Most modern music relies heavily on the use of samples, the art of taking a snippet of a pre-existing recording, and working it into a new song. Over the years we’ve known music to be a highly collaborative effort and more times than not, thanks to technology, the two artists don’t even have to be […]

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The Tom Joyner Morning Show pays tribute to Hip Hop icons Public Enemy for being elected into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rush fans can relax. The band is now officially in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Canadian rockers were welcomed into the musical fraternity at Thursday’s 28th annual induction ceremony by the Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins. At the beginning of the Nokia Theatre event, the audience […]

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The late Donna Summer, rap group Public Enemy, musician/producer Quincy Jones and bluesman Albert King are among the acts to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this Spring. Rock bands Rush and Heart also made the cut, while Jones and his friend Lou Adler will enter the hall as Ahmet Ertegun […]

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Flavor Flav is back in the news again. This time the Public Enemy hype man is facing allegations that he has failed to pay over $111,000 in child support to a woman who gave birth to three of his seven children. Flavor Flav, 53, whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr. faces a 180 […]