The early '90s were a pretty funky time. The president played saxophone; The Fresh Prince of Bel Air was burning up the airwaves; the Red Hot Chili Peppers had just released Blood Sugar Sex Magik. A ...
Bruno Mars scored one of the biggest songs of 2015 with "Uptown Funk," but The Sequence, a rap group from the late '70s, claim that Mars jacked their song "Funk You Up." According to TMZ, The Sequence ...
"For people older than me and people younger me, [the documentary] gives them a chance to know who we are as human beings,'' Griffin said. "A lot of people have the perception of hip-hop artists being ...
Bruno Mars has been accused by a 1980s female rap group of swiping their song for his mega hit “Uptown Funk.” The Sequence, one of the first female rap groups, is claiming that Mars used their 1979 ...
Although pan-genre party-starters Universal Funk Orchestra have been a live presence in Orlando for years, they’re only now releasing a debut album. Yes, this brand-new eponymous album is a long time ...
The Long Beach crew was associated with Warren G. By Gil Kaufman C-Knight, a founding member of Long Beach G-funk rap crew Dove Shack, has died at age 52. The news was confirmed by TMZ on Tuesday (Nov ...
Two years after the song’s release, Bruno Mars is still getting sued for his Grammy-winning single, “Uptown Funk.” According to TMZ, 1970’s female rap group The Sequence is suing Mars claiming his ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A mayor of a Brazilian town has banned Carnival revelers from playing funk or rap music during the traditionally free-wheeling celebrations that kick off around the country ...
The early to mid-’90s were good times for underground music in Houston. At clubs like the Axiom, the Vatican and Fitzgerald’s, an eclectic mix of punk, metal, funk and ska bands like deadhorse, Sprawl ...
Hyperkinetic DJs serve up funk, rap, samba and hip-hop--torqued to emergency decibels--to the delight of the galeras, the seething crowds. But no one is more delighted than the princes of powder. The ...
There are few contemporary acts that inspire the trans-demographic, multi-generational devotion of the Beastie Boys, the Brooklyn rap trio whose incorporation of rock, funk and soul left an indelible ...
The opening lines of Digital Underground’s chart-topping 1990 breakthrough, “The Humpty Dance” doubled as a prophecy. Under his nom de schnozz, Humpty Hump, the performer alternately known as Shock G ...