Just a year removed from interruptingTaylor Swifton stage during the2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West, now known as Ye, produced arguably the best rap album of the decade,My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It was a career turn that’s more familiar to rap fans in recent years, but...
20 years old, then-country darlingTaylor Swiftwon her first four GRAMMYs (including Album Of The Year) thanks to her second LP,Fearless. She has since taken home 11 golden gramophones, including a total of three for Album Of The Year — the most of any female solo ...
A top song with dream in the title. This classic hit from Elvis Presley was also the namesake of a film that he starred in. The song is a fast-paced stomper that is all about pursuing the dreams that define you no matter the cost while finding the right person to join you on the r...
Comedian Steve Martin was tasked in 1979 with presenting Best Pop Vocal Performance. Keeping in line with his brand of offbeat, sometimes raunchy, humor, he handed out the gramophone inonly his underwearand the top half of his tuxedo. Oddly enough, it’s not the last time a celebrity took ...
1959 saw not one but two Grammy Awards (the only time in history this has ever happened). The second awards ceremony, which took place in November of that year, was shown on television as a pre-recorded “NBC Sunday Showcase” hosted by Meredith Wilson, writer of the smash Broadway hit...
The very first hip-hop hit, Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” was the subject of a legal challenge (settled out of court) from the members of Chic, whose “Good Times” bass line the pioneering rap song interpolated. Though sampling old records is no longer the onl...
In 1971 theGrammy Awards aired liveon television for the first time. The 90-minute special was broadcast from the Hollywood Palladium and marked theend of the pre-recorded “The Best on Record”as well as the bi-coastal awards dinners, both of which had been traditions since the early days...
1959 saw not one but two Grammy Awards (the only time in history this has ever happened). The second awards ceremony, which took place in November of that year, was shown on television as a pre-recorded “NBC Sunday Showcase” hosted by Meredith Wilson, writer of the smash Broadway hit...
I was having one of these moments where I was like, "I need to go to talk to somebody who I’ve known for a long time." I thought it would be cool to just walk over [to an old friend's] and knock on the door. It was night time, and I was walking the two blocks in Echo...
Hip-hop finally reckoned with mental health in 2018. Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and a batch of rookies in rap looked inward, helping others deal with mental health issues.