring again. So news th...
My birthday is coming up this Saturday. It’s a biggie. I will be 25,568 days old. Rather than force you to check with your calculator, I’ll just say it: I’ve had two really terrible birthdays in my life. The last of these was 40 years ago. ...
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense o
“In the place we rented in Ranelagh, it was a bit of an old townhouse divided into three separate apartments, where we had the ground floor. We had a property manager that everything went through, but the landlord was never far away so any time we ...
can only imagine the amount of research and time it took you to write it up, great work to show us what really is happening and how bad it is going to get for small bloggers like myself in the coming days, would love to read a post on how we can counter or handle these biggies...
teach you to fish. So, I was shredding papers at six years old and first business at eight years old and third grade, and all of my cousins, like, we were trained in this value creation mindset. And it’s just amazing to watch generation after generation what happens when you do that...
My maternal grandfather and uncle got into bottles in about 1965 or ‘66 when I was in high school, and we started digging. My uncle was in Arizona, near some of the old mining camps there. Those were the glory days of bottle digging. People had access with four-wheel drive vehicles ...