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A lot of people have an ‘out with the old, in with the new’ mindset. Whenever something stops being hot in the moment, it becomes disposable for something else instead. This is a big problem in music, largely focused on what an artist has done lately. However, ideally, we’d want our newer stars to draw attention to the rich history of a given genre. That’s what Zack de La Rocha […]

If modern music just isn’t tugging at your heartstrings the way the tunes of your youth used to, you might be an old fuddy-duddy who can’t find good music anymore. But researchers also suggest that popular song lyrics express less emotion than they used to. A massive study from Michigan State University, published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, analyzed 38,467 songs across 230 artists spanning from 1947 […]

If you were to explain hip-hop to someone who doesn’t know anything about it, which artist would you choose to start with? In the newer generations, fans might opt to pick Kendrick Lamar. If we want to be true to the genre and culture’s history, Rakim was the forefather for how rappers flow today. Or, maybe you just opt for one of the golden age legends like Tupac and Biggie […]