J.B. Moore, Early Hip-Hop Producer & Former Billboard Staffer, Dies at 81
Moore was a key figure in the then-burgeoning rap genre, writing and producing hits like "The Breaks" and "Christmas Rappin'" ...
J.B. Moore, Producer of Seminal Hip-Hop Records, Dies at 81
He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into ...
BKReader4d
Amplifying Hip-Hop’s Revolutionary Spirit at BAM
The 2025 edition, titled Power to the Poets, will highlight the enduring legacy of hip-hop as a force for truth, resistance ...
The Source9d
Happy 52nd Birthday To Hip Hop Icon Common!
On this day in 1972, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., better known as Common, was born in Chicago, Illinois. The Grammy and Academy ...
The Austin Chronicle3d
Zell Miller III Named Austin’s First Poet Laureate
Austin has now joined the ranks of Texas cities who have a designated poet laureate.
World Poetry Day | Poetry Is Not A Luxury
Why read poetry? Why stand still and tune into poetry’s cadences in a madly spinning world? Because poetry, as the wise Irish ...
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on MSN12d
Milwaukee's new poet laureate has taken art form to thousands of MPS students | Opinion
From the diverse scenes at popular Milwaukee eastside establishments like Bangkok Orchard— now closed — to the urban hip-hop ...
I’m a grandmother who’s releasing a hip-hop album – never give up your dreams’
She was one of the youngest people in the UK to be diagnosed with MS at the time, and while the process has been ‘tumultuous’ ...
Glide Magazine7d
10 Years Later: Kendrick Lamar Sets New Hip-hop Standards With Modern Classsic ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
A lot can happen in a decade. In the music world alone, we saw significant sonic shifts in genres, artists rise and fall, and ...
Northwest Asian Weekly1d
Dujie Tahat merges politics and poetry as Seattle’s newest Civic Poet
Do you ever think about how poetry’s is relevant to politics? Dujie Tahat does. Tahat is Seattle’s new Civic Poet for the ...
The Grio26d
5 songs by Roberta Flack that every hip-hop head should know
Roberta Flack was one of my favorite singers, so there’s a bit of poetry (to me ... that laid the foundation for many of my favorite hip-hop records) that I would come to understand just ...
The Christian Science Monitor5d
Congo’s wars uprooted her life. But they couldn’t silence her poetry.
What does war look like from the inside? Ask Congo’s young slam poets.