How and why is Prince’s estate telling Morris Day he can no longer use the name Morris Day & The Time? 5 women essential to rap ?? ? @iamcardib? @LilKim? @mclyte? #SylviaRobinson? @TierraWhack Read more: https://t.co/2UncCBnSS2 #WomensHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/W81tfpCkbg — Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) March 4, 2022Continue Reading
[youtube id=”NA2X1040_gY”] Sylvia Robinson is mostly thought of for co-founding Sugar Hill Records with her husband Joe Robinson but she was also a songwriter, record producer, talent scout and a solo artist. She wrote “Pillow Talk” for Al Green but he declined it for religious reasons so she recorded herselfContinue Reading
[youtube id=”MLO4weH60hc”] The Moments started as a quartet in Washington, DC during the ’60s with Mark Greene, John Morgan, Richard Gross and Eric Olfus Sr. They moved to New Jersey and signed with Sylvia Robinson’s Stang Records and had a hit song with “Not On The Outside” in 1968. The groupContinue Reading
Why is hip-hop the only genre to address the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darrin Wilson in Ferguson, MO? [youtube id=”Ktv6IcDaozk”] Why couldn’t Talib Kweli and Don Lemon discuss the turmoil in Ferguson, MO? Who will play Sylvia Robinson, the co-founder of Sugar Hill Records, in the newContinue Reading