What’s going on with Lauryn “L-Boogie” Hill? She first jumped on the scene as “L-Boogie” in the Fugees, when sisters were falling out of the hip-hop crews and becoming backup dancers and props. She single handedly revolutionized the sound and feeling of hip-hop by bringing...
A good label for Dagoberto Gilb? Try good. Richard Howard, then poetry editor of the Paris Review, was claiming that the best writers rise to the top of the literary world naturally, and Gilb disagreed, saying no way. It’s the best-connected writers from the right backgrounds who rose to the top....
There’s a growing backlash against rap and hip-hop music. I’ve been waiting for it to get to this point. I’m not glad it’s here, but I expected it to get to a very bad place. Rap and hip-hop are arguably another set of musical expressions and culture created, pushed, and developed...
Rite-Aid and Why I Love My City… I work right across the street from the Rite-Aid drugstore on Market Street in San Francisco, California. Apparently, I’ve underestimated this store’s reputation as a hub of socio-economic diversity and varying levels of mental health services. When...
Fela’s music lured African Americans in with funky extended tracks and by singing in English. He “de-exoticized” African music by using traditional Nigerian syncopation that funked and thumped with James Brown infused beats. Fela was the originator of Afro beat music
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