“My baby boo, you either heal n—s or you kill n—s/ Both is true, it take some tough skin just to deal with you” Lamar raps on "gloria" featuringSZA, a track that opines on his relationship with the genre. He has two: Rapper Baby Keem and former Los Angele...
That means the harmonizing, the runs, the vocals that once defined the once-mighty genre are essentially being muted. If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If an incredible R&B singer drops an album yet doesn’t get the push it...
According to Ariel Chobaz (Nicki Minaj, Drake, Rihanna), to make audio engineering your career, you should be working in audio in your free time just because you want to. “It takes a lot of commitment and sacrifice in order to move ahead and become successful,” he said. “And people...
In terms of chart performance, mainstream rap pundits and fans left the genre for dead because everybody seems to be a slave to numbers in this day and age. But we were reminded of how much of a cultural force this thing of ours really is thanks to Future, Metro, Kendrick, and Drake...
Keezer sees Joy's triumph at the 2023 GRAMMYs as a reminder, loud and clear, that jazz is no antiquated or peripheral artform. Rather, it is a vibrant and alive genre very much in the now. "The whole umbrella genre is Black American Music, and jazz is the branch of it t...
Shaboozey, Bad Bunny, Drake and Elevation Worship each won three awards.Meanwhile, Chappell Roan was crowned Top New Artist, and fans officially declared Beyoncé as Top Female Country Artist after her album debut in the genre with Cowboy Carter.Thursday’s BBMAs were hosted by Michelle Buteau...
A marked distaste for any kind of genre “crossover” That 1979-1985 was a bad era for music in general, particularly for artists who sought to “update” the sound that made them famous for the mirage of “New Wave” (in some cases, my reaction to these records was so violent that ...
Open Document Music and Old Age: Not all music genres really have songs about growing old or aging, but one genre that never seem to fail at providing a song or two about growing old and aging is Country Music. Now where Country Music is not the musical choice of a lot of people, yo...
One of them stated, “‘Drake dissed Rihanna’ my baby she is somewhere changing diapers for the 20th time this morning… that lady does not gaf lmfao. 10/8/2023 by Agency News Desk Rihanna Only Performed a Few of Her No. 1 Hits at the Super Bowl Halftime Show Rihanna took the stage...
Not only does nostalgia make people sound old, but the very idea of the “glory days” of anything as amorphous and fickle as punk is ludicrous: less a genre than an ideology, punk has always been more about breaking things and creating monsters out of the detritus than a particular sound...