3 Songs That Sample Martin Luther King Jr. 1. “The King (Extended Vocal Mix)” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five kept things simple while ...
Hip-hop legend Roxanne Shanté is set to become the first solo female MC to receive the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Recording Academy recently revealed that the rapper, who rose ...
On Wednesday (Feb. 12), OutKast was announced by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 14 nominees to be considered for ...
Hip-hop legends Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Salt-N-Pepa, and N.W.A. have received the award in previous years. Now, it’s Shanté’s turn. Speaking with Gayle ...
King’s celebrated “I have a dream” speech has been sampled by dozens of singers, including Bobby Womack (“American Dream”), Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five (“The King”) and ...
There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the ...
Tracks like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message” vividly depicted the reality of living in poor, urban communities, while Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” and Tupac ...