Roxanne Shanté Named First Solo Female Rapper to Win Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award In an unprecedented move that celebrates her monumental contributions to hip-hop, Roxanne Shanté has become the ...
For much of my life, country music felt like a locked door — a mysterious place that invited no one who looked like me. It seemed firmly rooted in a different world, one sprinkled with images of ...
For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...