Fifty years after critics dismissed hip-hop as a passing fad, Grammy winner LL COOL J is taking viewers back to the genre’s authentic New York roots with his new docuseries “Hip Hop Was Born Here,” featuring intimate conversations with the culture’s founding pioneers. The Queens-raised rapper, who released his first single “I Need a Beat” at…
Source: Astrida Valigorsky/Getty Images Big Mama was back at it again–this time, shutting down the stage at this year’s star-studded Roots Picnic, where the “Big Energy” rapper stunned in a curve-caressing bodysuit that sent social media into a frenzy. Fresh off the release of her new single ‘Somebody,’ Big Latto put on a show as…
There’s a new pope of the Catholic Curch, and he’s the first pope to be born here in the U.SA. Not only that, but Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is of a Creole lineage that traces back to New Orleans, according to Jari Honora, a local genealogist and historian. Source: Vatican Pool Honora found…
Carla Bernat Escuder wasn’t worried about anyone behind her, only those who were ahead. Thanks to a flop shot she only recently mastered, birdies on all the par 5s and a nervy 4-foot par putt to finish, the Spaniard stood alone at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. Source link
Amid Black History Month celebrations in February, some local musicians say they are finding more opportunities at various venues to share their work and stories. One Bay Area man who plays an unusual West African instrument recently discovered more about his roots and family history while pursuing his passion. Growing up in a rural part…
When The Roots released Things Fall Apart in 1999, they weren’t just dropping another hip-hop album; they were reshaping the genre. With that in mind, this pivotal project is more than worthy of a deep dive. Okayplayer, the online community first launched as a digital home for the band, is reflecting on the project that blended jazz,…
Buddy Hield hollers through the locker room at Stephen Curry with some good-natured banter or cracks jokes at practice and on the team plane, by all accounts leaving everyone in hysterics. Source link
