On a rainy night in Queens–October 30, 2022–two men walked into Jam Master Jay’s studio. One blocked the door. The other shot Jay dead. Then they left. Even though there were at least
Read MoreAt around 7:30 pm on the cold, rainy evening of Wednesday, October 30, 2002, someone walked into the lounge of a recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, in New York and fatally shot Jason
Read MoreAdidas was the first shoe manufacturer to make a deal with a musical artist when they hooked up with Run-DMC in the 1980s. Fast-forward nearly 40 years and the company is now in
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Hip-hop has a long, tragic history of murder and mayhem. Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., Big L., Fat Pat, Mac Dre, Big Hawk, Magnolia Shorty,
Read MoreIt was eleven years ago today that Sully Sullivan landed that airliner in the Hudson River. Moving to music news for January 15, 2020… Here are 41 women who deserve to be in
Read MoreIn the last thirty-some years, the number of hip-hop musicians who have been murdered is somewhere close to forty. A shocking number of those murders are still unsolved. One of those cold cases
Read MoreIf you fly a lot, you’ve seen a lot of pre-flight safety videos. Some carriers go with something very straight and sober (hello, Air Canada) while others try to get creative and entertaining
Read MoreAnyone else die recently? Keep reading through the music news… How did George Michael die? Initial postmortem is “inconclusive.” Further tests will be carried out, obviously. Alphonse Mouzon, drummer for bands like Weather
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