This is the grave of Chris Kelly. Born in 1978 in Atlanta, Kelly grew up in the burgeoning rap world that came out of New York but soon made a home in Atlanta. He was into it. So was his friend Chris Smith. They started...
hip hop
Dedicated to the late great Shock G. https://www.youtube.com/embed/msrq0HjwJUM I am also amused by this blog post noting that Michael Steele looks like Shock G.
We've never watched a music video in this series. So let's change that with Run-DMC's "King of Rock." The funny about this is that the Rock and Roll Hall of.
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all, has been dead some 402 years but he is still very much alive in modern...
This is the grave of Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay. Born in 1965 in Brooklyn, Mizell grew up in the church, playing music from a young age..
Talib Kweli on what working people have to do to get by.
Run-DMC reminds us of the hard economic times of African-Americans during the Reagan years.