On Saturday August 22, 1987, 75,000 metalheads undertook a pilgrimage to Donington Park for the eighth staging of the annual ...

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Lil Kev showrunners Michael Price and Matthew Claybrooks talk to CBR about the Kevin Hart-inspired animated series and the ...

The music landscape, however, was shifting towards a harder sound: gangsta rap. Hammer saw commercial ... a self-produced movie, and a cartoon. It was nearly a decade before Master P would ...

Queen banned "gangster rap" artists from sampling their back catalogue amid fears it would "promote violence or abuse". Sir Brian May says the British rock band took a stance to say no to certain ...

While early hip-hop centered on East and West Coast scenes, female rappers played crucial roles in establishing Southern rap as a dominant force. Gangsta Boo emerged as the sole female member of ...

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We are about to get so many previously unheard Bruce Springsteen songs. A couple of weeks ago, Springsteen announced the massive new box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums. It’ll include 83 songs that ...

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The film careers of the actor Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler have been joined at the hip from the start. Jordan landed his breakthrough role in Coogler’s feature debut, “Fruitvale ...