How Nas' 'Illmatic' Revived East Coast Hip-Hop | For The Record Speed 00:01 NaN:NaN The landmark project chronicled Nas’ life growing up in the Queensbridge housing projects while helping restorethe influence of East Coast rapon a now bicoastal scene. By '94, the West coast was taking...
think twice/ If na smoke you wan smoke say we dey tight." Other highlights include the acoustic-guitar-inflected "Piece of Me" — featuring English singer/songwriter Ella Mai — and the luxurious, hip-shaking "True Love," a platform for Nigerian performer Tay Iwar and Jama...
BeforeBack To Blackwas released,Fielder-Civil had leftWinehouse to get back together with an old girlfriend, and singer felt that she needed to create something good out of all those bad feelings. Songs like "Love Is A Losing Game" and "Tears Dry On Their Own" speak to her fragile e...
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Sequel to the release of the track “Am I A Yahoo Boy” which caused a lot of stir in the music industry, Naira Marley was apprehended by the EFCC on the same day. After his release from police custody, Naira Marley released his hit single “Soapy” which was on MTV Base on the to...
likewise had plenty to say for those who would listen. “Simmer Down” (1964) talked down a hothead; “Rude Boy” and “Good Good Rudie” took contrasting and increasingly aware positions on the 60s Jamaican hooligan phenomenon. There weregospeloutings, too, such as “Straight And Narrow Way...
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(Her biological father is Jamaican.) Since she was young, people have seemed to stare at her – in part due to her skin colour but also her general appearance. “I was like a really crazy-looking kid,” she says, pulling out her phone. Her mum likes to send her old pictures, and ...
“Lucifer” in 2003] because, in many ways, he’s the realization of a blueprint that existed in Scratch’s work back then,” Emch told Billboard in 2017. “Scratch did amazing remixes. He is supposedly the first person to have recorded a Jamaican emcee, U-Roy, talking over a record...
Amy Winehouseproved to be a once-in-a-lifetime talent when she burst into the global zeitgeist with her 2006 sophomore album,Back to Black. The record spawned hit singles like "Rehab," "Back to Black" and "Love Is a Losing Game," and went on to win the newly minted s...