This week’s Music Monday playlist is an homage to Sharon Jones and her incredible contribution to music. The brilliant soul singer died of pancreatic cancer last week at the age of 60. After decades of obscurity, the world found and embraced this incredible light and her tremendous talent, earning Jones and The Dap-Kings a Grammy nomination...
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8/1 Music Monday: Nas, Fantasia, Lupe Fiasco.
This week’s playlist reaches back to the funk and disco roots of modern music, then slingshots into the present with modern R&B and hip-hop. Starting with the bombastic “For The Love of Money” by The Ojays, the iconic bass line takes us into “Across 110th Street,” in which Bobby Womack sings about a woman doing...
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Between Beyoncé, Kendrick, Janelle and Sheila E., 2016’s BETs were a Musical Feast [Playlist]
Curated by WYV Senior Editor Monica Cadena When the BET Awards hit, they are on FIRE. This year’s 2016 Awards were absolutely no exception to this rule. From Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s utterly brilliant, water-soaked performance of “Freedom” to the sterling tributes to the too-soon-gone Prince, this year’s ceremony gave incredible performances that he, too, would...