It’s All Black Music
With the increasing number of films aimed towards black audiences in the early 1970s, filmmakers realized that they couldn’t turn to Henry Mancini to provide the musical backdrops for these movies.
Today marks the 68th anniversary of the birth of one of black music’s greatest songwriters, Curtis Mayfield.
Cee-Lo Green's new single "Georgia" finds the Gnarls Barkley singer and Goodie Mob MC paying tribute to his home state. Listen to the track from his forthcoming album, "The Lady Killer," here.
June is Black Music Month so The Urban Daily put tgether the top 10 black musicals.
Hip hop producers are known for digging deep in the crates for the records they use to create the songs we all know and love. No genre is immune from being sampled!
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Though it can be said that Afrobeat never died, in recent years its seen levels of exposure that would’ve seemed unheard of when the genre was first created in the 1960s.
