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DJ SCREW - SLOW REVOLUTION

There is no one truth as to why Screw started slowing records down, or exactly when—though his cousin Big Bubb was there for one of the earliest instances. There are lots of stories, and lots of influences. The only sure thing is that it was Screw who took his mixes in that direction through experimentation.

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NAS - THE ILLEST

Nasir Jones dropped his 1994 debut Illmatic as a living legend. And his use of several superstar producers on the same album set a hip-hop precendent that forever changed the game. Ever the visionary, Nas found stratospheric success with his follow-up albums...

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Paul McCartney gave everything he had back to the genre that made him

I am sitting at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, waiting for Paul McCartney to take the stage, staring at the jumbo screen flashing pictures from his long career and wondering how anyone could withstand the weight of such...

Band In D.C. - Bad Brains Came With Extraordinary Positivity Out Of The Nations' Capital

What we discovered was PMA was really the Great Spirit,” says bassist and Bad Brains founding member Darryl Jenifer. “The [ideas in the] book Think and Grow Rich worked for Andrew Carnegie back in the Industrial Age, helped him make money...

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Johnny Jenkins - "Ton-Ton Macoute!"

The Allman Brothers Band always came off as less redneck than many of their Southern rock-and-roll counterparts. This had a lot to do with the presence of founding member, African American drummer and percussionist Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson, and also...

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Everything Is Everything

Andrew Scott talks with guitarists Phil Upchurch and Cornell Dupree, and Atlantic Records producer Arif Mardin to help demythologize Donny Hathaway’s 1974 live masterpiece.