"IfBlack lives matter, hip-hop is Black people, it's something we started, something we originated so it's not just a hashtag," she told ABC News. "Hip-hop is gonna continue that movement and it's never gonna s
but the song’s indelible hook (provided by its producer, Pharrell Williams) makes it an inspiring song for anyone fighting the good fight. And indeed, the Black Lives Matter movement has adopted it as an unofficial
And oh yeah, there was that whole global shutdown thing that happened two and a half months into the year — which gave Taylor the time and space to record and releaseFolkloreless than a year after her last LP, which made radio rally around the same handful of comfort-food pop hits to...
“Ain’t gotta be a beava’ to get wood from me,” raps Yazz as Hakeem before daring to utter, “Get it?”), but it’s a genuine joy that lives multiple lives across the show, most searingly and importantly when Smollett’s Jamal reworks it and its gender pronoun to come out ...
andMick Jaggerin London. It was that lonely, it was fantastic. When we came over here and it was the same – nobody was listening to rock and roll or to black music in America – we felt as though we were coming to the land of its origin but nobody wanted to know about it. ...
“What’s It Gonna Be?” was the single and likely high point, a dizzying new-wave Tilt-a-Whirl, so exhilarating in its breathless questioning of whether or not the singer’s relationship is only going on in her head that it almost doesn’t matter whether or not it actually is....
Hamilton calls on his fellow citizens to “rise up” against tyrannical England and considers the financial and ethical future of the country: “If we win our independence, is that a guarantee of freedom for our descendants?” Miranda wroteHamiltonin the early days of the Black Lives Matter mo...
Of course. But it’s also a brilliant anthem for the era of Black Lives Matter, as complex and irreducible as an individual. –Marc Hogan Listen: JAY-Z, “The Story of O.J.” 12. Drake: “Passionfruit” Throughout Drake’s segue from sad-boy rap architect to world music ...
The names in themselves speak volumes: there are the familiar ones that brought the Black Lives Matter movement into the fore (Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown), the ones less instantly recognizable but no less demanding of justice (Tommy Yancy, Jerame Reid, Philip White), and the ...
I could never write that song again, because the songs I write now that talk about love coming from people my age usually deal with broken marriages and where the children go. You have to write from where you are at a particular point in time.” Elton John - Your Song (Top Of The ...