Amazing stories, endless street slang, rugged beats. What do you get when you put all of those three things together? The Big Picture, by Big L. The Big Picture was produced in 2000 shortly after the death of Big L (Lamont Coleman) in 1999. Even though the album was in progress and not compl...

The term "hip-hop" originates from rap music, around 1974; "to rap" is a verb that nowadays mainly signifies speaking quickly and rhythmically. From an etymological perspective "to rap" signifies the following: · In the early, the Afro-American community used...

Sunset Concert On November 1, 2002 Loyola Marymount held its annual sunset concert in Gersten Pavilion. This years performers included two hip-hop acts, City High and Eve. The performers for this year were up in the air for much of the month and the organizers were tossing back and forth ideas...

Beauty and the Beat; Comparing Mya Harrison and Carl ThomasThe truth is out. We listen to R&B and sometimes we like it. But do not get it twisted: half the stuff you hear on the radio is not R&B. It is usually some child of rap and pop whining vocals and not enough soul. Reality R&B, Love song, Soul...

Music Crushes Racial Boundaries Hip-Hop music better known as Rap music was the most popular influential and controversial form of black and Latino music to emerge in the Bronx in the early 1970s. In this sense Rap music entered into American culture as a new vocabulary expressio...